Cultural change towards a gender-neutral landscape in science, academia and research in 2025
Autor/in:
Wroblewski, Angela; Buchinger, Birgit; Schaffer, Nicole
Quelle: Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien; (Reihe Soziologie / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Soziologie, 106)2014. 60 S
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Inhalt: Austria has a long tradition of gender equality policy measures in science, academia and research. Since the 1980s, a mix of measures has been successively introduced to promote excellent female scientists and academics, establish women’s and gender studies and remove the structural barriers for women. Accordingly, an increase in the share of women in all areas and functions in science, academia and research and the inclusion of gender studies in an increasing number of disciplines has been achieved in recent years. Despite this, the notion of the “scientific ideal” has remained almost unchanged, i.e. is still based on a typically male scientific career. This notion essentially considers a “good” scientist to be one who can devote his life totally to science and has no other restrictions on his time or commitments outside science. The question now is, what – and where – can we add to the existing policy mix to change this situation, i.e. to revise this notion of the “ideal”. At a series of workshops, researchers, academics and other experts used creative methods to develop their visions of a gender-neutral landscape in science, academia and research in 2025. These visions were then used to identify relevant fields of action for initiating cultural change. This paper summarises the results of this discursive process and outlines how the process that began with this project could now be continued.
Schlagwörter:scientist; Kulturwandel; Gender Mainstreaming; Austria; cultural change; Österreich; gender role; role image; Rollenwandel; university system; Geschlechtsrolle; Rollenzuschreibung; Wissenschaftler; role ascription; gender mainstreaming; role change; Rollenbild; occupational role; gender; Berufsrolle; Doing Gender; Gender; Karriere; Hochschulwesen; doing gender; career
SSOAR Kategorie:Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Terrorist transgressions: exploring the gendered representations of the terrorist
Titelübersetzung:Terroristische Grenzüberschreitungen: Vergeschlechtlichte Repräsentationen des Terroristen entdecken
Autor/in:
Malvern, Sue; Koureas, Gabriel
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 67-81
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Inhalt: The primary aim of the Terrorist Transgressions network which is presented here was to analyse the myths inscribed in images of the terrorist and identify how agency is attributed to representation through invocations and inversions of gender stereotypes. Although terrorism, its contexts, histories and forms, has been the focus of intense academic activity in recent years, especially in the fields of politics and international relations, cultural representations of the terrorist have received less attention. While the terrorist is predominantly aligned with masculinity, women have been active in terrorist organizations since the late nineteenth century. Particularly since the 1980s, women have perpetrated suicidal terrorist attacks, including suicide bombing, where the body becomes a weapon. Such attacks have confounded constructions of femininity and masculinity, with profound implications for the gendering of violence and horror. The network established that there is a shift away from analyses of cultural representations of the Red Army Faction, which have dominated the literature since the 1980s. New work has emerged examining representations of the terrorist and gender, including investigations of material from the 1970s, recently made available in archives. There also has been a shift in terms of military discourses around the figure of the enemy or terrorist insurgent in relation to visualizing the invisible enemy. Emerging work on colonial insurgencies contributed to a historical understanding of such debates.
Schlagwörter:gender; Repräsentation; Stereotyp; Weiblichkeit; Gender; violence; attempted assassination; gender role; femininity; stereotype; Gewalt; visualization; Geschlechtsrolle; Visualisierung; representation; body; Männlichkeit; terrorism; Körper; Terrorismus; masculinity; Attentat
SSOAR Kategorie:Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
History of knowledge, terrorism and gender
Titelübersetzung:Geschichte des Wissens, Terrorismus und Gender
Autor/in:
Grisard, Dominique
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 82-99
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Inhalt: This article focuses on 20th-century terrorist phenomena as gendered objects of knowledge produced and disseminated through history books, mass media and state institutions. By taking 1970s West German terrorism as my field of inquiry, this article will critically discuss how a bourgeois understanding of violence as fundamentally masculine has shaped the way terrorism has been represented, conceptualized and historicized thus far. I will go on to problematize the mas-culine gaze of mass media and state institutions and their tendency to objectify the terrorist. Last but not least, I will delineate how mass media and historiog-raphy of terrorism have relied on a narrative structure that pits rebellious sons and masculine daughters against figural and literal fathers, a frame that is overtly masculine and familial. In so doing I will point to blind spots in the study of 1970s terrorism, namely masculinity and the gender of state institutions. My goal is thus to show how not just individual and symbolic, but also institutional facets of the bourgeois gender order influence the way terrorism has been conceptualized and historicized thus far.
Schlagwörter:Massenmedien; Diskurs; discourse; gender role; Federal Republic of Germany; Geschlechtsrolle; historiography; RAF; Geschichtsschreibung; feminism; masculinity; mass media; gender; Stereotyp; Gender; stereotype; woman; Feminismus; political violence; Männlichkeit; terrorism; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; RAF; oedipal narrative
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Escaping/transgressing the feminine: bodies, prisons and weapons of proximity
Titelübersetzung:Weiblichkeit überwinden/überschreiten: Körper, Gefängnisse und die Waffen der Nähe
Autor/in:
Agra Romeo, María Xosé
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 115-134
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Inhalt: Assuming that gender relationships are essential to any analysis of terrorism and political violence, I shall examine how the sex-gender stereotypes work, as well as their transgressions. The female military protagonists in the Abu Ghraib media scandal and the women prisoners of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the dirty protest in Armagh (1980) are used as a framework in which issues of visibility/invisibility, independence/ dependence, invulnerability/ vulnerability of women will be addressed. The paper pays particular attention to both the violence against the body and also to the use of the body as a political weapon. From this perspective I analyse both the differences and similarities of menstrual blood as a weapon of proximity in both contexts. The two cases have in common the fact that they occurred in prisons and that women embodied non-traditional roles: soldiers, women political prisoners, allowing for reflection from feminist perspectives on the female inclusion in the citizenship, on participation in political violence and terrorism and on agency and autonomy.
Schlagwörter:Folter; gender relations; gender; Stereotyp; Protest; vulnerability; Gender; gender role; stereotype; woman; Geschlechtsrolle; Geschlechterverhältnis; protest; political violence; body; torture; prisoner; Vulnerabilität; terrorism; Körper; Häftling; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; menstrual blood; Armagh; Abu Ghraib
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Gender in Science and Technology: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Herausgeber/in:
Ernst, Waltraud; Horwath, Ilona
Quelle: Bielefeld (Gender Studies), 2014. 262 S
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Inhalt: What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering.
Schlagwörter:science; neue Technologie; new technology; Gender; gender; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Cultural Studies; Engineering; Gender; Gender Studies; Innovation Research; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Technology
SSOAR Kategorie:Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender in digital games: gameplay as cyborg performance
Autor/in:
Yilmaz, Serenad
Quelle: Universität Duisburg-Essen Campus Duisburg, Fak. für Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Institut für Soziologie; Duisburg (Working Papers kultur- und techniksoziologische Studien, 05/2013), 2013. 22 S
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Inhalt: Computer games have now been around nearly forty years. The pace at which computer games have transformed has been so fast that at times it is exceeding thoughtful evaluation and criticism. Since the beginning of the 2000’s, academic understanding of this phenomenon has been trying to catch up with this pace. Feminist studies has also been observing computer gaming, theorizing it as another male-dominated cultural domain. Most of the feminist inquiries in this area have focused on representations of gender and violence in games. Focus on gender and identity relationships between the game players and game characters, has been relatively small. What mostly missing from the current research, is the gender transgressions and alternative subjectivities that might hold political meanings besides the personal ones. Virtual reality communities and massively multiplayer role-playing online games challenge the ideas of identity and gender. As the computer gaming world grows larger, gender representations are becoming more fluid and ambiguous; the possibilities of subversive readings of gender and alternative subjectivities expand.
Schlagwörter:Computerspiel; computer game; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; gender-specific factors; Rollenspiel; role play; virtuelle Realität; virtual reality; Identität; identity; Gender; gender; Repräsentation; representation; cyborg; alternative subjectivities
SSOAR Kategorie:Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Genderdidaktik: von der universitären
Selbstverpflichtung zur Schlüsselkompetenz
Autor/in:
Fröhlich-Steffen, Susanne
Quelle: Lehrforschung wird Praxis: Hochschuldidaktische Forschungsergebnisse und ihre Integration in die Praxis. Bielefeld (Blickpunkt Hochschuldidaktik), 2013, S 59-68
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Inhalt: Genderkompetenz ist zu einem wichtigen Schlagwort moderner Hochschulpolitik geworden. Neben den weitreichenden Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen, die in den letzten Jahren an vielen Universitäten eingeführt wurden, ist eine umfassende genderdidaktische Weiterbildung der Lehrenden an Universitäten ein wichtiger, bislang vergleichsweise wenig beachteter Baustein in diesem Prozess. Der Aufsatz diskutiert, welchen Beitrag genderdidaktische Maßnahmen für mehr Sensibilität und methodische Kompetenz des wissenschaftlichen Personals an Hochschulen und für ein Mehr an moderner Wissenschaftskultur leisten können. Dazu zählen vor allem die Sensibilisierung für die Erweiterung des Curriculums um genderrelevante Aspekte, ein bewusster Umgang mit Sprache und Bildern in der Lehre sowie eine unter dem Aspekt der Genderproblematik reflektierte Unterrichtsmethodik.
Schlagwörter:Lehrmethode; gender; teaching; Gender; university; gender role; Federal Republic of Germany; Geschlechtsrolle; Unterricht; teaching method; university policy; Hochschulpolitik; Hochschuldidaktik; university didactics
SSOAR Kategorie:Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Unterricht, Didaktik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Rezension: Uta Schirmer, 2010: Geschlecht anders gestalten: Drag Kinging, geschlechtliche Selbstverhältnisse und Wirklichkeiten
Autor/in:
Klöppel, Ulrike
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 5 (2013) 3, S 155-157
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Schlagwörter:soziale Beziehungen; Geschlechtsrolle; gender; social relations; self-concept; everyday life; Alltag; Gender; Selbstverständnis; gender role
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Rezension
Trends in gender beliefs in Romania: 1993-2008
Autor/in:
Voicu, Malina; Tuflis, Paula Andreea
Quelle: Current Sociology, 60 (2012) 1, S 61-80
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Inhalt: The impact of modernization and industrialization on gender arrangements has been different depending on the gender culture that predominated when the modernization process started. Romania was among the most rural societies in Europe after the Second World War. Women's involvement in agricultural activity was very high, but the gender division of work was a very traditional one. The communist regimes promoted a full employment policy for the entire population but did nothing to encourage gender equality in the private space. This article focuses on the Romanian case, aiming to identify the dynamics of gender beliefs during the post-communist period. Using data from two waves of the European Values Survey (1990, 1999), as well as data provided by the Public Opinion Barometer 2007 and by Family Life - 2008, the authors carried out standard cohort decomposition methods in order to detect the mechanism that produced the most variation in gender beliefs. (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:prognosis; historische Entwicklung; Transformation; Eastern Europe; gender role; value change; role image; Rollenwandel; Romania; Geschlechtsrolle; historical development; Rumänien; trend; employment research; role change; Rollenbild; transformation; gender; European Social Survey; Gender; Prognose; woman; Wertwandel; sozialer Wandel; European Social Survey; Trend; social change; Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Osteuropa
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
"It's me I suppose"
Autor/in:
Marr, Stefanie
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 4 (2012) 1, S 24–31
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Inhalt: "In ihren Arbeiten stellt Stefanie Marr die Rolle
der Frau in einer männlich dominierten Gesellschaft
in Frage. Durch die Technik der Collage
werden die Grenzen des Selbst und der
Welt, die in den ursprünglichen Fotos vorgegeben
sind, verändert oder ignoriert. Die
Konstruktion des Selbst bedarf bei ihr der Serie.
So ist jede einzelne Collage nur als Puzzleteil
anzusehen. Lassen sich die Teile auch
nicht widerspruchsfrei zusammenfügen, so
erscheint in ihrer Gesamtbetrachtung eine
Idee von dem Bild, das sie als Frau und Künstlerin
von sich hat." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In her work Stefanie Marr questions the role
of women in a male dominated society. Using
the technique of collage she changes or ignores
boundaries of the self and the world – as
set by the original photographs. The self is
constructed in series. Each individual collage
must be seen as a piece of the puzzle. The individual
parts cannot be put together consistently,
but seeing them as a whole evokes an
idea of the picture she has of herself as a woman
and artist." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Gender; gender; Kunst; art; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Selbstbilder; Selbstkonzepte
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz