Spring 2013

    Volume 12, Issue 2

    In this issue: gender vertigo, disaster porn, the paradox of gun control, and whether or not the Arab Spring has become an Arab Winter. Also, abortion politics in Turkey, men in SlutWalk, and an interview with Katha Pollitt.

    Features

    Transnational Gender Vertigo

    Full Text Online
    by Kimberly Kay Hoang

    For these Vietnamese sex workers, finding American husbands was supposed to lead to an easier life, but it didn’t quite work out that way.

    Disaster Porn!

    by Timothy Recuber

    The virtues and vices of an emerging media genre, and the problem of televising distant suffering.

    Breaking Barriers to Climate Justice

    by John Foran and Richard Widick

    Global activists gain ground in the climate change debate.

    Walking Like A Man

    by Kristen Barber and Kelsy Kretschmer

    Men’s participation in SlutWalk, a feminist movement against sexual violence.

    Reproducing the Nation

    by Özlem Altiok

    Good citizens make babies and other myths of Turkish family values.

    Departments

    From the Editors

    Clear Thinking in a Topsy-Turvy World

    Full Text Online
    by Arlene Stein and Jodi O'Brien

    In Brief

    Debating Trafficking

    by Editors

    Apps for Autism

    Full Text Online
    by Jessica Streeter

    Better Helmets, Worse Injuries

    Full Text Online
    by Dinur Blum

    Dangerous Shame

    Full Text Online
    by Thomas Scheff and Chris Poulson

    War: Unhealthy for Children

    Full Text Online
    by Editors

    Freeway Fliers

    Full Text Online
    by Eleanor Lapointe

    Making Food Slower

    Full Text Online
    by Analena Bruce

    Q&A

    The Poetry of Politics

    Full Text Online
    by Katha Pollitt and Carole Joffe

    Jargon

    Immigration Reform

    by Nestor Rodríguez

    Viewpoints

    Arab Winter

    Full Text Online
    by Charles Kurzman, Dalia F. Fahmy, Justin Gengler, Ryan Calder and Sarah Leah Whitson

    Mediations

    Reality Queens

    by Joshua Gamson

    On the Wings of a Fantasy

    by Timothy McGettigan

    In Pictures

    Juvenile in Justice

    by Richard Ross

    Trends

    Aging Trends in Homeless Populations

    by Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Magdi Stino and Jay Bainbridge

    The Gun Control Paradox

    Full Text Online
    by Howard Schuman and Stanley Presser

    Books

    Marx on Finance

    by Robert Meister

    Living “Single”

    by Pamela J. Smock

    Pedagogies

    Learning from Women’s Studies

    by Michele Tracy Berger

    Unplugged

    A Populist Sociology

    Full Text Online
    by Monte Bute