Einverständniserklärungen für eine feministische Forschungspraxis: Überlegungen zur prozesshaften Gestaltung und gesellschaftlichen Einbettung von Einwilligung
Titelübersetzung:Informed Consent in Feminist Research: Considerations about Processes and Societal Context of Giving Consent
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 30 (2021) 1, S 82-94
Inhalt: In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie ein feministisches und postkoloniales Verständnis von informierten Einverständnisprozessen aussehen kann und welche konkreten Schlussfolgerungen für die Forschungspraxis daraus resultieren können. Dabei wird zunächst der historische Entstehungskontext in der medizinischen Forschung beleuchtet und die daraus hervorgehenden Dimensionen - Kompetenz, Verständnis, Information, Freiwilligkeit und Autorisierung - erläutert. Ausgehend von Perspektiven der feministischen Sozialforschung und der feministischen Ethik wird aufgezeigt, dass informiertes Einverständnis über den rechtlich-formalen Akt hinausgehen und als kollaborative und prozessorientierte Aushandlung zwischen Forscher_innen und Forschungsteilnehmer_innen konzipiert werden sollte. Es ist wichtig, soziale und gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge in Einverständnisprozesse einzubeziehen, d.h. Subjekte im Sinne der intersektionalen Ethics of Care als relational zu begreifen und den Einfluss von sozialen Strukturen zu reflektieren. Auf Basis einer feministisch-postkolonialen Ethik wird hervorgehoben, dass es notwendig ist, bestehende Ungleichheiten anzuerkennen, um diese nicht zu reproduzieren. Flexible und wiederholbare Formate der Einverständniserklärung oder das Etablieren von gemeinsamen Diskussionen sowohl in den Einverständnisprozessen als auch in der Ergebnisdarstellung sind Beispiele für mögliche Umsetzungen in der Forschungspraxis.
Schlagwörter:science; Partizipation; participation; Ethik; ethics; Forschungspraxis; research practice; Sozialforschung; social research
SSOAR Kategorie:Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Promoting gender equality and structural change in academia through gender equality plans: Harmonising EU and national initiatives
Titelübersetzung:Förderung von Gendergerechtigkeit und strukturellem Wandel im Wissenschaftsbereich durch Gleichstellungspläne: Integration von EU- und nationalen Initiativen
Autor/in:
Bencivenga, Rita; Drew, Eileen
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 13 (2021) 1, S 27-42
Inhalt: Gender equality has been actively promoted in EU academic institutions by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme through the implementation of gender equality plans (GEP). GEP formulation and implementation was strongly influenced by involvement in EU projects in Irish as well as Italian higher education institutions. The paper draws upon experience of the EU project SAGE (H2020), in which Irish and Italian universities actively cooperated, the Athena SWAN Charter in Ireland, Positive Action Plans (PAP) in Italy, and semi structured interviews with gender experts in Irish and Italian higher education institutions to explore the degree to which participation in EU and national initiatives can promote similar outcomes by the adoption of positive actions. The paper concludes that a harmonised strategy, focusing on common priorities and respecting cultural, political and social diversity, could promote the internationalization of the higher education sector and accelerate the process towards gender equality in academia.
Im Namen der Frauen? Umkämpftes Wissen im gegenwärtigen Engagement gegen sexualisierte Gewalt
Titelübersetzung:On behalf of women? Contested knowledge in current struggles against sexualized violence
Autor/in:
Gutekunst, Miriam
Quelle: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie, (2021) 13, S 190-201
Inhalt: Gegenwärtig engagieren sich Vertreter*innen ganz unterschiedlicher - teils konträrer - politischer Lager gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Dieser Artikel fragt danach, welche Positionierungen in diesem Anliegen konflikthaft aufeinandertreffen, auf welchem Wissen diese beruhen und wie ein kulturanthropologischer Beitrag in diesem politischen Feld aussehen könnte.
