Birgit Sauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 620666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Sauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Sauer |
| SIGNATURE | SAUER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4857-7696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Affektiver maskulinistischer Widerstand gegen Quotenimplementierung in Europa. Kämpfe um die (Un-)Sichtbarkeit von Frauen in der Politik
Politik ist Kampf um Macht, betonte der Soziologe Max Weber. Für Weber war das politische Machtfeld durchaus emotional, denn dieser Kampf müsse mit Leidenschaft betrieben werden. Das politische Machtfeld galt ihm freilich auch als männlich. Politik konnte Weber sich nicht als »Frauenberuf« vorstellen. Inzwischen ist der Frauenanteil in nationalen Parlamenten sukzessive nicht zuletzt durch Quotenregelungen gestiegen. Allerdings folgt aus Quotenreg…
Masculinist identity politics as a strategy for normalizing authoritarian-right narratives. The cases of Germany and Austria
Leeb, Claudia: Contesting the Far Right. A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, 336 S., Columbia UP, New York u. a. 2024
Katharina Hajek / Ina Kerner, Iwona Kocjan, Nicola Mühlhäuser: Gender Studies zur Einführung
Dorothee Beck, Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger (Hg.): Blurring Boundaries – ‚Anti-Gender‘ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses
Bibliographie: Sauer, Birgit: Dorothee Beck, Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger (Hg.): Blurring Boundaries – ‚Anti-Gender‘ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2-2024, S. 129-131. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v33i2.15-----Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.11.2024 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 …
Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Eva Kreisky (1944 – 2024)
Bibliographie: Marion, Löffler/Sauer, Birgit: Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Eva Kreisky (1944 – 2024), Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 2-2024, S. 95-98. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v33i2.8-----Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.11.2026 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und den Nutzungsbedingu…
Eva Kreisky
Borderless fear: How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This article examines this claim by focusing on right-wing populist frames and affective communication on migration in Austria and Slovenia. Taking a communication-centred approach, the study is based on a critical frame analysis of 70 speeches from …
Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions
Narrating Paradox Affects: Unaccompanied Minor Asylum-Seekers in Austria
Asylum-seeking unaccompanied children and youngsters are situated at the crossroads between exclusionary and repressive asylum policies, on the one hand, and relatively inclusive and caring child welfare policies, on the other. This is the ‘asylum-child welfare paradox’ (Dursun and Sauer 2021). In this article, we explore the role of affect, feelings, and emotions in how unaccompanied minors respond to and process but also co-construct and resist…
No Choice Advocates: Wie der Angriff auf reproduktive Rechte säkulare und religiöse Antifeminismen vereint
Die christlich-fundamentalistische Agitation gegen reproduktive Rechte hat sich in den letzten Jahren auf europäischer Ebene modernisiert und strategisch neu positioniert. Am Beispiel der österreichischen #FAIRÄNDERN-Petition gegen Abtreibung, die 2018 ins Parlament eingebracht wurde, wird zunächst gezeigt, wie diese Veränderungen zur verstärkten Akzeptanz christlich-fundamentalistischer und säkular rechtsextremer Diskurse beitragen. Auf europäis…
Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality
This article sheds light on the waiting period experienced by asylum‐seeking children in Austria. We argue that this period can be defined as a ‘phase of liminality’ in which ‘precarity’ of asylum seekers is produced. The article analyses how children experience institutional settings that produce precarity in relation to their well‐being. The aim is to contribute to a sound understanding of children's experiences while waiting for an asylum deci…
Gender: Ambivalent In_visibilities - An Editorial
The in_visibilization of emotions in politics. Ambivalences of an 'affective democracy
The liberal affect dispositif and liberal theories of democracy are historically entangled with gendered processes of in_visibilization—the invisibilization and paradox visibilization of women as well as of affect and emotions. To overcome divisions and exclusions connected to in_visibilization, this article spells out the ambivalent power relations of affect, care and relatedness in processes of visibilizing and invisibilizing, and hence their d…
