Inhalt: This article explores the intersections of gender and centre–periphery relations and calls for theoretical and political involvement in gendered struggles against colonial and capitalist forces across different national contexts. The article raises questions about the possibility of resisting inequality and exploitation arising from capitalist expansion and extraction of natural resources in Sweden and Greece, outside of urban contexts. It does so by highlighting women’s role in protest movements in peripheral places and questioning power relations between centre and periphery. The article also argues that making visible women’s struggles and contributions to protest movements brings about vital knowledge for realizing democratic worlds that do not thrive on the destruction of natural resources and the institutionalization of inequalities.
Politische Konsumentinnen im Social Web: Praktiken der Vermittlung zwischen Bürger- und Verbraucheridentität
Autor/in:
Witterhold, Katharina
Quelle: Bielefeld (Kulturen der Gesellschaft, 25), 2017. 330 S
Inhalt: An examination of the everyday political engagement of women and their contribution to a net-based 'civic culture'.
Schlagwörter:politische Partizipation; political participation; bürgerschaftliches Engagement; citizens' involvement; Internet; Internet; Soziale Medien; social media; Konsum; consumption; Verbraucher; consumer; Politisierung; politicization; gender-specific factors; woman; politisches Handeln; political action; Verbraucherpolitik; consumer policy; Digitalisierung; digitalization; Social Web; Prosuming
SSOAR Kategorie:politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, interaktive, elektronische Medien
Frau Doktor steht zur Wahl: eine quantitative Analyse des bundesdeutschen Wahlverhaltens auf lokaler Ebene aus der Genderperspektive
Titelübersetzung:The doctor is standing for election: a quantitative analysis of German voting behaviour from a gender perspective
Autor/in:
Friedhoff, Caroline; Holtkamp, Lars; Wiechmann, Elke
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 8 (2016) 1, S 91-107
Inhalt: "Dieser Beitrag geht zwei grundlegenden Fragen nach: zum einen, ob Frauen bei Kommunalwahlen, bei denen Kumulieren und Panaschieren möglich ist, gezielt nach unten gewählt -und somit durch die Wählerschaft diskriminiert- werden, und zum anderen, ob ein vorhandener Doktortitel der KandidatInnen den Wahlerfolg, unabhängig vom Geschlecht, im Vergleich zu Nicht-Promovierten erhöht. Die Analysen der Kommunalwahlen in 74 Klein- (20 000 bis 50 000 EinwohnerInnen) und Großstädten (mehr als 100 000 EinwohnerInnen) anhand der Parteilisten mit fast 16 000 KandidatInnen zeigen eine Benachteiligung von Frauen gegenüber den (männlichen) Kandidaten durch die Wählerschaft, die sich allerdings nur in Kleinstädten, nicht jedoch in Großstädten äußert. Ein Doktortitel begünstigt den relativen Wahlerfolg von Frauen und Männern gegenüber Nicht-Promovierten wie erwartet, wobei es keine signifikanten Differenzen im Wahlerfolg zwischen Frauen und Männern mit Doktortitel gibt. Die Annahmen und Ergebnisse werden im Spiegel aktueller Forschungsergebnisse diskutiert." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This article addresses two basic issues: Whether women are discriminated by voters in local elections when the electoral system allows accumulation and cross-voting and whether candidates with a PhD achieve better relative electoral success than candidates without a PhD, regardless of the candidate's gender. An analysis of local elections in 74 small towns (20 000 up to 50 000 residents) and large cities (more than 100 000 residents) with nearly 16 000 candidates showed that women are discriminated by voters in small towns, but not in big cities. Candidates with a PhD are more successful in elections than candidates without a PhD. However, there are no significant differences between the electoral success of women and men with a doctorate. The hypothesis and results will be discussed as reflected in current research results." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Kommunalwahl; local election; Wahlverhalten; voting behavior; Frauenanteil; proportion of women; Wahlergebnis; election result; Wahlsystem; electoral system; Benachteiligung; deprivation; woman; Akademiker; academic; gender-specific factors; regionaler Unterschied; regional difference; Federal Republic of Germany; Kumulieren; Panaschieren
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Islamism, Secularism and the Woman Question in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring: Evidence from the Arab Barometer
Autor/in:
Fox, Ashley M.; Abdelkarim Alzwawi, Sana; Refki, Dina
Quelle: Politics and Governance, 4 (2016) 4, S 40-57
