I’m a Feminist – Get Me Out of Here! Women and Women’s Rights Campaigners – Feminist Analysis of Status Quo
Susanne Völker, Stephan Trinkaus
Gender issues and feminism are currently the subject of wide public debate – and the reference points therein stem from very different motivations. For example › feminism ‹ is exploited as a tool to evoke cultural differences, to define backwardness and superior modernity by those supposed feminist campaigners for whom gender equality and gender politics have up to now tended to be preferred vehicles for broadcasting notions of feeling under threat.
In the debate on womens’ rights, who is doing the talking and which › women‹ are actually meant here? What does it mean when › women‹ become goods to be protected as part of national trade and/or patriarchal masculinities? What is the feminist response here and what answers are currently provided by feminists? If it’s less about protection as a form of shutting them away and instead about becoming aware of reciprocal dependence and exposure, what would then be the reference points of queer-feminist politics shared communally throughout the world?
Susanne Völker
Susanne Völker is Professor of Sociology specialising in gender research and qualitative methods of social research and is Scientific Director of the central institution GeStiK (Gender Studies in Cologne) at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses are feminist theory, sociology of labour and inequality, precarisation research and praxeological sociology. She is currently first spokeswoman of the Fachgesellschaft für Geschlechterstudien e.V. (German trade association for gender studies).
Stephan Trinkaus
Stephan Trinkaus is currently associate Professor at the Institute for Media Culture and Theatre of the University of Cologne and has just submitted a media and cultural studies thesis with the title Precarious Community. On a Diffractive Theory of Holding. at the philosophical faculty at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. In recent years, his work has mainly focused on empirical television research and questions of materiality, the topic of precariousness and sexual difference.
