Gender
Gender
Gender is a social construct and refers to the differences between male and female, masculine and feminine. Binary sex and gender categories such as male and female are increasingly challenged and have resulted in conflicts between those who question and those who defend such rigid distinctions which are presumably grounded in biological differences, a claim that is strongly contested. Gender relations are power relations and are reflected in hierarchies and divisions of labour. Gender intersects with other markers of inequality including but not limited to class, race, sexuality. At the macro-level different gender regimes which are to a greater or lesser extent more or less unequal can be distinguished. Political processes and participation are gendered. Social movements are mobilising have mobilised both for and against gender equality. A global lens is necessary to understand gendered global power relations and how they impact on local politics at local, national, and translational levels.
anti-gender movements, democracy, gender regimes, intersectionality, masculinity, power
204-207
Roth, Silke
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20 December 2023
Roth, Silke
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Roth, Silke
(2023)
Gender.
In,
Grasso, Maria and Giugni, Marco
(eds.)
Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology.
(Elgar Encyclopedias in Sociology series)
Edward Elgar Publishing, .
(doi:10.4337/9781803921235.00058).
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Abstract
Gender is a social construct and refers to the differences between male and female, masculine and feminine. Binary sex and gender categories such as male and female are increasingly challenged and have resulted in conflicts between those who question and those who defend such rigid distinctions which are presumably grounded in biological differences, a claim that is strongly contested. Gender relations are power relations and are reflected in hierarchies and divisions of labour. Gender intersects with other markers of inequality including but not limited to class, race, sexuality. At the macro-level different gender regimes which are to a greater or lesser extent more or less unequal can be distinguished. Political processes and participation are gendered. Social movements are mobilising have mobilised both for and against gender equality. A global lens is necessary to understand gendered global power relations and how they impact on local politics at local, national, and translational levels.
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Submitted date: 15 September 2022
Published date: 20 December 2023
Keywords:
anti-gender movements, democracy, gender regimes, intersectionality, masculinity, power
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Maria Grasso
Editor:
Marco Giugni
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