Women's Coalitions beyond the Laicism-Islamism Divide in Turkey: Towards an Inclusive Struggle for Gender Equality?
Autor/in:
Çağatay, Selin
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4, S 48-58
Inhalt: In the 2010s in Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) authoritarian-populist turn accompanied the institutionalization of political Islam. As laicism was discredited and labeled as an imposed-from-above principle of Western/Kemalist modernity, the notion of equality ceased to inform the state’s gender policies. In response to AKP's attempts to redefine gender relations through the notions of complementarity and fıtrat (purpose of creation), women across the political spectrum have mobilized for an understanding of gender equality that transcends the laicism - Islamism divide yet maintains secularity as its constitutive principle. Analyzing three recent attempts of women's coalition-building, this article shows that, first, gender equality activists in the 2010s are renegotiating the border between secularity and piety towards more inclusive understandings of gender equality; and second, that struggles against AKP’s gender politics are fragmented due to different configurations of gender equality and secularity that reflect class and ethnic antagonisms in Turkish society. The article thereby argues for the need to move beyond binary approaches to secularism and religion that have so far dominated the scholarly analysis of women’s activism in both Turkey and the Nordic context.
Bausteine einer queerfeministischen politischen Theorie: eine Einleitung
Autor/in:
Bargetz, Brigitte; Ludwig, Gundula
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 24 (2015) 1, S 9-24
Schlagwörter:gender relations; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender; Feminismus; political theory; Macht; politische Theorie; power; feminism; Gender
SSOAR Kategorie:Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Mediating the female terrorist: Patricia Hearst and the containment of the feminist terrorist threat in the United States in the 1970s
Titelübersetzung:Die Medialisierung des weiblichen Terroristen: Patricia Hearst und die Eindämmung der feministischen terroristischen Bedrohung in den USA in den 1970er Jahren
Autor/in:
Third, Amanda
Quelle: Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 3, S 150-175
Inhalt: In January 1976, the trial of Patricia Campbell Hearst caused a Western media sensation. Representing the culmination of her spectacular kidnapping and conversion to the terrorist cause of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), Hearst was on trial for her participation in the Hibernia National Bank robbery almost two years earlier. As of the commencement of the trial, the story of the heiress-come-female-terrorist had been captivating Western media audiences for two years. This article analyses the ways that mainstream media coverage of this event operated to contain both the threat of this particular female terrorist, and the threat of second-wave feminism more broadly. Within Western culture, there has historically been a concern with the need to regulate the mainstream media’s coverage of terrorist events. In this line of thinking, the mainstream media are a precondition for, and a potential site of the contagion of, terrorism. However, as I demonstrate, ultimately, mainstream media coverage of terrorist events in which women are key protagonists operates to recuperate the threat of terrorism. In doing so, it reproduces and reasserts dominant patriarchal gender relations and thus works in the interests of dominant culture, rather than against them.
Schlagwörter:gender relations; gender; Mediatisierung; Berichterstattung; Gender; Massenmedien; Diskurs; discourse; USA; woman; Geschlechterverhältnis; Feminismus; political violence; terrorism; feminism; mediatization; reporting; politische Gewalt; Terrorismus; United States of America; mass media; Patty Hearst; second-wave feminism
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Agriculture and Sustainable Rural Development in Times of Crisis: Critical Engangement from a Gender Perspective: Tagung vom 25. bis 26. Januar 2013 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Autor/in:
Brummert, Julia
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 5 (2013) 2, S 160–165
Inhalt: "Hungersnöte und Ernährungskrisen stehen in einem engen Zusammenhang mit anderen weltweiten Krisenentwicklungen. Die Finanzkrise, der Klimawandel und bewaffnete Konflikte beeinflussen und verstärken sich gegenseitig und erschweren die Lebensbedingungen, vor allem von Menschen in ländlichen Regionen. Wie eine Genderperspektive nützlich sein kann, um das Verhältnis von landwirtschaftlicher Produktion, unbezahlter reproduktiver Arbeit und der Umwelt in Bezug auf diese Krisen zu untersuchen, zeigte die Tagung des Fachgebiets Gender und Globalisierung der Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin am 25. und 26. Januar 2013." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "Problems of food insecurity and food crises are inextricably linked to other mutually reinforcing crises. The financial crisis, climate change and armed confl icts influence and exacerbate the living conditions of the rural population in particular. The conference organized by the Chair of Gender and Globalization at the Humboldt University of Berlin on 25/26 January 2013 looked into how the gender perspective can be used to investigate the relationship between agricultural production, unpaid reproductive work and the environment in the context of these crises." (author's abstract)
Jahrestagung der wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft
Geschlechterstudien/Gender Studies Association:
"Verletzbarkeiten - geschlechterwissenschaftliche
Perspektiven" ; 21. und 22. Januar 2011 in München
Titelübersetzung:Annual meeting of the Gender Studies Association "Gender Studies Perspectives on Vulnerabilities": 21st and 22nd of January 2011 in Munich
Autor/in:
Schmincke, Imke; Tolasch, Eva
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 3 (2011) 2, S 145–150
Inhalt: "Anlässlich der ersten Jahrestagung der wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien/ Gender Studies Association mit dem Titel 'Verletzbarkeiten - geschlechterwissenschaftliche Perspektiven' haben sich am 21. und 22. Januar 2011 an der LMU München disziplinenübergreifend WissenschaftlerInnen zusammengefunden. Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die zentralen Themen der Beiträge zusammen und kommentiert sie. Die Beiträge aus Philosophie, den Literatur-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften wurden in vier Debatten organisiert, die sich mit den Stichworten 'Verwicklungen', 'Körper', 'Prekarisierungsprozesse' und 'Konflikte' umreißen lassen und verschiedene Dimensionen von Verletzbarkeiten/ Verwundbarkeiten thematisierten." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The first annual meeting of the Gender Studies Association, which was founded in Berlin in 2010, took place on the 21st-22nd of January 2011 at the LMU in Munich. The inter- and transdisciplinary conference was centred around the topic of 'Vulnerabilities' and presented different themes and perspectives from gender studies scholars on the topic. The different contributions were organized in four sessions with emphasis on 'complications', 'body', 'precarization' and 'conflicts'. In the wide range of contributions vulnerability was connected amongst others with epistemology, literature, body politics and mutilations, preciousness and precarity and conflict." (author's abstract)