Feminist Practice and Solidarity in Secular Societies: Case Studies on Feminists Crossing Religious–Secular Divides in Politics and Practice in Antwerp, Belgium

Brandt, Nella van den

doi:10.1080/14742837.2014.994094

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“…They advocate Muslim women's participation in the public sphere and oppose attempts to curtail their rights. Their support for Muslim women contrasts with Midden's (2012) findings and provides evidence of somewhat wider feminist engagement with religion than van den Brandt's (2014Brandt's ( , 2015. This reflects different methodological approaches: while van den Brandt's study seeks out and explores feminist possibilities offered by case studies of secular feminist solidarity around Muslim women's issues, this study looks more broadly at approaches to religion across a 10-year span of writings on TFW.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…and Motief, which emerged to contest headscarf regulation and promote solidarity and inclusion beyond secular/ religious boundaries, contesting assumptions that secularity=emancipation and religion=oppression. Van den Brandt (2015) regards these as signs of hope for European feminist coalition-building across differences.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But this does not mean they ignore it, and the increasing presence and visibility of religious minorities in Europe -Muslims especially, and Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and Buddhists -is generating new discussions of religion. Although there is very little academic analysis of mainstream feminist groups' (that is, groups not centrally concerned with religion) approaches to religion in Europe, two significant studies are Midden's (2012) analysis of representations of the relationship between feminism and religious and cultural diversity in the Dutch feminist magazine Opzij and van den Brandt's (2014Brandt's ( , 2015 studies of how secular Belgian feminist organisations approach religion. Midden's (2012: 228-229) analysis shows that Opzij's conceptualisation of feminism does not include Muslim women: 'they position (secular/ white) feminists on one side and Muslim women on the other'.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Representations of Religion on the British Feminist Webzine The F Word

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2015

Religion and Gender

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In 21st century Europe, where religion is a more visible focus in local, national and global politics, how do feminist organisations and groups approach religion? This article explores this through analysis of representations of religion on a prominent British feminist webzine, The F Word. In academic literature and public debates, two dominant viewpoints are articulated in debates on women's rights, religion and secularism: feminist secularism and religious inclusion. In the context of these debates, the study asks how The F Word writers approach religion, and whether and how their representations of religion reflect these academic and public debates. The analysis identifies four dominant approaches to religion, and two underlying themes, and sets these approaches in their wider social context.

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Representations of Religion on the British Feminist Webzine The F Word

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2015

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“…The predominance of headscarf issues in the list of case reports is apparent. In recent years, the headscarf has increasingly been regulated in various sections of Belgian society including public education as well as the public and private labour market (van den Brandt, 2015, p. 494). This evolution has been legitimized by the jurisprudence of several (supra)national courts (Brems et al, 2017).…”

Section: Participants’ Reportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Procedural justice perceptions in the mediation of discrimination reports by a national equality body

Graaf

2020

International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

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National equality bodies (NEBs) must provide independent assistance to victims of discrimination in complaints about discrimination. As the EU Directive 2000/43/EC only introduced a minimum programme, there is great variety in design at the national level. In this article, the focus lies on the out-of-court approach of the Belgian NEB (Unia) which is founded on dialogue with the involved parties. Based on semi-directive interviews with 18 persons who reported discrimination and hate speech, the factors that contribute to their satisfaction with the assistance procedure of the NEB are explored. This satisfaction is approached from a socio-psychological perspective based on the relational model of procedural justice which implies that people care about a fair procedure because of the message it conveys to them about their relationship with the entity enacting the procedure. As established in prior research on informal dispute resolution, it was found that the quality of their interaction with the staff members at the NEB played a great role in the assessment of the procedure.

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“…VOK is thus an example of how a soft secular feminist position allows and nourishes the negotiation of equality and difference in particular contexts. In a further study of feminists crossing religious-secular divides in Belgium, Van den Brandt (2015) discusses how BOEH! and a women's reading group within the Christian socialist feminist organization Motief have provided spaces for dialogue, solidarity and collaboration between religious and secular feminists.…”

Section: Feminism Secularism and Religionmentioning

confidence: 99%