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

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: We examine the challenges faced by women for effective communication on social media. The majority of the data used in this study was primary, and it was gathered in the field using a questionnaire. The questionnaire utilized in this study was a written list of questions that had been carefully designed and selected to collect data. The questions were closed-ended and focused on women's issues and their use of social media. Cronbach alpha was used to test the dataset's validity, consistency, and reliability based on the obtained information. Cronbach's Alpha for all constructs or items was more significant than the minimum acceptable reliability coefficient of 0.5 to 0.9, indicating strong internal consistency.Furthermore, Cronbach's Alpha for all constructs was more than the minimal permissible reliability coefficient, indicating that they were valid and trustworthy and hence suitable for use. We notice that most respondents in this study reported that they had experienced social media harassment. Our findings show, in particular, that the majority of respondents in this study believe that women are usually overlooked when it comes to matters requiring social media opinions. We opined that information, education, and communication are empowering tools from the preceding. It is the challenge of women in leadership to dismantle the obstacles in the women's use of information media. No form of women empowerment will succeed until these challenges are met.

Schlagwörter:Soziale Medien; social media; Kommunikation; communication; Empowerment; empowerment; sexuelle Belästigung; sexual harassment; woman; Online-Medien; online media; Nigeria; Nigeria; Westafrika; West Africa; gender equity

SSOAR Kategorie:interaktive, elektronische Medien, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.22178/pos.76-7

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie ein feministisches und postkoloniales Verständnis von informierten Einverständnisprozessen aussehen kann und welche konkreten Schlussfolgerungen für die Forschungspraxis daraus resultieren können. Dabei wird zunächst der historische Entstehungskontext in der medizinischen Forschung beleuchtet und die daraus hervorgehenden Dimensionen - Kompetenz, Verständnis, Information, Freiwilligkeit und Autorisierung - erläutert. Ausgehend von Perspektiven der feministischen Sozialforschung und der feministischen Ethik wird aufgezeigt, dass informiertes Einverständnis über den rechtlich-formalen Akt hinausgehen und als kollaborative und prozessorientierte Aushandlung zwischen Forscher_innen und Forschungsteilnehmer_innen konzipiert werden sollte. Es ist wichtig, soziale und gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge in Einverständnisprozesse einzubeziehen, d.h. Subjekte im Sinne der intersektionalen Ethics of Care als relational zu begreifen und den Einfluss von sozialen Strukturen zu reflektieren. Auf Basis einer feministisch-postkolonialen Ethik wird hervorgehoben, dass es notwendig ist, bestehende Ungleichheiten anzuerkennen, um diese nicht zu reproduzieren. Flexible und wiederholbare Formate der Einverständniserklärung oder das Etablieren von gemeinsamen Diskussionen sowohl in den Einverständnisprozessen als auch in der Ergebnisdarstellung sind Beispiele für mögliche Umsetzungen in der Forschungspraxis.

Schlagwörter:science; Partizipation; participation; Ethik; ethics; Forschungspraxis; research practice; Sozialforschung; social research

SSOAR Kategorie:Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v30i1.08

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Gender equality has been actively promoted in EU academic institutions by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme through the implementation of gender equality plans (GEP). GEP formulation and implementation was strongly influenced by involvement in EU projects in Irish as well as Italian higher education institutions. The paper draws upon experience of the EU project SAGE (H2020), in which Irish and Italian universities actively cooperated, the Athena SWAN Charter in Ireland, Positive Action Plans (PAP) in Italy, and semi structured interviews with gender experts in Irish and Italian higher education institutions to explore the degree to which participation in EU and national initiatives can promote similar outcomes by the adoption of positive actions. The paper concludes that a harmonised strategy, focusing on common priorities and respecting cultural, political and social diversity, could promote the internationalization of the higher education sector and accelerate the process towards gender equality in academia.

Schlagwörter:university; science; Gleichstellungspolitik; equal opportunity policy; Diversität; diversity; EU; EU; Forschungspolitik; research policy; Gender Mainstreaming; gender mainstreaming; gender equality; structural change; Horizon 2020; gender equality plan (GEP); Positive Action Plan (PAP)

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v13i1.03

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Gegenwärtig engagieren sich Vertreter*innen ganz unterschiedlicher - teils konträrer - politischer Lager gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Dieser Artikel fragt danach, welche Positionierungen in diesem Anliegen konflikthaft aufeinandertreffen, auf welchem Wissen diese beruhen und wie ein kulturanthropologischer Beitrag in diesem politischen Feld aussehen könnte.

Schlagwörter:Femonationalismus; Anti-Rassismus; Feminismus; sexualisierte Gewalt

SSOAR Kategorie:Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hjk/article/view/1734/15...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz