Norbert Elias and Shifting Gender Relations.

Ernst, Stefanie

Forschungsartikel (Buchbeitrag)

Zusammenfassung

The shock of the sudden Covid-19 health crisis at first sight seems to have been managed in favour of the traditional model of production and reproduction that was believed to have been overcome. Central to the sudden public lockdown in spring 2020 was the ultimately costly attempt to revitalise the construction of private reproduction as ‘naturally’ a female arena. But how does this reproductive arena come to exist and why is it primarily interwoven with the way public life is organised? At second sight, nowadays gender struggles are nothing new, but they intensively reveal the hidden inner pattern of various western gender orders. These hidden orders are ambivalent, and the debate about gender relations is very diverse. Gender relations are therefore more than a ‘particular problem’  of the civilising process. Moreover, research findings on gender relations, family and business life are unfortunately often discussed separately and ahistorically, and each is even organised in special research sections which maintain an ignorance of each other. A synthesis of all of these arenas is therefore overdue, and useful in helping to understand the embeddedness of gender, work and private life and their interdependencies.

Details zur Publikation

Buchtitel: The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias.
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
ISBN: 9781839986673
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst ist: Englisch
Veranstaltung: London; New York, Melbounrne, Dehli