Global Contestations of Gender Rights

book: Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Open Access Published by Bielefeld University Press 2022

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Edited by: Alexandra Scheele , Julia Roth and Heidemarie Winkel
Funded by: Universität Bielefeld

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460696

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About this book

Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.

Author / Editor information

Alexandra Scheele is university lecturer for economic sociology and the sociology of work at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of Sociology. She is member of the editorial board of the Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft.
Julia Roth is a professor of American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld, where she is also PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender«. Her research interests are gender approaches, intersectionality theorizing, gender and citizenship, right-wing populism and gender, migrant knowledges and new feminist movements.
Heidemarie Winkel is a professor of sociology at Universität Bielefeld and senior research associate at the VHI/St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University (UK). She is a member of the editorial board of the ZRGP (Journal for Religion, Society and Politics) and is PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender« at Universität Bielefeld.

Reviews

»Der Sammelband hält nicht nur viele Perspektiven und Themen bereit, er bietet auch mehrere Zugänge, insoweit unterschiedliche Erkenntnisinteressen bedient werden - von einführenden Überblicksdarstellungen, welche dennoch die dem Thema angemessene Komplexität nicht vermissen lassen, bis hin zu thematisch und methodisch spezifischen Einzeluntersuchungen.«
Jonas Lang, Open Gender Journal, 20.12.2023

O-Ton: »Wir erleben weltweit Anfechtungen von Frauenrechten« - Alexandra Scheele im Interview bei, Schwarzwälder Boten am 08.03.2023.
https://bit.ly/3F10mAD

»sehr empfehlenswert für alle, die sich - innerhalb wie außerhalb des akademischen Feldes - mit aktuellen Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen gleichberechtigter Geschlechterverhältnisse auseinandersetzen und dabei an einem globalen Dialog interessiert sind.«
Nadine Pollvogt, Femina Politica, 2 (2022)

Besprochen in:
www.centrum3.at, 6 (2022)
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de, 19.07.2022
www.hertz879.de/sendung/whose-rights-which-rights, 07.05.2021

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Global Contestations of Gender Rights Introduction Julia Roth, Alexandra Scheele and Heidemarie Winkel Open Access Download PDF	9
Part I Framing the Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights
Analytical Framing Three Paradigmatic Arenas of Global Contestations of Gender Rights Heidemarie Winkel, Julia Roth and Alexandra Scheele Open Access Download PDF	21
Gendering Global Entanglements Decolonizing Inequalities Manuela Boatcă Open Access Download PDF	45
Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights Perspectives from Legal Philosophy Elisabeth Holzleithner Open Access Download PDF	63
Gender Equality Policy in Practice in the Era of Global Contestation Travelling Through Global Power Imbalances Amy Mazur Open Access Download PDF	83
Worldwide Anti-Gender Mobilization Right-wing Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights Julia Roth and Birgit Sauer Open Access Download PDF	99
Part II Reconfiguring Universal Rights Norms
Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law Susanne Baer Open Access Download PDF	115
Decolonizing Universalism? A Dialogue on Women’s Rights, Feminist Struggles and the Possibilities and Problems of Universal Norms José-Manuel Barreto and Ina Kerner Open Access Download PDF	135
Self, Relation and Gender Rights (Un)bounding Rights and Personhood Suad Joseph Open Access Download PDF	149
Part III Reproduction of Inequalities: Institutionalized Power Relations
Global Contestations of Social Reproduction Compounding Crises and COVID-19 Ania Plomien, Alexandra Scheele and Martina Sproll Open Access Download PDF	161
Legal Equality without Justice Chile’s New Feminisms and the Crisis of Neoliberal Citizenship Verónica Schild Open Access Download PDF	183
Family Law Exceptionalism and Contestations over Women’s Rights in Mali’s Family Code Reform Critiquing the Role of Law Brenda K Kombo Open Access Download PDF	201
The Legal Contestation of Abortion Rights Why Abortion Should be Theorized as a Gender-based Comparative Right Noya Rimalt Open Access Download PDF	217
Reproductive Rights as Battlefield in the New Cold War A Historical Comparison of Illiberal Gender Politics Regarding Reproductive Rights in Hungary Andrea Pető Open Access Download PDF	231
Post-Conflict Gender Inequalities in Nigeria Onyinyechukwu Durueke Open Access Download PDF	249
Part IV Negotiating the Global and Local Production of Normativities
Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities Ligia Fabris, Holly Patch and Karsten Schubert Open Access Download PDF	267
Politicizations of Religion in Morocco and Germany Between Fundamentalist Contestations and Feminist Renegotiations Fatima Sadiqi and Heidemarie Winkel Open Access Download PDF	287
Mera Jism Meri Marzi Framing the Contestations of Women’s Rights in Pakistan Shirin Zubair Open Access Download PDF	307
Global Contestations over Gender Equality in Islam On Legal Interpretation and Muslim Feminist Scholars’ Activism in a Human Rights Frame Ziba Mir-Hosseini Open Access Download PDF	327
Authors Open Access Download PDF	345

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Language: English
Publisher: Bielefeld University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 354
Keywords: Global Perspectives; Anti-Genderism; Intersectionality; Interdisciplinarity; Postcoloniality; Gender; Law; Politics; Gender Studies; Sociology of Law; Queer Theory; Bielefeld University Press

eBook

Published: March 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839460696