Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1177/13505068231164774
Begonya Enguix Grau
This article explores how a feminist approach to politics can resonate within a nation-building project in Catalonia against the backdrop of rising transnational anti-feminist right-wing populism in Europe. Feminism and nationalism have often been presented as oppositional, and nationalist struggles have been considered to further patriarchal regimes. However, nation-building can also be an opportunity to think of feminist alternative futures. The article explores the role of feminism in the political project of the pro-independence Catalan left (Esquerra Independentista), and exposes internal tensions and difficulties in aiming to achieve both independence and feminism in an emancipated Catalonia. Esquerra Independentista adopt two distinctive strategies of feminist politics: the promotion of the indivisibility of social, gender and national struggles (independence, socialism, feminism), and an embodied politics that centralises women’s political agency as a political tool. However, Esquerra Independentista’s proposals for a socialist and feminist future are fragile and limited by internal tensions between the prevalence of masculinist models of doing politics on one hand, and on the other hand, alternative ideas about the strategic importance of class, gender and national oppressions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1177/13505068231164208
Ulrika Dahl
An engaged participant in European women’s/gender studies can hardly have missed the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies over the past several decades. Indeed, with a growing number of monographs, journals, conferences and study programmes across many universities,1 transgender studies has become both a vital part of and/or sibling to women’s/gender studies and a direct departure from these fields. Differently put, transgender studies has both contributed to and challenged what has historically been understood as Women’s Studies.2 Along with other critical interventions including, but not limited to, queer and lesbian studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, and critical femininity studies (cf. Dahl and Sundén, 2018), this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of research has both widened the scope of research topics and called the main object of study – woman – into question. Yet, far too often, the theoretical, methodological and ethical insights of transgender studies have left the core of many journals dedicated to women’s/gender studies, our own included, rather unaffected. At worst, transgender issues remain excluded or marginalised; at best, they have become additional topics to be included in what trans scholars have called a ‘special guest approach’ (Tudor, 2021: 250; see also Courvant, 2011; Drabinski, 2011; Malatino, 2015), but with little impact on how hegemonic feminism (i.e. a feminism that departs from, naturalises and reproduces cisgender and heteronormative understandings of sex, gender and race) understands itself. In other words, it is curious that while the question of what is in a name – what we do to be considered women’s or gender studies? – has been debated at length and for decades (if not centuries), in European women’s/ gender studies, insights drawn from transgender studies have yet to be brought to bear on the issue in a sustained way. An Open Forum is certainly not enough to rectify this problem, and the aim here is not to give an account of the (emergence of the) field of transgender studies, its objects and subjects, its methods and stakes – in part because there are plenty of such accounts around, including of figurations of transgender studies in and beyond Europe and of why, in order to not cast the (European) transgender subject as White, transgender matters always need to be considered intersectionally (cf. Nay and Steinbock, 2021; Tudor, 2019; Tudor, this issue) and together
在过去的几十年里，从事欧洲妇女/性别研究的人很难错过跨性别研究这一跨学科领域的出现。事实上，随着越来越多的专著、期刊、会议和研究项目在许多大学中出现，跨性别研究已经成为女性/性别研究的重要组成部分和/或兄弟，同时也是这些领域的直接背离。换句话说，跨性别研究对历史上被理解为女性研究的东西既做出了贡献，也提出了挑战。2与其他关键干预一起，包括但不限于同性恋研究、后殖民和批判性种族研究、批判性女性研究(参见Dahl and sund， 2018)。这个多学科和跨学科的研究领域既扩大了研究课题的范围，也使研究的主要对象——妇女——受到质疑。然而，很多时候，跨性别研究的理论、方法和伦理见解使许多致力于女性/性别研究的期刊(包括我们自己的期刊)的核心没有受到影响。在最坏的情况下，跨性别问题仍然被排除在外或边缘化;充其量，它们已经成为跨性别学者所谓的“特别嘉宾方法”(Tudor, 2021: 250;参见Courvant, 2011;Drabinski, 2011;Malatino, 2015)，但对霸权女权主义(即背离、自然化和复制对性、性别和种族的顺性别和异性恋规范理解的女权主义)如何理解自己的影响不大。换句话说，奇怪的是，当一个名字包含了什么——我们做了什么才能被认为是女性或性别研究?在欧洲的女性/性别研究中，这个问题已经争论了几十年(如果不是几个世纪的话)，从跨性别研究中得出的见解还没有以一种持续的方式对这个问题产生影响。一个开放的论坛当然不足以纠正这个问题，这里的目的并不是要说明跨性别研究领域的(出现)，它的对象和主体，它的方法和利害关系——部分原因是周围有很多这样的描述，包括欧洲内外的跨性别研究的形象，以及为什么，为了不把(欧洲)跨性别主体塑造成白人，跨性别问题总是需要交叉考虑的(参见Nay和Steinbock, 2021;都铎王朝,2019;都铎王朝，这期)和一起
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/13505068231164364
Carmen Meneses-Falcón
This article examines entry into paid sex work in Spain, comparing those people who entered sex work by choice and those who were coerced. There is a dearth of research that focusses on documenting the circumstances and conditions in which women engage in commercial sex work in Spain and on examining their opinions about current or planned legislation to regulate sex work. The article is based on a cross-sectional study using a sociological survey of people who work in indoor commercial sex, which is the least visible form of sex work in the Spanish context and about which we have the least information due to stigmatisation, both of the activity and of the people involved. This article considers the circumstances and working conditions of sex workers, and their views and position with regard to the legal framework for this activity. This focus is important at a political juncture in which a policy of criminalisation of sex work is being considered in Spain.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/13505068231164595
Eline Huygens
Despite being denied access to ordained positions of power, and limited to occupying lay positions, women numerically outnumber men in the Catholic Church in Belgium. Furthermore, their involvement in the Church mostly takes place in what can be considered gender stereotypical domains, such as education and care-providing services. This article explores how Catholic lay women navigate the Belgian Catholic Church and how they reconcile their religion-based aspirations to be involved in the Church, on one hand, and their lack of ordained authority, on the other. Based on empirical research (including in-depth interviews, (online) observations, and informal conversations), this article foregrounds and analyses the narratives of Catholic lay women who are active in the Church. Drawing on difference feminism scholarship and on Braidotti’s postsecular analysis, the article argues that the narratives under consideration should not be read through a secular-liberal conceptualisation of gender equality, but rather through a lens that allows the subjectivities and everyday realities of religious women to be made visible and to be acknowledged.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1177/13505068231152699
Raquel Herrero-Arias, D. L. Parra-Casado, Alicia Ferrández-Ferrer, María-José Sanchís-Ramón, Gaby Ortiz-Barreda
Roma women face multiple inequalities at the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class. Framed by Romani feminism, studies have explored Roma women’s own perspectives and experiences, drawing attention to the diversity within this group and the specificities of their social position due to the complex forms of discrimination they face. Drawing on interviews with Spanish Roma women, this article contributes to and extends this strand of research by exploring Roma women’s experiences and constructions of womanhood and motherhood. We found the construction of womanhood to be focused on the effective management of responsibilities, particularly caring and household tasks. Moreover, Roma women defined motherhood as a valued experience for them and their communities. A homemaker position was associated with mattering, something, we argue, which needs to be understood in the context of racial hostility, exclusion, and precarity in which Roma women live.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1177/13505068221149170
Rahil Roodsaz
Choice and autonomy are at the heart of classic feminist debates about structure and agency. This article revisits those debates with two contemporary cases of polygyny and polyamory. While scholars of non-monogamies often portray polyamory as potentially liberating, an alternative to the dominant patriarchal model of dyadic marriage, polygyny is generally considered oppressive to women due to its communal and heteropatriarchal structures. Based on in-depth interviews, this article complicates such binary understandings of progressive/oppressive non-monogamies by bringing them into dialogue with one another. Focusing on two narrated experiences of polyamory and polygyny in the Netherlands, I trace and investigate relational capacities and subjective transformations. This relational approach serves a political feminist project that seeks to safeguard both scepticism towards patriarchal systems and to remain sympathetic to everyday life’s messiness, moving beyond both cultural essentialism and cultural relativism.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1177/13505068221144964
Ilaria A De Pascalis
In the last two decades, the idea of a radical shift in the humanist perspective has found its way into the philosophical debate in favour of a ‘posthuman’ vision over every aspect of life. Rosi Braidotti is among the promoters of such a transformation, as attested by her trilogy composed of The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019), and the most recent Posthuman Feminism (2022). In these volumes, her discussion takes a leap from her previous stances about nomadic subjectivity. Here, her attention towards contemporaneity includes a radical reconfiguration of the ideas of subjectivity, perception, and experience. Posthuman subjectivity founds its base within the ‘affirmative perspective’ of new materialism, as it was developed within feminist philosophy in the 2000s. As reconstructed by Braidotti herself, new materialism starts where the limitations of the linguistic turn emerge. According to Braidotti, the complete reliance upon ‘language, representation and the power of the phallic master signifier and the process of subject-formation’ (p. 109) does erase ‘the thick and painful materiality of the current environmental crisis on the one hand and the divisive social implications of the new technologies on the other’ (p. 110). The volume is dedicated to exploring the possibilities for a specific feminist declination of the posthuman perspective. However, it relies upon (and partially takes for granted) the fierce debate that developed in the late 2000s around the relationship between new materialism and feminist theories that Braidotti had addressed in previous writings. Part of the discussion was held within the pages of this same Journal in 2008 and 2009, when Sara Ahmed (15:1), Iris van der Tuin (15:4), and Noela Davis (16:1) engaged in an open discussion about the relationship between feminism and new materialism, primarily concentrating on the different perspectives covered by anti-essentialism and biophobia. During those years, the main concern was which idea of ‘body’ was actually included in feminist theories, influenced mainly by post-structuralism. What appeared as a nearly irreconcilable fracture in those writings has become more and more a stimulus in interrogating anti-essentialist positions. In particular, feminist new materialism needs to take into consideration the bodies according to a theoretical frame averted from traditional anthropocentrism and humanism, which created the power asymmetries and hierarchies that made feminist theories essential in the first place. In the essay that Braidotti published in the collection New Materialism: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost (Duke University Press 1144964 EJW0010.1177/13505068221144964European Journal of Women’s StudiesBook review book-review2023
在过去的二十年里，人文主义观点的根本转变已经进入了哲学辩论，支持对生活各个方面的“后人类”愿景。罗西·布雷多蒂是这种转变的推动者之一，她的三部曲包括《后人类》(2013)、《后人类知识》(2019)和最新的《后人类女权主义》(2022)。在这些卷中，她的讨论从她之前关于游牧主体性的立场迈出了一大步。在这里，她对当代性的关注包括对主体性、感知和经验观念的彻底重构。后人类主体性在新唯物主义的“肯定视角”中建立了基础，因为它在2000年代的女权主义哲学中得到了发展。正如Braidotti自己重建的那样，新唯物主义从语言转向的局限性出现的地方开始。根据Braidotti的观点，完全依赖“语言、表征和阳具主能指的力量以及主体形成的过程”(第109页)确实抹去了“一方面是当前环境危机的厚重和痛苦的物质性，另一方面是新技术的分裂的社会含义”(第110页)。该卷致力于探索一个特定的女权主义衰落的可能性后人类的观点。然而，它依赖于(部分地认为是理所当然的)2000年代末围绕新唯物主义和女权主义理论之间关系展开的激烈辩论，布雷多蒂在之前的著作中提到了这一点。部分讨论在2008年和2009年的同一期刊中举行，当时Sara Ahmed (15:1)， Iris van der Tuin(15:4)和Noela Davis(16:1)就女权主义和新唯物主义之间的关系进行了公开讨论，主要集中在反本质主义和生物恐惧症所涵盖的不同观点上。在那些年里，主要关注的是受后结构主义影响的女权主义理论中究竟包含了哪些关于“身体”的概念。这些著作中出现的几乎不可调和的裂痕，越来越多地成为质疑反本质主义立场的刺激因素。特别是，女性主义的新唯物主义需要根据一种避开传统人类中心主义和人文主义的理论框架来考虑身体，传统人类中心主义和人文主义创造了权力不对称和等级制度，这使得女性主义理论首先必不可少。这篇文章发表在由戴安娜·库尔和萨曼莎·弗罗斯特编辑的《新唯物主义:本体论、代理和政治》(杜克大学出版社1144964 ejw0010 .1177/13505068221144964欧洲妇女研究杂志)中
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/13505068231152922
madeleine kennedy-macfoy
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/13505068221147831
Ilaria A De Pascalis, Veronica Pravadelli
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