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Opportunity or burden? Shifting femininities and women’s experiences in a pre-professional business leadership setting European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lillan Lommel
In this exploratory study, I analyse women’s experiences in a pre-professional business leadership setting. I adopt a perspective of structural contraints and conceptually draw on the construction of the ‘ideal’ female subject in late modernity and ‘new’ femininities. I argue that, although they are shifting, femininities persist to be a structurally rooted burden for assuming leadership roles for
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Domestic service and prostitution: Empirical and theoretical connections European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Catherine Orian Weiss
Various activities are systematically imposed on women in both paid and unpaid forms, generally involving care for others, sexual activity, or a combination of both. These activities have typically been studied separately, but these analytical divisions are increasingly being questioned. This article contributes to this debate by exploring empirical and theoretical connections two of the most prominent
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‘They all of a sudden became new people’: Using reproductive justice to explore narratives of hormonal contraceptive experience in Sweden European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Sofia Zettermark
This study explores how Swedish women narrate experiences of hormonal contraceptives through utilizing the frameworks of biomedicalization and reproductive justice, adding a social justice perspective previously lacking. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted with women who had experience of using hormonal contraception. Political narrative analysis illuminated how these women moved narratively both
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Feminist solidarity and hopeful imaginings in the MeToo movement in Iceland European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir, Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir
In this article, we build on feminist scholarship to narrate how the MeToo movement in Iceland was formed through collective reflexivity and resistance, ultimately connecting different groups of women in affective solidarity. In our exploration of how the movement unfolded, we draw on anonymous MeToo testimonies and media discussions. We argue that the feminist lexicon, particularly the notion of ‘returning
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Understanding populist far-right anti-immigration and anti-gender stances beyond the paradigm of gender as ‘a symbolic glue’: Giorgia Meloni’s modern motherhood, neo-Catholicism, and reproductive racism European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Maria Elena Indelicato, Maíra Magalhães Lopes
Building on theoretical framings in critical race and queer studies, this article focuses on the first female prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, as an entry point to examining the current alignment between far-right populism, anti-gender movements, and White supremacist conspiracy theories in Europe. First, considering the contradictions that female leaders of far-right populist parties seem
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Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Julian Honkasalo
This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, ...
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Feminist futures? Gender and nation in the pro-independence left in Catalonia European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Begonya Enguix Grau
This article explores how a feminist approach to politics can resonate within a nation-building project in Catalonia against the backdrop of rising transnational anti-feminist right-wing populism i...
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War widows in Serbia: Losses, coping and overcoming European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Mirjana Bobić
Unlike the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslavia underwent sanguinary disintegration and a socio-economic transformation to the market economy as a result of the wars...
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Sex worker or victim? Exploring the sex industry in Spain European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Carmen Meneses-Falcón
This article examines entry into paid sex work in Spain, comparing those people who entered sex work by choice and those who were coerced. There is a dearth of research that focusses on documenting...
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Navigating the Catholic Church in Belgium: Catholic women on female authority, reforms, and sexual difference European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Eline Huygens
Despite being denied access to ordained positions of power, and limited to occupying lay positions, women numerically outnumber men in the Catholic Church in Belgium. Furthermore, their involvement...
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Experiences and constructions of womanhood and motherhood among Spanish Roma women European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Raquel Herrero-Arias, Daniel La Parra-Casado, Alicia Ferrández-Ferrer, María-José Sanchís-Ramón, Gaby Ortiz-Barreda
Roma women face multiple inequalities at the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class. Framed by Romani feminism, studies have explored Roma women’s own perspectives and experiences, drawing a...
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(Un)usual suspects: Relational capacities and subjective transformations in polygynous and polyamorous practices in the Netherlands European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Rahil Roodsaz
Choice and autonomy are at the heart of classic feminist debates about structure and agency. This article revisits those debates with two contemporary cases of polygyny and polyamory. While scholar...
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Feminism contested and co-opted: Women, agency and politics of gender in the Greek and Greek-Cypriot far right European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Nayia Kamenou
The literature on the gender dimension of far-right politics has established the constitutive role of gender and women’s involvement in the far right. However, knowledge about how far-right women n...
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Academic women’s voices on gendered divisions of work and care: ‘Working till I drop . . . then dropping’ European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Sevil Sümer, Hande Eslen-Ziya
Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by women academics, especially with respect to the gendered divisions of academic tasks and unequal di...
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Equal bodies: The notion of the precarious in Judith Butler’s work European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Adriana Zaharijević
The aim of the article is to offer a reading of Judith Butler’s understanding of the precarious, the notion which gives rise to her particular understanding of precarity. The first part of the arti...
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The politics of tending to the body: Women doing yoga in Genoa (Italy) European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Emanuela Mangiarotti
Against a background of neoliberal precarity, the yoga industry promotes a practice experienced by, and inscribed on, the body that is meant to transcend physiological boundaries and expand individ...
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Worker-led feminist mobilizing for the museum of the future European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Margaret Middleton, Jamie J Hagen
Museum workers have taken a massive hit during the pandemic when many museums closed their doors, cut staff hours, instituted layoffs and furloughs, and pushed more into precarity. For many workers...
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Planetary activism at the end of the world: Feminist and posthumanist imaginaries beyond Man European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Nóra Ugron
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is...
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‘We just want to make art’ – Women with experiences of racial othering reflect on art, activism and representation European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Mehek Muftee, René León Rosales
In recent years, Swedish women belonging to a post-migrant generation have made their voices against racism and social inequality prominent within public debate. Engaging in segregated and economic...
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Sounding possible worlds: The cacophony of the Istanbul Feminist Night Marches European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Ege Akdemir
Istanbul Feminist Night Marches are a long-lasting branch of feminist activism for Women’s Day in Turkey. Each year, thousands of women get together around Istiklal Street and sing and chant togeth...
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Little prayer: Ambiguous grief in the LGBTQIA+ movement in Turkey European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Elif Irem Az
Inspired by a Danez Smith poem, this essay is a ‘little prayer’ for LGBTQIA+ people and organizers to be able to collectively grieve the family and friends they have lost, the relations they had to...
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Corrigendum to Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-09-05
Dahl U and kennedy-macfoy madeleine (2022) ‘Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable’, European Journal of Women’s Studies 29(2): 364–376. DOI: 10.1177/13505068221089874.
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The lay of the land European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Redi Koobak
Lately, my mind keeps circling around land. It pops up everywhere, in everyday and academic, feminist and not so directly feminist contexts.
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Room of her own: Remaking empty nest and creating herspaces in practices of Polish mothers whose children left home European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Magdalena Gajewska, Magdalena Herzberg-Kurasz, Magdalena Żadkowska, Marianna Kostecka, Bogna Dowgiałło
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....
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Corrigendum to Recognition of power: The agency of Kurdish women in their everyday practices European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-06-16
Belçim Galip, Ö. (2022) Recognition of power: The agency of Kurdish women in their everyday practices. European Journal of Women’s Studies. Epub ahead of print 3 March 2022. DOI: 10.1177/13505068221082047.
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‘Look at me!’ Post-mastectomy transformative politics European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Kathy Davis
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
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Becoming Muslim: Converting old and new practices through ‘turning away’ European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Eva Midden
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
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Hitting the barriers – Women in Formula 1 and W series racing European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Olivia R. Howe
In this article, it will be concluded that the major automotive racing league, Formula 1, is failing in its efforts to be a truly unisex sport. In the current Formula 1 series, there are no female drivers. Although women have never been officially prohibited from competing in Formula 1, there have been fewer than 10 female drivers since its inception. This inquiry focuses on why women drivers have
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Menopausal rage, erotic power and gaga feminist possibilities European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Katrien De Graeve, Sara De Vuyst
This study focusses on discourses on menopause through a critical reading of a selection of nine self-help books on the topic in the context of Dutch-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim is to explore whether self-help books constrain or facilitate the development of emancipatory discourses on menopause. We combine feminist critiques that identify the experience of menopause as a site of potential
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Perception of the barriers to women’s professional development in the cultural sector: A gender perspective study European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Anna Villarroya, Maite Barrios
This study explores women’s and men’s perceptions of the specific barriers that prevent women from participating fully in the cultural labour market. To this end, an online questionnaire was administered to 375 cultural professionals in Catalonia (Spain) regarding their perceptions of the barriers faced by women in a range of areas. The results show similar views between genders regarding the difficulties
