{"title":"\"Everyone has the right to their opinion\": \"Gender Ideology\" Rhetoric and Epistemic Struggles in Slovak Policymaking","authors":"Veronika Valkovičová, P. Meier","doi":"10.1093/SP/JXAB008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Through the case study of the Slovak Committee on Gender Equality, a governmental advisory body, this article draws upon the growing literature on \"gender ideology\" rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to study the efforts of advocates of that rhetoric to gain access to policymaking structures. With the aid of narrative research, we examine the Committee's struggles over appropriate terminology and discourse, data and research, and ultimately the status of experts. This shows how \"gender ideology\" rhetoric serves to delegitimize gender knowledge, and how it eventually turns into knowledge itself.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1080 - 1099"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/SP/JXAB008","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Politics","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SP/JXAB008","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"SOCIAL ISSUES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:Through the case study of the Slovak Committee on Gender Equality, a governmental advisory body, this article draws upon the growing literature on "gender ideology" rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe to study the efforts of advocates of that rhetoric to gain access to policymaking structures. With the aid of narrative research, we examine the Committee's struggles over appropriate terminology and discourse, data and research, and ultimately the status of experts. This shows how "gender ideology" rhetoric serves to delegitimize gender knowledge, and how it eventually turns into knowledge itself.
期刊介绍:
Social Politics is the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe. It takes on the critical emerging issues of our age: globalization, transnationality and citizenship, migration, diversity and its intersections, the restructuring of capitalisms and states. We engage with feminist theoretical issues and with theories of welfare regimes, "varieties of capitalism," the ideational and cultural turns in social science, governmentality and postcolonialism. We are looking for articles that engage in this exciting mix of debates that will be of interest to our multidisciplinary and international audience.