Social PoliticsPub Date : 2022-08-03eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxac024
Julia Smith, Alice Mũrage, Ingrid Lui, Rosemary Morgan
{"title":"Integrating Gender-Based Analysis Plus into Policy Responses to COVID-19: Lived Experiences of Lockdown in British Columbia, Canada.","authors":"Julia Smith, Alice Mũrage, Ingrid Lui, Rosemary Morgan","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac024","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sp/jxac024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recognition of the differential effects of COVID-19 on women has led to calls for greater application of gender-based analysis within policy responses. Beyond pointing out where such policies are implemented, there is little analysis of the effects of efforts to integrate gender-based analysis into the COVID-19 response. Drawing on interviews informing a lived experienced approach to policy analysis, this article asks if, how, and to what effect gender-based analysis was implemented within social and economic policy responses during the initial lockdown, in British Columbia, Canada. It finds that, despite a rhetorical commitment to gender-based analysis, policies failed to address everyday inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 4","pages":"1168-1191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/00/7f/jxac024.PMC9755975.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10401543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History: Egyptian Feminist Activists' Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014","authors":"E. Sundkvist","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the efforts of Egyptian feminist activists to insert gender equality in the country's post-revolutionary constitutions in 2012 and 2014. While the literature on women's political role during this period provides insights into exclusionary gender practices and conditions for bargaining power structures, this study contributes with a conceptual analysis of how feminist activists construed constitutional gender equality. The study is based on interviews with, and written statements by, activists engaged in the constitutional process. The article argues that these activists viewed the constitution as a central instrument in the struggle for gender equality and demanded a gender equality model beyond the sameness/difference paradigm. Instead, they argued for a substantive notion of gender equality that reflected women's situated experiences while they, at the same time, navigated the legacies of Egypt's earlier constitutions.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"30 1","pages":"47 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45974827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Antifeminist Discourses: Analyzing How Material and Social Factors Shape Online Resistance to Feminist Politics","authors":"M. Holm","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Online platforms present new challenges to feminist politics since they provide antifeminist groups with additional possibilities to come together and advocate their claims towards wider publics. This article argues that new analytical perspectives are needed to understand how antifeminist discourses are successfully produced and promulgated online. In particular, it suggests that in addition to analyzing the content of antifeminist discourses we need to pay attention to how the design and governance of online platforms, as well as the resources among antifeminist activists, shape online resistance to feminist politics. Two analytical dimensions are introduced that help to specify how the design and governance of online platforms, as well as the social composition of antifeminist groups, enable these to come together online and influence mainstream publics. To demonstrate the usefulness of this analytical approach, a study of an influential antifeminist blogosphere in the Swedish context is used as an illustrative case.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"30 1","pages":"422 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48255598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Gendered Relational Reading of Settler Colonial Containment in Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada","authors":"R. Hall, Leah F. Vosko, V. Coburn","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a dispossessive strategy, a racialized and gendered means of controlling access to resources and attempting to contain Indigenous human, nonhuman, and land-based relations. This regulation is informed by Western patriarchal ideals and mechanisms. We examine settler accounts of “Indian” identity and their effects through a gendered reading of Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada, a legal case centering on the provision of social assistance. Our critique is grounded in a relational approach to Indigenous self-recognition, an approach that transcends the false dichotomy between individual (women’s) rights and group (cultural) rights, critiqued by Joyce Green. This case exemplifies individualized approaches to identity that obscure the relational practices seeking to retain, reproduce, and revitalize Indigenous modes of life, an ongoing terrain of de/colonizing struggle.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1520 - 1543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42432275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housewives and Entrepreneurs: Local Coalitions of Power and the Political Construction of Women's Entrepreneurship in Turkey","authors":"Prunelle Aymé","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars have interpreted the popularity of women's entrepreneurship as a cooptation of feminism by neoliberalism at a global level. I argue that we need to pay more attention to local actors promoting women's entrepreneurship. This article focuses on projects targeting lower-class women and relies on an ethnographic survey of a handicraft market in Gaziantep, Turkey. The promotion of women's entrepreneurship fits both the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) conservative agenda and the strategies of local businesses. I first show that although officially a civil society initiative, this project is tied to partisan, corporate, and municipal support. Second, I analyze the economic, social, and political effects of the market on saleswomen's lives. As a site for political mobilization by the AKP, this project has implications for women's ties with the municipality and the party. It is a telling case to analyze how women's empowerment projects might be instrumental for a populist and authoritarian party's agenda.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"856 - 879"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46938712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariana Mazzini Marcondes, Marta Ferreira Santos Farah
