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FEMINIST CHANGE REVISITED: GENDER MAINSTREAMING AS SLOW REVOLUTION
Author(s) -
Davids Tine,
Driel Francien,
Parren Franny
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2945
Subject(s) - transformative learning , gender mainstreaming , mainstreaming , gender studies , sociology , feminist theory , feminism , power (physics) , social change , subject (documents) , gender relations , critical theory , social science , political science , gender equality , law , special education , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science
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.