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January 31, 2018 Qualitative Sociology Review Volume XIV Issue 1 Available Online www.qualitativesociologyreview.org Qualitative Qualitative Sociology QSR Review Sociology ©2018 QSR • ISSN: 1733-8077 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Review Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz EXECUTIVE EDITORS Łukasz T. Marciniak, University of Lodz Magdalena Wojciechowska, Volume XIV University of Lodz Issue 1 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz APPROVING EDITORS Steven Kleinknecht, Brescia University College Geraldine Leydon, Southampton University Antony J. Puddephatt, Lakehead University BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Anna Kubczak, University of Lodz ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR Edyta Mianowska, Zielona Gora University LINGUISTIC EDITOR Jonathan Lilly STATISTICAL EDITOR Note Piotr Chomczyński, University of Lodz MANAGING EDITOR, DTP The journal and all published articles are a contribution Magdalena Chudzik-Duczmańska to the contemporary social sciences. They are available wi- COVER DESIGNER thout special permission to everyone who would like to use Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz them for non-commercial, scientific, educational, or other cognitive purposes. Making use of resources included in QSR Editorial Office University of Lodz this journal for commercial or marketing aims requires Faculty of Economics and Sociology a special permission from publisher. Possible commercial Institute of Sociology use of any published article will be consulted with the au- The Sociology of Organization thor beforehand. & Management Department Rewolucji 1905 r. 41/43 It is forbidden to charge for access to this journal or to put 90-214 Lodz, Poland any limitations on the accessibility of published papers. tel. (4842) 635 52 63 The authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary email: [email protected] permissions for publication of materials which are protec- www.qualitativesociologyreview.org ted by a copyrights owned by other persons. 2 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 1 EDITORIAL BOARD Patricia A. Adler Tony Hak Constantinos N. Phellas Peter Adler Scott R. Harris Susan Pickard Mahbub Ahmed Paul ten Have Jason L. Powell Michael Atkinson Judith Holton Andrea Press Kate Bacon Domenico Jervolino Robert Prus Howard S. Becker Benjamin Kelly George Psathas Laura Bisaillon Robert A. Kenedy Antony J. Puddephatt Nicolette Bramley Steven Kleinknecht Anne Warfield Rawls Attila Bruni Hubert Knoblauch Johanna Rendle-Short Marie Buscatto Joseph A. Kotarba Brian Roberts Tanya Cassidy Ireneusz Krzemiński Roberto Rodríguez-Gomez Kathy Charmaz Margarethe Kusenbach Bernt Schnettler Catherine A. Chesla Riitta Kyllonen William Shaffir Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla Staffan Larsson Phyllis N. Stern Adele E. Clarke Geraldine Leydon Antonio Strati Jan K. Coetzee Lyn H. Lofland Joerg Struebing Juliet Corbin Jordi Lopez Sintas Andrzej Szklarski Michael Dellwing Michael Lynch Massimiliano Tarozzi Norman K. Denzin Christoph Maeder Roland Terborg Robert Dingwall Barbara Misztal Victor Thiessen Agata Dziuban Setsuo Mizuno Jan Trost Rosalind Edwards Lorenza Mondada Jonathan H. Turner Peter Eglin Janusz Mucha Dennis D. Waskul Gary Alan Fine Elena Neiterman Shalva Weil Silvia Gherardi Peter Nugus Fred Wester Barney Glaser Tony O’Connor Ingrid Westlund Giampietro Gobo Sandi Michele de Oliveira Patrick Williams Jaber F. Gubrium Dorothy Pawluch Ruth Wodak Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson Eleni Petraki Kiyomitsu Yui Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 3 CONTENTS Articles Johanna E. Foster In Keeping with Family Tradition: American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies 6 Jihad K. Othman, Annulla Linders Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health 30 Elena Neiterman, Yvonne LeBlanc The Timing of Pregnancy: Women’s Interpretations of Planned and Unplanned Pregnancy 52 Julian Molina Intervention Tales: Talk, Documents, and “Engagement” on a Wage Subsidy Project 68 Eric O. Silva, Christopher J. Gillmann, KeyAnna L. Tate Confronting Institutional Discrimination in a Color-Blind World 84 Paula Sequeiros “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 110 4 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 1 Book reviews Radosław Kossakowski Book Review: Bentz, Valerie Malhotra and Vincenzo M. B. Giorgino, (eds.). 2016. Contemplative Social Research. Caring for Self, Being, and Lifeworld. Santa Barbara: Fielding University Press 130 Haley Sorenson, Mehmet Soyer Book Review: Boylorn, Robin M. and Mark P. Orbe, (eds.). 2016. Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. London, New York: Routledge 136 Nathan Poirier Book Review: Griffin, Nathan Stephens. 2017. Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 140 Magdalena Łukasiuk Book Review: Lloyd, Justine and Ellie Vasta, (eds.). 2017. Reimagining Home in the 21st Century. Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing 144 Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 5 Johanna E. Foster Monmouth University, U.S.A. In Keeping with Family Tradition: American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.01 Abstract Through an interpretive lens that borrows from feminist postmodernist perspectives on identity and cognitive sociology, the manuscript utilizes in-depth interview data from 33 women active in the Amer- ican second-wave feminist movement to explore how aging feminist activists construct their current political identities in relation to the meanings they give to the perceived progressive political identities and actions of their elders. In particular, this study examines the discursive strategies that respondents engage as they link their own feminist consciousness directly or indirectly to feminist, or otherwise progressive, parents and grandparents. Findings reveal three distinct political legacy narratives, name- ly 1) explicit transmission origin stories; 2) bridge narratives; and 3) paradox plots that add to both the social movement literature on the symbolic dimensions of recruitment, sustainability, and spillover, as well as cognitive sociological literature on the cultural transmission of political capital, in general, and to our understanding of American second-wave activists, more specifically. Keywords Identity Construction; Political Legacy; Intergenerational Transmission; American Feminism; U.S. Second-Wave Activists; Sociology of Ancestry Johanna E. Foster is an Assistant Professor of So- hen I was in my elementary school years in ciology in the Department of Political Science and Sociolo- Wthe 1970s in the United States, my mother gy, and the Director of the Sociology Program at Monmouth was an activist in what was then called the “bat- University in West Long Branch, New Jersey (USA). Her ma- tered women’s movement” in the suburbs of the jor areas of expertise are in the intersections of race, class, northeastern seaboard city of Philadelphia—though and gender inequalities; feminist theories of gender; identity I did not know it at the time. A first generation Ital- and the politics of social movements; and critical analyses ian-American woman from a working-class back- of mass incarceration with an emphasis on women in U.S. ground, she died by the time I was ten after a long prisons. and undisclosed battle with cancer, and both the memory of her and her life in the movement was email address: [email protected] swiftly plucked from our family’s collective con- 6 ©2018 QSR Volume XIV Issue 1 In Keeping with Family Tradition: American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies sciousness. It was not until I went away to college tories towards feminist activism. As someone who and found my way to women’s studies, and to the had no conscious memory of the maternal trans- reproductive rights movement in particular, that my mission of political values, capital, or social location father revealed my mother had been active in the in progressive politics, these narratives of women’s women’s movement. This experience of my moth- sense of themselves in relation to politically active er’s erasure, individually, and the erasure of wom- and sometimes even feminist elders struck me. en collectively, has profoundly troubled me for over They struck me not only in my own personal search 30 years. As my own life has gone on, I have had for meaning and connection to a mother who was countless questions for my mother—mostly in her largely disappeared, but because, as an American position as my mother outside the context of Amer- sociologist, I did not know of any scholarly litera- ican feminist activism—but also as a feminist activ- ture on the ways in which movement actors in the ist during one of the most transformative periods United States narrated their perceptions about the in U.S. history. If she were still here, what would be political legacies of their parents and relatives. her perspective on U.S. feminist politics 50 years out from what was, by many accounts, a tremendously As such, in this article, I explore how aging sec- electrifying time? ond-wave activists who were part of one of the most consequential movements in U.S. history construct While I could not know how my own mother, her- their current identities in relationship to the mean- self, might narrate this story, I became