Varieties of Feminisms in Contemporary China: Local Reception and Reinvention of Liberal Feminism in Ford Foundation Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-533
Author(s):  
R Yang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Local Actors

Abstract This article explores how liberal feminism has been received and hybridized with local feminisms in post-socialist China. Based on interviews and documents from four Ford Foundation projects, the results show how local actors appropriated elements from three strands of feminism: liberal, socialist, and cultural. Conflicts among these strands were reconciled by de-emphasizing the structural origins of gender inequality and putting impetus for change on individual women. The human rights-based understandings of gender equality are thereby converted into women’s obligation to improve their “quality” and exercise their legal rights, which ignores intersectional disadvantages confronting rural women.

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

Exploring Peace Perspectives Through the Lens of Gender Inequality

2019 ◽  
pp. 405-426
Author(s):  
Dana Julia Loew
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between peace processes, gender equality, and communication by introducing feminist and intersectional approaches as tools to assess and deconstruct underlying power structures. The author argues for a human rights-based approach to gender equality and a deconstruction of essentialist understandings of “women,” calling for a perspective on peace that is responsive to the experiences of minorities and the marginalized. The chapter seeks to outline ways for individuals and groups to engage around the topics of power, oppression, and marginalization, and to create space for a more inclusive dialogue as the basis for a peace culture. Coeducation, the media, and a change in discussion culture are established as essential in creating a peace culture that allows all individuals to live empowered and fulfilling lives in a peaceful society void of structural violence, regardless of their gender, race, class, or sexual orientation.

Exploring Peace Perspectives Through the Lens of Gender Inequality

2021 ◽  
pp. 510-531
Author(s):  
Dana Julia Loew
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between peace processes, gender equality, and communication by introducing feminist and intersectional approaches as tools to assess and deconstruct underlying power structures. The author argues for a human rights-based approach to gender equality and a deconstruction of essentialist understandings of “women,” calling for a perspective on peace that is responsive to the experiences of minorities and the marginalized. The chapter seeks to outline ways for individuals and groups to engage around the topics of power, oppression, and marginalization, and to create space for a more inclusive dialogue as the basis for a peace culture. Coeducation, the media, and a change in discussion culture are established as essential in creating a peace culture that allows all individuals to live empowered and fulfilling lives in a peaceful society void of structural violence, regardless of their gender, race, class, or sexual orientation.

scholarly journals Gender inequality

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostiuk ◽  
Olena Antoniuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The article deals with gender inequality in the economic, political and social spheres of Ukraine and the key reasons for gender imbalance in the observation and realization of gender rights. The topicality of the article is predetermined by the necessity of the systemic solution to the problem of gender equality in Ukraine that is declared in the country’s constitution as the pivotal principle of safeguarding legal rights and freedoms of people in a democratic state.The authors have made an analysis of the Ukrainian norms and laws in force as well as some ratified international treaties in the sphere of gender equality insurance. The current state of realization of the main directions of social policy of Ukraine in the sphere of gender equality has been determined on the basis of the World Economic Forum and in particular the analysis of the index of gender discrepancy in certain spheres of human activity as well as the gender monitoring of the representation of candidates in the special election of people’s deputies of Ukraine in 2014 and 2019. The impact of gender discrimination against women on the social economic development of the world countries and their national wealth level has been considered.The study has allowed revealing a positive tendency in the realization of women’s right to participate and be represented in the economic and political spheres of Ukrainian activity and offering further necessary state measures in the social policy pertaining to the eradication of gender asymmetry in the Ukrainian society. The need of redirecting the government gender policy to more effective measures for overcoming gender inequality, gender segregation and multiple forms of discrimination against women under the conditions of the severe economic, political and social upheavals in Ukraine has been pointed to. The authors have come to the conclusion that the development of the political and juridical concept of eradication of gender discrimination against women in Ukraine is the pledge of sustainable development of the Ukrainian society which in its turn is a necessary condition for forming a competitive human capital of the country that has chosen the Eurointergation foreign policy course.

scholarly journals Fay Weldon, liberal feminism and the praxis of Praxis

Literator ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
A. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Liberal Vision ◽  
Main Protagonist

This article focuses on Fay Weldon’s novel, “Praxis”, as a means of exploring the concept of “liberal feminism”. “Praxis” charts the development of the eponymous main protagonist from a woman complicit in her own patriarchal oppression to a radical feminist activist and finally to the point where she comes to a liberal realisation of the nuances of individual women’s experiences and the complexity of emancipation. The novel may be regarded as a liberal feminist text in its emphasis on both gender equality and individual liberty, and in its insistence that society may be positively reformed within the paradigm of the liberal state and without resorting to radical extremism. Published in 1978, the novel anticipates the later shift in feminist thinking from an exclusive concern with women’s rights to a more inclusive liberal vision of human rights.

Linguistic Origins of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy H. Liu ◽  
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield ◽  
Lindsey R. Vance ◽  
Zsombor Csata
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
National Level ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Gender Based

In this article, we examine how the language spoken in a country can affect individual attitudes about gender equality and subsequently the level of legal rights afforded to women. This is because the feature of a language—specifically whether it requires speakers to make gender distinctions—can perpetuate popular attitudes and beliefs about gender inequality. To test this argument, we first identify a correlation between the gender distinction of a language and individual gender-based attitudes among World Values Survey respondents. We then isolate the causal mechanism using an experiment involving bilingual Romanian–Hungarian speakers in Transylvania, Romania. Finally, we examine one observable implication of our argument: the effects of gender distinction of official state languages on women’s rights at the national level. Our results confirm the importance of the gender distinction of language on support for gender equality and women’s rights.

Critical Issues on Gender Equality and ICTs in Latin America

2017 ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Aimée Vega Montiel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
New Media ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Status

In the context of the new media environment, several social, political and economic divides are being produced. As the effects of those changes are not neutral, because of gender inequality, the status of women's human rights in the digital age are precarious. To what extent does the new media environment promote women's human and communication rights or contribute to sustaining the oppression of women in society? Based on the feminist political economy perspective, the aim of this paper is to analyze some of the critical issues on gender equality and ICTs in Latin America.1

A socio-psychological study on awareness of rural women about legislative provisions regarding human rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinod . Kumari ◽  
Subhash . Chander
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mass Media Exposure

Human rights are as old as human civilizations and the term represent the rights of all human beings of both sex men and women. It has identified gender equality, in accessibility of human rights. No discrimination is allowed or imposed in exercise of these rights. Women represent about half of total population in India, but gender biasness and gender inequality are main features of Indian society. Women have been denied equal rights for centuries. Study was conducted in Karnal district of Haryana state on 200 women respondents from Nardak cultural zone to know the awareness about the laws related to crime against women. It was observed that awareness about laws was found in majority of respondents (86.0%) and awareness was found associated with age, education, occupation, caste and mass-media exposure as indicated by c2 values.

Kobieta w wielu rzeczywistościach

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Andrzej Chodubski
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Church

In the text, it is indicated that knowledge of gender equality and of roles performed in various cultural and civilizational realities consist of various myths and stereotypes. Cultural and civilizational activity of women is determined by the institutional level of public sphere entities (such as the church, schools, state authorities, political parties, social organizations). In most cultural environments, women are situated in the background in paternalistic environment. Profeministic declarations (starting from 19th century till nowadays) do not change the situation of women. The forces that change gender inequality are following: the development of human rights and the ongoing process of globalization.

The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Education in Their Own Language – Greenlanders in Denmark and in Greenland

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-108
Author(s):  
Ayo Næsborg-Andersen ◽  
Bassah Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

Previous studies show a lack of deference and activities when it comes to women’s human rights and gender equality in the multi-level governance of the Arctic. According to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, women in the Arctic are vulnerable, in particular indigenous and rural women. Their rights are not upheld in the Arctic states for example when it comes to exposure to violence, equal participation in governing bodies, and economic self-support. The public governing bodies have almost no focus on gender equality at all, despite far-reaching international obligations and, for several of the states, national ambitious agendas for gender equality politics. International instruments with obligations to strive for gender equality, such as the CEDAW, the ILO Convention 169 and UNDRIP, are scarcely referred to and not sufficiently implemented by the public governance bodies.The aim of this article is to raise awareness of the obligations set up by human rights documents to promote women’s rights in the governance of the Arctic, in order to put pressure on the states to develop strategies for a future gender equal governance. We have a special focus on the general lack of awareness within public governance, and on men’s intimate partner violence against indigenous women.

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