Until recently it as hopelessly antiquated, in the genus "feminist" to count. Today the label is suddenly back in vogue, even ministers and mainstream authors profess to do so. And even those most capricious species discovered the F-word again for themselves, we had already written off almost: the young women. Well great! The question is: Which way to go? Here are five points that I believe are now on the agenda of the movement: first
The search for the "right" to give up feminism. The women's movement today is fragmented into many parallel worlds: University Gender Studies, spiritual ritual circles, women's and equality officer, a business networker women, queer activists or Matriarchatsforscherinnen - and each group accuses the other of not being a "real" feminist. In this respect, who staged a "catfight" media dispute between "young" and "old" feminists, but a false scandal (because the separation line is not really between age groups), but not completely out of thin air. When women ignore the involvement of dissident women in the name of the "real" feminism or ridicule, they weaken the female authority in general. To avoid misunderstanding: This is not a plea for more women's solidarity. I think feminists should argue very publicly. But just about their different sources of their divergent views and judgments, and do not decide to whom the label "feminist" Who deserves not.
second A genuine dialogue with men lead. In recent decades it has succeeded in making laws and bureaucratic rules, so men had to change in many ways, their behavior towards women. As long as it does not really understand why it is as important to use inclusive language, a certain proportion of women on boards to have or spend time on household work, it remains difficult and there is always the danger of a "backlash". How can we convince more men to the concerns of the women's movement important? We do not have to be constantly with the whip behind them? Simple Appeals in terms of "the men have to ..." since no further help, especially not when they are expressed as so often in women-only contexts. With the whole subject, we should experiment with imaginative and non-dogmatic - which incidentally also means that men (or understand what they are lower) as partners in their criticism and their reservations about feminism seriously.
third Feminism to make cross-cultural project. Still, the feminism in Germany, in all its "political groups" mainly a matter of white, middle-sized women. This weakens the movement and holds enormous even large risks (for example, because of the intercultural dialogue in Germany at present threatens to be a matter of conservative men). To change that, a lot could be of the "postcolonial studies" courses in the USA. Above all, it needs concrete relations with women from other cultures that are based on a genuine interest in each other - and then even if they do not share the beliefs of the Western emancipatory feminism. Maybe there are other ways to female freedom. That, moreover, no cultural relativism, but the only chance we have to women from other cultures may value the "Western" achievements convincing.
4th The incorporation of neo-liberal feminist claims to oppose. Currently, the economy is very skilled at making available, powerful interest women as "Human Resources". In this context, old feminist demands such as nurseries, discharge of women from domestic and family work, and the naturalness of female employment are political consensus. On the one hand, of course, beautiful. On the other hand, feminism was always more than a tool for the optimization of capitalism, namely a social movement that goes beyond the boundaries of the given. We must not lose sight of - and also to give those newly converted feminists, that the history of the women's movement may not be as familiar.
5th Postpatriarchale shaping of the world instead of fighting for women's interests. Many fault lines that ran earlier between women and men, now run elsewhere: between good and bad income earners, between work and unemployed, between those who care for children or the sick and those who do not. With statistics on percentage of women here and there can no longer adequately analyze. Therefore, the women's movement in the future will be even less than before simply can only occur for "women's interests." What is rather about is postpatriarchale world design in a comprehensive sense to question how, in future this world and the coexistence of all people are created in a good way.
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