Safety for whom? : Exploring femonationalism and care-racism in Sweden
Autor/in:
Sager, Maja; Mulinari, Diana
Quelle: Women's Studies International Forum, 68 (2018) , S 149–156
Inhalt: In Sweden, support for right-wing xenophobic parties and neo-Nazi inspired organisations are on the increase, and are connected with, and manifested through, an emotional regime of hate directed towards feminism and towards women embodying feminist agendas. At the same time, feminist-inspired concerns about gender equality are often mobilised and appropriated for racist and anti-immigration arguments.
The article explores this conjuncture between racism and anti-feminism as a political project, focusing particularly on how anti-feminist agendas act upon notions of trygghet (safety) and connects these to a nationalist and racist agenda. The article also explores the diverse ways in which self-identified antiracist feminists, many of them with migrant backgrounds and/or identifying as queer, confront these attacks and struggle for alternative understandings of safety that transcend hetero-patriarchal and ethno-nationalist agendas.
Women and politics : A quest for political equality in an age of economic inequality
Autor/in:
Burrell, Barbara
Quelle: New York: Routledge (Routledge series on identity politics), 2018. pages cm
Inhalt: This textbook presents a much-needed exploration of the many ways that women in the United States have used their voices in the political process.
Written in a concise and accessible style, Women and Politics equips students with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand the political involvement of women as individuals and their efforts to achieve political and economic equity as a group. This textbook is both historical, examining trends, and contemporary, focusing on participation and the public policy concerns of women in the early decades of the 21st century.
Key content and features:
· Exploration of diverse actions women have taken to achieve empowerment and gender equity
· Surveys women as voters, as candidates for elected office, and as interest group organizers lobbying for equity in public policy and for global women’s rights
· Chronicles protest actions against unequal practices of economic and governmental elites
· Highlights the actions of women with few economic resources that join together to challenge local power structures.
Readers will appreciate Burrell's valuable insights on the multiple political voices of American women and the challenges of economic inequality in their quest for political equality.
Inhalt: This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change. Chapter 1 traces the historical development and current contours of the field of gender training. In Chapter 2, the key critiques of gender training are substantively engaged with from the perspective of reflexive practice, highlighting the need to work strategically within existing constraints. Questions of transformative change are addressed in Chapter 3, which reviews feminist approaches to change and how these can be applied to enhance the impact of gender training. Chapter 4 considers the theory and practice of feminist pedagogies in gender training. In the final chapter, new avenues for gender training are explored: working with privilege; engaging with applied theatre; and mindfulness/meditation. The study takes gender training beyond its often technocratic form towards a creative, liberating process with the potential to evoke tangible, lasting transformation for gender equality.
Schlagwörter:Feminismus; Gender Training
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Vom Weiberrat zur Frauenprofessur : Die Neue Frauenbewegung und der 1968er-Aufbruch
Autor/in:
Wischermann, Ulla
Quelle: ForschungFrankfurt. Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Goethe-Universität, 35 (2018) 1, S 62–66
Inhalt: Schon kurz nachdem die Studentenbewegung begonnen hatte, formierte sich innerhalb dieser neuen sozialen Bewegung eine Frauenopposition – eine Revolte innerhalb der Revolte. Frankfurt war neben Berlin einer der wichtigsten Schauplätze für den Kampf um Selbstbestimmung.
Schlagwörter:Frankfurt; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Frauenbewegung; Frauengeschichte; Geschichte; Institutionalisierung; Professorin; Universität
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
The ‘crisis’ of white hegemony, neonationalist femininities and antiracist feminism
Autor/in:
Keskinen, Suvi
Quelle: Women's Studies International Forum, 68 (2018) , S 157–163
Inhalt: The rise of neonationalist politics and racist activism has characterised many European countries in recent years. Moreover, there is a growing public focus on gendered and sexualised intimacies. These two tendencies have increasingly intertwined and sexual violence has become a site for struggles over feminist and (anti)racist politics. The article examines what I call the ‘crisis’ of white hegemony arising in the aftermath of the arrival of a large number of refugees in 2015–2016 and the different strategies that women's and feminist activism has developed. Within white nationalism, there is an upsurge of ‘white border guard femininities’: white women who mobilise on social media and in far-right groups. Simultaneously, antiracist feminist activism has strengthened. It seeks to confront racist discourses of foreign perpetrators and to redirect the discussion by addressing structural aspects of racial and gendered hierarchies and voicing experiences of harassment that are bypassed in the public discussions.
