Sister' and 'brother' schools, women and men

Gender, Power and Inequality in a Women's College Space

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3607955
AutoresC Dalessandro (0000-0003-3780-8647, University of Colorado Boulder, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume27
Fascículo8
Páginas969-980
Data de publicação2018-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2018.1443802
OpenAlexW2792341970
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas29

While current debates assess the continued relevancy of women’s colleges in the US, no research has explored how an ongoing relationship with a ‘brother school’—a previously (or sometimes currently) men-only institution that serves as the men’s counterpart to a women’s college—may influence the gendered ideas and identities of women’s college students. Using interviews with students at a women’s college that maintains an ongoing relationship with its historic ‘brother school,’ I explore how these students make sense of their identities as women’s college students and gendered people in the space. I employ Hochschild’s concept of ‘gender strategies’ to explore how women use the ideas about gender they have available to craft responses to the cultural misogyny they experience—a cultural trait that exists despite the larger women’s college project of attempting to protect women from such misogyny. Though the women’s college students in this context do demonstrate a heightened awareness of gender-based inequality and injustice, their strategies often fall short of challenging systemic inequality. I conclude with a discussion of the implications for women’s college students and women college students more generally

Brother · Gender inequality · Inequality · Injustice · Sister · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges