{"title":"Corrigendum to Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/13505068221123857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221123857","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"254 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133271060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gajewska, Magdalena Herzberg-Kurasz, Magdalena Żadkowska, Marianna Kostecka, Bogna Dowgiałło
{"title":"Room of her own: Remaking empty nest and creating herspaces in practices of Polish mothers whose children left home","authors":"M. Gajewska, Magdalena Herzberg-Kurasz, Magdalena Żadkowska, Marianna Kostecka, Bogna Dowgiałło","doi":"10.1177/13505068221110336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221110336","url":null,"abstract":"The tension between the traditional scenario, in which women fulfil themselves mainly as mothers, as well as the emancipatory approach to women’s roles reverberates more and more in Polish society. This conflict between various social expectations has a significant impact on women’s experience of picking up the role of a mother, as well as the intensification of identity ambivalence accompanying their departure from said role. This paper describes the stage in mothers’ lives when adult children move out of their family homes. As part of the [blinded for the review] project, the authors have analysed the stories told by 40 Polish women, whose adult children had moved out of the house, leaving behind a void. The moment of entering a new stage of motherhood and womanhood has been told in the context of a private place – their homes. To further highlight the experience of this moment by the women who participated in the study, the authors have conducted an analysis of their stories within the framework of Victor Turner’s liminality theory. In the case of the women, who participated in the study, the experience of liminality does not lead to a new status that would be socially recognisable. Only nine of them – according to the analysis carried out by the authors – experienced, among other things due to owning or changing their own space, the phase of aggregation, which is typical of becoming a woman in a new role – a mother of an adult child who left home. In contrast, their approach towards space and the practices of everyday life became a pointer showing them the way out of the role of mothers and let them change their status, which the sociologists lack a name for, as the authors argue.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117107537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The lay of the land","authors":"Redi Koobak","doi":"10.1177/13505068221116539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221116539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124852334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: La storia dell’arte dopo l’autocoscienza. A partire dal diario di Carla Lonzi [The History of Art after Consciousness-Raising Starting from Carla Lonzi’s Diary]","authors":"L. Conte","doi":"10.1177/13505068221104225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221104225","url":null,"abstract":"setting goals, direct contact with colleagues, propensity to negotiate rather than order, and so on. In other words, Gurovska suggests that women in management positions subconsciously approach the companies they run as extended families. Their goals are more about the survival, sustainability and longevity of the company, than gaining fast financial results. Sociology of Women’s Labour is one of the pioneering attempts to contribute to the establishment of a new sociological sub discipline based on Sociology of Work. Unlike authors like Caroline Gatrell, who researches the same topic from a feminist perspective, Gurovska, has an understanding of feminist positions, but is more influenced by the sociology of work in the selection and analysis of topics. Although she is both a sociologist and a feminist, she approaches the topics of women’s labor more as a sociologist than as a feminist. However, this does not mean that Gurovska does not apply a feminist approach, but only that it is applied in parallel with the sociological one. It can be said that the Sociology of Woman’s Labor is an example that points to the compatibility of the sociological and feminist approaches. Hence this book can be seen as a feminist sociology of labor. In that sense, Gurovska’s book is more like the one published by Sarah Damaske, “For the Family? How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work”. This book is primarily written for a Macedonian readership and for sociology students, but it deserves to be translated into English, so that a wider readership can get acquainted with its results. Translations of books such as Sociology of Woman’s Labour, from smaller cultures, can help to illuminate how global themes are understood, analyzed and interpreted in local cultures and can contribute to bringing local specifics from different environments into the analysis of universal topics such as women’s labor, helping to ‘decolonize’ knowledge.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115568775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Karol Radziszewski: The Power of Secrets","authors":"Gyula Muskovics","doi":"10.1177/13505068221101096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221101096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133632769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Look at me!’ Post-mastectomy transformative politics","authors":"K. Davis","doi":"10.1177/13505068221100053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221100053","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer received little attention until the 1990s when women began to criticize the lack of public awareness as well as research funding. Breast cancer activism emerged across the globe, ranging from feminist grass-roots movements, to initiatives by health organizations to corporate activities, the most famous being Pink Ribbon. Feminists have been critical of Pink Ribbon, decrying what they call the ‘pink-washing’ of breast cancer through consumerism and the insistence that breast cancer survivors should ‘look good in order to feel good’. In this article, I explore activism that makes breast cancer visible without silencing its traumas. This activism takes the form of artistic projects – fashion, art, photography, and other forms of aesthetic expression. Drawing upon the work of the queer theorist Dina Georgis, I ultimately turn to the SCAR Project as example of a ‘better story’ about living with the post-mastectomy body and show how it can inspire a transformative feminist politics of the body.