Susanne Zwingel
Biographic Data
| ID | 249410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Zwingel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Zwingel |
| SIGNATURE | ZWINGEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6433-4569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bridging contexts, reinforcing exclusions? Activism, agency, and acts of translating gendered belongings and concepts
Commentary on “The Care Economy al América Latina
Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County Cedaw Ordinance as Local Practice
Because of the United States’ minimal domestic engagement with human rights, several subnational initiatives, including the Cities for CEDAW campaign, have formed to infuse human rights into local policy making. Analyzing Miami-Dade County as one locale within the Cities for CEDAW network, this article asks what happens to human rights when they are turned into urban policies. Drawing on literature theorizing the complexities of urban human right…
Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County Cedaw Ordinance as Local Practice – Erratum
Women's rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice
The article makes two claims regarding women’s rights and their domestic implementation: First, ongoing international debates have created both agreement and contestation regarding the meaning of women’s rights. Hence, the concept is ‘in motion’. Second, this has led to diverse forms of domestic engagement with this set of norms. These processes have two components, the first being the translation between situated meanings, the second the actual …
Translating International Women's Rights
This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women's rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. It discusses specific methods which have made CEDAW resonate
International Feminist Strategies
Claiming the rights of women in a world of blatant gender hierarchies is an international feminist strategy that has been around for a long time. Rhetorically, it has been part of the human rights framework since its very inception, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 already contains important elements of gender equality, thanks to the lobbying efforts of a handful of women's rights advocates at the time. But it took the wave of…
Feminist strategies in international governance
The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new framings of current feminist struggles
How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective1
If women's rights norms have become internationally acknowledged, is it reasonable to assume that the status of women worldwide has improved because of international norms? It is argued here that the assumption of a global-to-local flow of norms inherent in most of the global norm diffusion literature is simplistic. To provide a more adequate theoretical framework, the paper juxtaposes the debate on the impact of international regimes and the pow…
Mehrheit am Rand?
Prekarisierung, Verelendung und Armut sind zu den Schlagwörtern der politischen Debatte des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts geworden. Während in den 1990er Jahren über die Feminisierung von Armut im Globalen Süden diskutiert wurde, ist die Armut zwischenzeitlich in den Ländern des Globalen Nordens angekommen. Ziel des Buches ist es, diese komplexen Wandlungsprozesse in den Bereichen Arbeit, Migration und Sicherheit aus einer Geschlechterperspektive zu un…
Mehrheit am Rand
Product Review
From intergovernmental negotiations to (sub)national change
In the last thirty years, a process of global norm creation in the field of gender equality has taken place. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women marks a milestone in this process: it emerged as the first legally binding international instrument for the protection of women's rights. The 180 states that have ratified the Convention have interpreted their treaty obligations in diverse ways, ranging from rel…
Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany
This essay introduces the seven articles in the symposium. Placing this special issue within the purview of the new field of Feminist Comparative Policy, the analysis shows how the symposium contributes to comparative theories of feminist policy formation in Western postindustrial democracies. It then defines the three subareas of feminist policy covered in the rest of the volume—political representation, equal employment, and reconciliation—expl…
Asking Fathers and Employers to Volunteer
In Germany, up until recently, the combination of weak antidiscrimination laws and the rationale of family benefits had sustained the male breadwinner–female family caretaker model as the norm in social policy arrangements and gender relations. In the context of the unification of East and West Germany and the change in government to a left‐wing coalition in the late 1990s, the biases of this deeply entrenched model have been significantly put in…
How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective1
If women's rights norms have become internationally acknowledged, is it reasonable to assume that the status of women worldwide has improved because of international norms? It is argued here that the assumption of a global-to-local flow of norms inherent in most of the global norm diffusion literature is simplistic. To provide a more adequate theoretical framework, the paper juxtaposes the debate on the impact of international regimes and the pow…
From intergovernmental negotiations to (sub)national change
In the last thirty years, a process of global norm creation in the field of gender equality has taken place. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women marks a milestone in this process: it emerged as the first legally binding international instrument for the protection of women's rights. The 180 states that have ratified the Convention have interpreted their treaty obligations in diverse ways, ranging from rel…
Women's rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice
