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Climate change has elucidated already existing gender inequalities associated with unequal access to resources, decision-making processes, and higher exposure to environmental shocks and stressors. Growing acknowledgment of the gender-differentiated implications of climate change in recent years has placed gender equality as a focal point in international discourses on climate change adaptation. The policy perspective of gender equality is universalized, but how it transcribes in local climate change adaptation projects remains elusive. Using the relocation of Vunidogoloa, Fiji, this article explores the tension and compatibility between the way gender equality is discussed and how it is implemented in climate change adaptation projects. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

When a comic about “mental load” went viral in 2017, it sparked conversations about the invisible workload women carry. Even when women are in paid employment, they remember their mother-in-law’s birthday, know what’s in the pantry and organise the plumber. This mental load often goes unnoticed. Women also continue to do more housework and childcare than their male partners. This burden has been exacerbated over the recent pandemic (homeschooling anyone?), leaving women feeling exhausted, anxious and resentful. As sexuality researchers, we wondered, with all this extra work, do women have any energy left for sex?

The settler state's taking of Indigenous children into care disrupts their communities and continues destructive, assimilationist policies. This article presents the perceptions of lawyers, social workers and judges of how Indigenous parents experience child welfare in Quebec. Our participants characterized those experiences negatively. Barriers of language and culture as well as mistrust impede meaningful participation. Parents experience epistemic injustice, wronged in their capacity as knowers. Mistrust also hampers efforts to include Indigenous workers in the system. Emphasizing state workers’ ignorance of Indigenous family practices and the harms of settler colonialism, participants called for greater training. But critical literature on professional education signals the limits of such training to change institutions. Our findings reinforce the jurisdictional calls away from improving the system towards empowering Indigenous peoples to run services of child welfare. The patterns detected and theoretical resources used are relevant to researchers of other institutions that interact with vulnerable populations.

The Covid-19 pandemic turned daily lives upside down. Lockdowns and physical distancing meant hundreds of thousands of people switched to working from home, significantly blurring the temporal and spatial boundaries between paid work, domestic labour and caring for others. This article explores gender relations, and the division of employment, domestic labour and care, drawing on early results from an online survey, Work and Care in the Time of Covid-19, carried out between 7 May and 4 June 2020.

Les recherches empiriques ont établi un lien entre les préjugés sexistes dans l’enseignement médical et les attitudes et comportements négatifs des prestataires de soins de santé. Pourtant, cela fait plus de 20 ans que les recherches n’ont pas examiné dans quelle mesure les femmes et les hommes sont représentés de manière égale dans les manuels d’anatomie . En outre, les recherches antérieures n’ont pas exploré au-delà de la quantité de représentation pour examiner également les stéréotypes visuels de genre et, à la lumière des avancées théoriques dans le domaine de la recherche intersectionnelle, la relation entre les représentations du genre et les représentations de l’ethnicité, du type de corps, de la santé et de l’âge. Cette étude visait à déterminer l’existence et la représentation des préjugés sexistes dans les principaux manuels d’anatomie utilisés dans les écoles de médecine australiennes. Une analyse systématique du contenu visuel a été menée sur 6044 images dans lesquelles le sexe/genre pouvait être identifié, provenant de 17 principaux manuels d’anatomie publiés entre 2008 et 2013. Une analyse de contenu plus approfondie a été réalisée sur les 521 images narratives, qui représentent une histoire en cours, trouvées dans les mêmes manuels. Les résultats indiquent que la représentation du genre dans les images des manuels d’anatomie reste majoritairement masculine, sauf dans les sections spécifiques au sexe. En outre, d’autres formes de biais ont été constatées dans : la visualisation d’émotions, de rôles et de contextes stéréotypés en fonction du sexe ; le manque de diversité ethnique, d’âge et de type corporel ; et dans l’adhésion presque totale à une conception binaire sexe/genre. Malgré une attention accrue portée aux questions de genre en médecine, la représentation visuelle du genre dans les programmes médicaux continue d’être biaisée. La construction biaisée du genre dans les manuels d’anatomie conçus pour l’enseignement médical fournit aux futurs prestataires de soins de santé des informations inadéquates et irréalistes sur les patients.

Emotions have received increasing attention in educational circles in the last decade. Drawing on Bourdieu, feminist scholars use emotional capital to illustrate the ways gendered inequalities can compound the disadvantages of social class. This paper examines relationships within childcare services in Australia, showing how emotional capital functions as a resource for staff. Data from interviews with childcare staff illustrate key aspects of emotional capital, such as reflexivity, resilience and embodiment. Findings show that investing in emotional capital is the key to a long-lasting commitment to childcare work, and should be valued accordingly. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

Auto/biographical documentaries ask audiences to take a ‘leap of faith’, not being able to offer any real 'proof of the people and events they claim to document, other than that of the film-maker's saying this is what happened. With only memory and history seen through the distorting lens of time, ‘the authenticity of experience functions as a receding horizon of truth in which memory and testimony are articulated as modes of salvage’. Orchids: My Intersex Adventure follows a salvaging of the film-maker's life events and experiences, being born with an intersex condition, and, via the filming and editing process, revolving around the core question: who am I? From this transformative creative documentary practice evolves a new way of embodying experience and ‘seeing’, playfully dubbed here as the ‘intersex gaze’.

Forced migration challenges and changes gender relations. The transnational activities of refugees resettled in the West create gender asymmetries among those who stay behind. This article explores the transnational marriages of young southern Sudanese women (‘invisible girls’), who either stayed in Sudan or remained in refugee camps in Kenya, to Sudanese men who were resettled to America, Canada or Australia (‘lost boys’). Incorporating gender as a relational category into the analysis of transnational practices that migrants and refugees engage in is important. The article argues that there is a need to put feminist analysis at the centre of transnational processes resulting from (forced) migration. It looks at the connections between different geographical locations, the impacts of the migration of young refugee men on bridewealth and marriage negotiations and the gender consequences for young women, men and their families. It is argued that transnational activities, such as marriage, contest, reconfigure and reinforce the culturally inscribed gender norms and practices in and across places. Transnational marriage results in ambiguous benefits for women (and men) in accessing greater freedoms. Anthropological analyses of marriage need a geographical focus on the transnational fields in which they occur. The article seeks to deepen understanding of the nuanced gendered consequences of transnationalism. It shows how gender analysis of actions taken across different locations can contribute to the theorisation of transnational studies of refugees and migrants.

This article examines the circulation of heterosexist positions within several recent New Zealand media texts. It argues that a recent form of discourse engages liberal language and assumptions in ways that support the privileged position of heterosexuality and the marginalization of homosexuality. The examples given highlight not only the tenor of some recent representations of homosexuality, but also some problems within liberalism. Most notable of these are liberalism's individualism and its failure to recognize the systemic nature of hierarchical power relationships and the constituting of lesbian and gay subjectivities within these relationships. These problems allow liberalism to play an active part in processes of domination and subordination.