The State and Gender Relations in International Political Economy

Autor(en)

Stefanie Wöhl

Abstrakt

This article develops a gendered state-theoretical materialist framework to show how capitalism as an economic system and the nation-state reproduce gendered hierarchies on multiple levels. With a focus on the symbolic masculine cultural order and its hegemonic political rationality of governing, the current economic crisis and its effects on gender regimes is discussed more specifically. In a case study on a new economic governance form called 'Sixpack' within the European Union, the effects of these policies and their symbolic meanings are highlighted. The article therefore challenges the varieties of capitalism literature on gender, arguing that a broader framework of analysis is necessary to capture the intersectional dimensions of domination in capitalism for different subject positions.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Capital & Class

Band

38

Seiten

87-99

Anzahl der Seiten

13

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816813513089

Publikationsdatum

02-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506004 Europäische Integration

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Economics and Econometrics, History, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1e706079-eb90-4a2b-b5f4-d7754f407ba0