(Re)constructing women

Scaled portrayals of privilege and gender norms on campus

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8360792
AutoresJack Jen Gieseking (0000-0001-9472-9676, The Graduate Center, CUNY, autor de correspondencia), Jen Gieseking
Año2007
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas278-286
Fecha de publicación2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00737.x
OpenAlexW2092281604
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas10

How are privilege and/or particular gender norms for women spatially (re)produced over time and how are they challenged and changed? In interviews and mental mapping exercises with 32 students and graduates of an elite US women's college from graduating classes spanning 1937 to 2006, women's class and gender norms and expectations are found to have been produced, reproduced and reworked in their everyday experiences during college. Participants portray these norms through the scales of the body, institution and extra‐institution in regards to the particular social and physical space of the campus. Participants’ experiences, as depicted in these scales, indicate that class norms remained stable over generational cohorts, but gender norms shifted drastically because the privilege found within and granted by the elite women's college campus allowed for and prompted such changes. Transformations of women's gender norms also correspond with changes in the larger social sphere with a particular split in how participants could enact their privilege to alter their gender norms before and after the late 1960s

Class (philosophy) · Elite · Institution · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology