Femocratic Administration

Findlay, Tammy

doi:10.3138/9781442619111

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“…It is assumed that feminists and feminist ideas can influence power, often in line with neoliberal ideas (Halley, 2018a: 3). This aligns with the literature detailing the struggles and successes of feminists in government bureaucracies, feminists in elected positions, and feminist ideas in governing (Eisenstein, 1996;Findlay, 2015;Hankivsky, 2005;Scala and Paterson, 2017). Gender-based violence is one area in which feminist ideas have, at times, influenced state power (Bernstein, 2012;Halley, 2018a).…”

Section: Co-opted or Governance Feminism?supporting

confidence: 76%

When a “Feminist” Government Tackles Gender-Based Violence: A WPR Approach to the Speeches of Canadian Cabinet Ministers (2015–2019)

Gerrits

2024

Can J Pol Sci

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Ending gender-based violence was a central promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's self-declared feminist government. Executive speeches about gender-based violence provide clues about what types of feminist ideas undergird the 42nd Parliament. Was carceral feminism advanced, by focusing on punishment? Or neoliberalized feminist ideas, by focusing on the market? Or social justice feminist ideas, by focusing on systemic change? Applying the concept of governance feminism and using Bacchi's WPR approach, this article investigates how gender-based violence is problematized in English- and French-language House of Commons debates in the 42nd Parliament by the cabinet. The speeches problematize gender-based violence as preventable and caused by systemic issues, but this transformational discourse is undermined by a focus on strengthening carceral responses and limiting human potential to economic productivity. Feminist ideas about gender-based violence were adopted, relying on carceral and neoliberalized feminist ideas. The Trudeau Liberals’ campaign for change was discursively undermined.

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Section: Co-opted or Governance Feminism?supporting

confidence: 76%

When a “Feminist” Government Tackles Gender-Based Violence: A WPR Approach to the Speeches of Canadian Cabinet Ministers (2015–2019)

Gerrits

2024

Can J Pol Sci

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“…By emphasising gender as a category of analysis, FI allows for a better analysis of the gendered nature of formal and informal institutions and the power relations within and across these institutions (Krook 2010). Notwithstanding the significant contributions made by FI, some feminist researchers have found it incapable of providing in-depth insight into inequality, power, and change in a specific context or socioenvironments (Findlay 2015). Findlay pointed out that FI exhibits three weaknesses-'its analysis of power, its conceptualisation of change and agency, and its insular point of reference ' (2012, 3).…”

Section: Feminist Institutionalism-integrated Methodology (Fiim)mentioning

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Exploring the Methodological Plurality of Feminist Institutionalism for Institutional Gender Analysis

Igiebor¹

2023

IJMSSSR

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This position paper highlights a new methodological orientation for institutional gender analysis. Drawing on Feminist Institutionalism and relevant feminist approaches, this research proposes a Feminist Institutionalism-Integrated Methodology (FIIM), which can be utilised as a ‘two-level’ analytical framework: a first-level analysis to analyse formal institutions and a second-level analysis to analyse informal institutions. This research note discusses the value of FIIM for understanding the role of formal and informal institutional arrangements in women’s progression to academic leadership and the institutionalisation of gender equity in Nigerian Universities. I argue that the combined insights from the FIIM analytical approach advance existing work on gender equity policies and institutional change. Utilising FIIM for this study revealed a great deal about how dynamics of unequal power relations and resistance to gender equity play out formally and informally within universities. FIIM, therefore, offers a valuable means to analytically assess the state of play of gender relations in formal and informal institutions

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“…There was a slight increase to 31 per cent of positions held by women in 2022 ( The Standard , 2022), however this still falls short of substantive representation for women and, in this case, their housing needs. Racialized and marginalized women have historically been the least represented in policy processes (Bashevkin, 2009; Findlay, 2015). As former provincial cabinet minister Mitzie Hunter (2019) described: “Policymakers cannot guarantee the making of well‐rounded decisions that help everyone if these decisions do not come out of groups just as diverse as the population they have been elected to represent.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Intersectionality widens the focus on the gender lens revealing the inequities women face. Crenshaw (1989) developed the analytical framework of intersectionality to examine how race, gender, ability, and class compounds marginalization in overlapping forms of oppression, social relations, and systems of power (Findlay, 2015: 50). Applied to women, community‐engaged research assists in revealing how intersectional barriers based on Indigeneity, race, age, gender, and ability (YWCA Niagara Region, 2019; Clark, 2016; Crenshaw, 1989; Findlay, 2015; Hankivsky, 2014; Hankivsky, Grace, et al, 2014; Lived Experience Advisory Council, 2016) impact on everyday life including issues of homelessness and housing.…”

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Unhoused women in Niagara: Lived expertise of homelessness in community‐engaged research

Heritz

2024

Can Public Adm

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How do we apply a gender lens to the housing needs of vulnerable women? The YWCA Niagara Region (YWCA) asked this question. Brock University's Niagara Community Observatory (NCO) partnered with the YWCA to identify the barriers to accessing safe and affordable housing in Niagara, with priority placed on community engagement and inclusive access to housing. The article has a two‐fold purpose. First, it provides an overview of community‐engaged research, focusing on the key principles and practices involved in listening to stories of women with lived expertise of homelessness facing discrimination or disadvantage compounded by intersectional identities of Indigeneity, race, gender and ability. Second, it reports on the making of a policy brief and video clip designed as advocacy tools for increasing awareness of the need for increased equitable access to safe and affordable housing for women and gender diverse peoples in Niagara.

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Femocratic Administration

Cited by 17 publications

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When a “Feminist” Government Tackles Gender-Based Violence: A WPR Approach to the Speeches of Canadian Cabinet Ministers (2015–2019)

When a “Feminist” Government Tackles Gender-Based Violence: A WPR Approach to the Speeches of Canadian Cabinet Ministers (2015–2019)

Exploring the Methodological Plurality of Feminist Institutionalism for Institutional Gender Analysis

Unhoused women in Niagara: Lived expertise of homelessness in community‐engaged research

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