Gender Institutions Law

The editor is Valeria Giordano (University of Salerno)

Gender, Institutions, Law

Gender Studies have radically changed the culture and the way we think of and structure society by providing new theoretical tools, that support the decoding the contemporary world’s complexity, and by delivering new interpretative categories that move from the representation of the gender as seemingly a performative and cultural construction. In the current asset, we are urged to resemantize the political-juridical lexicon which can overcome gender stereotypes and the abstract universalism bearing the modern rationalism. This approach will guarantee an all-new “grammar of the difference” which is sensible to the pluralism of interests and ethics on play and able to reinforce gender mainstreaming in contemporary democracies.

The neutral and objectifying image of the political and juridical subjectivity is challenged by the prismatic character of the gender and by his reflexive normativity as a plural dispositive of power, which acts inside practices of constant redefinition and empowerment.

The following thematic lines will be mainly analyzed within a critical approach:

A reflection on today’s unprecedently intricate relationship between powers, bodies, symbolic order and differences. The aim of this reflection focuses on the dismissal of still existing gender asymmetries in our society, with a specific consideration on the availability of bodies as consumer goods and on the resulting multiplication of rights of world scale, as a sign of the bios
The development of a culture of rights based on gender knowledges and on a non-discriminatory law, able to untie the citizenship dilemma and the ambivalence of equality, between practices of freedom, claims of rights and creation of new and plural subjectivities, also in relation with the intersection of gender with other excluding categories, such as race, religion, sexuality.
An analysis of the existing relations between powers and racial colonial subjection dynamics, acting on a national and global level. A specific regard will be given to the exploitation practices of subaltern subjects, in order to provide new interpretative keys on the issue of global justice; an analysis of the persistence, on a global scale, of a structure of patriarchal dominance, with a particular eye on the issue of gender violence and femicide.
Topics:

Global gender gap, politics of empowerment and gender equality; equal democracy; multiple discriminations and intersectionality; production/reproduction, new mothers; strategies of diversity, Gender citizenship; feminization of work and migration; law, gender sexuality; judge made-law, judicial reasoning, anti-discrimination law; mediation and same-sex couples; gender-based violence and femicide.

Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes.

Philosophical, theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary articles are welcome. All articles are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process. Articles must be written in English or in Spanish. Abstracts and keywords must be in English as well as in Spanish in order to facilitate the inclusion in international databases and indexing services.

Papers (with Name, Title, little Abstract – max 20 lines – and Keywords) should be sent to info@softpowerjournal.com.

DEADLINES: Full Article must be received by 6th May 2021 (acceptance of the papers shall be communicated by July 6th, 2021).

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