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
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Katarina Giritli Nygren: Department of Social Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Lena Martinsson: Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Diana Mulinari: Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Social Inclusion, 2018, vol. 6, issue 4, 1-7

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 been functioning as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. The last decade it has also become focused by 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 situating the discussions within the tradition of scholarships of hope through a dialogue about 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.17645/si.v6i4.1799

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