The article makes two claims regarding women’s rights and their domestic implementation: First, ongoing international debates have created both agreement and contestation regarding the meaning of women’s rights. Hence, the concept is ‘in motion’. Second, this has led to diverse forms of domestic engagement with this set of norms. These processes have two components, the first being the translation between situated meanings, the second the actual …
Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County Cedaw Ordinance as Local Practice
Because of the United States’ minimal domestic engagement with human rights, several subnational initiatives, including the Cities for CEDAW campaign, have formed to infuse human rights into local policy making. Analyzing Miami-Dade County as one locale within the Cities for CEDAW network, this article asks what happens to human rights when they are turned into urban policies. Drawing on literature theorizing the complexities of urban human right…
International Feminist Strategies
Claiming the rights of women in a world of blatant gender hierarchies is an international feminist strategy that has been around for a long time. Rhetorically, it has been part of the human rights framework since its very inception, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 already contains important elements of gender equality, thanks to the lobbying efforts of a handful of women's rights advocates at the time. But it took the wave of…
Product Review
Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany
This essay introduces the seven articles in the symposium. Placing this special issue within the purview of the new field of Feminist Comparative Policy, the analysis shows how the symposium contributes to comparative theories of feminist policy formation in Western postindustrial democracies. It then defines the three subareas of feminist policy covered in the rest of the volume—political representation, equal employment, and reconciliation—expl…
Asking Fathers and Employers to Volunteer
In Germany, up until recently, the combination of weak antidiscrimination laws and the rationale of family benefits had sustained the male breadwinner–female family caretaker model as the norm in social policy arrangements and gender relations. In the context of the unification of East and West Germany and the change in government to a left‐wing coalition in the late 1990s, the biases of this deeply entrenched model have been significantly put in…
From intergovernmental negotiations to (sub)national change
In the last thirty years, a process of global norm creation in the field of gender equality has taken place. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women marks a milestone in this process: it emerged as the first legally binding international instrument for the protection of women's rights. The 180 states that have ratified the Convention have interpreted their treaty obligations in diverse ways, ranging from rel…
Product Review
Mehrheit am Rand?
Prekarisierung, Verelendung und Armut sind zu den Schlagwörtern der politischen Debatte des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts geworden. Während in den 1990er Jahren über die Feminisierung von Armut im Globalen Süden diskutiert wurde, ist die Armut zwischenzeitlich in den Ländern des Globalen Nordens angekommen. Ziel des Buches ist es, diese komplexen Wandlungsprozesse in den Bereichen Arbeit, Migration und Sicherheit aus einer Geschlechterperspektive zu un…
Mehrheit am Rand
How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective1
If women's rights norms have become internationally acknowledged, is it reasonable to assume that the status of women worldwide has improved because of international norms? It is argued here that the assumption of a global-to-local flow of norms inherent in most of the global norm diffusion literature is simplistic. To provide a more adequate theoretical framework, the paper juxtaposes the debate on the impact of international regimes and the pow…
Feminist strategies in international governance
The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new framings of current feminist struggles
International Feminist Strategies
Claiming the rights of women in a world of blatant gender hierarchies is an international feminist strategy that has been around for a long time. Rhetorically, it has been part of the human rights framework since its very inception, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 already contains important elements of gender equality, thanks to the lobbying efforts of a handful of women's rights advocates at the time. But it took the wave of…
Translating International Women's Rights
This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women's rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. It discusses specific methods which have made CEDAW resonate
Women's rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice
The article makes two claims regarding women’s rights and their domestic implementation: First, ongoing international debates have created both agreement and contestation regarding the meaning of women’s rights. Hence, the concept is ‘in motion’. Second, this has led to diverse forms of domestic engagement with this set of norms. These processes have two components, the first being the translation between situated meanings, the second the actual …
Bridging contexts, reinforcing exclusions? Activism, agency, and acts of translating gendered belongings and concepts
Commentary on “The Care Economy al América Latina
Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County Cedaw Ordinance as Local Practice
Because of the United States’ minimal domestic engagement with human rights, several subnational initiatives, including the Cities for CEDAW campaign, have formed to infuse human rights into local policy making. Analyzing Miami-Dade County as one locale within the Cities for CEDAW network, this article asks what happens to human rights when they are turned into urban policies. Drawing on literature theorizing the complexities of urban human right…
Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County Cedaw Ordinance as Local Practice – Erratum
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Convention (4 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works)