Економска активност средовечних жена у Србији као релевантно питање родне једнакости

Author(s): Ankica S. Šobot / Language(s): English Issue: 148/2014

Economic characteristics of the female population are important dimensions of contemporary gender regime. Thus, this paper focuses on disadvantageous characteristics of economic activity pointing to the range and the intensity of economic dependence of women as one of the obstacles to the improvement of their social position and reducing of gender gap. Statistical data show economic inactivity and unemployment of middle-aged women in Serbia. Also, regarding the employed women the economic disadvantages could be discussed. The indicator of this is a gender difference in earnings as a result of a smaller number of women having well-paying jobs. In the base of gender economic differences are characteristics of gender roles, and for this reason a specific “women’s work” is seen as an important segment in the improvement of the economic position of women and reducing of gender-based economic gap.

Mothering for Neoliberal Times. Mazahua Women, Poverty and the Cultural Politics of Development in Central Mexico

Author(s): Renata E. Hryciuk / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

This paper presents the results of fieldwork concerning local development programmes addressed to poor Indian women and the social changes they effect in the marginalised Mazahua communities in central Mexico conducted from 2011 to 2015. By analysing the operation of a women's cooperative I show how neoliberal ideology, which is at the core of development schemes, incorporates both the feminist ideas of gender equality and empowerment of women, and the Mexican tradition of politicising maternity in a crisis to establish new social hierarchies, subjectivities, and power relations, promote individualistic attitudes and a new, "market-oriented" morality, and reinforce political clientelism, leading to profound and usually detrimental (for women and local gender relations) changes in the functioning of native communities.

Feminicidio/Feminicídio Problem przemocy względem kobiet w krajach Ameryki Łacińskiej

Author(s): Weronika Maj,Magdalena Łazarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2016

This article presents in brief materials referring to the phenomenon of the violence against women and femicide as well as the intent of understanding its causes in the area of Latin America. According to World Health Organization’s report from 2012 even one thirdof the women worldwide fall victim to this kind of abuse. However, this index multiplies by 2 in the area encompassed by our study. The issue begins at home and ends with abductions and brutal rapes on the streets and in the suburbs, where the culprit is never brought to justice. The main idea of the research is the introduction of the problem, it’s causes, effects but also intents of it’s elimination made by different governmental and non‑governmental organizations.

Lyčių normų galia ir iššūkiai Tunise: apie lesbiečių kūnus

Author(s): Monia Lachheb / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2018

Le présent article s’intéresse au vécu de jeunes femmes tunisiennes qui se disent lesbiennes. Il tente d’éclairer le rapport social à l’altérité à travers les formes d’expression des normes de genre liées à une sexualité dite atypique. Selon une approche socio-anthropologique, l’étude repose sur une enquête par entretien semi-directif avec trois jeunes femmes qui affichent leur orientation sexuelle marginale. L’analyse de type qualitatif révèle que l’apparence corporelle et les usages vestimentaires constituent un fort enjeu des négociations du genre. En effet, la tendance masculine des jeunes lesbiennes interrogées fait qu’elles sèment le doute concernant leur identité de genre et cessent même d’être considérées comme des femmes. Une telle réalité les confronte à différents types de violence dans l’espace public, allant de l’injure jusqu’à la violence physique. Cependant, si la féminité des femmes interrogées est souvent contestée, leurs logiques d’action visent à affirmer une identité de « femme ». Elles souhaitent ainsi à inciter au changement des regards sur le modèle canonique de la féminité, voire même à l’acceptation de différents types d’être femme.

“Volatile, feral and glamorous”: Australia’s Women’s Warehouse

Author(s): Louise R. Mayhew / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2015

The Women’s Warehouse (1979–1981) provided a short-lived and unofficial headquarters for the social and cultural activity of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in Sydney, Australia. This paper writes an introductory history to the Women’s Warehouse through the case study of the Women’s Warehouse Screenprinters, one of the most signifi¬cant collectives to operate in the space. This approach allows for a focused understanding of how feminist ideologies were interpreted and implemented by members of the house via, for example, collective ownership, group authorship, commitment to local community concerns and the non-sexist representation of women. The Women’s Warehouse was an unproclaimed, yet undeniably, lesbian feminist space. This paper begins research into the feminist politics, presentation and perception of the house.

Toward Overcoming Identity Politics – A Question of Effectiveness and Responsibility

Author(s): Olja Marković / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2015

In this paper I will examine the grounds for the desires of marginalized groups to be recognized, by building on Wendy Brown’s critique of identity politics. In that context I will try to actualize the question of responsibility for the sake of critique and revision of the principles underlying identity politics. I will demonstrate how the subjects use identity politics to seek symbolic and legal recognition, by inscribing pain into the law and creating wounded attachments. I will show how the resistance expressed in this manner is ineffective, because the subjects: 1. are normalized and depoliticized; 2. are deprived of the possibility to take action; 3. linger in the past; 4. deny responsibility. After examining the problematic implications pro-duced in this way, I will point out how empowering resistance can be used to overcome pain, as an alternative to identity politics.

