Changing Feminist Politics in a ‘Strategic State’

Elomäki, Anna; Kantola, Johanna; Koivunen, Anu; Ylöstalo, Hanna

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“…The velvet triangle aimed to advance EU gender equality policy and consisted of a feminist network inside and outside EU institutions, covering femocrats in the Commission, women Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), women's movement activists and academic gender experts (Woodward, 2004). Scrutinising this specific mode of feminist EU governance, scholars challenged the implicit assumption of stability, highlighted the risk of feminist claims being co-opted by neoliberal governance and pointed to how the undemocratic lack of access and transparency made intersectional mobilisation unlikely (Elomäki et al, 2021;Jacquot, 2015;Lang, 2014).…”

Section: History and Formal Rules Of Eu-civil Society Relationshipsmentioning

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Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors

Ahrens¹

2023

Handbook of Feminist Governance

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Section: History and Formal Rules Of Eu-civil Society Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors

Ahrens¹

2023

Handbook of Feminist Governance

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Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Over Time: Young Women’s and Nonbinary People’s Accounts in 2000 and 2021

Venäläinen

Aaltonen

Phoenix³

2023

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Commodified State Feminism: The Entanglements of Feminist Commodity Activism and Feminist Politics in a Nordic Welfare State

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Lamberg

2024

International Political Sociology

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This article analyzes the entanglements of feminist commodity activism and state feminism. Feminist commodity activism refers to consumption and commodified communication as modes of feminist political participation. Earlier research on these topics has focused on the business sector and on media and popular culture, largely sidelining the state as a site of feminism. This article addresses the increasingly close relations between consumerism and state politics and asks how feminist commodity activism interacts with state feminism. It draws on two empirical cases in the Nordic welfare state of Finland. The first is Uhana Design, a small-scale fashion business, and its Girl Gang campaign that leans on state feminism. The second is Finland's former leading female politicians’ engagements with feminist fashion. By analyzing these cases via three theoretical lenses, business, popular, and state feminism, this article develops the notion of commodified state feminism, paying attention to economic, cultural, and political dimensions of feminist commodity activism and state feminism. It also argues that commodified state feminism is emblematic of the current political context, in which the boundaries between market and politics have become blurred.

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Changing Feminist Politics in a ‘Strategic State’

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors

Velvet triangles and more: alliances of supranational EU gender equality actors

Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Over Time: Young Women’s and Nonbinary People’s Accounts in 2000 and 2021

Commodified State Feminism: The Entanglements of Feminist Commodity Activism and Feminist Politics in a Nordic Welfare State

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