Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere

Siim, Birte

doi:10.1017/s1743923x13000573

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“…The relationship between Islam and feminism is a troubled one throughout Europe and beyond, and France is one of many countries struggling to reconcile gender equality with religious diversity (Siim, 2014). Certain Muslim practices, such as wearing headscarves and veils, are seen by many feminists as oppressive and an affront to women's rights, even when the women wearing these garments assert that doing so is their free choice.…”

Section: From Parity To Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Representation of Ethnic Minority Women in France

Murray

2016

Parliam Aff

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This article nuances the argument that ethnic minority women experience cumulative disadvantage within politics. Drawing on the French case study, I demonstrate a complex relationship between gender and ethnicity. The gender parity movement saw ethnicity as competing with gender and rejected claims for ethnic minority representation, but still drew attention to the homogeneity of French politics. Descriptive representation of minority women is now slowly progressing, as they simultaneously promote gender and ethnic diversity within politics. However, their inclusion is conditional on their willingness to act as symbols of secularity and assimilation. This particularly constrains the substantive representation of Muslim women.

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Section: From Parity To Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Representation of Ethnic Minority Women in France

Murray

2016

Parliam Aff

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“…Fourth, supranational institutions can legitimise discourses and actions at national level. Such dynamics can be seen, for example, in the case of the support given by the European Union (EU) for the introduction of gender quotas in EU countries (Siim, 2014).…”

Section: Existing Theories Of Cross-national Variation In Women's Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Article 121.4 of the Amsterdam Treaty (1997), for example, sets the legal framework for the implementation of positive action in member states. As Siim (2014) argues, this has helped a widespread political consensus to be reached on gender quotas at the member state level.…”

Section: Does Gender Equality Politics Make a Difference?mentioning

confidence: 99%

When flexibility meets familialism: Two tales of gendered labour markets in Spain and South Korea

León

Choi

Ahn

2016

Journal of European Social Policy

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Korea and Spain share crucial labour market and welfare state characteristics that converge to produce similar outcomes: strongly dualized labour markets, weak social protection, and features that are archetypical of familialist states. Labour market flexibility in both countries has recently increased through unusually high levels of temporary employment. Yet, when we analyse female labour force participation, we observe a significant divergence: Korean women interrupt their participation in the labour market when they are of childbearing age, while Spanish women do not. Furthermore, the level of education of women in Spain matters for their career prospects, but in Korea, it does not. In this article, we explore the causes of this divergence by analysing (1) structural characteristics of the labour market, (2) policies that facilitate the reconciliation of work and family and (3) gender equality politics. We argue that the combination of these three factors have different impacts on the career choices of women in Spain and Korea. Some aspects of working culture – long working hours in particular – the unavailability to women of good quality jobs and a high gender pay gap contribute towards labour market interruption of highly educated women in Korea when they have children. Policy developments have been important in the two countries, but high levels of childcare investment in Korea have not improved female employment prospects. Furthermore, we observe greater political commitment to gender equality in Spain than in Korea. Fundamental changes in the Spanish political culture, which were the result of a combination of domestic and supranational dynamics, played a major role in the political endorsement of gender equality and a rejection of familialistic policies and practices.

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“…Populist right-wing parties seeking to protect ‘our people’ can resort to racist or even fascist discourses that challenge the human rights of racialised others in European countries (Norocel, 2013). Intersectionality studies have also highlighted how, in the last two decades, in a European context of increased migration, the intersection between gender, migration, ethnicity, class and religion has been put at the forefront of European policymaking (Siim, 2014). This ‘nexus’ reflects processes of racialisation of Muslim identities often through the adoption of policies concerning types of gender-based violence that are considered specific to Muslim migrant women, such as female genital mutilation, forced marriages and veiling (Lépinard, 2014: 125).…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist political analysis: Exploring strengths, hegemonies and limitations

Kantola

Lombardo

2017

Feminist Theory

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Austerity politics, war at the borders of the European Union, the rise of nationalisms, populist parties in Europe, islamophobia, and the refugee crisis, call for discussions about the theories and concepts that academic disciplines provide for making sense of the societal, cultural and political transformations of the time. Such undertakings need to avoid the tendency within increasingly professionalized disciplines to become self-referential, thus narrowing their analytical and imaginative capacities (Brown, 2002). In this article, we focus on the capacities of feminist political analysis to undertake these tasks. By political analysis-borrowing from Colin Hay (2002)-we mean the diversity of analytical strategies developed around 'the political'. Since the political has to do with the 'distribution, exercise, and consequences of power', political analysis focuses on the analysis of 'power relations' (Hay, 2002: 3) and the contestations arising around them. Gender and politics has become a vibrant subfield of political science. Feminist approaches to political analysis applied and developed in this subfield, explore, first, how power relations are gendered since they reproduce gender norms and biases that create hierarchies between women and men (Hawkesworth, 1994). Secondly, feminist approaches show how 'the political' includes gender issues formerly considered 'personal' (Pateman, 1983). This thinking often implies a personal commitment to the political project of gender equality that moves feminist scholars to link theory and practice in their daily work (Celis et al., 2013). The interest in transformative political praxis marks feminist political analysis as both an empirical and normative project. At the same time, feminist analyses have their limitations, which This is the post version of the article, which has been published in Feminist Theory. 2017, 18(3),

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Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

The Political Representation of Ethnic Minority Women in France

The Political Representation of Ethnic Minority Women in France

When flexibility meets familialism: Two tales of gendered labour markets in Spain and South Korea

Feminist political analysis: Exploring strengths, hegemonies and limitations

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