FEMINIST CHANGE REVISITED: GENDER MAINSTREAMING AS SLOW REVOLUTION

Within the growing body of literature on gender mainstreaming, intense and vivid discussions on an assumed loss of transformative potential and a feminist, revolutionary promise of change exist. Our analysis uses a paradigm shift in thinking on power and social relations, for analysing conceptualisa...

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Published inJournal of international development Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 396 - 408
Main Authors Davids, Tine, van Driel, Francien, Parren, Franny
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2014
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects
Changes
Conceptualization
Feminism
Feminist theory
Gender
Gender equity
gender mainstreaming
Labels
Literature
Loss
Mainstreaming
Paradigms
power
Public policy
Revolution
Sex
slow revolution
Social change
Social Power
Social relations
Studies
subject theory
Utopianism
Utopias
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ISSN0954-1748
1099-1328
DOI10.1002/jid.2945

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Summary:Within the growing body of literature on gender mainstreaming, intense and vivid discussions on an assumed loss of transformative potential and a feminist, revolutionary promise of change exist. Our analysis uses a paradigm shift in thinking on power and social relations, for analysing conceptualisations of both gender and change. We point to the necessity of rethinking this revolutionary feminist promise and its underlying subject theory. In breaking away from a utopian vision of change, we argue that gender mainstreaming can be considered part of what we will label a slow revolution. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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ISSN:0954-1748
1099-1328
DOI:10.1002/jid.2945