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Garantir a cidadania das mulheres: A indiferença e outros obståculos
Este artigo discute as estruturas sexuais e raciais de poder que continuam a obstruir de forma sistemĂĄtica a cidadania das mulheres. As reformas jurĂdicas e polĂticas concretizadas em muitos paĂses nĂŁo foram acompanhadas por mudanças correspondentes nas prĂĄticas sociais de dominação e subordinação e nas concepçÔes de masculinidade e feminilidade. A este obstĂĄculo juntaâse a pobreza, que afecta maioritariamente as mulheres a nĂvel global, e o crescimento da desigualdade induzido pela redução, privatização e eliminação de serviços pĂșblicos, que tĂȘm levado ao acrĂ©scimo do fardo quotidiano das mulheres, especialmente nos paĂses pobres. O empobrecimento das mulheres e as guerras das duas Ășltimas dĂ©cadas tĂȘm fomentado o trĂĄfico sexual global e a violĂȘncia contra as mulheres. A indiferença relativamente a estes fenĂłmenos tem por base (e reforça) o contrato sexualâracial global. De forma a eliminar a interacção entre o contrato de indiferença mĂștua e o contrato sexualâracial global, propĂ”eâse que a atribuição de um rendimento bĂĄsico a todos os cidadĂŁos constituiria um passo em direcção a uma cidadania plena.This article discusses the structures of sexual and racial power that continue to systematically undercut womenâs formal citizenship. The legal and political reforms achieved in many countries have not been accompanied by corresponding changes in social practices, beliefs and attitudes and in conceptions of masculinity and femininity. This obstacle to womenâs citizenship has been compounded by poverty, affecting primarily women at worldwide level, and the growing inequality caused by the reduction, privatization or elimination of public services. This has increased the burdens upon womenâs daily lives, especially in poor countries. Womenâs impoverishment and the wars of the last two decades have fuelled the global sex trade and violence against women. Indifference to these phenomena is based on (and reinforces) the global sexual-racial contract. The author suggests that a basic income for all citizens would contribute towards making a break in the interaction of the contract of mutual indifference with the global sexual-racial contract, and constitute a step towards full citizenship.Cet article se penche sur les structures sexuelles et raciales de pouvoir qui continuent Ă obstruer de façon systĂ©matique la citoyennetĂ© des femmes. Les reformes juridiques et politiques ayant vu le jour dans de nombreux pays nâont pas Ă©tĂ© suivies par des changements correspondants dans les pratiques sociales de domination et de subordination, non plus que dans les conceptions de masculinitĂ© et de fĂ©minitĂ©. Il faut ajouter Ă cet obstacle la pauvretĂ©, qui affecte majoritairement les femmes au niveau mondial, et la croissance de lâinĂ©galitĂ© induite par la rĂ©duction, la privatisation et lâĂ©limination de services publics, qui ont conduit Ă lâaggravation du fardeau quotidien des femmes, en particulier dans les pays pauvres. Lâappauvrissement des femmes et les guerres de ces deux derniĂšres dĂ©cennies ont favorisĂ© le trafic sexuel et la violence envers les femmes. LâindiffĂ©rence existant Ă lâĂ©gard de ces phĂ©nomĂšnes a pour base (et renforce) le contrat sexuel- -racial global. Afin dâĂ©liminer lâinteraction entre le contrat dâindiffĂ©rence mutuelle et le contrat sexuel-racial, nous proposons lâattribution dâun revenu minimum Ă tous les citoyens qui constituerait un pas en avant vers une pleine citoyennetĂ©
The Sexual Contract 30 Years on: A Conversation with Carole Pateman
This reflection is based on a conversation with Professor Carole Pateman on 4th December 2017 as we prepared for a conference at Cardiff University to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her seminal work, The Sexual Contract (1988). As socio-legal scholars, The Sexual Contract has been formative in, and transformative of, our understandings of law and gender. We explore Professor Patemanâs academic journey and consider how she came to write a ground-breaking book that has made major impacts on socio-legal and feminist legal studies. The paper is structured around the main themes arising in conversation with Pateman, with each section centred on her own account taken from our conversation in late 2017
Participatory politics, environmental journalism and newspaper campaigns
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journalism Studies, 13(2), 210 - 225, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1461670X.2011.646398.This article explores the extent to which approaches to participatory politics might offer a more useful alternative to understanding the role of environmental journalism in a society where the old certainties have collapsed, only to be replaced by acute uncertainty. This uncertainty not only generates acute public anxiety about risks, it has also undermined confidence in the validity of long-standing premises about the ideal role of the media in society and journalistic professionalism. The consequence, this article argues, is that aspirations of objective reportage are outdated and ill-equipped to deal with many of the new risk stories environmental journalism covers. It is not a redrawing of boundaries that is needed but a wholesale relocation of our frameworks into approaches better suited to the socio-political conditions and uncertainties of late modernity. The exploration of participatory approaches is an attempt to suggest one way this might be done
Codes of Commitment to Crime and Resistance: Determining Social and Cultural Factors over the Behaviors of Italian Mafia Women
This article categorizes thirty-three women in four main Italian Mafia groups and explores social and cultural behaviors of these women. This study introduces the feminist theory of belief and action. The theoretical inquiry investigates the sometimes conflicting behaviors of women when they are subject to systematic oppression. I argue that there is a cultural polarization among the categorized sub-groups. Conservative radicals give their support to the Mafia while defectors and rebels resist the Mafia. After testing the theory, I assert that emancipation of women depends on the strength of their beliefs to perform actions against the Mafiosi culture
Imagining Gendered Adulthood
In this article, the authors draw on two qualitative, longitudinal studies of young peopleâs transitions to adulthood and how they construct these transitions over time in social, cultural and material terms. The authors focus on the hopes, anxieties and imagined futures of young women. They discuss the individualization thesis, and the contradiction for female individualization between expectations of equality and the reality of inequality between the genders. The debate is moved beyond âpitiful girlsâ and âcan-do girlsâ by exploring how young women in the UK and Finland anticipate and try to avoid being locked into the lives of adult women
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