Extracorporeal Pregnancy as a Feminist Issue

Author(s): Iskra Krstić / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2015

Extracorporeal pregnancy (ectogenesis) presents perhaps the culmination of reproductive technology (NRT). Second wave feminism welcomed the use of NRT (including extracorporealpregnancy) as a means of women’s liberation. Later on, theories belonging to thethird wave pointed out the negative implications of NRT and reclaimed the power of unassistedreproduction. This paper will try to point out some remaining productive potentials ofNRT and extracorporeal pregnancy. The author wishes to explore the changes in the conceptualisationof the integrity of the individual in the context of the feminist critique of ectogenesis.

Queer Calendars: Art-Activist Project of Contemporary Transition Art

Author(s): Biljana Kosmogina,Saša Kesić / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2015

This text is about an art-activist project in the context of transition art: Queer Calendars, a project by the 3a3or Group. These calendars are a reaction to the necropolitics of post-socialism, as the setting of different, critical, activist platforms and procedures in every homogeneous field of identification and control in neoliberal capitalism. As in the time of the global project of totalizing, it is necessary to use queer tactics for the politicization of art, which work as political strategies of subversion of every stable structure of power, including governing in micro- or macro- cultures and societies.

Razlika kao mesto odakle: teorijsko izvođenje telesnosti i rodnosti iz perspektive feminizama razlike

Author(s): Dragana Stojanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 06/2014

Subordinating the body to the concept of gender in the process of recognizing of one’s own picture in the place of the subject is the main condition of the subjectivity itself. As the gender concept is already presupposed in the structure of language in which the subject recognizes itself, a carnal body is veiled by the textual body which actively performs the gender making it “real” in the linguistic and cultural space. By following the theoretical lines of difference feminisms, this paper particularly focuses on the phenomenon of genderness – especially female genderness as the place of difference, researching the potentials of theoretically performing the female body and gender in the context of mapping the potential space for innovation, intervention and transgression of the dominant system.

Transrodno telo kao mesto transgresije binarno strukturirane rodnosti

Author(s): Aleksa Milanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 04/2013

Reconsideration and reinterpretation of binary sex/gender categories within a specific cultural context can bring into question discursively posted and determined limits regarding the above categories which define the subject and oblige it to fit into the imaginary and set models of sexuality and gender. The subject internalizes normatives and adopts/approves social constructs as natural facts which allows and leads to the survival of constructs as the one and only valid option. On the other hand, transgender identities and range of other/different gender and sexual identities, indicate the fragility of borders and offer a possibility of their reinterpretation and re-evaluation. This paper addresses the issue of transgender body as a site of the transgressive potential which can subvert the binary structured gender/sex concept, and which can also disrupt the mechanisms of the institutional imposition of those binary norms. Through the language, written and nonwritten laws, regulations and rules of the certain cultural context the subject is being channeled and modified, becoming an object controlled by the dominant discourse.

Novi prostori istraživanja ženskih subjektiviteta u umetnosti: generacije i geografije

Author(s): Dragana Stojanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 04/2013

New Spaces of Exploring Female Subjectness in Art: Generations and Geographies is a text that deals with the questions of a possibility of new perspectives on gendered body, gendered subject, female bodies and femaleness, invoking the opening of new fields of space in a context of feminist and postfeminist interventions in art. As Julija Kristeva and Griselda Pollock have already suggested, we need to explore the theoretical and intervening methods of reconceptualization, reinterpretation and resignification, since a revolution of any kind in its main sense would not bring anything new and transgressive into the linear, chronological principles of phallogocentric discourse. This paper brings out the questions of écriture féminine, a women’s writing, a possibility of inscription of a female body in the field of art, mapping the new spaces for generations and geographies to come.

Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation (Edited by: Karen Celis and Sarah Childs, ECPT Press, 2014)

Author(s): Arina Antonia Iacob / Language(s): English Issue: 5 (19)/2015

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism create Difference (Author: Cordelia Fine, 2010, Published by W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-34024-2)

Author(s): Sorana CONSTANTINESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 4 (18)/2015

Women’s Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia

Author(s): Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 9 (23)/2017

Women’s Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia By: Susan M. Shaw (gen. editor) and Nancy Staton Barbour, Patti Duncan, Kryn Freehling-Burton, and Jane Nichols (eds.) 4 volumes, 2018, ABC-CLIO GREENWOOD, USA ISBN Print: 978-1-61069-711-8 ISBN e-book: 978-1-61069-712-5

Love from the Mirror: About sex and identity. Tatiana Niculescu (coord.). Humanitas Publishing, 2017

Author(s): Paul-Daniel Golban / Language(s): English Issue: 10 (24)/2018

Are Women Good to Talk to? Language Strategies in Women’s Posts on Social Networking Site

Author(s): Marta Dąbrowska / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2017

CMC and notably social networking sites appear to empower their users to express their views freely. The paper investigates manifestations of an unorthodox online behaviour, especially that of women. The analysis of YouTube and Facebook (fanpages) English-medium posts demonstrates that in the context of controversial issues women often employ communicative strategies which not only put them on a par with male interlocutors, but also often exceed their use of impolite, vulgar, and abusive language.

Review of the volume “Reproductive Behavior of Women in Republic of Moldova, Sociological Study”. Authors: Maria Bulgaru and Oleg Bulgaru

Author(s): Antonio Sandu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The reproductive behavior and its dynamics are a topic of particular relevance due to the major societal changes imposed by the modernization process currently taking place in the Republic of Moldova. Among these changes we can include an egoistic attitude towards parenthood and the correlation of parenthood with a certain level of living and a certain socio-professional status that leads to postponing the decision to become a parent in favor of completing studies and career development. The increase in the birth rate is correlated with an increase in the marriage age, but also with a fragility of the marital couple, coupled with a much higher divorce rate. Increasing the birth rate leads to a decrease in the fertile period of future mothers, and implicitly to the decrease in the average number of children per family couple (Van de Kaa, 2002), which is below the rate of natural replacement of generations (Metro Media Transilvania, 2005; Varlamova, Noskova & Sedova, 2006).

The Gender Gap in Public Support for EU Integration in the CEE Countries. A Theoretical Overview

Author(s): Brigitta Noe / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

The process of EU integration has been researched in some detail, although while feminist scholars agree that gender is a main organizing principle of social relations, the great majority of the related studies have dealt with integration as a gender-neutral process. The few studies that have examined this problem have applied a gender-centric perspective, mainly focusing on Western European countries, while Central-Eastern European (CEE) relations – which are fairly different due to the post-socialist heritage of the region – remain under-researched. The present paper provides an overview of the relevant scientific literature on the models of support for integration, first highlighting the previously neglected aspect of gender, and later on describing the factors that make its study difficult in a CEE context. The article argues that, in contrast to the assumption made in prevailing approaches to the topic, EU integration is a highly gendered process and may have special characteristics in CEE countries.

Maura J. Mills (ed.) (2015) Gender and the Work–Family Experience: An Intersection of Two Domains. New York: Springer International Publishing. 358 pages.

Author(s): Brigitta Noe,Katalin Oborni / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2016

A képviselet újrafogalmazása és alkalmazása a női képviseletre. Az abortuszkérdés (2000, 2011)

Author(s): Gabriella Ilonszki,Adrienn Vajda / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2018

The empirical analysis of women’s substantive representation is still relatively underdeveloped, particularly in new democracies. The article aims to fill in this gap, demonstrating how women’s substantive representation has evolved in Hungary by analysing two concrete legislative initiatives. These are the amendment of Act LXXIX / 1992 on the Protection of Foetal Life (also known as abortion law) in 2000, and Article II of the new constitution (Fundamental Law) ofHungary in 2011. As Article II declares that the foetus shall be protected from the moment of conception this might have opened the abortion debate again. The article first reconsiders the concept of representation. As the party based representation concept has been increasingly under challenge it is justified to broaden the focus and observe who claims that she represents women and how this process is taking place. In this vein the article investigates both the parliamentary and the extra-parliamentary context. Also, it distinguishes the two analytically distinct parts of representation, the process and the outcome, arguing that substantive representation might occur even if the outcome does not serve women’s interests. Analysis of the parliamentary speeches of Members of Parliament regarding the two cases as well as media, civic organisation, and public opinion responses reveal that the substantive representation of women has declined. At the parliamentary level representative claims have become increasingly gender- neutral and anti-feminist; in contrast, gender-conscious attention and approaches have declined. Although the majority of the public remains supportive of women’s self-determination, and civic engagement in this area has increased, their impact remains peripheral in the context of highly gendered institutions. From a theoretical perspective the article’s first major finding is that descriptive representation and substantive representation are closely linked as they are both structured by the gendered context. Substantive representation is constrained by “sheer numbers” that originate in gendered institutions while gendered institutions themselves constrain the representative opportunities of all actors involved. The second important finding is that a shrinking gender divide can be observed. In the first initiative some women appeared as active participants in presenting gender conscious and feminist representative claims. In the second initiative a female perspective could not be heard at all: women either did not participate in the ‘official’ parliamentary context or were advocates of the conservative party line. Women with women’s representative claims have been pushed out of the official arena.