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Ten Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality
Abstract
This chapter describes young women’s subject positions and their creation of gender identities by exploring (1) their attitudes towards feminism and (2) their attitudes towards some key issues associated with gender equality in the Scandinavian welfare states. It introduces the author’s approach, some key issues, and the empirical data on which the analysis is based. New Feminism has been designated as the third wave of feminism. The chapter also discusses the respondents’ attitudes towards feminist movements and to feminism as such. It appears that, to young women who do not subscribe to a specific feminist position, feminism is, in a broad sense, a mainly negative identification marker. Although the majority of the young women certainly are not feminists, they are fully aware of the lack of equality between women and men today. The chapter also points out several paradoxes and contradictions in the young women’s notions of equality.
Abstract
This chapter describes young women’s subject positions and their creation of gender identities by exploring (1) their attitudes towards feminism and (2) their attitudes towards some key issues associated with gender equality in the Scandinavian welfare states. It introduces the author’s approach, some key issues, and the empirical data on which the analysis is based. New Feminism has been designated as the third wave of feminism. The chapter also discusses the respondents’ attitudes towards feminist movements and to feminism as such. It appears that, to young women who do not subscribe to a specific feminist position, feminism is, in a broad sense, a mainly negative identification marker. Although the majority of the young women certainly are not feminists, they are fully aware of the lack of equality between women and men today. The chapter also points out several paradoxes and contradictions in the young women’s notions of equality.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables v
- Preface vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction 1
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Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy
- Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia 27
- The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context 43
- Married women’s right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945–83 63
- Family policy between science and politics 85
- Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families 101
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Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality
- The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies 119
- From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood 135
- Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state 149
- Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden 167
- Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality 183
- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality 199
- Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside 215
- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries 223
- Appendix 231
- Index 239
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables v
- Preface vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction 1
-
Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy
- Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia 27
- The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context 43
- Married women’s right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945–83 63
- Family policy between science and politics 85
- Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families 101
-
Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality
- The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies 119
- From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood 135
- Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state 149
- Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden 167
- Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality 183
- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality 199
- Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside 215
- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries 223
- Appendix 231
- Index 239