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When vulnerability got mainstream: Reading the pandemic through disability and illness European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Mara Pieri
Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated discourses and practices that directly refer to the semantic universe usually connected to disability and illness. Words such as ‘pre-existing conditions’, ‘risk groups’, ‘accessibility’, and ‘vulnerability’ have become everyday elements of official and informal communications across the globe. In this article, I explore the contradictions that
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The gender and sexual politics of the COVID-19 pandemic European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Tara Mehrabi,Luca Tainio
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Towards trans-feminist coalitions in the post-Yugoslav space: Building feminist radical solidarities European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Maja Pan
The conflict between trans-inclusive and trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) has recently erupted in the post-Yugoslav space, adding to the urgency of embracing trans-feminism. In order to forge the ground for such a feminist orientation, this paper interweaves two theoretical reflections: the subject of feminism, and the historical lesbian experience of becoming ‘included’ with/in it. Beginning
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Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Ulrika Dahl
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Virus amongst the vegetables: Peruvian marketplaces, hygiene, and post-colonial indigeneity under gender-segregated quarantine European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Rebecca Irons
Gender and public markets have long been intertwined in Peru. The vast majority of market-sellers are women, and significantly this kind of work has been intimately related to women's empowerment and agency within a deeply patriarchal society. However, with the arrival of COVID-19 the woman-centred space of the marketplace became compromised. While once a place of female empowerment, during the pandemic
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‘To dream a new dream from the nightmare we’re in’ European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 madeleine kennedy-macfoy
According to the World Meteorological Organisation's United in Science report, the average global temperature for the period between 2017 and 2021 was the warmest on record. An increase in the planet's temperature brings with it extreme weather phenomena, including more frequent and intense heat waves, floods, droughts and forest fires, as well as sea level rise, and the loss of sea ice and ice sheet
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Recognition of power: The agency of Kurdish women in their everyday practices European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Özlem Belçim Galip
Anthropological work on Kurdish women has hitherto adopted western stereotypes of power, representing it as non-existent, as women being deprived of agency in everyday practices, or totally politicized. In order to challenge prescriptive gender stereotypes, moving beyond objectification to subjectivity and offering a more complex analysis of gender relations, this study examines the position of women
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Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015 European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Lucia Direnberger, Elisa Banfi, Vista Eskandari
Since 2001, the ‘Islamic threat’ has become increasingly prominent in debates on migration policy, religious affairs and security at the federal level in Switzerland. Supported by the far right-wing parties, the paradigm of the Islamic threat reveals how Islamophobia is gendered and affects Muslim women and men differently. By analysing debates between the Federal Council and Swiss Parliament, this
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Book review: Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry by Alan Petersen European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Lisa Lindqvist
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Local, Institutional, or Transnational? Social Networks of Russian Marriage Migrants in Turkey European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Ayla Deniz, E. Murat Özgür
This study focuses on the spatialization and institutionalization of social networks of Russian women who migrated to Turkey via marriage in the last 30 years. Specifically, it investigates how and why their social networks have been changing at the local and transnational levels. We conducted in-depth interviews with 56 women between 2014−2021. Our extensive analysis indicates that despite their newly
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Moral Exposures, Public Appearances: Contested Presences of Non-Normative Sex in Pandemic Berlin European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Ursula Probst, Max Schnepf
Since its reunification, Berlin has regained its reputation as a sexually liberal European metropolis, offering spaces and infrastructures for non-normative sex to become present in the cityscape. However, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and the concomitant measures to contain its spread, sexual practices and their open display have become highly contested and subject to increased
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What's masculinity got to do with it? The COVID-19 pandemic, men and care European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Katarzyna Wojnicka
Early data from several countries regarding the gendered implications of COVID-19 suggest that men are more likely to die as an effect of infection. This has been explained by biological factors but also by behavioral and life-style issues characteristic mostly for men. What has not been widely discussed, however, is the analysis of the relationships between men's responses to the crisis, their (lack
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The pink line across digital publics: Political homophobia and the queer strategies of everyday life during COVID-19 in Turkey European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Tunay Altay
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink line and queer strategies
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Spanish youth at the crossroads of gender and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Miguel Ángel López-Sáez, R. Lucas Platero
This study examines some of the perceptions amongst Spanish LGBTQ+ youth during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent confinement and lockdown measures, between March and May 2020. During this time, many of these young people were forced to return to their family homes and restrict their social relations. This new situation often exposed them to forms of violence from which there
