New issue: Women, Gender & Research - #metoo
This special issue “#MeToo, Discrimination and Backlash” seeks to draw attention to different feminist researchers’ and activists’ efforts to start the ripple effects within their field and within their worlds.
From the introduction: By the Ripples Waves through Feminist Knowledge Production and Activism. By Lea Skewes, Molly Occhino and Lise Roland Agustín.
“The #MeToo revolution has been very slow to hit Denmark. However, since tv host Sofie Linde’s speech at the Zulu’s Comedy Galla in August of this year, the floodgates have been opened, and Denmark has entered into a wave of #MeToo reports. Employees in the Danish media, politicians, doctors, academics and others have followed suit – all telling stories which reveal major challenges with sexism and sexual harassment in Danish workplaces (Astrup & Jensen 2020). “ (pp. 6).
“We do not have to be alone with our experiences of sexism and sexual harassment. We can find strength in sharing, and in becoming a collective of voices speaking up. Unfortunately, some people’s inability to react with recognition and empathy to these stories reveals that structural gender inequalities still do persist (Borchorst and Rolandsen Agustín 2017). The brick walls are still there. Not everyone is ready to listen. How ever, as the second wave of the #MeToo movement in Denmark shows, a stone thrown causes ripples, it causes movement, it moves us, and the movement of people siding with the victims and killjoys is growing larger every day. Putting a name to the problem and staying with the trouble can start to make lives and worlds more liveable” (pp. 7).
“The base assumption of this special issue is that feminists’ come up against brick walls when fighting for greater inclusion of women, people of colour, trans or queer people; and that this struggle typically has been met with backlash. Often the backlash has been especially harsh when people with minority identities have explicitly challenged currently privileged people. Therefore, the explicit challenge to privileges is central to this special issue. We hope to strengthen the academic voices which challenge patriarchal, masculine, white, cis-, and heteronormative norms, which for so long have been the invisible backdrop from which everyone else in academia has been cast as deviant outsiders (Ahmed 2012; Butler, 1990; Crenshaw, 1989). Therefore, we strive to bring out the internal conflicts and discriminatory processes within knowledge production in academia, and feminist activism more broadly, in order to create knowledge production spaces which are more inclusive, giving voice to many feminisms” (pp. 5).
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
MAKING RIPPLES AND WAVES THROUGH FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND ACTIVISM
by Lea Skewes, Molly Occhino & Lise Rolandsen Agustín
INTERVIEW
FEMINIST RESEARCH IN MISOGYNISTIC TIMES
An Interview with Drude Dahlerup
by Lea Skewes
ARTICLES
WRITING VICTIMHOOD
A Methodological Manifesto for Researching Digital Sexual Assault
by Signe Uldbjerg
CAUGHT IN THE WAVE?
Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, and the #MeToo Movement in Portugal
by Ana Prata
ESSAYS
TOWARDS DECOLONISING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES
by Abeba Birhane & Olivia Guest
ME, WHO?
(Un)telling Whiteness within and beyond MeToo
by Elisabeth Bruun Gullach & Maya Acharya
ACADEMICS AGAINST GENDER STUDIES
Science Populism as Part of an Authoritarian Anti-feminist Hegemony Project
by Marion Näser-Lather
QUESTIONING NORMAL
Overcoming Implicit Resistance to Norm Critical Education
by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren & Ehm Hjorth Miltersen
IS THE GENDER BINARY SYSTEM A BIOLOGICAL FACT OR A SOCIAL NORM?
Modifi ed Chapter from the Book “Inappropriate Behaviour” (Upassende Opførsel)
by Mads Ananda Lodahl
BOOK REVIEWS
MAPPING THE MOVEMENTS AGAINST “GENDER IDEOLOGY” ACROSS EUROPE
Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (Eds):
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality
by Molly Occhino
THE USES OF USE
Sara Ahmed: What’s the Use. On the Uses of Use
by Camilla Sabroe Jydebjerg
DID MISOGYNY WIN THE 2016 AMERICAN ELECTION?
Kate Manne: Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
by Sidsel Jelved Kennild
IS DEMOCRACY A RULE BY AND FOR MEN?
Drude Dahlerup: Demokrati uden Kvinder
by Mathilde Cecchini