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.
Long-term care and gender equality: fuzzy-set ideal types of care regimes in Europe
Autor/in:
Bartha, Attila; Zentai, Violetta
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 4, S 92-102
Inhalt: Recent changes in the organization of long-term care have had controversial effects on gender inequality in Europe. In response to the challenges of ageing populations, almost all countries have adopted reform measures to secure the increasing resource needs for care, to ensure care services by different providers, to regulate the quality of services, and overall to recalibrate the work-life balance for men and women. These reforms are embedded in different family ideals of intergenerational ties and dependencies, divisions of responsibilities between state, market, family, and community actors, and backed by wider societal support to families to care for their elderly and disabled members. This article disentangles the different components of the notion of ‘(de)familialization’ which has become a crucial concept of care scholarship. We use a fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to investigate care policies and work-family reconciliation policies shaping long-term care regimes. We are making steps to reveal aggregate gender equality impacts of intermingling policy dynamics and also to relate the analysis to migrant care work effects. The results are explained in a four-pronged ideal type scheme to which European countries belong. While only Nordic and some West European continental countries are close to the double earner, supported carer ideal type, positive outliers prove that transformative gender relations in care can be construed not only in the richest and most generous welfare countries in Europe.
Schlagwörter:Europa; Europe; Pflege; caregiving; Familie; family; gender; Gleichheit; equality; Migrant; migrant; care regimes; familialization; fuzzy set ideal type analysis; long-term care
SSOAR Kategorie:Gesundheitspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 30 (2018) 1, S 96-119
Inhalt: Educational expansion, the massive increase of women’s labor force participation, and assortative mating have reduced asymmetries in educational achievements and in career resources between women and men in virtually every Western society. This paper provides an analysis of the association between partners' education, parenthood, and spouses' relative labor supply in East and West Germany. Education is considered from two angles: as an indicator for resources on the labor market or as an indicator for gender attitudes. We apply cross-sectional data from the 2011 German Microcensus, comprising 57,366 couple households. For our estimations, we use General Linear Models. Because of high case numbers, we are able to estimate several interaction effects in statistical powerful detail. We find that (1) a woman's share of paid work is higher, the higher she is educated; (2) women with higher education than their male partners realize higher shares of relative employment (in comparison to other women); (3) women rarely realize a share of 50% or higher on average in any educational composition; (4) especially young children have a huge impact on women's labor supply; and (5) women's comparative educational advantages are more important for their share of paid work in West than in East Germany. Neither interpretation of relative education can explain the overall picture of couples’ division of paid work alone. Depending on parenthood, the age of the youngest child in the household, and the regional context, either normative, or economic exchanges between partners seem to drive the association between relative education, and relative labor supply of women. We demonstrate the usefulness of two theoretical approaches of framing education as an explanatory concept.
Schlagwörter:Partnerschaft; partnership; Bildungsniveau; level of education; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Elternschaft; parenthood; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Familie; family; Federal Republic of Germany; alte Bundesländer; old federal states; neue Bundesländer; New Federal States
SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Das Narrativ "natürlicher" Mutterliebe und Mütterlichkeit in Literatur und Film
Titelübersetzung:The narrative of natural motherly love in literature and movies
Autor/in:
Schlicht, Corinna
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 8 (2016) 1, S 108-123
Inhalt: "Im Sinne einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Emotionsforschung, die Affekte und Gefühle auf ihre kulturellen Repräsentationsformen und Bedingungen hin untersucht, wird in historischer Perspektive gezeigt, wie das Narrativ mütterlicher Fürsorge bis heute das kulturelle Verständnis von der Frau formt. Die Analyse eines filmischen (Stephen Daldry The Hours) und eines literarischen Beispiels (Julia Franck Die Mittagsfrau) stellt zwei Werke in den Mittelpunkt, die jeweils eine Doppelperspektive einnehmen, die der Mutter und die des Kindes. Sie gehören zu der Textgruppe, die ein im Weiblichkeitsdiskurs eher tabuisiertes Feld behandeln, nämlich Mütter zu perspektivieren, die ihre Kinder nicht aufopferungsvoll lieben. Sie sind als kritische Reflexionen biologistischer Vorannahmen über scheinbar ąnatürliche' Mütterlichkeit, mit der innerhalb des kulturell verankerten binären Systems gleichzeitig die "Unnatürlichkeit" männlicher Fürsorge impliziert ist, ebenso zu verstehen wie als Infragestellung eines traditionellen Familienbilds, in dem Väter von der Zuständigkeit für das emotionale Kindeswohl eher ausgeschlossen sind, weil diese als genuin weibliche Aufgabe diskursiviert wird." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This article demonstrates from a historical perspective and in terms of cultural studies research into emotions, which examines affects and feelings in terms of their forms of cultural representation and cultural conditions, how the narrative of motherly care has shaped the cultural understanding of women up to the present day. An analysis of one cinematic (Stephen Daldry's "The Hours") and one literary (Julia Franck's "Die Mittagsfrau") example puts the focus on two works which both adopt a double perspective, that of the mother as well as of the child. They belong to the group of texts which deal with a tabooed field in the femininity discourse, that is the perspective of those mothers who do not selflessly love their children. They are to be understood as critical reflections of biologistic presuppositions about apparently "natural" motherliness, which at the same time, within the culturally anchored binary system, implies the "unnaturalness" of masculine care. Moreover, they must be understood as calling into question the traditional family image in which fathers tend to be excluded from responsibility for a child's emotional well-being because that is narrated as a genuinely female task." (author's abstract)
Titelübersetzung:O cotidiano da mulher em hemodiálise
Autor/in:
Salimena, Anna Maria de Oliveira; Souza, Marcela Oliveira; Melo, Maria Carmen Simões Cardoso de; Ferreira, Micheli Rezende
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 8 (2016) 3, S 4636-4643
Inhalt: Objective: understanding the daily life of a woman undergoing hemodialysis. Method: qualitative study conducted with 9 women by means of interviews in February and March 2013 in the hemodialysis unit of a hospital in Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais), Brazil. Results: the comprehensive analysis unveiled 3 units of meaning: having a chronic kidney disease and facing hemodialysis, hemodialysis and its reactions, the daily life of a woman treated with hemodialysis. Feelings of fear and rejection were noticed. However, religion and family proved to be important for acceptance and hope during treatment. Conclusion: we highlight the importance of the nurse's role in the substitutive renal therapy service. This professional works as an educator, promoting selfcare and assisting the female patients to find new ways to live according to their own limitations.
Schlagwörter:woman; chronische Krankheit; chronic illness; Pflege; caregiving; Familie; family; Religion; religion; Einfluss; influence; Krankheitsverlauf; course of a disease; Lebensbedingungen; living conditions; renal insufficiency; hemodialysis; nursing care
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Educated girls, absent grooms, and runaway brides: narrating social change in rural Bangladesh
Titelübersetzung:Ausgebildete Mädchen, abwesende Bräutigame und entlaufene Bräute: Erzählungen zu sozialem Wandel im ländlichen Bangladesch
Autor/in:
Fraser Schoen, Roslyn
Quelle: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16 (2015) 1, 21 S
Inhalt: "Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit Legenden als einer Ausdrucksform sozialer Kontrolle über im ländlichen Bangladesch lebende Frauen. Die Legenden fanden sich in Interviews, die ich mit Frauen führte, deren Männer das Dorf wg. Arbeitsmöglichkeiten in größeren Städten oder im Ausland verlassen hatten. Für die Analyse nutzte ich Immersion und offenes Kodieren (Marshall und Rossman 2006), wobei mich die individuellen Erzählungen und die Sinngebungsprozesse aufseiten der Frauen interessierten um nachzuvollziehen, in welcher Weise solche Legenden als signifikante Bestandteile des Alltagsleben wirksam sind (Gubrium und Holstein 2009). Die Erzählungen, die resultierten, entsprechen Goldsteins (2004) Definition einer Legende: Sie sind weder individuelle Geschichten, noch sind sie vollständig jenseits des Individuellen; sie werden im Duktus des 'Ob du es glaubst oder nicht' erzählt, und mit ihrer Erzählung sind nur minimale Risiken für die Erzählenden verbunden. Wie andere Legenden und Sagen dienen die hier Erzählten als Mittel der Stützung sozialer Ordnung in Zeiten sozialen Wandels. Und wie bereits in anderen Untersuchungen (z.B. Coontz 1999; Cooper, Linstroth und Chaitlin 2009; Greene 1991; Madriz 1997) deutlich, fokussieren sie insbesondere Frauen in sozialen Umbruchphasen. Die von mir interviewten Frauen berichteten auch über 'Unglücke' und 'Skandale', die sich dann ereigneten, wenn Frauen sich den Heiratsbräuchen oder der traditionellen Trennung von privaten und öffentlichen Räumen nicht unterwarfen." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This article explores the folk legend as one articulation of the social control of women in rural Bangladesh. Stories and legends emerged when women were interviewed about the effects of men leaving the village for wage-based jobs in cities and abroad. Interviews were analyzed via immersion, theme generation, and open coding (Marshall und Rossman, 2006) with a focus on women's own narratives and meaning-making, which allowed for these stories to be understood as significant components of people's everyday realities (Gubrium und Holstein, 2009). These stories are consistent with Goldstein's (2004) definition of a legend: they are not personal stories yet they are not completely impersonal (friend-of-a-friend subject), they take on a believe-it-or-not tone, and telling them presents minimal risk to the narrator. Like other folk legends, these stories act as a means to reinforce the social order during a time of social change. As other research has shown (Coontz, 1999; Cooper, Linstroth und Chaitlin, 2009; Greene, 1991; Madriz, 1997), stories as social control mechanisms focus specifically and uniquely on women during times of social change. Respondents discuss 'accidents' and 'scandals' that occur when women do not adhere to marriage customs or the traditional dichotomy of public and domestic spheres." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:labor migration; Arbeitsteilung; Bangladesh; ländlicher Raum; Arbeitsmigration; rural area; narrative; Bangladesch; Südasien; Bildungsniveau; Ehe; marriage; division of labor; girl; Familie; Mädchen; social control; Erzählung; woman; sozialer Wandel; traditionelle Kultur; traditional culture; family; Entwicklungsland; South Asia; level of education; soziale Kontrolle; social change; developing country
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Cervical cancer precursor lesions: significance for women in a referral center in brazil
Titelübersetzung:Lesões precursoras de câncer cervical: significado para mulheres em um centro de referência no brasil
Autor/in:
Melo, Rosana Oliveira de; Moreira, Rita de Càssia Rocha; Lopes, Regina Lúcia Mendonça
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 7 (2015) 4, S 3327-3338
Inhalt: Objective: understand the experience of women with cervical cancer precursor lesions. Method: phenomenological study, with the reduction, construction, and destruction steps. Data interpretation was performed through Heidegger's comprehensive analysis. Results: the phenomena unveiled were related to women's doubts, due to lack of diagnosis; changes in relationships with partners; difficulties in making friends; family importance; coping strategies; relationship with health professionals and distrust in care; shame and embarrassment to undergo the Pap test; and fear of death. Conclusion: it was found that there is an urgent need to resize the care for a woman with cervical cancer precursor lesions, given the challenge of understanding the need that a health professional provides care from the Heideggerian perspective, establishing a relationship of being-with-the-other, appreciating her as a subject of possibilities.
Schlagwörter:Erfahrung; experience; woman; Krebs; cancer; Gesundheitsversorgung; health care; soziale Faktoren; social factors; Phänomenologie; phenomenology; Gesundheit; health; Arzt; physician; Arzt-Patient-Beziehung; physician-patient relationship; Familie; family; soziale Beziehungen; social relations; Brasilien; Brazil; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Südamerika; South America
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
The woman's life after mastectomy in the light of Roy Adaptive theory
Titelübersetzung:La vida de las mujeres después de la mastectomía teniendo en cuenta la teoría de adaptación de Roy
Autor/in:
Rodrigues, Sarah Miranda; Viana, Tatiane Chagas; Andrade, Priscilla Garcia de
Quelle: Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 7 (2015) 4, S 3292-3304
Inhalt: Objective: check the adaptation methods of mastectomies women; raise the presence of changes in the habits of life of women after mastectomy; correlate the adaptive process outlined by the woman with the theory presented by Roy and investigate the care provided by nurses to women with mastectomies. Method: For carrying out the survey was used to type descriptive qualitative approach. Results: The role of nursing in the care the woman, who had been subjected to breast surgery, encompasses care for maintenance of their bodily functions as well as support to those who are involved in the process, the individual as a whole and family. Conclusion: Roy's theory is the bases for hypotheses that can be tested.
Schlagwörter:woman; Krebs; cancer; Lebensweise; way of life; Krankenpflege; nursing; Pflege; caregiving; Hilfeleistung; assistance; Familie; family
SSOAR Kategorie:Medizinsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Remnant "Family": the role of women in the media discourse on families
Titelübersetzung:La famille rémanente: le rôle des femmes dans le discours des médias sur les familles
Autor/in:
Tank, Jennifer; Prinzing, Marlis
Quelle: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 7 (2014) 2, S 95-117
Inhalt: How does gender affect discourse processes, particularly regarding the coverage of family issues? In order to explore this question, we focus on media representations of women in their roles as mothers on the one hand and journalists on the other and we compare the reporting of male and female journalists covering families. We refer to gender theory to examine processes of gender construction by different actors in the media and we draw on journalism theory to explain different reporting styles and strategies by male and female authors regarding discourse strategies, framing, and gender-stereotyping. Our methodological approaches include quantitative and qualitative content analyses and 14 semi-structured interviews with journalists, family researchers, and lobbyists. The sample includes coverage of families in general and that of large families in particular in German print media in the years 2011 and 2012, for a total of 1,100 texts. One of the key findings, not surprisingly, is that most of the journalists reporting on families are female. Similar to male journalists, however, they focus on the traditional family type despite the fact that various alternative forms of family life are now a social reality.