UID:
almafu_9960177698302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-2600-8
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1-4473-2598-2
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1-4473-2599-0
Inhalt:
This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering a new perspective for an international audience and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Sep 2022).
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CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF GENDER EQUALITY IN SWEDEN; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Table; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden; The emergence of a mythical mantra; Critiquing the Swedish model of gender equality: key issues; Structure of the volume; 1. When feminism became gender equality and anti-racism turned into diversity management; Introduction; From the women's movement to the women's lobby; From anti-racism to diversity management; The intersectional challenge; Final remarks
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2. Normalisation meets governmentality: gender equality reassembledIntroduction; The normalisation of different articulations of gender equality; Gender equality as something we have already accomplished and the disappearance of gender: reassembling the normal in terms of risk; Gender equality as a measurable quantitative complementarity: reproducing gender/power relations; Gender equality as a narrative of and for 'us' - by producing the 'other'
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Migration, welfare changes and racialised violence'Fear on the rise': cultures of violence, whiteness and facelessness; Taking the place of the subject: the fear of (small) numbers; Masculinity in crisis; Predatory identities and the fear of numbers, large and small; Accounting for majoritarian fears; Charting ambivalence: the conundrum of the individual versus the masses; Challenging neoliberalism's insistence on the individual: the persistence of inequalities; Afterword; 5. How is the myth of Swedish gender equality upheld outside Sweden? A case study
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The Egalia case: 'stupefying gender madness haunts Sweden'The Yahya Hassan/Athena Farrokzhad case: 'Swedish in the head'; The Swedish gender-equality mantra; Swedish exceptionalism; Conclusion; 6. Gender equality under threat? Exploring the paradoxes of an ethno-nationalist political party; Introduction; Swedish gender equality at the cross-roads; Racism and the field of the political; Gender and cultural-racist parties; Women in the Sweden Democrats; Neoliberalism, gender and support for racist parties; Four paradoxes: a feminist reading of the Sweden Democrats; Conclusions
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7. 'What should we do instead?' Gender-equality projects and feminist critique
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4473-2597-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4473-2596-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
DOI:
10.56687/9781447325994
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447325994/type/BOOK
