Inhalt: Drawing on feminist debates about social reproduction and care while looking closely at gendered care politics and gender-insensitive containment measures, this article critically explores the politics of care in Turkey in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by engaging with the theoretical debate over "social reproduction as a site of crisis" (Fraser 2016, 2017) and provides a contextualised reflection on the contested features of the crisis of care in a highly gendered political setting where a familialist regime defines gender relations. Because such regimes expect women to increase their burden of care in times of crisis, the pandemic’s gender-insensitive containment politics fundamentally strengthened the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. The article explores the combination of gendered vulnerabilities related to increased unpaid care work and degraded conditions experienced by care workers during lockdowns as a manifestation of the crisis of care in Turkey. Besides neoliberal capitalism, as suggested by Fraser, Turkey's rising authoritarian conservatism also characterises the crisis of care, which has implications for gender inequalities. Accordingly, this article invokes the conceptual framework of "masculinist restoration," as suggested by Kandiyoti (2016, 2019) and argues that women’s situatedness as care providers has been losing its positional power as a cultural element of the familialist regime in Turkey. Instead, this situatedness is being enforced as a political project that aims to institutionalise familialism to secure patriarchal domination in a society, which therefore pertains to a veiled crisis of care.

Schlagwörter:Pflege; caregiving; Krise; crisis; Ungleichheit; inequality; gender-specific factors; Reproduktion; reproduction; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Pflegeperson; caregiver; Arbeitsbedingungen; working conditions; woman; Familie; family; Patriarchat; patriarchy; Türkei; Turkey; COVID-19; politics of social reproduction; crisis of care; gender inequality; familialist regime; authoritarian capitalism; pandemic; masculinist restoration

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialpolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.46.2021.4.31-49

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Das Europäische Parlament (EP) hat sich als eines der wenigen Parlamente weltweit seit 2003 in insgesamt sechs Entschließungen zur Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming (GM) verpflichtet. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz des Feministischen Institutionalismus analysiert dieser Beitrag chronologisch die potenzielle Institutionalisierung von GM und fragt, inwieweit sich neue Regeln und Normen in bestehende formale und informelle Regeln einflechten lassen. Hierfür werden zentrale EP-Dokumente für den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019 sowie leitfadengestützte Interviews mit MEPs verschiedener Fraktionen und EP-Beschäftigten aus 2019 und 2020 analysiert. Insgesamt kann von einer GM-Institutionalisierung gesprochen werden, wenn sie auch heterogen verläuft.

Schlagwörter:Europaparlament; European Parliament; Gender Mainstreaming; gender mainstreaming; Institutionalisierung; institutionalization; Mikropolitik; micro-politics; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; EU; EU; Frauenrechts- und Gleichstellungsausschuss; Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Europapolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.02

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Schlagwörter:Hochschullehre; university teaching; Lernumgebung; learning environment; Digitalisierung; digitalization; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; Gender; gender; Diversität; diversity; Federal Republic of Germany; COVID-19; Coronavirus

SSOAR Kategorie:Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.19

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Schlagwörter:soziale Mobilität; social mobility; gender

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i3.01

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.14

Dokumenttyp:Rezension

Inhalt: Even before COVID-19 hit, one in three women experienced violence by a partner or sexual violence by a non-partner, according to the World Health Organization. With the pandemic, the risk of violence against women and children, especially within the home, increased further as people sheltered at home while facing great financial and emotional stress. Our assessment of government policies in a cross-regional sample of countries in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa since the pandemic's onset in early 2020 finds that: governments increased communication and digital services addressing GBV, such as hotlines, counselling, and reporting mechanisms, but struggled to meet increased demand for emergency services; states with existing robust GBV services were better prepared to continue service provision during the pandemic; beyond this, the gender ideology of the political leader made a difference in prioritisation and visibility; in Latin America, national-level responses were heterogeneous, ranging from dismissiveness by the presidents of Mexico and Brazil to new and proactive policies by the government of Argentina; and in neither Uganda nor any of the countries studied in MENA were shelters classified as essential services. Even in South Africa, where shelters were classified as essential, lockdowns complicated access. There is an urgent need for stronger policy responses to GBV, and not just for humanitarian reasons. The United Nations has estimated the economic costs of violence against women at about 2 per cent of global GDP. Governments need to ensure that emergency GBV services exist beyond hotlines and remain open and accessible around the clock. Non-governmental organisations play a vital role in GBV service provision but should not substitute for government provision. German and EU policies should encourage and support the development of GBV infrastructure, including first-response services, shelters, and gender-sensitive social protection programmes.

Schlagwörter:Entwicklungsland; developing country; Gesellschaft; society; Entwicklung; development; Bevölkerungsstruktur; demographical structure; Bevölkerungsgruppe; population group; Staat; national state; politisches System; political system; Verfassung; constitution; Menschenrechte; human rights; Epidemie; epidemic; Auswirkung; impact; Gewalt; violence; woman; Frauenfeindlichkeit; mysogyny; häusliche Gewalt; domestic violence; Vergewaltigung; rape; internationaler Vergleich; international comparison; Lateinamerika; Latin America; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Africa South of the Sahara; Nahost; Middle East; Nordafrika; North Africa; Prävention; prevention; Sozialarbeit; social work; soziale Dienste; social services; Frauenhaus; women's shelter; COVID-19; Pandemie

SSOAR Kategorie:soziale Probleme, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-75502-7

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: Trotz nach wie vor bestehender Unterrepräsentation werden immer mehr Ministerien in den deutschen Bundesländern mit Frauen besetzt. Weniger betrachtet wurde bisher, ob Frauen in diesem Prozess bestimmte Ministerien häufiger besetzen, es also zu geschlechtsspezifischer Portfolioallokation kommt. Diese ist vor allem relevant, wenn die weiblich besetzten Ministerien weniger prestigeträchtig sind. Davon ausgehend untersucht diese Studie die Prestigedifferenz zwischen männlich und weiblich besetzten Ministerien in den 16 Ländern zwischen 2005 und 2018 sowie mögliche Erklärungsfaktoren. Die Prestigedifferenz wird über den unterschiedlichen Anteil an Beamt*innenplanstellen der Ministerien mess- und vergleichbar gemacht. Die Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Frauen trotz ihres wachsenden Anteils in Kabinetten vermehrt weniger prestigeträchtige Ministerien besetzen und somit die Prestigedifferenz ansteigt. Als Erklärungsfaktoren zeigen vor allem die Ministerienanzahl sowie der Frauenanteil im Kabinett einen Effekt.