Nachdenken über Intersektionalität. Die Bedeutung von Klasse und Geschlecht im Kontext von anti-feministischen Kämpfen um Hegemonie
Sorge, Emotionen und Affekt: Überlegungen zur feministisch-materialistischen Staats- und Demokratietheorie
Aktuelle Entwicklungen in westlichen Demokratien verlangen eine gesellschaftstheoretische Konzeptualisierung von Demokratie, nämlich des Zusammenhangs von Kapitalismus, Patriarchat, Staat und Demokratie. Die Arbeiten von Alex Demirovic leisteten für ein solch feministisch-materialistisches Theorieprojekt zentrale Übersetzungsarbeit. Der Artikel treibt nun diese feministisch-materialistischen Überlegungen zu Staat und Demokratie weiter, verknüpft …
Contested integration: Hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria
The Austrian policy landscape with regard to the educational integration measures directly or indirectly targeting migrant children is characterized by inconsistency and the concurrence of integrative and segregative measures. We ask how these discrepancies can be interpreted without being reduced to mere inconsistencies and why, in the context of the ongoing normalization of the political right, integrative measures have not (yet) disappeared co…
Challenging cultures of rejection
In this article, Bojanic, Jonsson, Neergaard and Sauer present a synthetic overview of the five country cases included in the special issue that analyse the emergence of cultures of rejection since 2015. In general, they discuss the conceptual framework of ‘Cultures of Rejection’, elaborated throughout the issue as a more encompassing approach that is sensitive to the values, norms and affects that underlie different or similar patterns of exclus…
Radical right populist debates on female Muslim body-coverings in Austria. Between biopolitics and necropolitics
The Austrian Parliament has passed three laws since 2018 that prohibit wearing Muslim body-coverings in public. This departure from a formerly tolerant approach is an outcome of ongoing anti-Muslim campaigns by the radical-right populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The party has been mobilising since the mid-1980s through the creation of two antagonisms: ‘the elite’ and second against ‘Others’ – mainly migrants. Since the turn of the century,…
Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions
Financing Gender Equality: Budgets for Women’s Policies in German and Austrian Länder
State budgets reflect political priorities, providing a measure of issue relevance over time and comparatively across states. This article offers the first analysis of Länder budgets for women's policy agencies (WPA) in Germany and Austria between 1991 and 2018. Comparing Länder WPA budgets provides insights into material allocations to, and the conditionality of, gender politics in Germany's strongly federalized state and Austria's weak federati…
The asylum–child welfare paradox: Unaccompanied minors in Austria
Existing research shows that right-wing populist imaginaries and discourses on “bogus asylum seekers” mobilise feelings of fear and panic and serve to legitimise increasingly restrictive asylum policies in Europe. In light of this ongoing development, this paper addresses a more intrinsic and structural aspect of asylum, which requires balancing the inclusion and exclusion of persecuted third-country nationals. This paradox is most evident with u…
Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it relates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions in which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Europe. We explore how the pandemic and its management reinforces, transforms and/or overrides existing antagonisms and institutes new ones in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. We discuss how the Covid-19 c…
Right-wing populist affective governing: A frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration
In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria by focusing on parliamentary debates between 2015 and 2019 concerned with migration, asylum policies and integration measures. Their theoretical approach builds first on Cas Mudde’s conception of right-wing popul…
Doing Gender im öffentlichen Dienst: Affektive Arbeit von Arbeitsvermittler_innen
Der Wandel der staatlichen Arbeitsmarktverwaltung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz impliziert zum einen die Aktivierung von Erwerbslosen und mehr affektive Arbeit, zum anderen die Einführung von New Public Management und Wettbewerb. Der Beitrag untersucht die geschlechtsspezifische Bedeutung, die diese Veränderungen für die Arbeit der in der Arbeitsverwaltung Tätigen hat. Die Ergebnisse unserer empirischen Studie zeigen ein komplexes Bi…
Intersections and Inconsistencies. Framing Gender in Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Austria
