Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland
研究了爱尔兰经济危机期间,妇女和女性主义组织如何通过防御性政治行动抵抗财政紧缩,并指出尽管性别基础设施受损,女性主义行动仍对实现性别平等至关重要。
This article examines the impact of the economic and social crisis in shaping political agency in women's and feminist organizations in the context of Irish austerity. Examining forms of political agency exercised by women in a range of gendered mobilizations, we isolate examples of defensive agency that seek to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. Despite the damage to gender infrastructure we argue that feminist agency remains crucial to realizing gender equality in public and private decision making. Evidence suggests that in the Irish context, despite deep austerity, gendered forms of mobilization are resisting retrenchment but are doing so in an absence of intersectional solidarities.