Schlagwörter:Politikerin; ; Frauenanteil; proportion of women; Regierung; government; gender-specific factors; Ministerium; ministry; Prestige; prestige; Bundesland; Bundesland; Federal Republic of Germany; Portfolioallokation; Frauenrepräsentation; Landeskabinette; Ministeriumsprestige; portfolio allocation; women's representation; subnational cabinets; ministry prestige

SSOAR Kategorie:politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/dngps.v7i1.02

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: The article departs from the contradiction that the importance of care for society was publicly acknowledged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic response of the Austrian government did not challenge the structurally devalued status of care. In order to sustain the hegemonic patriarchal-capitalist governance of care and social reproduction in the pandemic government actors had to reframe care. We investigate government discourses that normalised its careless crisis management and interrogate the role political masculinity and affects played therein. Based on our analysis of a set of selected press conferences held in March 2020, we find that a new mode of rational-affective political masculinity was constitutive of the political management of COVID-19 crisis. With help of this hybrid mode of masculinity, political actors reinterpreted care first and foremost as healthcare and caring for the economy, and as caring for the population in terms of biopolitics. At the same time, caring tasks in the 'private' sphere were left to the personal responsibility of individuals and families. In order to generate consent, political actors frequently invoked affects that pertained to risk and danger on the one hand and solidarity and responsibility on the other.

Schlagwörter:Österreich; Austria; Pflege; caregiving; Reproduktion; reproduction; Gesundheitspolitik; health policy; Krisenmanagement; crisis management (econ., pol.); politischer Akteur; political actor; Männlichkeit; masculinity; Biopolitik; biotechnology policy; Hegemonie; hegemony; Gender; gender; rational-affective masculinity; reframing care; care for the economy; solidarity; nationality; Corona; COVID-19; global pandemic; biopolitics

SSOAR Kategorie:politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.46.2021.4.50-71

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Feminist street art aims to transform patriarchal spaces into places of gendered resistance by asserting a feminist presence in the city. Considering this, as well as women’s social life, their struggle against lingering forces of patriarchy, and relating features of inequality (domestic violence), there was a feminist installation artwork by the young Kurdish artist Tara Abdulla that shook the city of Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan on 26 October 2020. She had prepared a 4,800‐meter‐long washing line covered with the clothes of 99,678 Kurdish women who were survivors of sexual and gender‐based violence. They installed it along the busiest street of the city (Salim Street). She used this piece of feminine to express her reaction to the Kurdish society regarding, the abuse that goes on silently, behind closed doors. She also aimed towards normalizing women’s bodies. After the installation, she received many controversial reactions. As her artwork was a pioneering project in line with feminist issues in Kurdistan which preoccupied the city for quite a while, the aim of this article is to investigate the diverse effects of her work on the current dialogue regarding gender inequality in the Kurdish society. To do this, we used the research method of content analysis on big data (Facebook comments) to investigate the public reactions of a larger number of locals. The Feminine effectively exposed some of the deep‐rooted cultural, religious, and social barriers in addressing gender inequalities and silent sexual violence issues in the modern Kurdish patriarchal society.

Schlagwörter:öffentlicher Raum; public space; Kunstwerk; work of art; Feminismus; feminism; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; gender-specific factors; woman; Kurdistan; Kurdistan; Facebook reactions; Sulaimani; feminist street art; gender inequalities dialogue

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Wie wird Care jenseits heteronormativer Zweigeschlechtlichkeit entworfen? Wie werden Fürsorge und Selbstsorge in nicht-binären und trans Räumen organisiert und gelebt - abseits medizinischer und familiärer Versorgungskontexte? Dazu gibt es bislang kaum Forschung. Francis Seeck wendet sich dieser Leerstelle zu und interviewte und begleitete Personen, die Sorgearbeit für andere trans und nicht-binäre Personen leisten. Die ethnographische Studie vertieft das Verständnis des komplexen Verhältnisses von Gender und Care. Zudem macht sie auf die Bedeutung der Kategorie Klasse in Sorgebeziehungen aufmerksam. Sie zeigt, wie Klassenunterschiede und Klassismus den Zugang zu Für_Sorge erschweren, dass in den Zonen der Prekarität aber auch neue Formen der Fürsorge entstehen. Die hier entwickelte Forschungsstrategie der Sorgenden Ethnographie ermöglicht, Care-Praktiken als zentralen Bestandteil ethnographischer Forschung produktiv zu machen.

Schlagwörter:Gender; gender; Fürsorge; welfare care; gender-specific factors; Kulturanthropologie; cultural anthropology; Körper; body; Pflege; caregiving; Prekarisierung; precariousness; Queer Studies; queer studies; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Ethnographie; ethnography; Normativität; normativity; Care; Engaged Enthnography; Engagierte Ethnographie; Precarity; Queer Theory; Trans Studies

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sozialwesen, Sozialplanung, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839458358

Dokumenttyp:Hochschulschrift