Inhalt: "The uprisings that led to regime change during the early period of the Arab Spring were initially inclusive and pluralistic in nature, with men and women from every political and religious orientation engaging actively in political activities on the street and in virtual spaces. While there was an opening of political space for women and the inclusion of demands of marginalized groups in the activists' agenda, the struggle to reimagine national identities that balance Islamic roots and secular yearnings is still ongoing in many countries in the region. This paper seeks to deepen understanding of the extent to which the pluralistic sentiments and openness to accepting the rights women have persisted following the uprising. We aim to examine changes in attitudes towards women's equality in countries that underwent regime change through popular uprisings during revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring and in countries where regimes have remained unchanged. Using available data from consecutive rounds of the Arab Barometer survey, we examine changes in attitudes in nine countries with two rounds of Arab Barometer during and post Arab Spring (Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine). We find that support for 'Muslim feminism' (an interpretation of gender equality grounded in Islam) has increased over the period and particularly in Arab Spring countries, while support for 'secular feminism' has declined. In most countries examined, relatively high degrees of support for gender equality co-exist with a preference for Islamic interpretations of personal status codes pertaining to women. We discuss the implications of these findings for academics and activists concerned with women's rights in the Middle East North Africa (MENA)." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Nordafrika; North Africa; arabische Länder; Arab countries; Nahost; Middle East; politischer Wandel; political change; politische Partizipation; political participation; Islamismus; islamism; Säkularisierung; secularization; woman; Menschenrechte; human rights; Feminismus; feminism; Muslim; Muslim; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Einstellung; attitude; gender-specific factors; Einstellungsänderung; attitude change; Islam; Islam; Religiosität; religiousness; Arab democratic exceptionalism; Arab Spring
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Religionssoziologie
From women's quota to "women's politics": the impact of gender quotas on political representations and practices in the Pakistani National Parliament
Titelübersetzung:Die Bedeutung der Geschlechtsquoten im Hinblick auf politische Repräsentation und Praxis im pakistanischen Nationalparlament
Autor/in:
Dutoya, Virginie
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 22 (2013) 2, S 17-34
Inhalt: "Im Jahr 2002 verkündete der damalige pakistanische Präsident Pervez Musharraf, dass 17% der Sitze in Nationalversammlung und Senat künftig für Frauen reserviert seien. Wenngleich eine Quotenregelung kein Novum für das Land darstellte, war ihr Wert noch nie so hoch ausgefallen. Seit der Abschaffung der Quote im Jahr 1988 war die Repräsentation von Frauen im Parlament auf unter 3% gesunken. Als mit den Wahlen von 2002 dann 80 Frauen in die Nationalversammlung einzogen und ca. 20% aller Abgeordneten stellten, wurde die neue Regelung als bahnbrechend aufgefasst. Musharrafs Entscheidung erhielt viel Lob von Aktivistinnen der Frauenbewegung. Der Beitrag versucht zu beurteilen, wie Frauen sich in Diskurs und Praxis neue Wege geschaffen haben, um Politik zu machen. Während die Agency von Frauen durch Quotenregeln durchaus anerkannt wird, lautet die Argumentation aber auch, dass eine gesonderte Demarkation von 'Frauenpolitik' Einschränkungen mit sich bringen, zur Marginalisierung von Frauen beitragen und Genderstereotype verstärken kann." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In 2002, the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced that 17% of the seats in the National Assembly and Senate would be reserved to women. Though quotas for women were not a new phenomenon in Pakistan, they had never reached this level. Moreover, after they had been dropped in 1988, the representation of women in the Pakistani parliament fell under 3%. Thus the entry of more than 80 women in Parliament (about 20% of all MPs) in 2002 was considered as a game changer in Pakistani politics, and Musharraf's decision was generally praised by activists of the women's movement. The article tries to evaluate how women construct new ways to do politics in their discourses and practices, and what place gender norms and representations occupy in this process. While recognizing women's agency though quota regulations, it is also argued that a distinctive demarcation of 'women's politics' can bring about constraints, contribute to women's marginalization in the political field, and strengthen gender stereotypes." (author's abstract)
Women's political participation in Indonesia: decentralisation, money politics and collective memory in Bali
Autor/in:
Rhoads, Elizabeth
Quelle: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 31 (2012) 2, S 35-56
Inhalt: This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local
political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm. Without
thoroughly addressing and altering the underlying issues causing discrimination against
women in politics, a weak quota system will not immediately lead to increased women’s
participation in Bali. This paper argues that the leading factors contributing to
low levels of Balinese women’s participation include widespread money politics, the
revitalisation of customary institutions and local identities through decentralisation,
and the collective memory of the violent dissolution of the Indonesian Women’s Movement
(Gerwani) in 1965–66.