The virus changed everything, didn't it? Couples' division of housework and childcare before and during the Corona crisis
Titelübersetzung:Das Virus hat alles verändert, oder? Die Aufteilung von Hausarbeit und Kinderbetreuung in Paarbeziehungen vor und während der Corona-Krise
Autor/in:
Hank, Karsten; Steinbach, Anja
Quelle: JFR - Journal of Family Research, 33 (2021) 1, S 99-113
Inhalt: Objective: To contribute to the discussion about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender (in)equality. Background: We focus on a core aspect of gender (in)equality in intimate relationships, namely couples’ division of housework and childcare, and whether this has changed during the Corona crisis. Method: Our descriptive analysis is based on pre-release data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; Wave 12) and its supplementary Corona web-survey (n=3,108). Results: We observe no fundamental changes in established aggregate-level patterns of couples’ division of labor, but some shift towards the extremes ('traditional' and 'role reversal') of the distribution. Regarding changes within couples, there is an almost equal split between those in which the female partner’s share in housework and childcare increased and those in which it decreased. Particularly in previously more egalitarian arrangements, a substantial proportion of women is now more likely to be primarily responsible for everything. If male partners increased their relative contribution to housework and childcare, they rarely moved beyond the threshold of an equal split. Changes in employment hours were associated with adaptations of men's, but not women's, relative contribution to domestic and family responsibilities. Conclusion: Our findings neither support the notion of a 'patriarchal pandemic', nor do they indicate that the Corona crisis might have fostered macro-level trends of gender convergence. We rather observe heterogeneous responses of couples to the 'Corona shock'.
Schlagwörter:Partnerschaft; partnership; Ehepaar; married couple; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; Hausarbeit; housework; Kinderbetreuung; child care; gender-specific factors; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Federal Republic of Germany; Covid-19 pandemic; Corona; German Family Panel (pairfam; Wave 12) and its supplementary COVID-19 web-survey
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Global Pandemic and the Veiled Crisis of Care in Turkey: Politics of Social Reproduction and Masculinist Restoration
Titelübersetzung:Globale Pandemie und die verschleierte Krise der Pflege in der Türkei: Politik der sozialen Reproduktion und maskulinistische Restauration
Autor/in:
Akkan, Başak
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4, S 31-49
Inhalt: Drawing on feminist debates about social reproduction and care while looking closely at gendered care politics and gender-insensitive containment measures, this article critically explores the politics of care in Turkey in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by engaging with the theoretical debate over "social reproduction as a site of crisis" (Fraser 2016, 2017) and provides a contextualised reflection on the contested features of the crisis of care in a highly gendered political setting where a familialist regime defines gender relations. Because such regimes expect women to increase their burden of care in times of crisis, the pandemic’s gender-insensitive containment politics fundamentally strengthened the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. The article explores the combination of gendered vulnerabilities related to increased unpaid care work and degraded conditions experienced by care workers during lockdowns as a manifestation of the crisis of care in Turkey. Besides neoliberal capitalism, as suggested by Fraser, Turkey's rising authoritarian conservatism also characterises the crisis of care, which has implications for gender inequalities. Accordingly, this article invokes the conceptual framework of "masculinist restoration," as suggested by Kandiyoti (2016, 2019) and argues that women’s situatedness as care providers has been losing its positional power as a cultural element of the familialist regime in Turkey. Instead, this situatedness is being enforced as a political project that aims to institutionalise familialism to secure patriarchal domination in a society, which therefore pertains to a veiled crisis of care.
Gender Mainstreaming im Europäischen Parlament: Geschichte, Institutionalisierung, Hindernisse
Titelübersetzung:Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament: History, institutionalization, obstacles
Autor/in:
Ahrens, Petra
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 13 (2021) 1, S 11-26
Inhalt: Das Europäische Parlament (EP) hat sich als eines der wenigen Parlamente weltweit seit 2003 in insgesamt sechs Entschließungen zur Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming (GM) verpflichtet. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz des Feministischen Institutionalismus analysiert dieser Beitrag chronologisch die potenzielle Institutionalisierung von GM und fragt, inwieweit sich neue Regeln und Normen in bestehende formale und informelle Regeln einflechten lassen. Hierfür werden zentrale EP-Dokumente für den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019 sowie leitfadengestützte Interviews mit MEPs verschiedener Fraktionen und EP-Beschäftigten aus 2019 und 2020 analysiert. Insgesamt kann von einer GM-Institutionalisierung gesprochen werden, wenn sie auch heterogen verläuft.
