Lena Weber, Julia Gruhlich, Antje Langer, Claudia Mahs (eds.): Geschlecht und Gerechtigkeit. Aktuelle Perspektiven auf die Entstehung, Reproduktion und Transformation geschlechtlicher Ungleichheiten, Springer VS Wiesbaden 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46935-1
The idea of social justice has spread as a normative basis in modern Western societies. This is accompanied by the expectation that the state will politically counteract social inequalities - including gender inequalities. At the same time, the political-normative model of justice in capitalist societies is characterized by the idea of meritocracy. What is recognized as performance and to whom performance is attributed is therefore an important factor in establishing fair relations between the sexes. However, as long as care and gainful employment, professions and activities are unequally valued and closely associated with a binary understanding of gender, i.e. with certain concepts of femininity or masculinity, gender equality will not only remain difficult to measure, but also to establish. Theoretically and politically, there is a controversial debate about what exactly gender equality means and how it can be achieved.
In this volume, experts discuss various facets of gender equality: gender and power relations in science and feminist knowledge production, perspectives on care arrangements and care work that are critical of capitalism, and the potentials and risks of gender equality policy measures.