Schlagwörter:Anti-Feminismus; Diskurs; Feminismus; Finnland; Gleichstellung; people of color; Postkolonialismus; Rassismus
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Change and Persistence of Gender Disparities in Academic Careers of Mathematicians and Physicists in Germany
Autor/in:
Langfeldt, Bettina; Mischau, Anina
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1
Inhalt: This article discusses whether or not gender-related disparities exist within the academic fields of mathematics and physics regarding the application of career knowledge and the experiences of disadvantage in relation to recognition of performance, assessment of professional competencies, and integration into networks. To answer this question, primary data was collected with a structured online survey addressing graduates in both academic fields (n=5,174). The article considers a subsample of respondents working at a university or university of applied sciences (n=1,613). Apart from the gender perspective, other factors potentially influencing the academic careers of mathematicians and physicists, such as being in a certain subject, age cohort or having children, are also considered. Some of the key findings are: a) more gender differences occur in mathematics than in physics; b) the experiences of disadvantage in the workplace constitute a cross-disciplinary phenomenon caused by the gender differentiating academic culture; and c) more female than male academics in both disciplines accept constraints or abandon career goals due to child care. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}
Schlagwörter:academic career; Akademische Karriere; Befragung; career knowledge; Deutschland; Diskriminierung; gender disparities; German higher education system; Geschlechterungleichheit; Hochschule; Hochschulsystem; Karriereplanung; Karriereweg; Leistungsbewertung; mathematics; Mathematik; Netzwerk; physics; Physik; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Revisiting gender equality at times of recession : A discussion of the strategies of gender and politics scholarship for dealing with equality
Autor/in:
Kantola, Johanna; Verloo, Mieke
Quelle: European Journal of Politics and Gender, 1 (2018) 1, S 205–222
Inhalt: The aim of this article is to explore the ways in which gender equality is used in gender and politics research. We contend that the political and theoretical relevance of studying the multiple meanings of gender equality is enhanced by current crises. We discern four strategies used in gender and politics research: (1) escaping equality; (2) fixing equality; (3) deconstructing equality; or (4) delegating equality to political theory. This article is motivated by the belief that what is needed is not only more reflection on these choices, but also a productive dialogue between the different strategies.
Inhalt: Angriffe gegen Feminismus, gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweisen und emanzipative Familien- und Lebensmodelle, gegen Gender Studies, Gleichstellungs- und Antidiskriminierungspolitiken werden seit längerem in Zeitungen, Rundfunk- und Fernsehsendungen, Blogs, Artikeln und Büchern kontrovers verhandelt. Dies spiegelt sich auch in vielen Auseinandersetzungen im Alltag, in der Kneipe und auf Veranstaltungen wider. Mit dem Satz „Das muss frau* und mann* doch mal sagen dürfen…“ werden rassistische, sexistische und anti-egalitäre Parolen und Verunglimpfungen formuliert. Sie finden Resonanz in einem gesellschaftlichen Klima, das sich von emanzipativen Positionen und Diskursen weg nach rechts verschiebt.
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Übliche Widerstande oder neue Infragestellungen? : Gleichstellungsfeindlichkeit und Angriffe auf Gleichstellungsarbeit an Hochschulen in Niedersachsen
Autor/in:
Marx, Daniela; Kotlenga, Sandra
Quelle: LNHF; , 2017.
Inhalt: Der vorliegende Bericht bietet dementsprechend erstmals detaillierte Einblicke in gleichstellungsfeindliche Vorkommnisse an niedersächsischen Hochschulen und deren Einordnung und Bewertung durch die Gleichstellungsakteur*innen. Er beschreibt Auswirkungen auf die Amts- und Berufsausübung und liefert Einschätzungen dazu, welche Präventionsmaßnahmen, Unterstützungsfaktoren und Handlungsstrategien notwendig sind.
Sehr deutlich wird, dass sich Gleichstellungspolitik und -arbeit an Hochschulen und damit auch die zuständigen Akteur*innen nach wie vor in einer zwangsläufig ambivalenten Position befinden: Sie sind Teil einer Organisation und zugleich sollen sie die Organisation sowie deren Strukturen und Kultur von innen heraus verändern und „stören“. Dies macht es nicht einfach, wenn nicht gar unmöglich, alltägliche und übliche Widerstände von (qualitativ) neuen und (quantitativ) verstärkt auftretenden Infragestellungen zu unterscheiden.
Der Bericht steht daher unter der Frage „Übliche Widerstände oder neue Infragestellungen?“. Der eher ungewohnte Begriff „Gleichstellungsfeindlichkeit“, der sich im Verlauf des Projekts herausgebildet hat, dient dabei als Klammer, unter der unterschiedliche gleichstellungsbezogene Vorkommnisse an Hoch-
schulen – von alltäglichen Widerständen gegen Gleichstellung über offensives Unterlaufen etablierter Gleichstellungsstandards bis hin zu bedrohlichen Angriffen auf einzelne Gleichstellungsbeauftragte – subsumiert werden können.