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Gender Politics, Intersectionality, and the Complexities of Feminist Interventions

Islam
Women
Critical Theory
Feminism
International
Race
Power
Solidarity
P046
Gundula Ludwig
Universität Bremen
Amelie Barras
York University

Building: Géopolis, Floor: 2, Room: 2224

Friday 16:15 - 18:00 CEST (09/06/2017)

Abstract

As we know from gender studies, there are numerous cases of an intricate connection between gender and nation, in the way that gender serves as a difference marker between nations. As we know from critical studies on racism, racism often works by means of othering sexism, of attributing sexism – and, in latter times, also heterosexism – to those collectives that it is directed against. Thereby, racism aspires to appear as a supposedly anti-sexist or anti-heterosexist position. As we know from postcolonial studies, notions of gendered differences between nations as well as the othering of sexism have come to use in colonial politics, and keep being employed in imperial politics. This panel takes these findings as a starting point to ask how an adequate feminist response to their current manifestations may look like. To this end, it combines four papers that each focus on different aspects of such responses. The goal of this panel is to put these four positions into a dialogue about their respective strengths, shortcomings, and possibilities for combination. Gabriele Dietze focuses on the othering of sexism in the domestic realm of current German debates on the intersection of sexism, racism and migration. Claudia Brunner adds an international relations dimension to the same discursive figure, pointing out how logics of “saving” particular subjects for gender or sexuality reasons have come to use in international politics from colonial times until the current “war on terror”. Ina Kerner responds to such critical feminist responses by problematizing their tendency to be silent about sexism in contexts different from their own. Fatimah Ihsan, finally, problematizes current images of Muslim women in a broad spectrum of both orientalist and feminist positions and presents Sufism as a site of, and as an intellectual resource for, an alternative mode of female agency.

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