Die neue Geschlechter(un)ordnung : eine feministische Perspektive auf die Familie
Titelübersetzung:The new (dis)order of gender : family in a feminist perspective
Autor/in:
Gerhard, Ute
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 2, S. 194-213
Inhalt: "A major characteristic of the European family today is a new plurality of forms of private living with an increasing number of one-parent households as well as patchwork families, homosexual couples or intergenerational networks of reliable relationships. The growing number of private lifestyles is especially due to marriage's loss of significance, which is no longer a prerequisite for either sexual partnership or for parenthood. In feminist perspective these structural changes, the remarkable cultural change in gender relations and in family law are not to be lamented as family decay or loss of solidarity, since they also mean more freedom and equal rights of women and children. However, there are still deficits in family policies as regards the division of labour and care responsibilities. The contribution discusses the delays and contradictory consequences of German family policies and legal reforms in exemplary respects: the incessant problems of working mothers, the recent legal reform of maintenance for a spouse after divorce, and the legal recognition of registered homosexual couples. The feminist argument is that there is no Opposition between love and gender justice, on the contrary, that love even presupposes a practice of equal rights in all forms of private living." (author's abstract)
Familienpolitik ohne Gleichstellungspolitik? : zu einigen Paradoxien aktueller familienpolitischer Interventionen in Deutschland
Titelübersetzung:Family policies in conflict with gender equality? : reflections on paradox performances in the recent reform processes in Germany
Autor/in:
Veil, Mechthild
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 2, S. 214-228
Inhalt: "This article analyses the lack of gender equality within the realm of family policies in Germany due to the conservative corporate model of welfare-regime (Esping Andersen). Family policies in western Germany have promoted strong male breadwinner models which will become obsolete but [always] still persist. We argue that the recent turn in family policies which started at the beginning of this century can be seen as a late modernisation focussing on reforms which connect family policies with employment policy, and gender equality with the demands of employed parents. Two reforms, representative for this change are analysed in detail: the programme to significantly expand (of) publicly-provided childcare for young children (TAG) and the introduction of an earning-related parental benefit which strengthens the role of fathers as caregivers. Special attention is given to the expansion of family policies at the company level. Whether this 'economic turn' is actually having an additional impact on gender equality is highly disputed in feminist studies." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Demographie und Bevölkerungsfragen, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Ungleichheit der Geschlechter als Routine? : die Auswirkungen der Hochschulreformen in Schweden und England
Titelübersetzung:The routinisation of gender inequality? : higher education in Sweden and England
Autor/in:
Barry, Jim; Berg, Elisabeth; Chandler, John
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 1, S. 56-68
Inhalt: "In this article we consider organisation, gender and higher education, and what we term the routinisation of inequality, drawing on an empirical research investigation in Sweden and England. We understand the idea of universities as historically contingent human creations that reflect an imagined past as well as the interests, values, hopes and intentions of present members as they converge and diverge an specific issues at different times and in different places. We argue that the reproduction of inequality is an assumptive process, largely unchanging and not seen as exceptional or out of the ordinary in universities and that this is connected in the present period with increasing neo-liberalism in conjunction with the new managerialism. The main conclusion is that whilst inequality is experienced negatively by those it affects adversely and who would winch otherwise, it has become ingrained in everyday life as a part of our present taken for granted assumptive world. Consideration is given to Future prospects." (author's abstract)
Die Macht der Kategorien : kritische Überlegungen zur Intersektionalität
Titelübersetzung:The power of categories : critical reflections on intersectionality
Autor/in:
Purtschert, Patricia; Meyer, Katrin
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 1, S. 130-142
Inhalt: "In the German speaking area, debates on Intersectionality' constitute one of the most interesting research areas in contemporary women and gender studier. In this context, rate, class and gender are often considered to be the 'master categories' that represent the most relevant social differences. In contrast, we argue that it is impossible to determine the framework of any intersectional analysis by a predefined number of categories. This can be shown on historical, theoretical and political grounds: First, a reflection on the genealogy of feminist theory shows how crucial critical interventions have been for its development. Second, if an intersectional analysis does not problematize its own exclusions, it disregards its own insights into the functionality of power. And finally, the openness to new and different positions can be seen as a basis for a feminist solidarity beyond the logic of sameness." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Geschlechterarrangements in den Entrepreneurial Universities : ein Bick auf Disziplinen, Arbeits- und weitere Lebensverhältnisse
Titelübersetzung:Gender arrangements in the entrepreneurial universities : a view on academic disciplines, extended work and life arrangements
Autor/in:
Binner, Kristina; Kubicek, Bettina; Weber, Lena
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 1, S. 71-84
Inhalt: "The restructuring of the public rector in the OECD countries, due to the introduction of New Public Management tools, has also reached the universities and academic site. These processes have far-reaching consequences for the Organisation of the university, and yet it is unclear how and to what extent the organisational changes affect the gender arrangements an which the universities were founded in the past. By looking closer at the university reforms in Austria and Germany, the article examines standards of academic excellence, academic ways of life and career systems. Focusing an disciplinary contexts and new job profiles, the article shows how gender arrangements could be changed, restructured or newly formed within the current change processes." (author's abstract)
Soziale Homogentiät und kulturelle Hegemonie : Ausschließung und Organisation aus Bourdieuscher Perspektive
Titelübersetzung:Social homogeneity and cultural hegemony : exclusion and organization from a Bourdieusian perspective
Autor/in:
Hofbauer, Johanna
Quelle: Feministische Studien : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Jg. 28 (2010) Nr. 1, S. 25-39
Inhalt: "Scholars in the fields of Feminist studies and diversity research have argued that social homogeneity of top management (majority of upper class white men), is an important cause for, not only a consequence of, social exclusion in modern organization. The article takes up on the argument of social homogeneity accounting for cultural hegemony in institutions, with an attempt to Show the use of Pierre Bourdieu's approaches to social inequality and symbolic domination. Bourdieu has only recently been 'discovered' by organization studies, explaining for the range of open theoretical questions as well as the lack of comprehensive empirical research. This said, the article still attempts to demonstrate how Bourdieusian concepts such as social distinction, organization field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence already now add to our understanding of exclusion in modern organization." (author's abstract)