Can respect be key to gender justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2253139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marit Tolo Østebø (0000-0001-8122-7757, Department of Anthropology University of Florida Turlington Hall, Room 1112 PO Box 117305 Gainesville FL 32611‐7305 USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-89 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9655.12752 |
| OpenAlex | W2774114469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
Equality and respect are, together with dignity, considered foundational values in international human rights discourse. While equality in particular has been established as a widely accepted goal in the women's rights movement, respect is, however, less commonly invoked. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia, this article examines the notion ofwayyuu, a tacit moral model of respect and sacredness that is central to institutions and norms that have secured women certain rights and power. These norms and institutions represent a challenge to the liberal feminist conceptualization of gender equality that dominates international women's rights discourse. Drawing on theories of respect and on feminist and anthropological discussions of equality, I argue that even though there are certain limitations inherent inwayyuu, the sacredness it entails and the implications this has had for women's status and power among the Arsi Oromo call for an exploration of respect not as an alternative to equality, but as a complementary notion which to a greater extent could be included in global discussions of gender justice
Conceptualization · Dignity · Economic Justice · Feminism · Gender equality · Human rights · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Human Rights and Development · Law
African philosophy
African Material Culture
Human Rights and African Airwaves
The Ethical Demand
Once Intrepid Warriors
Two Kinds of Respect
The Nature of Respect
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique
The Church of Women
The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Politics of Piety
Half the Sky
Shifting meanings of gender equality in development
Did Kant Respect Persons
Gender Equality in International Aid
Who is a “real woman”? Empowerment and the discourse of respectability in Namibia's Zambezi region
Revisiting the ‘Gender Agenda’
From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice
Family Bonds/Conceptual Binds
Mapping the Margins
II. Kant's Respect for Persons
Government Respect for Gendered Rights
How Do Norms Travel? Theorizing International Women's Rights in Transnational Perspective1
Translations of Gender Equality among Rural Arsi Oromo in Ethiopia
Under Western Eyes
Those Who Play with Fire
Writing Women's Worlds
Joking and Avoidance, Hostility and Incest
The Creative Communion
On joking relationships
Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way)
Once Intrepid Warriors
The Romance of Resistance
Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance
Sitting on a Man
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |