Movie Reviews
The History of Christmas
- Did the Nazis Celebrate Christmas?
- When Santa Sold Cigarettes
- Militarizing Santa: Then and Now
- A Short History of Santa Claus
- The Pagan Roots of Christianity
Christmas and Consumption
- The Ugly Christmas Sweater: From Ironic Nostalgia to Festive Simulation
- 1/3rd of People Say Commercialism is the Worst Part of Christmas
- Disguising the Gift of Money
Christmas Across Cultures
- Christmas as Social Control, featuring Elf on the Shelf
- Befana, the Christmas Witch
- Santa’s Evil Side Kick
- Black Pete (NSFW; trigger warning for images of blackface)
- Protestantizing Christmas Gift Giving: The ChristKind
- Snegurochka: Santa’s Granddaughter
- Culture and Coordinating Human Action
- Jewish Christmas — The Chinese Connection
The Economics of Christmas
Racializing Christmas
- Racism and Xenophobia in “War on Christmas” Rhetoric
- White Privilege and the Snow White Santa
- New York Times Gift Guide for People of Color
- Black Pete (NSFW; trigger warning for images of blackface)
- Holiday in the Hood
Christmas and Gender
- Exploiting Gender at the Holidays
- Gender-Swapping Christmas
- Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”: 1994 versus 2011
- 12 “Mums” Makes the Workload Light
- Christmas is Women’s Work
- Tis the Season for Reinforcing Gender Differences
- Holidays: A Time for Men to Buy Themselves Stuff
- Christmas at the White House: A Role for the First Lady
Gift Guides and the Social Construction of Gender
- The Heterosexual Gift Giving Imperative
- Gender, Technology, and Toys ‘R Us
- Gender in Toy Catalogs
- Body Messages in Christmas-Themed Ads
- Gift Giving with Gender Stereotypes
- More Gender Gift Giving and Advertising
- Another Gendered Gift Guide
- And more Gendered Gift Guides
- And more Gendered Gift Guides!
- Or, you could just buy her a clothesline
Sexifiying Christmas
Christmas Marketing
- Support the Troops. Shop Walmart?
- Fun with the 2009 Target Catalog
- Guns for Christmas
- A Shorty History of Santa Claus
- 1930s Ad Touting Razor Technology
- Gap Thinks Girls are Vapid
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Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.