This special issue sets out to investigate a number of areas of concern, regarding gender and sexuality, which are identifiable in the current British higher education environment. We argue that current dominant 'neoliberal' discourses, which emphasise the commodification of higher education in the U.K., function to set limits upon 'equality'. While these discourses often suggest a widening of opportunities within higher education, with an emphasis upon unlimited individual freedom and choice, the lived experience can be rather different for women and sexual minorities. This issue explores the impact such discourses are having upon gender and sexuality identities and practices in the academy.
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Gender and sexuality: the discursive limits of 'equality' in higher education
Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–18 (18 total)
Closing the Gap: Gender and Constituency Candidate Nomination in the 2013 Bundestag Election
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Since the adoption of candidate gender quotas, women have always fared better in the “second” or PR tier of Bundestag elections than in the “first” or plurality tier, where quotas do not apply. This gap, however, has been closing. In the 2009 Bundestag election, 27 percent of the major parties' direct mandate candidates were women compared to almost 30 percent in 2013. All parties experienced an increase in the percentage of women among their nominees for direct mandates between 2009 and 2013. Why have the numbers of female candidates for the 299 directly elected Bundestag constituencies been increasing? This increase is puzzling because gender quotas have not been extended to this tier of the electoral system and candidate selection rules have not changed. This article explores five potential mechanisms that may be driving the observed rise in women nominated as constituency candidates. I argue that the main reasons for these increases lie in the advantages female incumbents incur, the openings presented when male incumbents retire, and the diffusion of female candidates across parties and neighboring Wahlkreise after one woman manages to win a direct mandate. I develop these conclusions by comparing candidate nominations and direct mandate winners in the 2009 and 2013 Bundestag elections.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–105 (19 total)
For us or against us: coercion and consensus in higher education
Mary Evans
In debates about the admission of state school pupils to Oxbridge various individuals within those institutions have challenged the idea that universities should be vehicles of social change. At the same time, Oxbridge and other universities have accepted the responsibility of 'enabling' entrepreneurship and other market-led initiatives. I want to explore some of the implications of this position in terms of the making of the person in higher education and in particular the ways in which conservative refusals of the recognition of class, gender and race differences reinforce wider structural inequalities.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 39–54 (16 total)
Doing Gender Research as a ‘Gendered Subject’
Challenges and Sparks of Being a Dual-Citizen Woman Researcher in Iran
Rassa Ghaffari
This article explores the methodological and ethical matters I encountered during my field research in the Islamic Republic of Iran for my PhD dissertation on gender issues. These observations are based on my own experience, thoughts and
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 130–142 (13 total)
Financing Gender Equality
Budgets for Women's Policies in German and Austrian Länder
Ayse Dursun, Sabine Lang, and Birgit Sauer
read. In effect, the ability to decipher and interpret budgets is often the purview of a select few in parliamentary committees and administrations. 1 Since approximating the “costs of financing gender equality” 2 is notoriously difficult, an
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–26 (26 total)
French History
Old Paradigms, Current Tendencies, New Directions
Laura Frader
Over the past three decades modern French history has undergone important changes, introducing new methodologies and taking up new questions. Two directions are especially promising. Since the “global turn” of the 1990s, many French historians have shifted their focus outside of the hexagon to examine France in a global and transnational context. Their work has explored the contradictions of France's democratic heritage and exclusionary practices evident in the history of colonialism, immigration, and ethno-racial exclusion. A second body of research has addressed the gender dimensions of French colonialism and has examined how colonialism deployed sexuality and sexual difference in maintaining colonial rule. Both strands of research have demonstrated how France's engagement beyond the hexagon has shaped French institutions and social life.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 21–33 (13 total)
The Other French Exception
Virtuous Racism and the War of the Sexes in Postcolonial France
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
Twentieth-century France invented for itself an "exception" that successfully preserved the French culture industry. Postcolonial France is experiencing another "French exception" that renders a "virtuous racism" commonplace and legitimates the discrimination that expresses this racism by identifying the undesirable "new French" as scapegoat figures. Four gender-specific stereotypes strengthen the belief that there is a form of sexism exclusive to the segregated neighborhoods of the suburbs that are inhabited primarily by French people of immigrant and colonial descent. Associated with the central figure of the garçon arabe are the beurette, the veiled Muslim French woman, and the secular Muslim. The article argues that the model of abstract, universalist France has become one of a fundamentalist republicanism that plays diverse expressions of otherness and singular identities off of one another in order to preserve a soft regime of oppression.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2006
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–41 (19 total)
Religions, genre, et politiques laïques en France, XIXE-XXE siècles
Florence Rochefort
In the French polemics over the Islamic headscarf, the relationship betweensecularism and sexual equality has sometimes been made out to be an artificialone. The articulation between politics, religion, secularism, and women'srights is examined here over the longue durée. Since the beginning of the secularizationprocess during the French Revolution, a minority has championedan egalitarian conception of secularization. Rivalries between or convergencesof political and religious authorities have driven an ambivalent and not veryequal secularization, creating secular pacts that rely on gender pacts to thedetriment of equality. This dynamic reversed itself beginning in the 1960swith the battle for legal contraception and abortion, which shook one of thevery bases of French Catholicism to its foundation. The headscarf affairsrevealed the egalitarian effects of secularism and favored the elaboration ofthought about secularism in conjunction with sexual equality, which, whateverthe various interpretations of that thought may be, could prove to be anon-negligible benefit.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 19–33 (15 total)
Autonomous Vehicles and Gender
A Commentary
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
of gender and identity developing as some of the most significant. We can understand matters of gender and power by (at least) two vectors: discursive formations in which language use frames experience, and individual performed experiences—ones that
Influenced Gender Identities
The Study of Masculinity and Its Intersectionality through The Carpet Weaver
Sanjana Chakraborty and Dhananjay Tripathi
Gender, the body is not only a physical entity” but also “a cultural form that carries meaning with it.” Furthermore, in the public space, the male body is often not considered a part of the ‘victim/sufferer’ image in the gendered violence category. It is