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The article probes into tensions following in the wake of feminism's (re)mappings of itself as a landscape that 'is not there', so to speak, but which is constituted and reconstituted discursively and affectively. The author discusses these tensions in relation to the notion of feminist genealogy. The discussion is elaborated with reference to a concrete, past and perhaps disturbing political and theoretical landscape: the official, state-sanctioned 'women's studies' in the GDR during the Cold War. The author argues that efforts at (re)mappings and fillings of historical gaps in the production of women's studies knowledge with reference to inclusion and recognition of 'women's experiences' and 'women's voices' (voices that have been silenced or ignored) may render feminists unable to trace and question the political operations that have produced and reproduce 'woman' and 'women' as the significant subject of feminism. The first part of the article illustrates the challenging complexity of feminist projects of inclusion and recognition by discussing some of the feminist critiques of the so-called 'women's studies' in the GDR during the Cold War. The second part locates this complexity within feminist political and theoretical landscapes and cartographies by discussing it in relation to feminist genealogy.

The decisive epistemological and methodological moment of feminist analysis and critique is the moment of intervention. An intervention does not require a standpoint; instead, it displaces the locus of critique from the standpoint to the effects or consequences of critique. Intervention requires no new information or hitherto concealed facts about the object being interfered with. The critical effects of an intervention are the results of what is called a 'sexing-up' strategy. Different epistemological and methodological aspects of this strategy are discussed and a connection established between feminist interventions in science and politics, and the strategy of sexing-up.

International audience ; The decisive epistemological and methodological moment of feminist analysis and critique is the moment of . An intervention does not require a standpoint; instead, it the locus of critique from the standpoint to the or consequences of critique. Intervention requires no new information or hitherto concealed facts about the object being interfered with. The critical effects of an intervention are the results of what is called a 'sexing-up' strategy. Different epistemological and methodological aspects of this strategy are discussed and a connection established between feminist interventions in science and politics, and the strategy of sexing-up.

The decisive epistemological and methodological moment of feminist analysis and critique is the moment of intervention. An intervention does not require a standpoint; instead, it displaces the locus of critique from the standpoint to the effects or consequences of critique. Intervention requires no new information or hitherto concealed facts about the object being interfered with. The critical effects of an intervention are the results of what is called a 'sexing-up' strategy. Different epistemological and methodological aspects of this strategy are discussed and a connection established between feminist interventions in science and politics, and the strategy of sexing-up.

Cathrine Egeland anmelder: Hypatia, Volume 18, no. 1, Winter 2003. Special Issue: "Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil"

The article discusses the problem of gender barriers in Danish Academia suggesting that this might not be a problem at all or at least not a problem pre-existing interpretations of it. By using a discourse-oriented approach to the problem, the article shows how gender barriers become an invalid problem in Academia - leaving attempts to solve the problem illegitimate or even incomprehensible.

Gender equality in the labour market is a key topic in the Nordic cooperation on gender equality. The Nordic Council of Ministers has asked NIKK, Nordic Information on Gender, to coordinate the project Part-Time Work in the Nordic Region. The aim of the project is to shed light on and analyse part-time work in the Nordic region, develop reports and arrange conferences. During the Icelandic presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2014, the project followed up the earlier study. This second report is a research overview on the arguments used to explain part-time work and gender in the Nordic countries. Further, the report describe relevant measures taken by different actors in the labour market and the political sphere in order to reduce foremost women's part-time work. The researchers Ida Drange and Cathrine Egeland wrote the report on a request by NIKK.

Intersektionalität, verstanden als eine Perspektive, die die wechselseitig konstitutive Beziehung zwischen Kategorien wie Rasse, Klasse und Gender erkennt, wird oft als Lösung des Problems des Essenzialismus dargestellt, der Differenzen zu binären Gegensätzen reduziert. Etlichen feministischen Theoretikerinnen zufolge dient Intersektionalität dazu, die Spannung zwischen Differenz im Sinne von Komplexität einerseits und der Möglichkeiten der politischen Mobilisierung und Handlung andererseits auszusöhnen. Die Verfasserinnen zeigen, dass eine Sensibilität für die Komplexität des Konzeptes der Intersektionalität nicht die Lösung für das Problem von Essenzialismus und Reduktionismus innerhalb des Feminismus sein kann. Vielmehr scheint eine Intersektionalität, die um das Empowerment benachteiligter Gruppen bemüht ist, indem sie sensibel für Komplexität ist, das Problem des Essenzialismus und des Othering in neuen Formen zu reproduzieren. Es wird argumentiert, dass Essenzialismus und Othering unter Umständen feministischen Analysen immanent sind, denn von einem konstruktivistischen Standpunkt aus ist es nicht möglich, mit dem reduktionistischen und essenzialistischen Willen zur Macht umzugehen, indem man einen Willen zum Empowerment demonstriert. Der Ansicht der Autorinnen nach wird der Konstruktivismus - von dem behauptet wird, dass er die Basis von Intersektionalität bildet - in Opposition zu einer additiven Herangehensweise an soziale Differenzen zugunsten von Verantwortlichkeit kompromittiert. (ICF2)