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Was ist Ihre gesellschaftliche und/oder wissenschaftliche Utopie? Mögliche Zukünfte: Feministische Social Fiction
No full textQueering Harry, slashing Potter: Between latent meanings and resistant readings
Get PDFAs a global phenomenon, Harry Potter has attracted most diverse audiences and provoked many contradictory responses and debates. While many critics have highlighted the enforcement of heteronormativity in the storyworld, fan responses – and especially slash fan fiction – provides us with an abundance of contradictory queer responses and non-heteronormative re-readings and rewritings of Harry Potter. By constantly confronting and intertwining the academic strategy of queer reading as introduced by Kosofsky Sedgwick with the responses of slash fans, I want to discuss the tensions between latent meanings and resistant readings that embrace the Harry Potter universe. In reference to Iser’s concept of the Leerstelle, the various omissions, indeterminacies, and contradictions in Harry Potter that provide a fertile ground for the interpretation of subtextual contents and for transgressive re-writings alike will be explored and discussed within the larger framework of film history and the fantasy genre
Challenges for gender equality: Women’s religious circles in post-revolutionary Iran
Get PDFThe agency of women in Islamicate societies is largely anchored in ideas over pious circles and gender-specific rituals. Recent studies attest religious modes of women’s presence in the public space a high significance. Taking the case of Iran, the urging question is how and to which extent religious agency within female pious circles – which were formed before the 1978/9 Revolution and fashioned after it – has been able to attain broader civil significance beyond these circles. This study explores the inner dynamics of female pious circles among women as related to structural power relations. It spells out the process of “self-spiritualization” to characterize interactions within the circles that act as a tool for self-elevation and self-authorization and as a mode of spiritually legitimated construction of hierarchies within the circles’ spiritual empowerment. It is argued that a type of pious competition between the women unfolds leading to an affirmation of gender segregation and concomitantly, of submission to institutionalized structures of masculine hierarchy and power. Finally, it pursues the effects of unfolding “self-spiritualization” through elevation, authenticity and self-authorization that might achieve a considerable degree of self-empowerment for negotiating gender roles and political life attitudes
Frauen in der französischen Politik in Zeiten des Burkini- Verbots: Von Marine Le Pen bis Christiane Taubira
No full text"Wie könnte eine nicht-sexistische Stadt aussehen?" neu gelesen
No full textIm Frühjahr 1980 veröffentlichte Catherine R. Stimpson, die Herausgeberin von Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, ein Sonderheft mit dem Titel Women and the American City. Dieses Heft war dermaßen erfolgreich, dass es später auch als Buch publiziert wurde. Die Beiträge dazu stammten von Regierungsvertreter_innen, politischen Aktivist_innen und Wissenschaftler_innen. Das Heft bildet den unmittelbaren Kontext für den Standpunkt, den ich in „Wie könnte eine nicht-sexistische Stadt aussehen? Überlegungen zum Wohnen, zur städtischen Umwelt und zur menschlichen Arbeit“ vertreten habe
Rainbows of Resistance : LGBTQ Pride Parades Contesting Space in Post-Conflict Belfast
No full textThe article seeks to demonstrate how marchers in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade strategically contest and reclaim heteronormative public spaces in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is an exploration of participants adapting transnational symbolic representations and discourses to the distinct national-local cultural milieu in which they are scripted and performed. The discursive frames, symbols, and performances of Belfast Pride are compared to those of sectarian parades in the city. The subaltern spatial performances and symbolic representations of Belfast Pride are depicted as confronting a universalized set of heteronormative discourses involving sexuality and gender identity, while at the same time contesting a particularized set of dominant local-national discourses related to both ethnonational sectarianism and religious fundamentalism in Northern Ireland
Awareness and application of CEDAW in the judicial systems of Germany and France
No full textThe United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, is the most important human rights tool under international law for women. The convention came into effect in 1981 and obliges States Parties to formal, actual equality for women in all areas of life, including the private arena. The central requirement is the implementation of CEDAW in State Parties’ legal systems. This requires awareness and application of CEDAW in justice systems. One way to meet this requirement is training for judges, prosecutors and lawyers, as well as others involved in the law.
This working paper aims to set out recommendations for action for further implementation of CEDAW in the legal systems in Germany and France. For this reason, information on measures which aim to increase the awareness and application of CEDAW throughout the whole judicial system has been brought together from the previous reporting cycles in Germany and France.
As a comparison of the countries studied shows, Germany and France each only pre-sent example political measures relating to (increasing) awareness of CEDAW in the judicial system. Often there is only selective reference to the existing status quo in legal education and training in both States Parties. In general, CEDAW was only referred to in courts both in Germany and France in individual cases, and there was no active, regular engagement with the individual CEDAW norms and standards.
Due to the portrayal of merely general information and example measures by the States Parties, it is not possible to obtain a comprehensive, systematic insight into the activities in Germany and France with regard to the subject of this research. This also led the CEDAW Committee to repeatedly request both States Parties to provide more compre-hensive information and to implement proactive measures. These measures should lead to legal obligations or to more systematic, national support and anchoring of CEDAW both in Germany and France. The States Parties are obliged to do this, in accordance with CEDAW.
Repeated inquiry and regular questioning indicate a particular importance of the re-search subject matter for the CEDAW Committee: When the legislation which falls un-der CEDAW is communicated to the relevant legal protagonists in special training ses-sions, it can then also be applied in legal processes and CEDAW leads to the best possible results