Inhalt: This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on gender, power and diplomacy. The volume brings together a wide range of established International Relations scholars from different parts of the world to write original contributions, which analyse where the women are positioned in diplomacy and international negotiation. The contributions are rich and global in scope with cases ranging from Brazil, Japan, Turkey, Israel, Sweden to the UN, Russia, Norway and the European Union.
This book fills an important gap in research and will be of much interest to students and scholars of gender, diplomacy and International Relations. The volume also reaches out to a broader community of practitioners with an interest in the practice of diplomacy and international negotiation.
Schlagwörter:Diplomatie; Frauenanteil; Internationale Beziehungen
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender and political violence : Women changing the politics of terrorism
Herausgeber/in:
Ortbals, Candice D.; Poloni-Staudinger, Lori
Inhalt: This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas men and masculinity are associated with war and aggression, women and femininity conjure up socially constructed images of passivity and peace. This distinction of men as aggressors and women as passive victims denies women their voice and agency. This book investigates how women cope with and influence violent politics, and is both a descriptive and analytical attempt to describe in what ways women are present or absent in political contexts involving political violence, and how they deal with gender assumptions, express gender identities, and frame their actions regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The book looks to reach beyond the notion of women as victims of terrorism or genocide without agency, and to recognize the gendered nature of political conflicts and how women respond to violence. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, academics in terrorism studies and gender studies, government officials, NGOs, and professionals working in areas of violent conflict.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterrollen; Terrorismus
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Cyber violence and hate speech online against women : Study for the FEMM committee - Policy Department for Citizens‘ Rights and Constitutional Affairs PE 604.979
Herausgeber/in:
European Parliament
Quelle: European Parliament; European Union, 2018. 80 S
Inhalt: This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, looks into the phenomenon of cyber violence and hate speech online against women in the European Union. After reviewing existing definitions of the different forms of cyber violence, the study assesses the root causes and impact of online violence on women. It continues by analysing and mapping the prevalence, victims and perpetrators. The document ends with an outline of the existing legal framework and recommendations for action within the EU remit.
Schlagwörter:cyber violence; hate speech; online violence; violence against women
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Inhalt: The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised – albeit with important differences among countries – by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. Much less investigated is the issue of which stage in the career such differences begin to show up.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries: Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.
Offering recommendations to design innovative organisational policies and self-tailored ‘Gender Equality Plans’ to be implemented in universities and research centres, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Knowledge, Business Studies and Higher Education.
Gender Budgeting in Europe : Developments and Changes
Herausgeber/in:
O'Hagan, Angela; Klatzer, Elisabeth
Quelle: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p
Inhalt: This book takes a broad look at conceptual and practical applications of gender budgeting in Europe. It comprises three linked sections that work through conceptual definitions of gender budget analysis. These sections explore how it can be framed and constructed as a gender equality policy; investigate case studies across Europe; and examine challenges for implementation.
The first book of its kind, Gender Budgeting in Europe explores conceptual and methodological variations evidence in practice in Europe and the challenges of adoption and implementation in different political and institutional contexts. It brings together historical and current conceptual developments and tensions; approaches, methodologies, and tools in practice across Europe; activism, actors and agency and the engagement of formal institutions at all levels of government with feminist policy changes and feminist analysis and activists.
This text is fascinating reading for students, scholars, policy makers and activists.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender and Diversity Studies : European Perspectives
Herausgeber/in:
Bauschke-Urban, Carola; Jungwirth, Ingrid
Quelle: Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 2018. 260 Seiten
Inhalt: What concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘diversity’ emerge in the different regions and pertinent research and practical fields? On the back drop of current European developments – from the deregulation of economy, a shrinking welfare state to the dissolution and reinforcement of borders – the book examines the development of Gender and Diversity Studies in different European regions as well as beyond and focuses on central fields of theoretical reflection, empirical research and practical implementation policies and politics.
Anti-discrimination policies of the EU contribute to an institutionalization of Gender and Diversity Studies and interact with legal, political, societal and economic factors which shape the academic and practical fields. Pressure towards the deregulation of economy, the reduction of welfare state institutions, increased requirements of mobility for individuals and, at the same time, stronger regulations of migration have an impact on research and theory development in the field of Gender and Diversity Studies. While certain rights and anti-discrimination policies are being strengthened within the EU, and while inner borders between member states dissolve and – recently at the same time partially also increase – external borders of Europe are simultaneously being enforced. The large flows of refugee migration towards and into Europe has put these questions on top of the agenda.
