Gender, Metaphor and the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marian Sawer (0000-0001-9406-6702, University of Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-134 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395777 |
| OpenAlex | W4237491562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 17 |
The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance - through 'over-protection' by the state in the public sphere and usurpation of male roles in the private sphere. The identification of the welfare state as female (the 'nanny state') helps fuel resentment on the part of those already confused by rapidly changing gender roles. This paper tracks the sex change which took place in the image of the liberal state as it evolved out of the night watchman state - the link between the women's suffrage movement and social regulation, maternal principles of distribution and demands for the public organization of caring. It examines the neo-liberal rejection of the breast and neo-liberal claims that the maternal state is incompatible with 'self-reliance' and a barrier to competitiveness in the world market
Autonomy · Feminism · Human sexuality · Liberalism · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Resentment · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,66 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |