Gender Division SSSP Newsletter July 2022 ​ Letter from the Chair Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the summer! I am excited to connect with everyone at our upcoming division meeting and at the annual conference in Los Angeles. Our work to promote gender justice is incredibly important, especially given the far-reaching impact of recent political events. To increase participation and accessibility, I have decided to hold the division meeting in a virtual format. More details about the time and date are provided below. The division meeting is open to all division members, so please join us to contribute to the future and direction of the division. We are also approaching the time to identify candidates for our next division chair so please consider this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. The Gender Division is sponsoring and co-sponsoring many sessions at the upcoming conference in Los Angeles, which are listed below. Please remember to register for the conference here and make your hotel reservations if you are able to attend. We are also co-sponsoring a joint division reception on Saturday, August 6 at 7:15pm. This is a great space to network with other SSSP members. We also have many members to congratulate them on their achievements! Our division award winners are announced below, as well as our member accomplishments. Congratulations to all! Warm Regards, Shannon K. Carter She/Her Professor and Associate Chair Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida 2022 Annual Meeting The Sociological Reimagination: From Moments to Momentum We are excited to see everyone in person! Please note that our meeting (see final page for information on joining) will be virtual as to be more accessible for all our members. Gender Division Sessions to Attend Friday, August 5, 8:30 * Queer, Trans*, andGender(ed) Lived Realities, Organized by Hayden J Fulton & Rick Braatz: This session highlightsthe gender(ed)lived experience of queer and transindividuals and communities. Employing a variety of theoretical frameworks and centering on a range of national and institutional contexts, papers in this session explore the experience of trans healthcare inequalities, the construction and meaning of queer and non-binary spaces,the production of LGBTQ allyship in socialmovements, and on the concept of gendering trans empirical work. Friday, August 5, 12:30 * Gender and Work, organized by Tracy L Vargas and Kyla Walker: Exploration of harassment, pain, and care at the intersection of work and gender. Friday, August 5, 2:30 * Gender and Political/Social Change, Organized by Shirley A. Jackson: This panel includes papers addressing emerging issues of concern to social scientists that are related to the creation of social and political change. These occur through programming and education, as well as investigations of perceptions of change. The paper sin this session include a variety of topics including, queer perceptions of climate change, gender-transformative programs for men, conflict in the anti-rape movement, and the move towards radical liberation. Friday, August 5, 4:30 * Reproductive Justice: Race, Intersectionality, and Health, Organized by Yesenia R. Vargas, Virginia Kuulei Berndt, Meghan Daniel: Reproductive justice encompasses the ability to have children, not have children, and to care for families and communities in safety and with dignity. This theory, praxis, and social movement has inspired scholarly work across a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. As such,this interdisciplinary session includes intersectional research exploring legacies of state violence, including settler colonialism and incarceration; contemporary examinations of disability, COVID-19, and the medical industrial complex; and theorizations of how these structures impact peoples’ lived experiences of seeking reproductive justice for themselves and their communities Saturday, August 6, 10:30 * Gender and Methodology, Organized by Giovanna Follo: This session examines how methodology can create new avenues for investigation. Saturday, August 6, 12:30 * Gender and Embodiment, Organized by Janelle M Pham: This regular paper session examines gender as a form of embodiment and lived experience, and its intersections with other identities and structures of power. Panelists consider the implications of hegemonic scripts for gendered practice as they inform individual desires, experience of deviant identities, sexualization and commodification of bodies and interactions with authority figures. Sunday, August 7, 8:30 * Medicalization, Embodiment, and Gender, organized by Janelle Pham: Papers in this session examine the process of medicalization, widely conceived, and its relationship to discourses of gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Authors consider processes of medicalization at various levels- within the healthcare institution, as well as within patient-provider interactions- and in relationship to other institutions, to include the