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Book Review: Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities by Cindy L. Griffin European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Varpu Alasuutari
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Book review: Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power by S. Liddy European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Rosanna Maule, Concordia University
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Film Review: Nomadland by Chloé Zhao European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Arianna Vergari
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Book review: Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-made World by Elinor Clegnor European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Tuğçe Ellialtı-Köse
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Book Review: Fearing the Black Body. The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Kathy Davis
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A space to resist rape myths? Journalism, patriarchy and sexual violence European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Sofia Jose Santos, Julia Garraio, Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho, Inês Amaral
In September 2018, a controversial judicial sentence concerning sexual violence caused a public outcry in Portugal. The court decision invoked the alleged environment of mutual seduction, the use of much alcohol consumption, and the lack of serious injuries to justify the suspended penalty. Stemming from the idea that understandings of what journalism is and what it should be are profoundly ideological
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‘Keeping the children close and the daughters closer.’ Is family housing support in Greece gendered? European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Myrto Dagkouli–Kyriakoglou
The welfare regime of Southern Europe, and Greece in particular, does not adequately cover the needs of its citizens. On the contrary, and within this context, family welfare has to be much more efficient. Moreover, the support received from the family imposes a sense of reciprocity, as receivers are expected to be givers in the future. This reciprocity is assisted mainly by the female members of the
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The Last Editorial European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-26
After about 8 years, I am stepping down as EJWS co-editor, with strange sense of relief.
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Book review: Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture: From Vulnerability to Accountability European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Barbara Zecchi
living with our bodies, disentangled from, and unmediated by, patriarchal institutions. Throughout the book, themes such as strong objectivity, positionality, emotional awareness, dealing with structural violence and focus on the heterogeneity of experience are repeatedly stressed, rendering the distinction between the epistemological and the methodological terrains almost unnecessary. As the editors
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She-Coronavirus: How cartoonists reflected women health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Martí Domínguez, Lucía Sapiña
Women account for 70% of healthcare workers, so their role has been – and still is – fundamental in addressing and managing the current pandemic event caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Far from being an opportunity to highlight the importance of women in the field, the healthcare crisis, together with lockdown policies and care responsibilities, have contributed to increase the gender gap. To study
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Feminist/queer/diasporic temporality in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (2019) European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Carolina Sánchez-Palencia
Claiming that individuals and communities get their choices, rhythms and practices biopolitically choreographed by temporal mechanisms that dictate which human experiences are included or excluded, Elizabeth Freeman states that those ‘whose activities do not show up on the official time line, whose own time lines do not synchronize with it, are variously and often simultaneously black, female, queer’
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Mobilization against Sexual Harassment in the European Parliament: The MeTooEP campaign European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Valentine Berthet
The international #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment constitutes the most prominent contemporary campaign against sexual harassment worldwide. It exposed the issue by undermining the ‘culture of silence’ prevailing in several contexts, including political institutions. This article analyses one specific variant of #MeToo, the campaign MeTooEP that emerged in the European Parliament (EP). MeTooEP
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Book Review: Sociology of Woman’s Labour by Mileva Gurovska European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Kire Sharlamanov
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‘The right man in the right place’ – the consequences of gender-coding of place and occupation in collaboration processes European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Lena Grip, Ulrika Jansson
Society needs to find new ways to utilise its resources in the best possible way in order to enable satisfactory services for its citizens in the long term. This is particularly important in sparsely populated areas, and in cities and municipalities with a declining population. This study contributes to this field by analysing a project for collaboration between the rescue service and the home-care
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Triumph and concession? The moral and emotional construction of Ireland's campaign for abortion rights European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Aideen Catherine O’Shaughnessy
In March 2018, the Irish government confirmed that a referendum would be held on 25 May, allowing for the Irish public to vote on the legalisation of abortion. The same month, Together for Yes – the national civil society campaign advocating for a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum – was launched. This article draws upon findings from 27 in-depth interviews conducted in December 2019 and January 2020 with
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Book Review: Translocational Belongings: Intersectional Dilemmas and Social Inequalities European Journal of Women's Studies (IF 1.395) Pub Date : 2021-08-27