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Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 20, Issue 2, 2017
Volume 20, Issue 2, 2017
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Het is nooit af!
Authors: Conny Roggeband & Inger PlaisierAbstractTwo editors of the Dutch Journal for Genderstudies spoke with pioneering politician and feminist activist Hedy d’Ancona and the Dutch Minister for Equal Opportunities and gender scholar Jet Bussemaker about the development of Dutch gender equality policies. They discuss how successful Dutch policies have been in changing the gendered division of labour and the organisation of the intimate sphere. D’Ancona and Bussemaker agree that feminist activists and scholars have been highly successful in gaining access to the state, pushing for policies, and legal change. Yet, they also express their disappointment about the persistent gendered division of labour in the Netherlands and the enduring absence of women in positions of power. They discuss current feminist activism and the future of gender equality in the Netherlands.
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Emancipatiebeleid: Een bron van aanhoudende zorg
More LessAbstractThe author comments on the interview with Hedy D’Ancona and Jet Bussemaker. She draws attention to the time period between their times in power, which is underreported in this interview. D’Ancona presided over the development of emancipation policy, while Bussemaker became a member of the government after a period of degeneration. During the 1990s, many of the institutions established by D’Ancona were abolished, and, during the first decades of this century, some ministers were of the opinion that emancipation policy was no longer necessary. The author argues that Bussemaker, when she came to power, was severely hampered in her ambitions by a lack of tools to accomplish them.
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Emancipatiebeleid tussen geleefde droom en onvoltooide daad
More LessAbstractThe author also comments on the interview with D’Ancona and Bussemaker. He enumerates the similarities between them: their enthusiasm and their struggles to ‘frame’ the problem of emancipation in a correct way. Both make a distinction between the substance and the process of emancipation policy, making it all the more surprising, he argues, that so little has been done in the past years to establish new institutions and to generate continuity. Lack of consensus between political parties about the way forward has generated an incremental way of policy making, resulting in a patchwork of regulations, which are often very confusing to the public. Schippers, furthermore, draws attention to the differences between the interviewees in view of the work/care problem – sharing between partners or stimulating the commercialisation of care work.
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Genderverschillen in gebruik van strategieën op het werk door mantelzorgers
Authors: Inger Plaisier, Alice de Boer & Mirjam de KlerkAbstractThis article provides insight in the extent to which female and male caregivers with a paid job apply working strategies differently, and whether a possible gender contrast can be explained by a higher caregiver burden. Data were collected in a survey conducted in the Netherlands among 1395 persons (594 men and 801 women) who combined informal caregiving with paid employment in 2014. Short-term leave is the preferred option for one out of three caregiving men and women. Reducing work hours and taking individual measures were more often applied by caregiving women, but men and women did not differ in the likelihood to quit working altogether. The higher likelihood to structurally reduce working hours among women was explained by their higher caregiving burden compared to men. Men and women who experience a high burden use different work strategies. Men who experience a high caregiving burden are more likely to take individual measures with their employer, while a higher burden is not related to taking such measures among women. Adequate use of work strategies by women needs attention by employers and policy makers, particularly because of their greater likelihood to become a caregiver and their higher burden of care compared to men.
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Mixed couples, mixed feelings
More LessAbstractThis study aims to explore to what extent the internalised racism based on black inferiority and white supremacy, as described in 1952 by Fanon in his Black Skin, White Masks, is still reproduced in the intimate sphere today, despite increasing diversification in Western societies. I have analysed the narratives of Belgian and Dutch men and women, both white and black, who were at the time involved in intimate black-white relationships. These narratives can inform us about how the binary of internalised racism is played out in such relationships; i.e. how the white partner is dealing with prevalent discourses on whiteness and blackness and how s/he is positioning him- or herself in the relationship. Also, we can learn to understand how the black partner in these relationships perceives whiteness in a white-dominated society that does not acknowledge whiteness as a racialised positioning, and if the same meanings of whiteness are sustained in their relationships. Outcomes of this study can contribute to our understanding of race and whiteness in the specific context of the Netherlands and Belgium and might be particularly interesting in the light of the supposedly global transition from post-colonialism to decolonisation.
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Behind the mirror
More LessAbstractReflexivity addresses both epistemological issues raised by the implication of the researcher in the production of knowledge and ethical issues that are appropriate for the research process (Finlay, 2002b; Stacey, 1988). This article proposes a reflexive academic knowledge practice that borrows from my own reflexive practice in social outreach work and a reflexive analysis of an ethnographic research process. Doing so, I contribute to a praxis of intersectional reflexivity that valorises identities as embodied and lived by people within particular historical and geopolitical contexts, without reducing them to abstract social categories (Yep, 2015). Through lessons learnt from both reflexive practices, I contribute to the expanding of a reflexive knowledge praxis that stays close to the lived experiences in the field and that takes into account the presence of the researcher and inequalities at play in every stage of the research process, without losing analytical rigor.
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