The paper contributes to the discussion on (re)framing processes of gender equality focusing in particular on right-wing populist discourses in Austria. Our frame analysis of 50 texts published by four right-wing (extremist) parties and movements reveals that traditional (family) values, women's “free choice”, and LGBT rights play important roles in right-wing populist (re)framing processes of gender equality. Our data also show notable inconsist…
Introduction: The Veil: Debating Citizenship, Gender and Religious Diversity
Journal Article Introduction: The Veil: Debating Citizenship, Gender and Religious Diversity Get access Sevgi Kılıç, Sevgi Kılıç Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sawitri Saharso, Sawitri Saharso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Birgit Sauer Birgit Sauer E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Po…
Headscarf Regimes in Europe: Diversity Policies at the Intersection of Gender, Culture and Religion
Post-bureaucratic encounters: Affective labour in public employment services
This article explores the activation regime in three European countries – Austria, Germany, and Switzerland – and the related transformation of state bureaucracies into customer-oriented service providers. In the case of employment services affective labour tends to characterise the work process, in which public employees seek to guide, motivate, and control jobseekers. Our study focuses on organisational mechanisms, which govern the affect manag…
Will gender equality ever fit in? Contested discursive spaces of university reform
Similar to other European countries, the introduction of non-academic, especially managerial, criteria in higher education has shaped and altered Austrian universities since over a decade. This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of Austrian higher education debates from 1993 until 2010. It outlines how reforms in higher education were prepared and enhanced by a new policy discourse, with a special focus on the way gender equality is f…
Constructing ‘the people: An intersectional analysis of right-wing concepts of democracy and citizenship in Austria
This article analyses right-wing populist constructions of ‘the people’ emerging at the intersections of ethnicized ‘othering’ and gendered differences within groups. We argue that these constructions are in stark contrast to the liberal notion of citizenship, which we understand to be the basis for thedemos. Right-wing populism constructs its politics of belonging beyond rights, i.e. ‘the people’ is defined as a community through identity with t…
Mobilizing shame and disgust: Abolitionist affective frames in Austrian and German anti-sex-work movements
This article analyses anti-sex-work mobilization in Austria and Germany since 2014. An affective perspective on the websites of these groups shows how their framings run the risk of establishing a disciplinary regime of governing people, of a restrictive, heterosexist norm of sexuality, and of gender inequality. Abolitionist strategies in the two countries thus produce an affective governmentality excluding those who should not belong to the affe…
Tu felix Austria? The Headscarf and the Politics of 'Non-issues
Austria has one of the most tolerant regulations concerning the expression of religious beliefs and practices in the public realm in Europe. Concerning the headscarf, the Austrian legislation does not know any restrictions on wearing headgear—neither for cultural nor for security reasons - if wearing a veil is clearly related to religious reasons. These liberal legal regulations have even been strengthened during the recent years. In line with th…
Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark
The article aims to integrate key concepts from social movement, citizenship and gender theories with afocus on (political) intersectionality at the interface of migration, race, gender and sexuality. It explores the responses from civil society groups to the exclusive intersections of right-wing politics and discourses in Austria and Denmark with afocus on inclusive intersectionality and transversal politics. The article asks if and how the inte…
Doing gender in public services: Affective labour of employment agents
The restructuring of state bureaucracies into service organizations and the new welfare state paradigm of activation have changed the work requirements of front‐line workers in public employment agencies across Europe. Public employment agents are less engaged in bureaucratic labour, but have to perform service work. They use affective means to motivate and to monitor and sanction jobseekers. This article provides evidence that these transformati…
Feminist Perspectives on the Internationalization of The State
