Intersektionalitet - ett oanvändbart begrepp?

Carbin, Maria; Tornhill, Sofie

doi:10.55870/tgv.v25i3.4081

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“…Det senaste decenniet har debatten om värdet av intersektionalitet fokuserat på vissa kunskapsteoretiska implikationer av begreppet. Det har bland annat handlat om hur olika kategorier konkret ska teoretiseras inom ramarna för intersektionalitet utan att det på ett förenklande sätt skapas en additiv lista (Carbin och Tornhill 2004;Lykke 2005;Nash 2008). Problemet kan exemplifieras med hjälp av själva begreppet intersection som på engelska betyder vägkorsning.…”

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Ett svenskt bakslag. Kontextskapande i diskussioner om Susan Faludis Backlash

Nyström

2015

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In the 1990s, the publication of Susan Faludi’s Backlash. The Undeclared War Against American Women provoked discussions amongst literary critics in Sweden. Particularly feminist and Women’s Studies communities embraced the book’s thesis and probed whether Swedish women had experienced a backlash similar to the one revealed and conceptualised by Faludi. The aim of this article is to study the ways in which these communities used Backlash to interpret the political context in Sweden. A key player in the discussions of Backlash and in promoting the idea of a Swedish backlash was a newly established political network called Stödstrumporna (The Support Stockings). The network was initiated by a number of well-known Swedish feminists and as a reaction to the outcome of the general election in 1991, in which the representation of women in the Parliament decreased. In addition, recent national statistics had shown that the income gap between men and women had widened during the 1980’s. Stödstrumporna interpreted both of these events as examples of a broader backlash against Swedish women. My supposition is that the labelling of specific contexts as examples of backlash can be understood as a kind of context making. Through an intersectional analysis, this article inquires to what extent the naming of contexts produces ideas of nation and gender. In Historical Studies, context has been used as a way to conceptualise how historical events are products of the time and place in which they occur. Without disputing this view of context, this article argues that context to a large extent is a narrative produced by contemporary actors who have a vested interest in presenting a context, which promotes their own positions and agendas.

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Section: Teoretisk Ingång -Intersektionalitetunclassified

Ett svenskt bakslag. Kontextskapande i diskussioner om Susan Faludis Backlash

Nyström

2015

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“…I Sverige har begreppet varit på den akademiska dagordningen sedan mitten av 1990-talet. Nina Lykke (2003Lykke ( , 2005 (Lykke 2003(Lykke , 2005de los Reyes et al 2003;Carbin and Tornhill 2004;Yuval-Davis 2005). Inledningsvis fokuserades ras, kön och klass och frågan har väckts om vilka ytterligare ordningar som borde ingå i analysen (Butler 1990).…”

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“…I linje med internationell kritik av intersektionalitetsbegreppet menar Carbin och Tornhill (2004) att den nordamerikanska metaforen "intersection" eller vägkorsning inte är särskilt upplysande. En vägkorsning består av olika vägar (maktordningar) som var för sig leder fram till en mittpunkt.…”

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Det våldsbevittnande barnets ontologi

Andersson

Cater

2014

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The recurring demand in Sweden today is to view children witnessing domestic violence as victims of crime. In this article, we discuss the ontological status of the child and how witnessing violence might affect this status. In light of research on children witnessing domestic violence and how these children are described in support methods, we aim to contribute to the understanding of the ontology of children and particularly of the child witnessing domestic violence. This is related to the political history of and current theories on children. Previous research shows that witnessing domestic violence increases the risk for developing violent behaviors. Despite this, current Swedish support methods pay little attention to possible use of violence among these children. This could entail that important aspects are not given discursive space within interventions. Chris Jenk’s writing on mythological imageries of children is related to children witnessing domestic violence. The imageries of Apollo and Dionysus respectively produce different ideas about innocence, vulnerability, responsibility and competence. An Apollonian imagery of children witnessing domestic violence focuses exclusively on children as victims, ignoring their potential for violence. The Dionysian imagery on the other hand generates an idea of children with an innate propensity for violence, which threatens their ontological status as victims. Furthermore, the ontology of children explored in the context of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and a more complex understanding of children is called for. The imagery of Athena is put forth to broaden the understanding of children as responsible and participating on their own terms. This imagery goes hand-in-hand, we argue, with John Wall’s call for a childism parallel to feminism.

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Uppbrottstrappan. En modell för intersektionellt socialt arbete med våldsutsatta kvinnor

Smirthwaite

Holmberg²

2014

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The Breaking Up Stairs (BUS) is a model for intersectional social work with women who live in abusive relations and in intersections between different power orders. BUS focuses on the different steps women encounter when leaving, or trying to leave, a violent relationship. This article develops and applies BUS to two groups of women, women living in lesbian relationships and women living with drug abuse. The analysis simultaneously shows the commonalities and similarities between women living in violent relationships and the specific difficulties and needs experienced by women positioned at different points of intersecting inequalities. The article focuses on the empirical and theoretical grounds for BUS. BUS is developed on the basis of empirical results from research on women’s breaking up processes, the situations for battered women who are addicted to drugs and battered lesbian women. The theoretical grounds for BUS are intersectionality and a coherent understanding of violence. A coherent understanding of violence means – in line with a radical feminist view - that violence and domination are seen as important for constructions of masculinity, and not as something which should be isolated or ascribed only to specific subgroups of men. The article combines a radical feminist view and intersectionality. It discusses how increased difficulties for battered women living at the point of intersection between different oppressive structures can be made visible without being constructed as essentially different from the difficulties experienced by battered women in the majority population. In intersectional theory, demarcations to an additative assumption are common; it is regarded as highly problematic to simply add different kinds of oppression as layers onto each other. This article exemplifies how increased difficulties for marginalised subgroups of women can be illustrated in a way which visualises the increased level of difficulties - without applying the additative approach that intersectional theory initially criticised.

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Intersektionalitet - ett oanvändbart begrepp?

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Ett svenskt bakslag. Kontextskapande i diskussioner om Susan Faludis Backlash

Ett svenskt bakslag. Kontextskapande i diskussioner om Susan Faludis Backlash

Det våldsbevittnande barnets ontologi

Uppbrottstrappan. En modell för intersektionellt socialt arbete med våldsutsatta kvinnor

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