Accounts of feminism among women local councillors in England

Welsh, Elaine; Halcli, Abigail

doi:10.1016/s0277-5395(03)00079-7

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“…As the US government pushes for women's liberation elsewhere, it ensures corporate profit through the feminization of the workforce in export-processing zones under the guise of women's autonomy and economic independence (Eisenstein 2010). In the United States, the undermining of feminist goals within neoliberal agendas has contributed to the privileging of choice and individualism over collective struggles against systems of power and oppression (Grewal 2005;Hooton 2005;Liss and Erchull 2010;Skeggs 1995;Welsh and Halcli 2003). As neoliberalism and feminism converge, then, individualist choice and consumerism become a way to express (feminist) agency (Grewal 2005, 28).…”

Section: Feminist Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminism and Women’s Control over Their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest

Alcalde¹

2013

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Feminist self-identification influences women’s voting practices, perceptions of gender discrimination, and views about their bodies. However, there is little information on how feminist self-identification influences women’s experiences of high-risk pregnancy, if at all. The article focuses on women’s identification with feminism within a neoliberal US context to examine how women make sense of and experience the medical prescription of pregnancy bed rest. Each year, medical professionals prescribe pregnancy bed rest for 700,000 to 1 million women in the United States. On the one hand, women’s overwhelming expectation of control over their bodies and reproduction suggests that they cannot easily be divided into feminist and nonfeminist camps; on the other, preliminary findings from a small-scale qualitative study suggest ways in which feminist identification may affect women’s experiences of pregnancy bed rest. Feminists were more likely to be in an egalitarian relationship that facilitated the redistribution of household chores during bed rest.

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Section: Feminist Identificationmentioning

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Feminism and Women’s Control over Their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest

Alcalde¹

2013

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“…It is possible that, as with gender, individuals who do not fall into the majority group may face barriers to their full integration into the organization, and may find the organizational (discipline-specific) culture difficult to understand and to deal with. Scholars have identified similar barriers in operation within political parties and legislative assemblies so that women politicians in the UK often find the organizational culture of Westminster and of local government alienating (see Halcli & Reger 1997;Welsh & Halcli 2003;Childs 2004). Further barriers within research groups may arise due to the increasingly international composition of those groups.…”

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Post-genomic science: cross-disciplinary and large-scale collaborative research and its organizational and technological challenges for the scientific research process

Welsh

Jirotka

Gavaghan

2006

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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We examine recent developments in cross-disciplinary science and contend that a 'Big Science' approach is increasingly evident in the life sciences-facilitated by a breakdown of the traditional barriers between academic disciplines and the application of technologies across these disciplines. The first fruits of 'Big Biology' are beginning to be seen in, for example, genomics, (bio)-nanotechnology and systems biology. We suggest that this has profound implications for the research process and presents challenges both in technological design, in the provision of infrastructure and training, in the organization of research groups, and in providing suitable research funding mechanisms and reward systems. These challenges need to be addressed if the promise of this approach is to be fully realized. In this paper, we will draw on the work of social scientists to understand how these developments in science and technology relate to organizational culture, organizational change and the context of scientific work. We seek to learn from previous technological developments that seemed to offer similar potential for organizational and social change.

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A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers

Kahu¹,

Morgan²

2007

Women's Studies International Forum

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Accounts of feminism among women local councillors in England

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Feminism and Women’s Control over Their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest

Feminism and Women’s Control over Their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest

Post-genomic science: cross-disciplinary and large-scale collaborative research and its organizational and technological challenges for the scientific research process

A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers

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