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128601115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming Muslim: Converting old and new practices through ‘turning away’","authors":"Eva Midden","doi":"10.1177/13505068221088165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221088165","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the relationship between religion/secularism and national identity through the experiences of converts to Islam. These men and women occupy a controversial position in society: they are often born and raised in Europe and have chosen for a religion that is generally associated with ‘foreignness’. In this context, converts are often represented in terms of loss, especially in relation to gender relations. In other words, their conversion to Islam is often read as a turning away from modernity or Western lifestyles, rather than a conscious choice for something new, such as spiritual fulfilment. Coulthard and Simpson however, interpret ‘turning away’ in relation to the politics of recognition and decolonization. This understanding makes it possible to read conversion as an active choice for self-determination. Turning away then becomes a refusal to engage in the hegemonic recognition game of being situated and managed and to be politically consumed by the overarching system. The article will investigate how Dutch converts to Islam negotiate the different aspects of their identities and the boundaries connected to those through a politics of refusal. I will argue that by following Coulthard and Simpson, we can understand converts ‘turning away’– in an alternative, less negative way. They ‘turn away’, as Fanon argues, to find freedom on their own terms and in accordance with their own values.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123812452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-gender campaigns as a reactionary response to neoliberalism","authors":"A. Graff, Elżbieta Korolczuk","doi":"10.1177/13505068211065138c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068211065138c","url":null,"abstract":"Puar J (2013) Rethinking homonationalism. International Journal of Middle East Studies 45(2): 336–339. Queer Affects. Raymond JG (1979) The Transsexual Empire. The Making of the She-Male. Boston: Beacon Press. Ross LJ (2017) Reproductive justice as intersectional feminist activism. Souls 19(3): 286–314. Stock K (2018a, July 6) Changing the concept of “woman”will cause unintended harms. The Economist https://www.economistcom/open-future/2018/07/06/changing-the-concept-of-woman-will-causeunintended-harms Last accessed 8.10.2021. Stock K (2018b, May 7) Academic philosophy and the UK Gender Recognition Act.Medium.com. https://medium.com/@kathleenstock/academic-philosophy-and-the-uk-gender-recognitionact-6179b315b9dd Last accessed 8.10.2021. Stock K (2021, January 13) The sinister attempts to silence gender critical academics. The Spectator. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-silence-gender-criticalacademics Last accessed 8.10.2021. Taylor K-Y (ed.) (2017) How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books. Vance CS (1984) Pleasure & Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. London: Kegan Paul. Willis E (1983) Feminism, morality, and pornography. In: Snitow A, Stansell C and Thompsen S (eds) Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. New York City: Monthly Review Press, 460–467. Zanghellini A (2020) Philosophical problems With the gender-critical feminist argument against trans inclusion. Sage Open April-June 2020: 1–14.","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121181486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender as a proxy: Diagnosing and resisting carceral genderisms","authors":"S. Franklin","doi":"10.1177/13505068211065138a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068211065138a","url":null,"abstract":"1. https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/ 2020/policy-brief-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women-en.pdf?la=en&vs=1406 2. The symposium was planned by madeleine kennedy-macfoy and Ulrika Dahl and organized on Zoom through the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The organisers would like to thank managing editor Hazel Johnstone for helping with logistics, Lucia Pedrioli and Rebecka White for excellent technical support with building, distributing and carrying out the programme and Ana Sevillano, Béa Manigat, Meryld Koui, Yaili Meneses and Loreto Rodriguez Untoria for providing simultaneous translation of the symposium into French and Spanish. We also thank all the contributing speakers, the roughly 50 academics, students, and activists from all over Europe and beyond who participated, and last, but certainly not least, the board of associate editors of European Journal of Women’s Studies and former senior editor Kathy Davis for all their contributions and hard work in making this event happen. 3. https://www.luminafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/covid-lessons-for-globalhigher-education.pdf 4. ibid","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"308 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120876572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time, space and the promise of the visibility of gender during the pandemic","authors":"Libora Oates-Indruchová","doi":"10.1177/13505068211065138f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068211065138f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312959,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Women's Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132679274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}