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
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
‘You must aim high’ - ‘No, I never felt like a woman’: women and men making sense of non-standard trajectories into higher education
Autor/in:
González Ramos, Ana M.; Räthzel, Nora
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, 17 S
Inhalt: It is no secret that the ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women advancing to leadership positions exists in academia as well. Spain is no exception. Gender relations are usually investigated independently of other power relations like class and ethnicity. In our sample (80 men and women in different academic institutions across Spain) we found that not only women but also men from working class backgrounds have difficulties making successful academic careers. Therefore, we use an intersectional approach to investigate the relationship between gender and class. Comparing two life-histories, we explore what strategies individuals employ to overcome the barriers with which they are confronted. We present the stories of a woman with a middle class but non-academic background and of a man with a working-class background. Their strategies can be understood as the result of specific individual trajectories under specific societal conditions, but they also illustrate the barriers and possibilities men and women with non-standard backgrounds encounter in academia. Analysing successful strategies as well as their limitations, we aim to provide perspectives that might contribute to changing the culture of hegemonic masculinities in academia.
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Sexual Harassment of Women : Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - A Consensus Study Report of The National Academies of Scienes - Engineering - Medicine
Herausgeber/in:
Johnson, Paula A.; Widnall, Sheila E.; Benya, Frazier F.; Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia; Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs
Quelle: Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia; Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Johnson, Paula A.; Widnall, Sheila E.; Benya, Frazier F.; Washington (DC): National Academies Press, 2018. 311 S
Inhalt: Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In recent years the diversity of those participating in these fields, particularly the participation of women, has improved and there are significantly more women entering careers and studying science, engineering, and medicine than ever before. However, as women increasingly enter these fields they face biases and barriers and it is not surprising that sexual harassment is one of these barriers. Over thirty years the incidence of sexual harassment in different industries has held steady, yet now more women are in the workforce and in academia, and in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine (as students and faculty) and so more women are experiencing sexual harassment as they work and learn. Over the last several years, revelations of the sexual harassment experienced by women in the workplace and in academic settings have raised urgent questions about the specific impact of this discriminatory behavior on women and the extent to which it is limiting their careers. Sexual Harassment of Women explores the influence of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. This report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women pursuing scientific, engineering, technical, and medical careers. It also identifies and analyzes the policies, strategies and practices that have been the most successful in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in these settings.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Statistik und statistische Daten, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
The changing role of women in higher education : Academic and leadership issues
Herausgeber/in:
Eggins, Heather
Quelle: Cham: Springer Verlag (The changing academic profession in international comparative perspective, 17), 2017. xxviii, 310 S
Inhalt: This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.
Quelle: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Kováts, Eszter; Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Budapest, 2017. 108 S
Inhalt: Based on our two previous volumes, Gender as symbolic glue. The position and role of conservative and far right parties in the anti-gender mobilizations in Europe (Kováts & Põim eds. 2015) and Solidarity in Struggle. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberalism from East-Central Europe (Kováts ed. 2016), this volume attempts to contribute to these debates.
Inhalt: Lethal violence is enormous. There are nearly half a million (437,000) intentional homicides globally each year. Lethal violence is gendered. Globally, 95% of perpetrators of intentional homicide are male. Every year, intimate partners or family members perpetrate nearly 64,000 intentional homicides; two thirds of victims are female. Half the intentional homicides of women are perpetrated by an intimate partner or other family members, compared to 6% of intentional homicides of men. Violence against women is widespread. Globally, one in three women worldwide will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime; 30% of women who have been in an intimate relationship experience physical or sexual violence from their intimate partner. In England and Wales, women were the victims in over half (52%) of violent crimes (violence against the person) recorded by the police in 2015. Half of such violent crimes against women were domestic abuse-related, compared to 16% of those against men. Violence against women has been increasing, while violence against men is still falling. In England and Wales between 2008/09 and 2013/14, the rate of violent crime against women increased significantly while the rate of violent crime against men decreased.
Transkulturelle Genderforschung : ein Studienbuch zum Verhältnis von Kultur und Geschlecht
Titelübersetzung:Transcultural gender research : a textbook on the relationship between culture and gender
Herausgeber/in:
Mae, Michiko; Saal, Britta
Quelle: Wiesbaden: VS Verl. für Sozialwiss. (Geschlecht und Gesellschaft, Bd. 41), 2014, 2., vollständig überarb. und erw. Aufl.. 340 S.