The state is often described in transition: public spaces are rearranged by private companies, national social welfare is being privatized to some extent, and supranational institutions have more influence on national policies. “A view from the kitchen” (Diane Elson) is helpful for understanding the changing dynamics of states and societies because different women are affected by these policies in different and often ambiguous ways: women of the …
Right-wing populist affective governing: A frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration
In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria by focusing on parliamentary debates between 2015 and 2019 concerned with migration, asylum policies and integration measures. Their theoretical approach builds first on Cas Mudde’s conception of right-wing popul…
Politics, Religion and Gender: Framing and Regulating the Veil
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf ta…
Borderless fear: How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This article examines this claim by focusing on right-wing populist frames and affective communication on migration in Austria and Slovenia. Taking a communication-centred approach, the study is based on a critical frame analysis of 70 speeches from …
Radical right populist debates on female Muslim body-coverings in Austria. Between biopolitics and necropolitics
The Austrian Parliament has passed three laws since 2018 that prohibit wearing Muslim body-coverings in public. This departure from a formerly tolerant approach is an outcome of ongoing anti-Muslim campaigns by the radical-right populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The party has been mobilising since the mid-1980s through the creation of two antagonisms: ‘the elite’ and second against ‘Others’ – mainly migrants. Since the turn of the century,…
Austrian Exceptionalism? Insights From a Huge Department in a Small Country
Whereas political science has a long history in the higher-education provision of many countries, it was only in the early 1970s that it became a feature of the provision in Austria. Not only is Austria a latecomer to the political science profession, but it is also home to a rather small political science community with there only being three universities which have established political science departments: Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna. Today…
Governance as political theory: Through the lens of gender. A response to B. Guy Peters
Discourses on forced prostitution, trafficking in women, and football: A comparison of anti‐trafficking campaigns during the World Cup 2006 and the European Championship 2008
Compared with the massive campaigns against trafficking in women during the 2006 men’s football World Cup in Germany, the issue was not taken up very much in Austria, which hosted the European Championships in 2008. Except for some smaller initiatives, the public debates were not as strong as two years before. In Germany, not only were fears of an increased demand for sexual services due to the number of male football fans and ‘a flood’ of foreig…
Mann, Frau, Volk. Familienidylle, Heteronormativität und Femonationalismus im europäischen rechten Populismus
Article Mann, Frau, Volk. Familienidylle, Heteronormativität und Femonationalismus im europäischen rechten Populismus was published on November 1, 2018 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 36, issue 2)
Affektive Subjektivierung: Arbeit und Geschlecht
Der Aufsatz thematisiert die affektive Arbeit von front line-Beschäftigten am Beispiel der österreichischen gelben Post. Seit der Privatisierung des Unternehmens stellt affektive Arbeit einen zentralen Bestandteil der neuen Kundenorientierung dar. Interviews zeigen das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den betriebswirtschaftlichen Ansprüchen der Konzernleitung und dem Gefühlsmanagement, das am unteren Ende der Betriebshierarchie im Kundenkontakt zu le…
The in_visibilization of emotions in politics. Ambivalences of an 'affective democracy
The liberal affect dispositif and liberal theories of democracy are historically entangled with gendered processes of in_visibilization—the invisibilization and paradox visibilization of women as well as of affect and emotions. To overcome divisions and exclusions connected to in_visibilization, this article spells out the ambivalent power relations of affect, care and relatedness in processes of visibilizing and invisibilizing, and hence their d…
Contested integration: Hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria
The Austrian policy landscape with regard to the educational integration measures directly or indirectly targeting migrant children is characterized by inconsistency and the concurrence of integrative and segregative measures. We ask how these discrepancies can be interpreted without being reduced to mere inconsistencies and why, in the context of the ongoing normalization of the political right, integrative measures have not (yet) disappeared co…
