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Download This PDF File Social Inclusion Open Access Journal | ISSN: 2183-2803 Volume 6, Issue 4 (2018) GenderGender EqualityEquality andand Beyond:Beyond: AtAt thethe CrossroadsCrossroads ofof Neoliberalism,Neoliberalism, Anti-GenderAnti-Gender Movements,Movements, “European”“European” Values,Values, andand NormativeNormative ReiterationsReiterations inin thethe NordicNordic ModelModel Editors Lena Martinsson, Diana Mulinari and Katarina Giritli Nygren Social Inclusion, 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4 Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, “European” Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model Published by Cogitatio Press Rua Fialho de Almeida 14, 2º Esq., 1070-129 Lisbon Portugal Academic Editors Lena Martinsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Diana Mulinari (Lund University, Sweden) Katarina Giritli Nygren (Mid Sweden University, Sweden) Available online at: www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion This issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). Articles may be reproduced provided that credit is given to the original and Social Inclusion is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. Table of Contents Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, “European” Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model Katarina Giritli Nygren, Lena Martinsson and Diana Mulinari 1–7 Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment? Alison Koslowski and Ann-Zofie Duvander 8–15 The Traps of International Scripts: Making a Case for a Critical Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality in Development Rahil Roodsaz and An Van Raemdonck 16–24 Gender and Struggles for Equality in Mining Resistance Movements: Performing Critique against Neoliberal Capitalism in Sweden and Greece Angelika Sjöstedt Landén and Marianna Fotaki 25–35 A New Service Class in the Public Sector? The Role of Femonationalism in Unemployment Policies Paula Mulinari 36–47 Women’s Coalitions beyond the Laicism–Islamism Divide in Turkey: Towards an Inclusive Struggle for Gender Equality? Selin Çağatay 48–58 When the Personal Is Always Political: Norwegian Muslims’ Arguments for Women’s Rights Hannah Helseth 59–66 Solidarity in Head-Scarf and Pussy Bow Blouse: Reflections on Feminist Activism and Knowledge Production Lena Gemzöe 67–81 Feminism as Power and Resistance: An Inquiry into Different Forms of Swedish Feminist Resistance and Anti-Genderist Reactions Mona Lilja and Evelina Johansson 82–94 “Sweden Has Been Naïve”: Nationalism, Protectionism and Securitisation in Response to the Refugee Crisis of 2015 Mathias Ericson 95–102 Social Inclusion (ISSN: 2183–2803) 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 1–7 DOI: 10.17645/si.v6i4.1799 Editorial Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, “European” Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model Katarina Giritli Nygren 1,*, Lena Martinsson 2 and Diana Mulinari 3 1 Department of Social Sciences, Mid Sweden University, 51 70 Sundsvall, Sweden; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden; E-Mail: [email protected] * Corresponding author Submitted: 25 October 2018 | Published: 22 November 2018 Abstract The social-democratic-inspired “Nordic model”, with its agenda for gender equality, has been an important example for the development of political interventions to transform society but at the same time, it has functioned as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. In the last decade it has also become the focus of antigender movements and ethno-nationalistic parties both as emblematic for the Nordic nations as well as a threat that must be destroyed to save the nation. This issue will elaborate further on gender equality as a node, a floating signifier in powerful and often contradictory discourses. We are inspired by scholarships of hope in a dialogue with articles that search for realistic utopias that might be considered to be “beyond gender equality”. The included articles engage with the messiness and crossroads of gender equality in relation to the work-line, territories, neo-liberalism, religion, the crisis of solidarity and the success of anti-genderism agenda. Keywords anti-genderism; gender equality; neo-liberalism; racism Issue This editorial is part of the issue “Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Move- ments, ‘European’ Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model”, edited by Lena Martinsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Diana Mulinari (Lund University, Sweden) and Katarina Giritli Nygren (Mid Sweden University, Sweden). © 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu- tion 4.0 International License (CC BY). 1. Introduction culture and defines gender equality as an issue demand- ing equal rights and state concern. The ideology and pol- Gender equality is one of the cornerstones of Swedish icy practice of gender equality has been historically lo- society. The aim of Sweden’s gender equality policies cated within a social democratic frame through the es- is to ensure that everyone enjoys the same opportuni- tablishment of public policies that supported women’s ties, rights and obligations in all areas of life. (Sweden work outside the home and through social policies aim- Government, 2018) ing to balance paid work with family life. Gender equality policies that evolved after the sixties and seventies show The above-mentioned quote reinforced by a picture of a a transformation of family forms from a male breadwin- young (white) man embracing a little child is the opening ner model to a dual earning one with state financed sentence of the Swedish government’s website on gen- childcare and policies aiming to include men in care der equality. The quote illustrates the fundamental role work (Lundqvist, 2017). The (partially) accomplishment that gender equality has within the Swedish society and of these goals, aiming to decrease inequalities between Social Inclusion, 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 1–7 1 women and men was (partially) achieved through a num- zenship is made through paid work, up to a certain point. ber of social movements (particularly the women’s and Gender equality strategies and policies have, therefore, the labour movement) and an entanglement between become inseparable from a capitalist regulated labour women’s needs and the needs of the labour market. market. This merging of gender equality with paid work Gender equality policies have since its implementa- in order to create the good equal life is framed through tion been at the core of feminist analysis. Gender schol- the dynamics of financial capitalism, class inequalities, ars and feminists’ activists pointed to the huge gap be- and, not least, the “work-line” (arbetslinjen) that makes tween policy reform and the lives of women that were, paid work mandatory for access to welfare support. It despite reforms, located within a gender segregated makes it difficult for many who are not able to work full labour market and continued to be the main responsi- time, of whatever gender, to live liveable lives. And not ble for social reproductive work (Borchorst & Siim, 2008). the least, the hegemonic work-line makes it more diffi- Different but fundamental readings were also provided cult for other strategies and societal visions to emerge. by those feminist scholars that identified the normative To summarise so far: what we want to underline is regulation of heterosexuality and considered the nuclear how gender equality and gender equality policies build family to be at the core of gender equality policies (Dahl, on problematic notions and norms on gender, sexu- 2010; Martinsson, 2001) and by postcolonialism-inspired ality, nation, capitalism, and, workability. On the one feminist scholars that named the appropriation of gen- side, these policies have been women friendly and have der equality by ethnonationalist and value conservative had a positive impact on the lives of some women or, social movements and political parties that redefined rather, on their life choices, but they also have, on the gender equality as a Western/Scandinavian value, which other hand, simultaneously served to legitimise capitalist is threatened today by the Muslim Other (de los Reyes, labour market relations and normalise heteronormative Molina, & Mulinari, 2014). family forms, re-established differences between groups, In line with this discussion, we published the book and recreated Eurocentric, colonial, and nationalistic sto- The Myth of Swedish Gender Equality (Martinsson, ries and orders. Griffin, & Giritli Nygren, 2016; Mulinari, 2016). We ar- In the last decade, gender equality has become the gued that gender equality, as a state policy interven- node for discourses at the core of three radical so- tion, has not only contributed to recognise, once and cial transformations: 1) the shift in the earlier eighties for all, the vital feminist insight that the personal and from a social democratic regime to a neoliberal one the private is public and political but also that it can with a reorganisation of the welfare state towards ne- transform what might be understood as natural unequal oliberal frames (Therborn, 2018), 2) a transformation gender orders as well as develop alternative
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