Feminisierung von Arbeitskonflikten: Überlegungen zur gendersensiblen Analyse von Streiks
Titelübersetzung:Feminisation of labour disputes: towards a gender-sensitive analysis of strike action
Autor/in:
Artus, Ingrid; Pflüger, Jessica
Quelle: AIS-Studien, 8 (2015) 2, S 92-108
Inhalt: Streiks sind ein vergleichsweise intensiv erforschtes soziales Phänomen. Allerdings ist die bisherige Streikforschung bis auf wenige Ausnahmen geschlechtsblind. Diese Forschungslücke überrascht, ist doch angesichts der Verlagerung sowohl von Beschäftigten als auch von Arbeitskonflikten in den (stark durch 'Frauenarbeit' geprägten) Dienstleistungsbereich von einer Feminisierung des Streikgeschehens in der Bundesrepublik auszugehen. Welche quantitative und qualitative Bedeutung hat dieser Trend? Führt er zu Veränderungen in kollektiven Organisierungs-, Mobilisierungs- und Konfliktlogiken sowie interessenpolitischen Forderungen? Das sind offene Fragen, die der folgende Beitrag nicht abschließend beantworten kann. Er formuliert jedoch auf Basis einer Sekundäranalyse der (begrenzten) internationalen Literatur zum Thema erste Überlegungen für eine gendersensible Analyse von Streiks. Deutlich wird dabei, dass weitere Forschung von konstruktivistisch informierten, prozessorientierten und kontextspezifischen Analysen des vergeschlechtlichen Streikgeschehens profitieren könnte.
Schlagwörter:Arbeitskonflikt; industrial dispute; Streik; strike; Feminismus; feminism; Frauenforschung; women's studies; Dienstleistungsarbeit; service work; tertiärer Sektor; tertiary sector; Federal Republic of Germany; Gender; gender
SSOAR Kategorie:Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles: West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam, 1968-1982
Autor/in:
Slobodian, Quinn
Quelle: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 12 (2015) 1, S 39-65
Inhalt: Communist China and Vietnam looked like the future to many West German feminists in the years after 1968. This article reconstructs a lost history of influence, identification and emulation, tracing some of the ways that Chinese and Vietnamese communism inspired and attracted West German feminists from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Beginning in a spirit of socialist universalism, West German feminists drew on reports of the experience of East Asian women who they felt lived in the ›liberated zones‹ of post-revolutionary society. Like the French radicals who declared that ›Vietnam is in our factories‹, West German feminists created a global framework for their activism. Looking east, they borrowed or adopted models of consciousness-raising and direct action from China and Vietnam. This article tracks the arc of exchange, from the enthusiasm of the late 1960s and 1970s to the West German feminist disenchantment with both East Asian communism and the global South by the early 1980s.
Schlagwörter:Geschlecht; Kultur; Kalter Krieg; Kommunismus; Transnationale Geschichte; Geistes- und Ideengeschichte; Intellectual History; Gender Studies; Internationale Beziehungen; Cold War Studies; Mentalität; Soziale Bewegungen; Protest; Transfer; Verflechtung
Excellence in university academic staff evaluation : A problematic reality?
Autor/in:
O'Connor, Pat; O'Hagan, Clare
Quelle: Studies in Higher Education, 41 (2015) 11, S 1943–1957
Inhalt: This article is concerned with the macro-cultural ideal or institutional myth of excellence as defined and used in the evaluation of academic staff as part of an institutional logic. Such logics ‘prescribe what constitutes legitimate behaviour and provide taken-for-granted conceptions of what goals are appropriate and what means are legitimate to achieve these goals’ as stated by Pache and Santos Insead. In the case study university, this logic is reflected in the identification of ostensibly objective, gender-neutral key performance indicators of excellence. Lamont suggests that evaluation is necessarily subjective. Drawing on 23 qualitative interviews with those involved in such evaluation, this article looks at
variation in the definition of excellence and in the evaluative practices in decision-making fora. It raises questions about the implications of this for gender inequality and for the myth of excellence and ultimately for the legitimacy of the organisation.