Neoliberal technologies of social protection: Affects and policy implementation
In the context of Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ of market forces and social protection this article explores the work of state agents and processes of subjectivation at the workplace according to the contemporary social policy paradigm of activation. We exemplify the transformation of welfare institutions and policies in the neoliberal period through one of the major ‘disruptive strains’ of self-regulating markets: unemployment, and we problematize…
Does Federalism Impact Gender Architectures? The Case of Women's Policy Agencies in Germany and Austria
This article investigates how strong German and weak Austrian cooperative federalism affect women’s policy machineries. We find that it is the federal organization of both polities that has posited engrained advantages for the establishment and the sustainability of women’s policy agencies (WPA). We also find that center/left parties are crucial for sustaining and advancing the role of WPA. However, during economic crises, we see that the women’s…
Vom Nationalstaat zum Europäischen Reich? Staat und Geschlecht in der Europäischen Union
Feministische Einschatzungen der europaischen Frauen- und Geschlechterpolitik sind ambivalent. Einerseits gilt die EU als Herrenhaus (Schunter-Kleemann 1992), das nationalstaatliche Geschlechterungleichheiten auf supranationaler Ebene wiederholt oder gar verstarkt, andererseits werden die institutionellen Grundlagen der EU als Chance fur einen neuen Geschlechtervertrag unter feministischen Vorzeichen gesehen (vgl. Piepenschneider 1996). In Bezug …
Political Culture and the Participation of Women in the German Democratic Republic After the “Wende”
Geschlechterverhältnisse im Kontext politischer Transformation
Dieses Sonderheft der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift möchte aktuelle Entwicklungen von Politik, Ökonomie, Gesellschaft und Kultur thematisieren: Sich entgrenzende Nationalstaatlichkeit, grenzüberschreitende kapitalistische Produktion und Konsumtion, „Entbettung“ kapitalistischer Finanzströme (vgl. Altvater/Mahnkopf 1996: 122ff.), sich verändernde Formen und Institutionen sozialer Interaktion und Kommunikation sind grundlegende Veränderungen des…
Transition zur Demokratie? Zur Geschlechterkritik sozialwissenschaftlicher Transformations- und Konsolidierungstheorien
Vom Nationalstaat zum Europäischen Reich? Staat und Geschlecht in der Europäischen Union
Feministische Einschatzungen der europaischen Frauen- und Geschlechterpolitik sind ambivalent. Einerseits gilt die EU als Herrenhaus (Schunter-Kleemann 1992), das nationalstaatliche Geschlechterungleichheiten auf supranationaler Ebene wiederholt oder gar verstarkt, andererseits werden die institutionellen Grundlagen der EU als Chance fur einen neuen Geschlechtervertrag unter feministischen Vorzeichen gesehen (vgl. Piepenschneider 1996). In Bezug …
Taxes, rights and regimentation: Discourses on prostitution in Austria
Prostitution was an important part of Viennese culture during the fin de siècle. Both Felix Salden's famous novel Josefine Mutzenbacher and Karl Krauss's essays on 'morality' reflect the public presence of prostitution during the Habsburg Empire. In post-war Austria, prostitution did not become a public issue until the mid-1980s, although the city centre of Vienna remained a famous red light district. Prostitution was seen as 'immoral', dangerous…
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
Kritische Vernunft für demokratische Transformationen: Festschrift für Christine Kulke
This book traces a scientific biography and thus reflects the development of gender-sensitive political science: its origins in Critical Theory with its visible connection to its paradigms, political science's preoccupation with work as the central 'crux' of gender-specific theory and politics, the discussion of political socialization as an obstacle and simultaneous starting point for women-specific emancipation, and finally globalization in its…
Formwandel politischer Institutionen im Kontext neoliberaler Globalisierung und die Relevanz der Kategorie Geschlecht
Kritische Vernunft für demokratische Transformationen: Festschrift für Christine Kulke
Dieses Buch zeichnet eine wissenschaftliche Biografie nach und reflektiert so die Entwicklung der gendersensiblen Politikwissenschaft: Die Herkunft aus der Kritischen Theorie mit der sichtbaren Rückbindung an deren Paradigmen, die politikwissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Arbeit als zentralem 'Knackpunkt' genderspezifischer Theorie und Politik, die Diskussion um politische Sozialisation als Hemmschuh und gleichzeitiger Ansatzpunkt frauenspezifis…
Introduction: The Veil: Debating Citizenship, Gender and Religious Diversity