Schlagwörter:Frauenbewegung; discrimination; Südostasien; politischer Wandel; Menschenrechte; political change; human rights; Indonesien; Diskriminierung; Indonesia; woman; political participation; Southeast Asia; gender-specific factors; women's movement; politische Partizipation; Bali; 1960-2010
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Religion and the gender vote gap: women's changed political preferences from the 1970s to 2010
Autor/in:
Manow, Philip; Emmenegger, Patrick
Quelle: Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Sozialpolitik; Bremen (ZeS-Arbeitspapier, 1/2012), 2012. 43 S
Inhalt: "For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men (the ‘old’ gender vote gap), but since the 1980s this gap in many countries has shifted direction: now women in many countries are more likely to support left parties than men of the same age, in the same income bracket, and at the same educational level (the ‘new’ gender vote gap). The literature largely agrees on a set of political-economic factors explaining the change in women’s political orientation: changed employment patterns, women’s higher educational achievements, and higher divorce rates. These trends turned women into supporters of generous social programs that promise to ‘de-familialize’ services formerly provided privately within the family. In this paper, we demonstrate that these conventional political-economic factors fall short in explaining the old gender vote gap. We may therefore also harbor doubts whether they provide us with a full story for the new gender vote gap. Instead, we highlight the importance of religion for the gendered pattern of voting behavior that we observe. We argue that where vote choice expressed preferences on a non-economic, i.e. mainly religious issue dimension, parties in the past could afford – at least to some extent – ignoring voters’ socio-economic interests. Given that surveys show us a constantly higher degree of religiosity among women and a relatively persistent and strong impact of religion on vote choice, religion can indeed, we argue, explain a substantial part of the old and new gender vote gap." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Wahlverhalten; voting behavior; woman; historische Entwicklung; historical development; gender-specific factors; Religion; religion; Einkommensunterschied; difference in income; Bildungsniveau; level of education; politische Einstellung; political attitude
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Reporting Romania's 2009 European elections: press coverage and viability of the male and female candidates
Autor/in:
Iorgoveanu, Aurora
Quelle: Eurolimes, (2011) Supl. 3, S 249-262
Inhalt: This article aims to analyze and compare the press coverage of the two most visible male and female candidates for a Member of the European Parliament office during the campaign for the European elections held in Romania, June 2009. The present study examines a month of coverage in the four most influential broadsheets and tabloids in Romania: Cancan, EvenimentulZilei, Gândul and Libertatea. Using a design of content analysis, the results of this paper emphasize that Elena Băsescu received less coverage than did George Becali. There were also found qualitative differences in coverage, attributed to Elena Băsescu’s gender, who was depicted as not being viable to represent the Romanians interests in Brussels.
Schlagwörter:press; gender; Berichterstattung; Wahlkampf; Gender; Kandidatur; ; Europaparlament; European Parliament; Romania; election campaign; Mann; woman; Politikerin; election to the European Parliament; Rumänien; candidacy; gender-specific factors; Presse; man; reporting; Europawahl; member of the European Parliament; election coverage; horse-race
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Europapolitik, Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur