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A Comparison of the Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1973–2013 Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Katherine A Moos, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Drawing on both gender regime theory and social reproduction theory, this article compares the socioeconomic and gendered organization of social reproduction in the United States and the United Kingdom from 1973 to 2013. Integrating data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the Multinational Time-Use Study, and additional sources, we examine how men and women of different socioeconomic groups contribute
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The Managerial Family? Family Care Work in Germany and Spain Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Laura Lüth, Katharina Zimmermann
This article engages with scholarly debates on the emergence of market logics in family life. By deploying qualitative data from couple interviews in Germany and Spain, we show how the existence of a so-called managerial family is salient among interviewees in both countries. Couples might introduce weekly family planning meetings or follow investment strategies when organizing childcare and housework
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The Care Economy al América Latina: A Multi-scalar Feminist Project Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Rianne Mahon
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) created an opening to put the care economy on the global agenda, but the idea found particularly fertile ground in Latin America and the Caribbean well before COVID. This article examines the way the idea and practice of a care economy has been developed by feminists in the region. It looks at the role played by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gender Representation and Policy Implementation: Is it Women or the Left Wing that Increases the Childcare Supply? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Anju Yamada
This study investigates the impact of the accumulation of gender representation during the policy implementation stage on the childcare supply expansion. Previous studies faced two key issues: first, they primarily focused on the impact of gender representation during the policy introduction stage, and second, they often lacked sensitivity in distinguishing whether the outcome was driven by partisanship
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Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Margarita Estévez-Abe, Tae Hyun Lim
Existing literature on the politics of work–family reconciliation policies focuses primarily on women and their policy preferences as the main driver of recent policy expansions. But what do we know about male preferences? This article explores this question in an innovative way by integrating insights from economic and sociological studies of division of labor and bargaining within the household.
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Rethinking Part-Time Outsiders’ Risks and Welfare Attitudes Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Anna Helgøy
The growth of atypical work has created a divide between insiders, with safe jobs, and outsiders, in fixed-term, part-time, and/or precarious work situations. Due to higher economic risk, outsiders support compensating social policies more than insiders. However, the same consistency has not been found in the attitudes of part-time outsiders. Consequently, this article suggests an expansion from the
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What About Fertility? The Unintentional Pro-natalism of a Nordic Country Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Rannveig Kaldager Hart, Cathrine Holst
Combining high birth rates with gender equality and women’s reproductive choice is often put forward as a Nordic success story. We analyze Norwegian governmental commission reports delivered 1984–2017, tracing how fertility issues are approached in policy-making under shifting demographic conditions. We focus on four key topics—pro-natalism, individual versus societal level effects of policies, socioeconomic
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Who Should Scale Back? Experimental Evidence on Employer Support for Part-Time Employment and Working Hours Norms for Couples with Young Children Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Marie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau, Pia S Schober
This experimental study investigates how hypothetical employer support for part-time work shapes working hours norms for mothers and fathers with young children in Germany. It extends previous studies by focusing on the couple context, for instance by exploring interdependencies with each partner’s earnings potential. The analysis is framed using capability-based explanations combined with a perspective
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Persistence of Abortion Stigma Inscribed in the Legal Framework: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in Poland Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Agnieszka Kwiatkowska, Paula Pustułka, Marta Buler
This article offers novel insights into the mechanism of abortion stigma and its pervasive impact on attitudes toward abortion. Specifically, it tracks the impact of the restrictive Polish 1993 law, known as the “abortion compromise,” on attitudes toward pregnancy terminations over three decades, exploring the role of abortion stigma in the observed shifts. Employing data from representative surveys
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Between Peripherality and Privilege: “Women Wage Peace” as a Case Study of Intersectionality Practices in Women’s Movements Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Veronica Lion
This article analyzes Women Wage Peace (WWP), an Israeli grassroots peace movement, as a case study of intersectionality in women’s movements. Using an ethnographic model based on semi-structured interviews with previous and current movement members, I investigate the dilemmas and strategies of WWP in its pursuit of a diverse membership base, a goal considered unique in Israeli peace discourse. This
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Household Debt and Social Reproduction in Everyday Life: Women’s Experiences of Caring, Agency, and Risk Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Pelin Kılınçarslan
This article explores the ways in which everyday life produces gendered links between debt and social reproduction in contradictory ways. Based on interviews with women from indebted households in Athens and Istanbul, it argues that debt and socially reproductive work come to rely on one another, with gendered implications for caring, expanded agency, and embodied risks. Indebtedness demands forms
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Does Local Political Representation Affect the Childcare Coverage Rate in Austrian Municipalities? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Carmen Walenta-Bergmann
Historically, the provision of childcare has been a forgotten area of Austrian family policy. During the last decade, much effort was made to catch up with other European countries, but notable differences persist between Austrian regions and municipalities. This article engages the following question: does local political representation affect the public childcare coverage rate in Austrian municipalities
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A Critical Feminist Perspective on Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Mapping Municipal Recognition, Dialog, and Budgeting Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Orly Benjamin, Karni Krigel
Feminists’ scholarship and critique of gender climate injustice have exposed just how scarce the practical efforts to correct it are. The challenge of generating incentives designed to encourage urban planning that accounts for expected intersectional vulnerabilities during climate disasters reflects a gap in knowledge: how does professionals’ awareness of intensified vulnerabilities inform climate
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Forgotten Concepts of Korea’s Welfare State: Productivist Welfare Capitalism and Confucianism Revisited in Family Policy Change Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Martin Gurín
Understanding the dominant principle(s) of a welfare regime has been the “higher-level” objective of welfare state analysis. East Asian welfare states are no exception, and thus many contributions have sought to understand the welfare state order of these countries. In this article, we consider the development and current architecture of family policies at the center of welfare regime debate for the
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Beyond Clueless Mothers: Israeli “Women Wage Peace” Activists’ Perceptions of Why Women Are Key to Peacemaking Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Liv Halperin
Focusing on a contemporary peace movement in Israel, Women Wage Peace (WWP), this article studies female Jewish and Arab-Palestinian activists to understand if/why they believe in women’s peacefulness and why they chose a women-led movement. While not challenging the idea of women’s peacefulness, the activists’ testimonies shed light on various explanations behind the “women and peace hypothesis,”
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Authoritarian Othering Back and Feminist Subversion: Rethinking Transnational Feminism in Russia and Serbia Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Leandra Bias
This article examines the effect of rising authoritarianism on Russian and Serbian feminists. In both cases, regimes rely on what I term “Othering back.” Using “gender ideology” as a proxy for Western imperialism, they reappropriate postcolonial frames to reject democratization and human rights. In such a context, the critical argument that transnational feminism is an exercise of Western Othering
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Political Representation and Intersectionality: Perspectives of Ethnically/Racially Minoritized Citizens Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Judith C de Jong, Liza M Mügge
How do ethnically/racially minoritized citizens feel represented by increasingly diverse parliaments? We approach this question intersectionally and study how ethnically/racially minoritized citizens (i) constitute and politicize self-identifications and interests, (ii) assess political representation, and (iii) discuss who represents them. We draw on twelve focus groups with Turkish, Moroccan, and
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Symbolic and Transformative: Alignments Toward Feminicídio Legal Reform inside the Brazilian Police Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Roberta S Pamplona
Feminism travels unevenly through state structures, and the state’s incorporation of feminist ideas remains controversial within feminist movements. This study uses the Brazilian Feminicídio Law, which increases punishment for gender-based homicides, as a case study to ask how law enforcement actors adopt a feminist legal reform. Data come from one year of in-depth fieldwork across police stations
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Depletion through Social Reproduction and Contingent Coping in the Lived Experience of Parents on Universal Credit in England Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Robyn Fawcett, Emily Gray, Alexander Nunn
We report data from longitudinal qualitative interviews with thirteen people claiming Universal Credit (UC) immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. The article utilizes concepts from feminist theory: “Social Reproduction” and “Depletion.” We make several novel contributions, including bringing depletion into conversation with the related concept of “contingent coping.” We argue
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Financial Health of Local Governments: A Gender Approach Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 María-Dolores Guillamón, Ana-María Ríos, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros
In recent years, public sector research has developed a line related to women’s participation in government and its effect on public finances. In this vein, this article attempts to empirically analyze the effect women’s presence in local governments has on municipal financial health. For that, we use a sample of the 140 Spanish municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants during the period 2008–2018
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Gender Dynamics During the Colombian Armed Conflict Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Signe Svallfors
This article investigates gender dynamics during the Colombian armed conflict, where the ongoing peace process has had a unique focus on gender equality. Using a lens of militarized masculinity and original expert interviews with Colombian stakeholders in peacebuilding and human rights, the study analyzes how gender norms have been upheld and sanctioned in the context of conflict. Gender essentialisms
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Social Reproduction Gone Wrong? The Citizenship Revocation and Rehabilitation of Young European Women Who Joined ISIS Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Anna Korteweg, Gökçe Yurdakul, Jillian Sunderland, Marloes Streppel
Some European women who joined the Islamic State during the 2010s have had their citizenship revoked, which leaves them in a liminal state in camps at the Syrian border. Others have been able to return home, where they face prosecution and potential pathways to “rehabilitation.” This article turns to media discussions of two cases that have been extensively discussed in the media: Shamima Begum, a
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland and the Gendered Division of Care Work: The Impact of the Pandemic on Childcare Policy Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Alicja Bobek, Sara Clavero, Sylvia Gavigan, Mark Ryan
This article addresses the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the policy domains of care, with a particular focus on childcare. By using historical institutionalism as a conceptual framework, and Ireland as a case study, the article examines the extent to which the pandemic constituted a “critical juncture” leading to change in childcare policy in the country. The study is based on data collected
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From Male “Chance Narratives” to Female “Defeat Narratives”: Researchers in Catalonia Narrating the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on their Lives and Jobs Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Mar Rosàs Tosas, Caterina Riba, Pila Godayol, Anna Pérez, Carme Sanmartí, Francesc Torralba, Anna Pagès, Bàrbara Pagès, Patrícia Illa
This article proposes a three-fold typology to classify the narratives of forty-eight researchers in Catalonia describing the impact the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic had on their professional and personal lives: a “chance narrative,” which presents the pandemic as an occasion for growth; a “resistance narrative,” according to which the pandemic presents a burden, but one is skilled enough to
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Parental Leave Reforms in South Korea, 1995–2021: Policy Translation and Institutional Legacies Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Yeonjin Kim, Åsa Lundqvist
This article aims to explore how policy translation and institutional legacies have shaped South Korean parental leave policies between 1995 and 2021. It draws on a document analysis of central political documents and interviews with a number of key policy actors in South Korea. The findings show that reforms of parental leave policies were implemented according to four major rationales: maternity
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Violence against Women—The Case of Divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Tal Meler
Focusing on divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel, this study aims to provide a nuanced examination of the different types of violence (physical, mental, and economic) these women experience from their ex-partners or relatives. The study emphasizes the presence in extreme cases of ex-partner violence ending in murder, recontextualizing crimes associated with so-called honor or tradition. The findings
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National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Yang-Sook Kim
Both the United States and South Korea have implemented publicly funded long-term care programs intended to cope with the rapid aging of their populations. These programs provide market-based solutions that depend on cheap labor supplied by women from marginalized groups. Drawing upon comparative ethnographic data collected in Los Angeles’ Koreatown and Seoul, this study illuminates the mechanisms
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The Problematization of Migrant Maternity: Implications of the “Passport Baby” Narrative in the Canadian Context Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Lindsay Larios
Within the liberal democracies of the global north, fears associated with migrant maternity are a long-standing part of immigration politics. This article raises concerns about what narratives political and public debates on migrant maternity are mobilizing, who they are targeting, and how these narratives shape the experiences of a wide range of migrants in Canada as they access prenatal and obstetric
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Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Sara Kalm, Anna Meeuwisse
This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and
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Abortion Rights Attitudes in Europe: Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, or Pro-Nation? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Alison Brysk, Rujun Yang
Despite modernization in women’s public roles, reproductive rights attitudes and policies are becoming more restrictive in some societies. While existing literature depicts abortion opinion as a clash of feminist pro-choice vs. religious pro-life frames, feminist analysis suggests that nationalism may influence reproductive attitudes. Yet no cross-national research has empirically examined the relationship
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“Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Ashlee Christoffersen, Akwugo Emejulu
In intersectionality studies, debates about the additive versus constitutive nature of intersectionality are long-established. This article attempts to intervene in these conversations by examining how additive, “diversity within” intersectionality works in practice. Across feminist academia, advocacy, and policymaking, there is a widely held perception that among the nongovernmental organizations
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Populist Female MPs and the Discourse around Gender and Gender-based Violence in the Italian Twittersphere during the Pandemic Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Alberta Giorgi, Enzo Loner
Recent research exploring the relationships between gender and populism has shown that populist parties, mainly right-wing, usually do not advance a women-friendly agenda and do not provide women-favorable environments. Nevertheless, concerns about women’s rights and combating violence against women are gaining space within populist discourse. In this contribution, we analyze the tweets of populist
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Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Mette Løvgren, Julia Orupabo
We examine the influence of gender essentialism, a key explanation of gender segregation in the labor market, by zooming in on childcare work, which remains a female-dominated occupation. Building on the assumption that gender essentialism is expressed through people’s perceptions of what jobs and tasks are suitable for men and women, we ask the following question: are childcare workers gender essentialists
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The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Kjersti Misje Østbakken, Julia Orupabo, Marjan Nadim
The devaluation of care work is regarded as a main explanation for the dominance of women in care work. However, less attention has been paid to how such devaluation affects not only the gender balance of jobs but also their ethnic and racial composition. This article examines patterns of gender and ethnic segregation and inequality within different types of care work. Using high-quality linked administrative
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Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers: Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965–2016 Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Cassandra Engeman
In recent decades, governments have created and expanded paid leave rights for fathers, but policies have developed along different timelines and trajectories. Using event history methods, this research investigates the timing of fathers’ leave rights adoption across twenty-two countries from 1965 to 2016. With a focus on “first laws,” the findings support explanations of family policy development
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Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Shahnaz Akhter, Juanita Elias, Shirin M Rai
This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian
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The Social and Political Lives of Women in an Egalitarian Matricultural Society: The Case of Western Sahara Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Aili Mari Tripp
Gender equality is generally discussed as a liberal goal within international discourse. But nonliberal conceptions of gender egalitarianism coexist with and interact with liberal understandings in many contemporary societies. This article offers analysis of a Muslim matricultural society in Western Sahara made up of the Sahrawi people, where domestic violence is rare, where gender egalitarianism is
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Risk, Reward, and Resistance: Navigating Work and Family under Hungary’s New Pronatalism Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Christy Glass, Éva Fodor
New pronatalist regimes rely on market incentives to increase childbearing and encourage full employment. Few countries have instituted a more extreme version of new pronatalism than Hungary. The current study analyzes how professional women navigate uncertainty and risk under Hungary’s pronatalist regime. Our analysis of twenty-one in-depth interviews with middle-class professional women reveals inherent
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Explaining the Adoption of Care Policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay: A Multiple Streams Approach Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Diana Leon-Espinoza
This article aims to reveal how Costa Rica and Uruguay succeeded in adopting integrated care policies. By adapting the classic “multiple streams approach,” I analyze the processes leading to the adoption of two care policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay. The findings suggest that the key to understanding the adoption of care policies lies within the interplay between agents and contexts in different streams
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Empowered Homeowners, Responsible Mothers: Promises and Pitfalls of Maternalist Housing Provision in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida Program Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Carter M Koppelman
Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program was touted as a “pro-female” policy to promote women’s autonomy and empowerment through subsidized homeownership. However, its design and discourse constructed motherhood as the primary basis of women’s inclusion. This article examines the gendered effects of a maternalist housing program through ethnographic research in São Paulo, looking at both movement
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Austerity Policies and the Strategic Silencing of Their Gendered Effects: Evidence from Spain Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 My Rafstedt
Austerity measures are commonly adopted to address economic crises. Such measures have particularly adverse effects for women, but studies have found these consequences to be strategically silenced. I explore the conditions under which the gendered effects of austerity are silenced, and by whom. Drawing on an original dataset of 9,420 newspaper articles (2010–2020) addressing austerity measures introduced
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Integrating Gender-Based Analysis Plus into Policy Responses to COVID-19: Lived Experiences of Lockdown in British Columbia, Canada Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Julia Smith, Alice Mũrage, Ingrid Lui, Rosemary Morgan
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
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Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History: Egyptian Feminist Activists’ Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014 Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Emma Sundkvist
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
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Beyond Antifeminist Discourses: Analyzing How Material and Social Factors Shape Online Resistance to Feminist Politics Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Malin Holm
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
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Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Gendered Relational Reading of Settler Colonial Containment in Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Rebecca Jane Hall, Leah F Vosko, Veldon Coburn
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
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Housewives and Entrepreneurs: Local Coalitions of Power and the Political Construction of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Turkey Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Prunelle Aymé
Scholars have interpreted the popularity of women’s entrepreneurship as a co-optation 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
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Mainstreaming Gender in Policy Narratives: Childcare Policies during Latin America’s Left Turn Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Mariana Mazzini Marcondes, Marta Ferreira Santos Farah
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
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Long-Term Trends in the Gender Income Gap within Couples: West Germany, 1978–2011 Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Andreas Haupt, Susanne Strauß
Coupled women typically have lower earnings than their male partners. This gender income gap within couples has declined over time, but we lack information about the drivers behind the decline. Here, we analyze the role of increased participation in education and the labor market, as well as changes in social policies, on the decline of the gender income gap within couples in West Germany from 1978
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“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Anne-Kathrin Kreft
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
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Constructions of Care in EU Economic, Social, and Gender Equality Policy: Care Providers and Care Recipients versus the Needs of the Economy? Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Elena Zacharenko, Anna Elomäki
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
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Paradox or Mitigation? Childless and Parent Gender Gaps across British, Finnish, and German Wage Distributions Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Lynn Prince Cooke, Anna Erika Hägglund, Rossella Icardi
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
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Mainstream or Marginalized? How German and Dutch Newspapers Frame LGBTI Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Anne Louise Schotel
Abstract Although historically ignored or stigmatized by mainstream media, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have increasingly become visible. However, increased visibility does not necessarily translate to more inclusive reporting. Comparing framing of LGBTI in Germany and the Netherlands, I ask which frames are assimilative and which pose structural challenges to hegemonic
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Measuring Gender Inequality in Great Britain: Proposal for a Subnational Gender Inequality Index Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Caitlin B Schmid,Rose Cook,Laura Jones
Abstract Tackling gender inequality is a key focus for both civil society and government policy in Great Britain (GB). Yet, there is currently no consensus on how to conceptualize or operationalize gender inequalities, nor any detailed measurement of gender inequalities at the subnational level, despite high levels of regional inequality. This is a barrier to the development and evaluation of gender
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The Gender Cleavage: Updating Rokkanian Theory for the Twenty-First Century Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Katharina Sass,Stein Kuhnle
Abstract This article develops Stein Rokkan’s cleavage theory to include the gender cleavage. It discusses the gender cleavage’s structural, cultural, and organizational dimensions. The extent to which the gender cleavage becomes manifest is related to the overall cleavage structure. The gender cleavage has been comparatively more salient in Europe’s Protestant North than in other Western countries
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Erratum to: Protected through Part-time Employment? Labor Market Status, Domestic Responsibilities, and the Life Satisfaction of German Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Bertogg A, Kulic N, Strauss S.
Social Politics, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab048
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Caring for the Manifesto—Steps toward Making It an Achievable Dream Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Raghuram P.
The Care Manifesto is a timely volume coming as it does in the middle of a pandemic when the value of care for our countries and communities has been reinforced. We increasingly hear about the importance and value of care—care in hospitals, in communities, within families, and in myriad other places and spaces. Some of these care needs arise from the lack of care in other places; friendships, family
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Remaking a “Failed” Masculinity: Working-Class Young Men, Breadwinning, and Morality in Contemporary Russia Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Charlie Walker
Much of the sociological work examining the changing fortunes of working-class young men has emphasized their newly precarious position as well as the “hollowed out” nature of their class subjectivities. By contrast, and echoing work on the adaptability of hegemonic forms of masculinity, this article points to the ongoing salience of working-class masculinities, drawing on longitudinal research with
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Assessing Adequate Homes and Proper Parenthood: How Gendered and Racialized Family Norms Legitimize the Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors in Belgium and the Netherlands Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Laura Cleton
This article analyzes the ways in which the Belgian and Dutch governments legitimize the deportation of unaccompanied minors, by focusing on the interplay of intersectional boundary work and bordering practices. Building on the work of postcolonial feminists and scholars studying the role of identity and cultural values in migration policy, the article highlights that deportation relies on and reifies
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Discourses of Social Inclusion in Chilean Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Javiera Cubillos-Almendra
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policy raises important normative questions. Accordingly, this article—inspired by a discursive approach to public policy—uses social inclusion approach to analyze Chilean SRH policy (2000–2018). It argues that despite long decades of capitalist neoliberal modernization and four consecutive center/left-wing governments, Chilean SRH policy remains as conservative
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Gendernativism and Liberal Subjecthood: The Cases of Forced Marriage and the Burqa Ban in Switzerland Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Janine Dahinden, Stefan Manser-Egli
Ideas of gender equality and women’s rights have come to play a crucial role in national politics of belonging and Othering, in Europe and beyond. Based on two case studies in Switzerland, we introduce the concept of gendernativism. We consider gendernativism as a particular configuration of boundary making between supposedly unfree migrant (descendant) and Muslim women and free Swiss/Europeans which