Inhalt: "Das Buch behandelt aus verschiedenen disziplinären und auf unterschiedliche Kulturen gerichteten Perspektiven die enge Verknüpfung der diskursiven Kategorien Kultur und Gender. Wenn in der heutigen Situation einer zunehmenden Globalisierung die Frage nach der 'eigenen' Kultur in Abgrenzung zum kulturellen 'Anderen' gestellt wird, kommt immer auch die Genderfrage zum Vorschein, weil die jeweilige Geschlechterordnung als eine Stütze der eigenen' Kultur verstanden wird. Und wenn diese Geschlechterordnung in Frage gestellt wird, erscheint auch die kulturelle Identität als bedroht. Diese Verwobenheit gilt es als ein kulturübergreifendes Phänomen zu erkennen. Expertinnen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Soziologie, Sozialanthropologie, Sinologie und Religionswissenschaft untersuchen die unterschiedlichen sozialen und kulturellen Bedingungen der Genderverhältnisse in neun Kulturkreisen; sie zeigen, wie das kulturell 'Eigene' immer durch seinen Bezug auf das kulturell 'Andere' geprägt wird. Durch diese Sichtbarmachung der grenzüberschreitenden Verflechtungen kann die transkulturelle Verfasstheit von Kultur zu einem neuen Bezugspunkt für die Genderforschung werden, und die Genderverhältnisse können aus ihrer Bindung an die Definitionsmacht einer spezifischen Kultur herausgelöst werden." (Verlagsangabe). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Britta Saal: Kultur in Bewegung. Zur Begrifflichkeit von Transkulturalität (21-47); Michiko Mae: Auf dem Weg zu einer transkulturellen Genderforschung (49-69); Vittoria Borsò, Vera Elisabeth Gerling: Von Malinche zu Frida Kahlo: Territorium und Gender am Beispiel Mexikos (73-100); Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, Nicole Maruo-Schröder: Gender - Race - Kultur in den U.S.A. Grenzen und Vernetzungen (101-127); Susanne Kröhnert-Othman: Die symbolische Ordnung der Moderne, kulturelle Identität und Gender im arabisch-islamischen Raum (129-154); Dorothea E. Schulz: Gender-Entwürfe und islamische Erneuerungsbewegungen im Kontext translokaler institutioneller Vernetzungen. Beispiele aus Afrika (155-183); Nikola Tietze: Muslimische Religiosität als Prozess. Islamische Identitäten junger Männer in Deutschland und Frankreich (185-204); Martina Ritter: Neue Männer - neue Frauen? Zur Entstehung transkultureller Deutungsräume im Privaten im postsowjetischen Russland (205-228); Nicola Spakowski: Feminismus in China im Kontext von Postsozialismus und internationalem Feminismus (229-249); Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka: Menschenrechte und kulturelle Positionierungen in asiatischen Frauennetzwerken. Zur Diffusion des Menschenrechtsdiskurses in der reflexiven Moderne (251-278); Michiko Mae: Japan zwischen Asien und dem Westen. Transkulturelle. Grenzüberschreitungen auf dem Weg zu einer machtfreien Gendergestaltung (279-302).
Inhalt: "Dr. Snizhana Maksymchuk beleuchtet in ihrer Arbeit die ganzheitliche 20-jährige Geschichte (1991-2011) der Entstehung, Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung der Gender Studies in der Ukraine. In den Blickwinkel rücken insbesondere die Beweggründe, Anregungen, Motive, Anstöße und erklärten Ziele der Hauptakteurinnen der Gender Studies - die Wissenschaftlerinnen, die sich mit den theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen der Gender Studies befassen und an den Universitäten lehren sowie die Expertinnen, die im Zuge ihrer Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zur Verankerung der Gender Studies in der Ukraine beitragen. Überdies werden in dieser Studie das 'nationale institutionelle Modell der Regulierung und Erforschung der Genderfragen' und die Auswirkungen der Regierungspolitik auf die Gender Studies in der Ukraine beleuchtet. Die Arbeit stellt neben den Gender Studies-Zentren auch die wissenschaftlichen Werke zur Genderthematik vor, die von Autorinnen aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen und Universitäten in der Ukraine verfasst worden sind. Indem diese Werke dem deutschsprachigen wissenschaftlichen Kreis näher gebracht und zugänglich gemacht werden, möchte diese Arbeit eine wichtige Basis für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog zwischen West und Ost im Bereich der Gender Studies schaffen. Es geht darum, Netzwerke auszubauen, damit die Wissenschaftler/innen sich gegenseitig wahrnehmen, voneinander wissen, Kontakte knüpfen und in der Zukunft möglicherweise enger zusammenarbeiten." (Verlagsangabe)