Schlagwörter:Europaparlament; European Parliament; Gender Mainstreaming; gender mainstreaming; Institutionalisierung; institutionalization; Mikropolitik; micro-politics; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; EU; EU; Frauenrechts- und Gleichstellungsausschuss; Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Europapolitik
Corona, Care, and Political Masculinity: Gender-Critical Perspectives on Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria
Titelübersetzung:Corona, Sorge und politische Männlichkeit: Eine geschlechterkritische Perspektive auf das Regieren der COVID-19 Pandemie in Österreich
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 4, S 50-71
Inhalt: The article departs from the contradiction that the importance of care for society was publicly acknowledged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic response of the Austrian government did not challenge the structurally devalued status of care. In order to sustain the hegemonic patriarchal-capitalist governance of care and social reproduction in the pandemic government actors had to reframe care. We investigate government discourses that normalised its careless crisis management and interrogate the role political masculinity and affects played therein. Based on our analysis of a set of selected press conferences held in March 2020, we find that a new mode of rational-affective political masculinity was constitutive of the political management of COVID-19 crisis. With help of this hybrid mode of masculinity, political actors reinterpreted care first and foremost as healthcare and caring for the economy, and as caring for the population in terms of biopolitics. At the same time, caring tasks in the 'private' sphere were left to the personal responsibility of individuals and families. In order to generate consent, political actors frequently invoked affects that pertained to risk and danger on the one hand and solidarity and responsibility on the other.
Schlagwörter:Österreich; Austria; Pflege; caregiving; Reproduktion; reproduction; Gesundheitspolitik; health policy; Krisenmanagement; crisis management (econ., pol.); politischer Akteur; political actor; Männlichkeit; masculinity; Biopolitik; biotechnology policy; Hegemonie; hegemony; Gender; gender; rational-affective masculinity; reframing care; care for the economy; solidarity; nationality; Corona; COVID-19; global pandemic; biopolitics
SSOAR Kategorie:politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Inhalt: Feminist street art aims to transform patriarchal spaces into places of gendered resistance by asserting a feminist presence in the city. Considering this, as well as women’s social life, their struggle against lingering forces of patriarchy, and relating features of inequality (domestic violence), there was a feminist installation artwork by the young Kurdish artist Tara Abdulla that shook the city of Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan on 26 October 2020. She had prepared a 4,800‐meter‐long washing line covered with the clothes of 99,678 Kurdish women who were survivors of sexual and gender‐based violence. They installed it along the busiest street of the city (Salim Street). She used this piece of feminine to express her reaction to the Kurdish society regarding, the abuse that goes on silently, behind closed doors. She also aimed towards normalizing women’s bodies. After the installation, she received many controversial reactions. As her artwork was a pioneering project in line with feminist issues in Kurdistan which preoccupied the city for quite a while, the aim of this article is to investigate the diverse effects of her work on the current dialogue regarding gender inequality in the Kurdish society. To do this, we used the research method of content analysis on big data (Facebook comments) to investigate the public reactions of a larger number of locals. The Feminine effectively exposed some of the deep‐rooted cultural, religious, and social barriers in addressing gender inequalities and silent sexual violence issues in the modern Kurdish patriarchal society.
Schlagwörter:öffentlicher Raum; public space; Kunstwerk; work of art; Feminismus; feminism; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; gender-specific factors; woman; Kurdistan; Kurdistan; Facebook reactions; Sulaimani; feminist street art; gender inequalities dialogue
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
