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Triumph of the Fatherland
DIVTells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system /div
International Impacts on Social Policy
This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific social policy developments at discrete points in history. The volume is divided into four parts that are concerned with a particular type of cross-border interrelation. The four parts examine the impact on social policy of trade relations and economic crises, violence, international organisations and cross-border communication and migration. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of social policy, global history and welfare state research from diverse disciplines: sociology, political science, history, law and economics. .
Femicide across Europe
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings. This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year project discussing various aspects of femicide. Written by leading international scholars with an interdiscplinary perspective, it looks at the prevention programmes and comparative quantitative and qualitative data collection, as well as the impact of culture. It proposes the establishment of a European Observatory on Femicide as a new direction for the future, showing the benefits of cross-national collaboration, united to prevent the murder of women and girls.
Transitions Environments Translations
The essays in Transitions, Environments, Translations explore the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural, and historical contexts. They respond to the claim that feminism is Western in origin and universalist in theory, and to the assumption that feminist goals are self-evident and the same in all contexts. Rather than assume that there is a blueprint by which to measure the strength or success of feminism in different parts of the world, these essays consider feminism to be a site of local, national and international conflict. They ask: What is at stake in various political efforts by women in different parts of the world? What meanings have women given to their efforts? What has been their relationship to feminism--as a concept and as an international movement? What happens when feminist ideas are translated from one language, one political context, to another?
Leading from Behind
This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high and shows substantial progress since 2005. While this has gone mostly unnoticed, Germany has passed far-reaching legislation in major policy fields relevant for gender equality. Investigating the effects of Merkel's tenure on gender equality, the chapters in this volume assess policy output and outcom...
United Germany
Since the attempt to unite two parts of a country divided for four decades yielded contradictory results, this volume provides a balance sheet of the successes and failures of German unification during the first quarter century after the fall of the Wall. Five themes, ranging from the transfer of political institutions to the economic crisis, from the social upheaval for women’s movements to the cultural efforts at interpretation and the changes in foreign policy have been chosen to illustrate the complexity of the process. The contributors represent a broad interdisciplinary mix of political scientists, historians, and literary scholars. Because personal experiences tend to color scholarly judgments, they are drawn from West Germany, East Germany, and the United States. This collection is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the political, social, and intellectual consequences of the efforts to regain German unity.
Politik und Geschlecht
Was bedeutet politikwissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung beziehungsweise feministische Politikwissenschaft? Das Buch bietet einen einführenden Einblick in unterschiedliche politikwissenschaftliche (Forschungs-)Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Politik und Geschlecht – insbesondere auch unter Miteinbeziehung queerer und postkolonialer Ansätze. Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich aus dieser Perspektivierung im Hinblick auf Methoden und Ideengeschichte, welche Kontroversen und offenen Fragen folgen daraus? Die einzelnen Beiträge fassen den aktuellen Forschungsstand zusammen, bieten eine Kontextualisierung in breitere politikwissenschaftliche Debatten und geben durch Lese-Empfehlungen Ansätze für die tiefere Auseinandersetzung. Das Buch ist somit eine perfekte Anlaufstelle für einen ersten kompakten Überblick zum Themenfeld Politik und Geschlecht.
Neue Prekarität
Europaweit ist eine Zunahme sozialer Verwerfungen und prekärer Arbeitsverhältnisse zu verzeichnen - die "soziale Frage" ist in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses sowie in wissenschaftliche Debatten zurückgekehrt. Am Beispiel von Deutschland, Österreich, Polen, Großbritannien und der Schweiz zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren, dass in diesen fünf Ländern die aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik der letzten Jahre ihr Ziel verfehlt hat: Inklusion und "Wiedereingliederung" wurden nicht erreicht. Stattdessen haben die Aktivierungspolitiken zur Ausdehnung von Prekarität geführt: Sie vertiefen gerade jene Verwerfungen, die sie zu bekämpfen suchen.
Die Neuverhandlung sozialer Gerechtigkeit
Soziale Gerechtigkeit wird aktuell in Politik und Politikwissenschaft neu verhandelt. Dabei wird die Kategorie Geschlecht weitgehend vernachlässigt. Dieser Band analysiert die politikwissenschaftliche und philosophische Theoriedebatte aus feministischer Perspektive und fragt nach den Auswirkungen globaler politischer sowie sozioökonomischer Transformationsprozesse auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse.
