Malestream

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Malestream is a modification of the word mainstream from the field of ( queer ) feminist criticism of society , science and rule .

Meaning and origin

By converting main ( English : Haupt-, mainly) into the similar sounding male (English: male, man ), dominant currents of social areas and debates are characterized, which are understood as determined by men and designed according to their ideas about life and values .

"Male Stream" is also called keyword used to them as marginal feminist viewed (queer) partial or counter-publics delineate where hierarchies through social sex ( gender ), or sexual orientation are addressed, see themselves as clearly and criticized.

The term malestream was coined in the early 1980s by the Canadian political philosopher and feminist Mary O'Brien (1926–1998) in her book The Politics of Reproduction . O'Brien came in the still largely open misogynistic structures of their time counter with their analysis of ideology of male superiority (ideology of male supremacy), the light on the malestream thinking (male-stream thought) should throw of philosophy and political science to so the supposedly objective sciences one centering on the male gender standpoint detect as well as a power stabilizing function for the existing ( patriarchal ) gender order . The term “malestream” later found its way into various areas of feminist social criticism in German-speaking countries .

criticism

In a review of Helke Sander's film Mitten im Malestream (2005), Heide Oestreich indirectly criticized the striking use of the term “malestream” by incidentally stating that the mainstream “is no longer a simple 'malestream'”.

In titles of publications

  • In the middle of the malestream . Film by Helke Sander , 2005
  • Lea Susemichel, Saskya Rudigier, Gabi Horak (eds.): Feminist media. Publics beyond the malestream. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2008
  • Malestreaming Gender? Gender relations in development policy. Special issue of the magazine Blätter des Informationszentrum 3. Welt , 2000, iz3w.org (PDF)
  • Mary Spongberg: If She's So Great, How Come So Many Pigs Dig Her? Germaine Greer and the malestream press. In: Women's History Review , Volume 2, Issue 3, 1993, doi: 10.1080 / 09612029300200036
  • Elisabeth Ettorre, Elianne Riska: Psychotropics, sociology and women: are the ' halcyion days ' of the 'malestream' over? In: Sociology of Health & Illness , Vol. 15 No. 4, 1993, doi: 10.1111 / 1467-9566.ep11373325
  • Nancy Hartsock: Political Science as Malestream Discourse: Can this Discipline be Saved? In: Austrian Journal for Political Science , Issue 2, 1990, pp. 151–160.
  • Karen J. Warren: Rewriting the Future: The Feminist Challenge to the Malestream Curriculum. In: Feminist Teacher , Vol. 4, No. 2/3, Fall 1989, pp. 46-52.
  • Mammed Bagher, Janet Hanna: Gender, Organizations and Malestream Environment. managementjournals.com (PDF)

See also

literature

  • Mary O'Brien : The Politics of Reproduction. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Boston / London / Henley 1983 (first published in 1981), ISBN 0-7100-9498-1 , u. a. Pp. 6, 12, 17, 18, 21, 33, 110, 187 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the relationship between “Malestream” and the feminist sub-public in political science, see: Birgit Sauer : Political science as a man's job? Gender Studies in Political Science . (PDF; 170 kB) In: SWS-Rundschau , 41st year, issue 1/2001, pp. 81–98, in particular pp. 83 and 96.
  2. ↑ Christine Sypnowich: Rights and Community, Feminism and Social Justice. Footnote (2) In: William Watts Miller (Ed.) Socialism and Law. University of Bristol, April 4-6 April 1991 . In: Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy - Supplements, Volume 49. 1st edition, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-515-06190-2 , p. 107.
  3. ^ Mary O'Brien : The Politics of Reproduction. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Boston / London / Henley 1983 (first published in 1981), ISBN 0-7100-9498-1 , u. a. Pp. 5-6.
  4. ↑ Typical women's movement . In: taz , November 9, 2005; Retrieved July 29, 2013.