Cullen, Pauline and Murphy, Mary P. (2017) Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland. Gender, Work and Organisation, 24 (1). pp. 83-97. ISSN 1468-0432

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Abstract

This article examines the impact of the economic and social crisis in shaping political agency in women's and feminist organizations in the context of Irish austerity. Examining forms of political agency exercised by women in a range of gendered mobilizations, we isolate examples of defensive agency that seek to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. Despite the damage to gender infrastructure we argue that feminist agency remains crucial to realizing gender equality in public and private decision making. Evidence suggests that in the Irish context, despite deep austerity, gendered forms of mobilization are resisting retrenchment but are doing so in an absence of intersectional solidarities.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Ireland; crisis; gender; feminist organizations; defensive political agency;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	11342
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12154
Depositing User:	Dr. Pauline Cullen
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2019 13:59
Journal or Publication Title:	Gender, Work and Organisation
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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