State Fragility and Structural Gender Inequality in Family Law: An Empirical Investigation

Bowen, Donna Lee; Hudson, Valerie M.; Nielsen, Perpetua Lynne

doi:10.3390/laws4040654

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“…o When at least 35 percent of a country's legislature are women, the risk of conflict relapse is close to zero (Demeritt et al, 2015); states with inequitable family law also exhibit higher levels of state fragility (Bowen et al, 2015); the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that equalizing access to agricultural resources for women could reduce global hunger for up to 150 million people (FAO, 2011).…”

Section: Feminist Foreign Policy "Elevates" Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and Lessons

Hicks¹

2021

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A relatively small number of countries have an explicit “Feminist Foreign Policy” (FFP). Those most often cited are Sweden, Canada, France, Mexico, and Spain. In theory, an FFP moves beyond gender mainstreaming in foreign development assistance to include: (1) a wider range of external actions, including defence, trade and diplomacy (2) a wider range of marginalised people, not just women. Within foreign development assistance, it implies a more coherent and systematically institutionalised approach to gender mainstreaming. In practice, those countries with an explicit FFP implement it in different ways. Canada currently focuses on development assistance, France on development assistance and formal diplomacy, Sweden more comprehensively covers the trade and defence policy arenas. Mexico and Spain are yet to produce detailed implementation plans. There is increasing academic interest in FFP, but most analyses found during the course of this rapid review focus on narrative content of policies rather than impact. Policy advocacy and advice is provided by several high-profile advocacy organisations. National government agencies in Sweden, France and Canada have produced some evaluations of their FFP, but the evidence is weak. There are many international institution evaluations of gender mainstreaming for many different sectors that are context-specific.

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Section: Feminist Foreign Policy "Elevates" Gender Mainstreamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and Lessons

Hicks¹

2021

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“…Some investigate how family-structures that subordinate women relate to political violence. Hudson, Bowen and Nielsen (2015) find that societies with patriarchal clan governance are more prone to political violence (Bowen, Hudson and Nielsen, 2015). There is also some evidence that societies practicing polygyny, a co-factor of misogyny, are less peaceful (Kanazawa, 2009).…”

Section: State Of the Art: Gender-equality And Armed Conflictmentioning

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Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict

Dahlum

Wig

2018

SSRN Journal

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This paper investigates whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200 year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment previous research by expanding the temporal scope, looking at a novel inventory of female empowerment measures, attending to reverse-causality and omitted variable issues, and separating between relevant causal mechanisms. We find a strong link between female political empowerment and civil peace, which is particularly pronounced in the 20th century. When studying mechanisms, we find that this relationship is driven both by women's political participation and the culture that conduces it. To draw causal inferences, we estimate instrumental variable models and perform causal sensitivity tests. This is the strongest evidence to date that there is a robust link between female political empowerment and civil peace, stemming from both institutional and cultural mechanisms.

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“…94 While the First Other and the First Difference appear to be separate from, and antecedent to, culture and society, the primary learning mechanism for understanding and sorting the First Difference is cultural and occurs between fathers and mothers within 'rich families, poor families, in families of different races and different religions, this First Difference is there for every human being born'. 95 The repetition of a heterosexual reproductive logic within constrained and competitive resources and distribution remains, as does a highly particular yet fundamentally unclear formulation of subjectivity and sociality.…”

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Family values? Sexism and heteronormativity in Feminist Evolutionary Analytic (FEA) research

Kinsella

Sjoberg

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In this article, we focus on the subset of evolutionary theorising self-identified as Feminist Evolutionary Analytic (FEA) within security studies and International Relations. We offer this accounting in four sections. First, we provide a brief overview of the argument that reproductive interests are the ‘origins’ of international violence. Second, we break down the definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality used in evolutionary work in security studies generally and in FEA specifically, demonstrating a lack of complexity in FEA’s accounts of the potential relations among the three and critiquing their essentialist heteronormative assumptions. Third, we argue that FEA’s failure to reflect on the history and context of evolutionary theorising, much less contemporary feminist critiques, facilitates its forwarding of the state and institutions as primarily neutral and corrective bulwarks against male violence. Fourth, we conclude by outlining what is at stake if we fail to correct for this direction in feminist, IR, and security research. We argue that FEA work misrepresents and narrows the potential for understanding and responding to violence, facilitating the continued instrumentalisation of women’s rights, increased government regulation of sexuality, and a more expansive form of militarism.

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State Fragility and Structural Gender Inequality in Family Law: An Empirical Investigation

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and Lessons

Feminist Foreign Policy: Contributions and Lessons

Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict

Family values? Sexism and heteronormativity in Feminist Evolutionary Analytic (FEA) research

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