Gender expertise as feminist strategy

2013 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Strategy

scholarly journals The Hassle of Housework: Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Huws
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Feminist Strategy ◽  
Gender Division Of Labour

This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on recent research on the use of online platforms to deliver social reproductive labour via the market in a context in which reproductive labour sits at the centre of an intense time squeeze. It reflects on the implications of the commodification of domestic labour for feminist strategy. The author points to the inadequacy in this context of traditional feminist strategies—for the socialisation of domestic labour through public services, wages for housework or labour-saving through technological solutions—concluding that new strategies are needed that address the underlying social relations that perpetuate unequal divisions of labour in contemporary capitalism.

Opacity as a feminist strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Raili Marling
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Strategy

Performing Legal Order: Some Feminist Thoughts on International Criminal Law

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Buss
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Feminist Strategy

AbstractThis article argues that international criminal law, like its domestic counterpart, is a contradictory site for feminist activism. While it offers some important tools for recognising, naming and giving legal credence to the realities of women's lives in times of conflict, international criminal law is also a limited and limiting arena for feminist-inspired social change. My objective in this article is to highlight some of these limitations, not to counsel against continuing feminist activism, but to start a conversation about some of the costs, risks and implications for feminist strategy in continuing to work within the structures of international criminal law.

scholarly journals Re-Visioning Women in Two Folktales by a Woman Narrator

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Noriah Taslim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
Female Power ◽  
Feminist Strategy

The paper is an attempt to read two tales about women by a woman narrator with an underlying assumption that only a woman could possibly represent a more authentic female life, and thus her story about women would invariably repudiate other so-called “untrue” formulations about women. With that as a premise, the paper would proceed to unfold the re-imagining or rather the re-visioning of women in the two tales; and this would demand, so to speak, a more unconventional critical method of analysis (benefiting in many ways the feminist strategy of reading) to discover the technique and strategy of re- positioning the women characters in the two tales. The paper concludes with two rather uneasy propositions: the texts do give a refreshing presentation of female power in an environment of male hegemony, but the powerful women are not in any way a threat to the patriarchy; as a matter of fact, they help uphold the patriarchal order of things. Keywords: folk tales, re-visioning women character, female power, male hegemony, feminist reading strategy

Campaigning and Coming of Age in the 1970s

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-120
Author(s):  
Margaretta Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Beauty Pageant ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Exciting Time ◽  
Post War ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
Feminist Strategy

The chapter deploys feminist oral histories to explore the WLM’s key demands and campaigns in the 1970s, including the Miss World beauty pageant protest and the Nightcleaners’ campaign. After unpicking romanticised ideas about feminist consciousness-raising, it suggests that established narratives that gloomily recount the collapse of the post-war consensus overlook an exciting time for a WLM energised by campaigns around women’s domestic labour and reproductive rights, epitomised by the National Abortion Campaign. But the NAC’s successes also involved difficult emotions and ambivalence about feminist strategy and identity, analysed especially through the memories of black campaigners Jan McKenley and Gail Lewis, and Kirsten Hearn from Sisters Against Disablement. The chapter concludes with the story of Karen McMinn, coordinator of Women’s Aid Northern Ireland, using her S&A oral history to recall campaigns against domestic violence in the context of civil strife, and the personal challenges involved in keeping the feminist flame alive. 150 words

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