Date: TBD

Time: TBD

THEMATIC

CFP 38 - Thematic: Resisting Colonization of the Family
Room: TBD

Sponsors: Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Ami MH Frost, University of Oklahoma

Description: 

The day-to-day work of living within a family system often shields individuals from recognizing the influence of colonization in their midst. Yet rather than existing outside the family, colonizing forces are exerted both on and within family life. This session explores the gendered objectification, commodification, and financialization of families through divisions of unpaid and paid labor, processes of gender socialization and rejection, concerted cultivation, and care work. The politicization and control of bodies, sexual behavior, gendered roles, and related dynamics are often socialized and enacted within families, yet families can also serve as sites of resistance to these forces.

Papers:

“Beyond Core and Balance: How Families Frame Fun in Contemporary Parenting Culture,” Julie A. Mikles-Schluterman and David Ward, Arkansas Tech University

“‘She Might Wear Her Jordans Better Than Me!’: Masculine Embodiment and Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Masculine-Masculine Relationships,” Isabel F. Levin, Brown University and Kathryne M. Young, The George Washington University

“Growing Up Too Early and the Burden of Policing: Unpacking Adultification, Police Encounters, and Legitimacy in Low-Income Black Communities,” Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware

“Interraciality as a Family Affair: An Intersectional Analysis of East Asian Immigrant Families’ Responses to East Asian–Black Unions,” Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania

“‘Family Authority, Formation, and Cohesion’: The Heritage Foundation’s Patriarchal Agenda,” Brandie S. Pugh, Faith Burrill and Ansley Shamblin, West Virginia University and Ava Carcirieri, Delaware Alliance Against Sexual Violence

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