{"title":"Mainstreaming Gender in Policy Narratives: Childcare Policies during Latin America’s Left Turn","authors":"Mariana Mazzini Marcondes, Marta Ferreira Santos Farah","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During Latin America’s left turn, women and children benefited from the expansion of social policies. This expansion, however, was not followed by the homogeneous incorporation of a gender equality perspective in childcare policies, with different processes occurring in similar countries. What might explain these differences? To address this question, we conducted qualitative and comparative research on Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. We found greater progress in mainstreaming childcare policies when a broad discourse coalition gathered around a master frame that was simultaneously mainstreamed by feminist perspectives.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1497 - 1519"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours\": Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence","authors":"Anne-Kathrin Kreft","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Prior research has established that conflict-related sexual violence against women is anchored in patriarchal norms and practices that assert gendered hierarchies. What remains relatively underresearched, however, is how patriarchal structures shape individual, social, and institutional responses to conflict-related sexual violence and its victims. This article sets out to shed light on this question, identifying different social and institutional processes that impede efforts to confront conflict-related sexual violence. The analysis of interviews with Colombian civil society activists illustrates how patriarchal norms and practices normalize sexual violence in society, but also ostracize, stigmatize, and ultimately seek to silence its victims. This risks obliterating conflict-related sexual violence from the political map and severely undermines the pursuit of justice. Power imbalances disadvantaging and further marginalizing the victims permeate these processes. Civil society organizations play an important role in reclaiming power for the victims, by overcoming disabling silences, making sexual violence visible, and confronting harmful patriarchal practices.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"30 1","pages":"654 - 677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46831045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paradox or Mitigation? Childless and Parent Gender Gaps across British, Finnish, and German Wage Distributions","authors":"L. Cooke, A. Hägglund, Rossella Icardi","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Part of the welfare paradox is that generous family policies increase private sector employer discrimination particularly against higher-wage women. We argue instead that bundles of generous policies mitigate gender productivity differences among parents, and in turn the discrimination also affecting childless women. We test these assertions by estimating the two gaps across the British, Finnish, and German private sector wage distributions using 2000–2018 panel data and unconditional quantile regression. Because of smaller motherhood penalties below the median, parenthood gaps are smallest in Finland and Germany. In contrast, fatherhood premiums constitute most of the parenthood gap for high-wage German and British women, whereas high-wage British women are disadvantaged by motherhood penalties and fatherhood premiums. The childless gap is also smaller across the bottom of the Finnish and German wage distributions. Overall, our advanced modeling strategy finds strong support for the mitigating effects of generous family policies on gender wage gaps.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"955 - 979"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43378603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructions of Care in EU Economic, Social, and Gender Equality Policy: Care Providers and Care Recipients versus the Needs of the Economy?","authors":"Elena Zacharenko, Anna Elomäki","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The European Union is facing a crisis of care due to demographic shifts, policies aimed at driving up women’s employment while cutting state care expenditures, and marketizing public care provisions. This article combines feminist political economy approaches to reproductive labor as an essential part of the economy with theories of care ethics to explore the European Union’s role in deepening this crisis. It concludes that the European Union fails to recognize the importance of care or address it holistically and is more preoccupied with the potential impact on public finances than finding a solution to the care crisis.","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1314 - 1335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41357454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social PoliticsPub Date : 2022-05-12eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxac006
Asha Herten-Crabb, Clare Wenham
{"title":"\"I Was Facilitating Everybody Else's Life. And Mine Had Just Ground to a Halt\": The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Women in the United Kingdom.","authors":"Asha Herten-Crabb, Clare Wenham","doi":"10.1093/sp/jxac006","DOIUrl":"10.1093/sp/jxac006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing body of research has highlighted the disproportionately negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women globally. This article contributes to this work by interrogating the lived realities of sixty-four women in the United Kingdom through semi-structured in-depth interviews, undertaken during the first and second periods of lockdown associated with COVID-19 in 2020. Categorizing the data by subgroup of women and then by theme, this article explores the normative and policy-imposed constraints experienced by women in 2020 with regard to paid and unpaid labor, mental health, access to healthcare services, and government representation and consideration of women. These findings highlight women's varied and gendered experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasizes the role that government can proactively play in attending to gender inequalities throughout its COVID-19 response.</p>","PeriodicalId":47441,"journal":{"name":"Social Politics","volume":"29 4","pages":"1213-1235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/18/cc/jxac006.PMC9755976.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10401542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}