Taking these processes as well as social and political changes in different European and border regions into account, the state of the art as well as future perspectives of Gender and Diversity Studies are debated from multiple European and border perspectives. What concepts of ‘gender’ and ‘diversity’ emerge in the different regions and fields of studies? The book examines the development of Gender and Diversity Studies in different European regions as well as beyond and focuses on central fields of theoretical reflection, empirical research and practical implementation policies and politics in the following fields:
- anti-discrimination, law and policies
- social movements and politics
- work and organizations
- higher education and the sciences
- intersectionality
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Beyond controversy: gender-quota implementation in academic decision-making bodies - Diss.
Autor/in:
Voorspoels, Jolien
Quelle: Antwerp, 2018.
Inhalt: Since decades, and worldwide, scholars have been examining phenomena of gender inequality
in academia.1 Scholars have also been investigating gender-equality policies instigated to
address these phenomena of gender inequality in academia.2 Within European academia, for
instance, women represent the majority of students, but men still dominate the higher ranks
of academic staff. The underrepresentation of women among the higher ranks of academic
staff spills over into an underrepresentation of women in academic decision-making boards
and commissions. As professors comprise the majority within such bodies due to their central
positions (in education and research) in academic organizations, the presence of women in
academic decision-making bodies depends to a certain extent on their academic rank. And as
women are underrepresented in these academic positions, they are also underrepresented in
the academic decision-making bodies. Within the EU-28 in 2014, only 28% of the members and
22% of the leaders of national decision-making boards such as research councils or foundations
were women. In more than a quarter of the 29 countries, however, women accounted for at
least 40% of board members. The numbers among leadership positions are also improving,
though still lower. Up from 15.5% in the EU-27 in 2010, 20% of heads of higher education
organizations were women in the EU-28 in 2014, with women making up only 22% of board
chair persons (European Commission, 2015).
(EGERA-Project)
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Patriarchat im Wandel : Frauen und Politik in der Türkei
Herausgeber/in:
Aksoy, Hürcan Asli
Quelle: Frankfurt: Campus (Politik der Geschlechterverhältnisse, 58), 2018. 300 S
Inhalt: Der Rückbau der Demokratie und des Säkularismus in der Türkei betrifft unmittelbar auch das Verhältnis zwischen Frauen und Männern. Der Band beleuchtet erstmals die Politik und Geschlechterverhältnisse unter der AKP sowie die aktuellen Positionen und Ziele der vielfältigen feministischen Bewegungen seit den 2000er Jahren bis heute. Mit Blick auf politische, sozioökonomische und kulturelle Entwicklungen zeigen die Autorinnen des Bandes, wie die historisch gewachsenen, weiterhin aktiven Frauenbewegungen in der Türkei mit einem Wiedererstarken patriarchalischer Strukturen konfrontiert sind.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Emergent Possibilities for Globla Sustainability : Intersections of race, class and gender
Herausgeber/in:
Godfreey, Phoebe; Torres, Denise
Quelle: Routledge, 2018.
Inhalt: It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices.
Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability is an interdisciplinary collection which addresses global climate change and sustainability by engaging with the issues of race, gender, and class through an intersectional lens. The book challenges readers to foster new theoretical and practical linkages and to think beyond the traditional, and oftentimes reductionist, environmental science frame by examining issues within their turbulent political, cultural and personal landscapes. Through a variety of media and writing styles, this collection is unique in its presentation of a complex and integrated analysis of global climate change and its implications. Its companion book, Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change, addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice.
This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and both undergraduate and post-graduate students in the areas of Environmental Studies, Climate Change, Gender Studies and International studies as well as those seeking a more intersectional analysis of GCC.
Schlagwörter:Intersektionalität; Nachhaltigkeit
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender Stereotypes within the University. Does Sexism Determine the Choice of Degree amongst University Students?
Quelle: RES (Revista Española de Sociología), 27 (2018) 3, S 434-449
Inhalt: Nowadays gender-based violence has not only grown but it has become increasingly evident in gender stereotypes upheld by younger people. Universal education is necessary to eradicate these stereotypes in university classrooms. The aim of this work is to find if a relationship exists between sexism and the choice of degree among university students, and if this relates to national culture. We applied the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Expósito, Moya and Glick, 1998 and the Dating Violence Questionnaire by Rodríguez-Franco et al., 2007) to 1,196 university students. The results show that there is a relationship between sexism and the student’s choice of degree course and, particularly, that there is more sexism in technical degrees than in humanities degrees. The cultural ideology is similar between Mexico and Catalonia and only varies in its intensity. It concludes that gender equality education is urgently needed as a general course in technical degrees.