A feminist challenge to the gendered politics of the public/private divide: on due diligence, domestic violence, and citizenship

Moral, Paulina García‐Del; Dersnah, Megan Alexandra

doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.944772

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“…Lister, 2007); whereas others increasingly argue for its relevance to the home environment. Like, for example, in cases of domestic violence (García-Del Moral & Dersnah, 2014), or when caregiving is for identity – as is the case when caregivers lack the time or resources to support the care recipient’s language or faith-based needs (Kershaw, 2010). In these situations, scholars argue, the domestic sphere should be afforded the status of political citizenship.…”

Section: Citizenship Within the Domestic Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Bartlett

2016

Dementia

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This article scans recent developments within citizenship studies and relates them to the field of dementia, specifically the 'dementia friendly communities' agenda. The dementia friendly communities agenda is selected for several reasons, most notably because, it is an area of practice in the field of dementia where citizenship is perhaps most clearly enacted. The aim of the article is to help with the advancement of social citizenship as a key concept for dementia studies, by using two of the latest ideas within citizenship studies; namely, understandings of citizenship as (a) occurring in ordinary places and (b) potentially enacted within the domestic sphere to explore dementia friendly communities. It is argued that the interplay between these two developments pave the way for deeper consideration and realisation of social citizenship in the context of people with dementia.

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Section: Citizenship Within the Domestic Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Bartlett

2016

Dementia

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“…The historically pervasive role of the public/private divide in structuring the relationship between women and the state in ways that have (re)produced gender inequality is well documented in feminist scholarship on citizenship and human rights (García-Del Moral & Dersnah, 2014;Hobson & Lister, 2001). The public/private divide is shaped by the dynamics of sexual politics to function as a 'shifting' gendered mechanism of exclusion that intersects with other areas of difference to prevent women from becoming full subjects of citizenship and human rights (Lister, 1997;Young, 1989;Yuval-Davis, 1997).…”

Section: The Two Spheresmentioning

confidence: 96%

The sexual politics of citizenship and violence

Franzway

2016

Women's Studies International Forum

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Available online xxxxViolence against women appears to be endemic even in those societies where women have formal and equal citizenship. The influential theorist of citizenship, T.H. Marshall, found the status of women, or at least married women to be 'in some important respects peculiar'. Women in social democratic societies seem to have overcome those peculiarities and achieved full citizenship. And yet women's rights as citizens continue to be undermined by violence, specifically gender-based violence. In order to address the question about the apparent failure of citizenship rights to protect women from persistent violence this paper will suggest that the state is integral to our understandings as well as to any useful strategies for change. Based on the argument that citizenship is defined and practiced in terms of the sexual politics of contested gender relations, the paper argues that the state connects citizenship and violence. The persistence of violence against women is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship. Hence, the challenge of violence against women is recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community. Campaigns to recognise this challenge are becoming valuable sources of agency and activism as can be seen in recent campaigns and heightened media attention.

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“…These actors documented Mexico’s violations of its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém Do Pará Convention) with numerous reports (Aikin Araluce 2011). Under the principle of due diligence, the Belém Do Pará Convention imposes positive obligations on states to take action to protect women from violence (García-Del Moral and Dersnah 2014; Rubio-Marín and Estrada-Tanck 2013). The transnational advocacy network used the reports to “name and shame” Mexico, undermining its status in the international community, and to pressure it into changing practices toward gender violence (Aikin Araluce 2011; García-Del Moral and Neumann 2019).…”

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Practicing Accountability, Challenging Gendered State Resistance: Feminist Legislators and Feminicidio in Mexico

Moral

2020

Gender & Society

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In the late 1990s, Mexican feminists mobilized transnationally to demand state accountability for the feminicidios (feminicides) of women in Ciudad Juarez. Feminicidio refers to the misogynous killing of women and the state’s complicity in this violence by tolerating it with impunity. Drawing on debates of the Mexican Federal Congress (1997–2012) and interviews with feminist state and non-state actors, I examine feminist legislators’ response to transnational activism, which was to pass the “General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence” and to create the penal-type code of feminicidio, which includes provisions to punish negligent state actors. These laws make the state a target of its own punitive power. To pass these acts, feminist legislators faced resistance from male legislators and the Federal Executive. I build on feminist institutionalism to theorize this resistance as gendered. Gendered state resistance was pervasive because feminist legislators practiced accountability by identifying the complicity of state institutions, including Congress, in perpetuating feminicidio. As part of the process, they built alliances with other female legislators and framed their arguments with notions of modern statehood. Although this framing strategy resulted in innovative legal change, I interrogate the assumption that modernity is the solution to feminicidio, because it can lead gendered state resistance to manifest as a simulation of accountability.

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A feminist challenge to the gendered politics of the public/private divide: on due diligence, domestic violence, and citizenship

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

Scanning the conceptual horizons of citizenship

The sexual politics of citizenship and violence

Practicing Accountability, Challenging Gendered State Resistance: Feminist Legislators and Feminicidio in Mexico

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