Journal Article Introduction: The Veil: Debating Citizenship, Gender and Religious Diversity Get access Sevgi Kılıç, Sevgi Kılıç Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sawitri Saharso, Sawitri Saharso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Birgit Sauer Birgit Sauer E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Po…
Tu felix Austria? The Headscarf and the Politics of 'Non-issues
Austria has one of the most tolerant regulations concerning the expression of religious beliefs and practices in the public realm in Europe. Concerning the headscarf, the Austrian legislation does not know any restrictions on wearing headgear—neither for cultural nor for security reasons - if wearing a veil is clearly related to religious reasons. These liberal legal regulations have even been strengthened during the recent years. In line with th…
Staat und Geschlecht
Headscarf Regimes in Europe: Diversity Policies at the Intersection of Gender, Culture and Religion
Discourses on forced prostitution, trafficking in women, and football: A comparison of anti‐trafficking campaigns during the World Cup 2006 and the European Championship 2008
Compared with the massive campaigns against trafficking in women during the 2006 men’s football World Cup in Germany, the issue was not taken up very much in Austria, which hosted the European Championships in 2008. Except for some smaller initiatives, the public debates were not as strong as two years before. In Germany, not only were fears of an increased demand for sexual services due to the number of male football fans and ‘a flood’ of foreig…
Governance as political theory: Through the lens of gender. A response to B. Guy Peters
Feminist Perspectives on the Internationalization of The State
The state is often described in transition: public spaces are rearranged by private companies, national social welfare is being privatized to some extent, and supranational institutions have more influence on national policies. “A view from the kitchen” (Diane Elson) is helpful for understanding the changing dynamics of states and societies because different women are affected by these policies in different and often ambiguous ways: women of the …
Die hypnotische Macht der Herrschaft“ – Feministische Perspektiven
Politik und Bedeutung: Studien Zu Den Kulturellen Grundlagen Politischen Handelns und Politischer Institutionen
Geschlechterverhältnisse Im Kontext Politischer Transformation
Politics, Religion and Gender: Framing and Regulating the Veil
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf ta…
Feminismus und Politik – zu einem notwendigen und notwendig umkämpften Verhältnis. Eine politikwissenschaftliche Perspektive
Article Feminismus und Politik – zu einem notwendigen und notwendig umkämpften Verhältnis. Eine politikwissenschaftliche Perspektive was published on May 1, 2013 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 31, issue 1)
Does Federalism Impact Gender Architectures? The Case of Women's Policy Agencies in Germany and Austria
This article investigates how strong German and weak Austrian cooperative federalism affect women’s policy machineries. We find that it is the federal organization of both polities that has posited engrained advantages for the establishment and the sustainability of women’s policy agencies (WPA). We also find that center/left parties are crucial for sustaining and advancing the role of WPA. However, during economic crises, we see that the women’s…
Intersections and Inconsistencies. Framing Gender in Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Austria
The paper contributes to the discussion on (re)framing processes of gender equality focusing in particular on right-wing populist discourses in Austria. Our frame analysis of 50 texts published by four right-wing (extremist) parties and movements reveals that traditional (family) values, women's “free choice”, and LGBT rights play important roles in right-wing populist (re)framing processes of gender equality. Our data also show notable inconsist…
Reglementarische Prostitutionspolitik: Raumkonstruktionen in der Debatte über den Wiener Straßenstrich Anja Gurtner und Birgit Sauer
Article Reglementarische Prostitutionspolitik: Raumkonstruktionen in der Debatte über den Wiener Straßenstrich Anja Gurtner und Birgit Sauer was published on November 1, 2014 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 32, issue 2)
Affektive Subjektivierung: Arbeit und Geschlecht
Der Aufsatz thematisiert die affektive Arbeit von front line-Beschäftigten am Beispiel der österreichischen gelben Post. Seit der Privatisierung des Unternehmens stellt affektive Arbeit einen zentralen Bestandteil der neuen Kundenorientierung dar. Interviews zeigen das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den betriebswirtschaftlichen Ansprüchen der Konzernleitung und dem Gefühlsmanagement, das am unteren Ende der Betriebshierarchie im Kundenkontakt zu le…
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