Narratives about Work and Family Life among Portuguese Academics
Autor/in:
Santos, Gina Gaio
Quelle: GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION, 22 (2015) 1, 1 S
Inhalt: A qualitative study conducted with Portuguese academics of both genders was devised to better understand the interface between work and family life. The academics seemed to position themselves along two different narratives. The first pointed to work and family as complementary, while the second described the subordination of one dimension to the other. The family life cycle, particularly parenthood experiences, illustrates the different narratives. Gender differences were more visible in the case of academics who were parents of young children, with women presenting a diverse set of micro-narratives on motherhood. The findings also showed the need to design less standardized career models.
Quelle: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, (2015) 53, S 122-132
Inhalt: The main aim of this paper is to apply black feminist tenets especially those of Bell Hooks and Alice Walker to demonstrate that unlike the passive black female characters of The Bluest Eye, and the resisting but finally victimized black women of Beloved, the wise and strong black women of Paradise who live in the Convent, are strong enough to recreate themselves as subjects, and to cultivate their own unique identity in a hegemonic environment which is replete with racial and gender discrimination. Black feminist actions and womanistic rituals help them accomplish this improvement. Consolata, and Mavis are two of such strong women of the Convent who not only succeed in healing themselves, but also in healing other black women as well. Black feminists claim in order to place black women at the center of stories about the American past, they must be depicted as subjects, that is, as creative change-agents, rather than as objects, or victims of hegemonic agency. In Paradise black women are depicted thus, have their own voices, and completely reject the patriarchal ideology.
Schlagwörter:people of color; woman; Feminismus; feminism
Women academics and research productivity : An international comparison
Autor/in:
Aiston, Sarah Jane; Jung, Jisun
Quelle: Gender and Education, 27 (2015) 3, S 205–220
Inhalt: In the prestige economy of higher education, research productivity is highly prized. Previous research indicates, however, a gender gap with respect to research output. This gap is often explained by reference to familial status and responsibilities. In this article, we examine the research productivity gender gap from an international perspective by undertaking a gendered analysis of the Changing Academic Profession Survey. We suggest that family is not, in all cases, operating as a form of negative equity in the prestige economy of higher education. In addition, we argue that an over-reliance on an explanatory framework that positions family-related variables as central to the research productivity gender gap might well be drawing our attention from significant structural and systemic discriminatory practices within the profession.
After "emancipation after emancipation": On Europe's anti-gender movements
Autor/in:
Pető, Andrea
Quelle: Eurozine, (2015)
Inhalt: As anti-gender movements gain momentum throughout Europe, using the concept of gender as a technical category may, in the long run, prove more self-destructive than useful. The author argues for the re-enchantment of feminist politics.
Neoliberalisation and ‘Lad Cultures’ in Higher Education
Autor/in:
Phipps, Alison; Young, Isabel
Quelle: Sociology, 49 (2015) 2, S 305–322
Inhalt: This article links HE neoliberalisation and ‘lad cultures’, drawing on interviews and focus groups with women students. We argue that retro-sexist ‘laddish’ forms of masculine competitiveness and misogyny have been reshaped by neoliberal rationalities to become modes of consumerist sexualised audit. We also suggest that neoliberal frameworks scaffold an individualistic and adversarial culture amongst young people that interacts with perceived threats to men’s privilege and intensifies attempts to put women in their place through misogyny and sexual harassment. Furthermore, ‘lad cultures’, sexism and sexual harassment in higher education may be rendered invisible by institutions to preserve marketability in a neoliberal context. In response, we ask if we might foster dialogue and partnership between feminist and anti-marketisation politics.
Schlagwörter:culture; higher education; Marketing; neoliberal university; sexism; sexual harassment; sexuality; UK
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Studium und Studierende, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt