Pub Date : 2024-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.103000
Doris Asante
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda promotes women's agency, gender equality, and women and civil society's role within national and international processes to achieve peace and security outcomes. The adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2242 further extends women and civil society organisations' role within peace and security activities to include activities to counter-terrorism and counter-violent extremism (CT/CVE). However, historical tensions and ongoing state restrictions have closed CT/CVE engagement opportunities for civil society. Applying Pfeffer and Salancik's (1978) resource dependency theory, I argue that access to international funds has enabled CSOs to survive despite the closing civic space in Nigeria and create WPS opportunities. Access to external resources and the ability of these actors to implement measures aligned with local women needs, as opposed to the requirements of donors has enabled these actors to achieve some WPS outcomes in Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102996
Hailey E. Murphy
This paper argues that women's rage is a legitimate and transformative response to systemic injustices and gender-based oppression. By examining the philosophical and feminist traditions the paper demonstrates how rage differs from anger by driving individuals towards action. Traditional political philosophy has often emphasized rationality and self-control, neglecting the significance of emotions and the contributions of women. The analysis reveals that women's anger, particularly when viewed through intersectional lenses, is frequently dismissed, further entrenching marginalization. By recognizing and embracing women's rage, society can address the root causes of injustice and empower women to challenge oppressive structures. This paper highlights the importance of understanding and validating women's emotional responses as crucial for achieving social and political change.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102994
Cemre Gül Mutlu , Funda Dağ
The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted a profound influence on female healthcare workers, resulting in a notable escalation in the time allocated to domestic duties and unpaid household labor. This study delves into the professional and personal experiences of these women through the medium of digital narratives. Employing interpretive analysis within a phenomenological framework, the research scrutinized six female healthcare workers, all of whom were mothers of children under the age of 18. The investigation revealed that the pandemic has exacerbated existing gender disparities, manifesting in an increased burden of unpaid domestic responsibilities coupled with a concomitant reduction in personal time. Moreover, the utilization of digital narratives emerged as a multifaceted tool, not only facilitating socialization among healthcare workers but also nurturing their well-being and fostering the development of digital literacy skills.
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Despite striking gender differences in men's and women's engagement in past prevention programmes to stop violence against women (VAW), few empirical studies have determined why such gender differences arise. We did a grounded theory study of a large-scale NGO programme in informal settlements in Mumbai, India, aiming to analyse how gender affects participation in community action to address VAW. We did 27 focus group discussions and 31 semi-structured interviews with 77 women and 36 men, as well as with 9 NGO staff. We supplemented qualitative data with quantitative monitoring data on referrals to NGO counselling centres. We found that male participants in the NGO programme not only reported violence to the NGO at lower rates but took less intensive action to support survivors. When they did engage, they more often defended perpetrators or asked survivors to accommodate them than female participants. These differences could be explained by a greater (1) affective response to VAW (2) perceived stake in addressing VAW (3) sense of empowerment from taking action, and (4) perceived NGO support for self among women compared to men. Differences were evident even between male and female participants who had taken part in NGO activities for years. We theorise that these differences ultimately stem from men and women's structurally different position in a gender unequal society. Our findings identify key motivational barriers to address to improve the effectiveness of programmes to prevent VAW. Given the greater barriers to men's community action compared to women's community action, it may be useful to recognize the value of prevention programmes with differing levels of male engagement, including women-only programmes and programmes in which male community participants play a secondary role and are not expected to be as active as female participants.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102991
Belén Donoso , Alberto Álvarez-Sotomayor , Amalia Reina
The aim of this study was to explore whether women's challenge of patriarchal dominance in the sport context extends to the realm of their couple relationships and how it may, or may not, affect their intrinsic relationship dynamics. A qualitative methodology was used. Forty-five women living in Córdoba (Spain) participated in this study. Five focus groups were organized according to age and type of sport practiced. Grounded Theory was used for data analysis. Their narratives suggest that the attitudes of their (male) partners remain anchored in patriarchal gender norms. They identify in them paternalistic attitudes, the suffering of certain forms of punishment for their athletic bodies and the generation of feelings of discomfort for their successes. Two types of discourses coexist: one of resistance and another reflecting patriarchal ideas.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102992
Rebecca Wallace, Kaytland Smith
The Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreements signed in 2021/2022 represent an unprecedented investment into child care across Canada, supporting the expansion of care spaces, reductions in parent fees, and increased wages for care workers. In the province of Nova Scotia, however, the new funding model faced considerable pushback from women entrepreneurs in the care field, who felt overlooked and bullied by the provincial government amidst the policy rollout. This paper evaluates the experiences of child care owners in Nova Scotia during the transition to the new funding agreement through a series of interviews with entrepreneurs. The paper posits that the consultation and communications between the province and care owners reified gendered power relations, particularly through the devaluation and exploitation of women's care work. Interviewees report feeling treated as “glorified babysitters” and experiencing significant mental health strains as a result of the policy negotiation with the province.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102993
Rajashree Samal, Madhusmita Dash
Ecotourism has the potential to uplift women's lives by relieving them from strenuous physical labour and improving their economic status. It also empowers them in cultural leadership roles and enhances their social standing while fostering gender equality. Therefore, bibliometric analysis has been used in the current study to quantitatively evaluate the interlinkage between ecotourism, gender roles, and women empowerment. From 2002 to 2022, 1026 research publications from the Scopus database have been analyzed using the popular bibliometric software VOSviewer. The published papers have been analyzed using bibliometric parameters (bibliographic, co-citation, co-authorship, and co-occurrence analyses). Based on the data, it is clear that studies examining the effects of ecotourism on women's empowerment and gender equality are rapidly becoming more prominent with the rising trend of annual publications as well as citations. The United Kingdom, the United States, China, Australia, and South Africa produce the most publications in this research. Gender equality and women empowerment as pertinent study issues are acquiring appropriate relevance in ecotourism owing to its in-depth and focused discussion of empowerment, participation, and entrepreneurship in achieving the fifth sustainable development goal (SDG). Our study shows that experts all around the globe are interested in the complex problems of gender stereotypes, traditional social norms, pull and push components of participation, and institutional challenges related to ecotourism and women's empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102995
Zakarya Bezdoode
Over the past two decades, Women Studies has developed within Kurdish studies. Scholars from various disciplines, including sociology, history, and folk literature, have explored this field to shed light on the experiences and roles of Kurdish women. A less explored area remains literature, particularly fiction. This study focuses on Ata Nahai, a highly acclaimed novelist from Iranian Kurdistan, born in 1960, whose main female characters deviate significantly from the stereotypes of selfless mothers and loving submissive wives. Nahais short stories and novels depict women as subversive. Their subversion does not, however, bring about their emancipation, but highlights significant issues faced by Kurdish women, such as contradictory attitudes towards their own bodies, abusing other women and behaving inconsistently with their family members.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102979
Ulrike Krause
The 1951 Refugee Convention represents the legal cornerstone of today’s global refugee protection, which is supposed to apply to all refugees regardless of their origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation. But did the Convention’s drafters have such a complex approach in mind? This paper analyzes the Convention’s drafting at the United Nations and the final conference in the late 1940s and early 1950s from feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives. By drawing on subalternity and absence, and using interpretive analysis of historical sources, the paper focuses on politics—who was (not) involved in debates—and policy—who was (not) considered under the refugee definition. The analysis reveals pervasive asymmetries, with western androcentrism inherently shaping the drafting. The western, white, heterosexual man was the standard filter for the powerful decision-maker and the protection subject, whereas women, LGBTQ+ and colonized people were neglected in politics and policy. Their exclusion was not merely a side effect of the political landscape at the time but reflects the reproduction of western androcentric power, which ultimately invisibilized the subaltern Others in the creation of international refugee law.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102990
Ea Høg Utoft , Mante Vertelyte , Grace Gao
This article explores the lived experiences of nine women scholars who are single, childfree and internationally mobile. Mobilising Laurent Berlant's work on ambivalence and ‘cruel optimism,’ we show how experiences of singlehood and academic international mobility are never only good or bad, but always both at the same time. Ambivalence emerges in the women's experiences because singlehood can facilitate academic careers by enabling high productivity and mobility, whereas mobility can inhibit finding committed relationships through an absence of stability and prevalent gendered expectations of women in heterosexual relationships. Most of the interviewed women hope for a life which has both careers, mobility and romantic relationships, however, the simultaneity of benefits and struggles associated with singlehood and a mobile academic life places them in an ambivalent situation that precludes the option of letting go of either of their affective attachments, namely, to gendered couple norms and the academic institution.
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