economy. Sunday, August 7, 10:30 * Regulating Sexuality and Gender Identity over the Life Course, Organized by Julia Kay Wolf: Sexuality and genderidentity have long been situated and understood within the heteronormative patriarchal society of the United States. This session explores how this limited perspective shaped the discourse of how both were expected to develop overthe life course and how it has changed.We discuss new insight into the lived experiences of single, child-free women of color and cultural shiftsin the representation of queer literary characters.While attitudes around queerness have progressed, receiving gender-affirming medical care remains systemically elusive forsome despite unprecedented availability, and disclosure of one’s sexual minority identity in unsafe social environments can have severe consequences for one’s wellbeing. Religion's Role in the development and support of sexuality and gender identity is also considered. Sunday, August 7, 2:30 * Gender and Violence in Global Perspective, organized by Diana Therese Montejo Veloso: This session examines global trends relating to gender-based violence and its consequences for different population groups. Discourses and debates on various forms of gendered violence are discussed. This session also looks into the approaches and interventions utilized to resolve gender-based violence. Member Accomplishments & Publications Congratulations! Gender Division Awards Paper Award Winner: “Negotiating Utopia: Ethnography and Theorizing from Entangled US Trans Subjectivities,” prabhdeep singh kehal, Brown University sing kehal is a member of Brown University’s Swearer Center and the Du Boisian Sociology at Brown. prabhdeep's projects consider how racism has been historically constructed within higher education by exploring the cultural and ideological relationship between slavery, colonialism, and higher education in the United States. Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Patriarchal State Projects and the Exploitation of Women and Femininities: A Case Study of Japan’s Sex Industry and Gendered Expansionism (1870s-1950s),” Noelie Frix, Kansas State University Other Awards Dr. Laurel Westbrook was awarded Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Social Problems Theory Division for their book, Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism. Dr. Diana Therese M. Veloso was an awardee during the May 2022 Research Recognition Rites of the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at De La Salle University in the Philippines. She received two Certificates of Recognition for her research and publications in 2021, particularly for her service as the Editor-in-Chief of the AFP Digest and for her article in the First Quarter 2021 of the said publication: “Military Engagement in Peacebuilding and Security Concerns: Implications for Transformational Leadership and the VUCA Approach.” Armed Forces of the Philippines Digest 26(1). New Publications Shuster, Stef M., and Laurel Westbrook. 2022. “Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy.” Social Problems. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac034 Westbrook, Laurel. 2022. “Violence against Transgender People in the United States: Field Growth, Data Dilemmas, and Knowledge Gaps.” Sociology Compass 16(6):e12983. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12983 Veloso, Diana Therese M. 2022. “Health, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Security in the New Normal.” Armed Forces of the Philippines Digest 27(1). Veloso, Diana Therese M. 2022. “Gendered Pathways to Prison: The Experiences of Women Formerly on Death Row in the Philippines.” In Jeffries, Samantha & Andrew Jefferson, eds. Gender, Criminalisation, Imprisonment, and Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Publishing Ltd. Veloso, Diana Therese M. 2022. “Gender-Based Violence in (Post) Conflict Zones: The Experiences of Internally Displaced People from Zamboanga City.” In Wolfe, Regina Wentzel & Mary Mee-Yin Yuen, eds. Displacement and Disqualification: Its Surfaces and Silhouettes. Quezon City, Philippines: Claretian Communications Publications, Inc. Balo, Gian Sofia C., Rehan Allyzah D. Mama, Alyssa Isabelita B. Monteroso, Alaina Eibrielle T. Tsai. 2022. “Muslim Modesty: Cultural Reverberations of Local Predominant Conventions Towards the Meaning-Making of Modesty Among Young Adult Muslimahs in Marawi and Manila, Philippines.” Sinaya 1(1). Veloso, Diana Therese M. 2021. “Military Engagement in Peacebuilding and Security Concerns: Implications for Transformational Leadership and the VUCA Approach.” Armed Forces of the Philippines Digest 26(1). For any future news, announcements, or to celebrate your accomplishments, please email Newsletter Editor, Isabel Geisler (geisler.i@northeastern.edu). Online Division Meeting Information Gender Division Meeting Virtual via Zoom July 26, 2022, 1:00pm EST Shannon Carter (she/her) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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