Complicity of women

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Complicity of women is one of Christina Thürmer pipe imported 1,983 technical term of feminist theory . It describes the participation or complicity of women in the institutionalized rule of patriarchy . The aim of the development of the term was to aggressively deal with the participation of women in destructive processes of the gender order and to give the "secret and agonizing suspicion a definable name". Thürmer-Rohr thus criticized the understanding of patriarchy as a "global, class, cross-cultural and epoch-spanning system of violence, as a gender-separate work without women and against women".

“Women are not only oppressed, abused and entangled in a damaging system, but also get involved on their own, gain privileges, gain questionable recognition and benefit from their roles, provided they fulfill them. Women are not only shaped by shared unfortunate experiences, but also by direct and indirect approval of the appreciation of men and the relief of social perpetrators. This willingness to tolerate, support or not be responsible is the triumph that the patriarchates can celebrate. "

- Christina Thürmer-Rohr : Handbook Women and Gender Studies (2010)

The term is not intended to deny that women can become victims of male control and violence , but rather that they contribute to structural and direct male control and violence. Power is understood in the sense of Foucault as an integrated, binding relationship of domination. The concept of the term sparked fierce controversy , also in relation to the complicity of women in National Socialism and white racism . Overall, however, the debate led to today's insight that a simple classification into victim- perpetrator categories is hardly appropriate.

“The participation of women, with which they implement the principles of violence and the exclusion of so-called others from a subordinate position and with female means, corresponds and serves the community action that needs the differentiated participation of differently positioned people: a multi-choir, at least“ double-choir “Ensemble in which men and women, as full members and fellow players, fulfill their different and indispensable functions”.

In the women's movement , Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) had already complained about the worship of men among bourgeois women , and Karin Schrader-Klebert also addressed the lack of solidarity between women and systematic alliances between white women and white men. Also Mary-A. Macchiocchi , Mary Daly , Frigga Haug and Martha Mamozai had previously criticized different aspects of women's collaboration.

See also

literature

  • Christina Thürmer-Rohr: From deception to disappointment. In: Contributions to Feminist Theory and Practice , Vol. 8, 1983
  • Christina Thürmer-Rohr: complicity and thirst for discovery. Major in 'Women's Studies' at the Institute for Social Pedagogy at the TU Berlin (ed.), Berlin 1989 ISBN 978-3-922166-48-1
  • Christina Thürmer-Rohr: Complicity of women: The complicity with the oppression In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Ed.): Handbook women and gender research . 3rd, exp. and through Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 88–93
  • Annette Treibel : perpetrator and complicity (Thürmer-Rohr), in: Introduction to sociological theories of the present. 5th updated and improved edition. Wiesbaden 2013, p. 263ff. ISBN 978-3-322-97481-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: From deception to disappointment . In: Contributions to feminist theory and practice . tape 8 , 1983.
  2. ↑ a b Christina Thürmer-Rohr: Complicity of women: The complicity with the oppression . In: Ruth Becker / Beate Kortendiek (eds.): Handbook women and gender research . 3rd, exp. and through Wiesbaden 2010, p. 88-93 .
  3. ↑ Christina Thürmer-Rohr: complicity of women: the complicity with the oppression. In: Ruth Becker / Beate Kortendiek (eds.): Handbook women and gender research. 3rd edition Wiesbaden 2010, p. 89 ISBN 978-3-531-17170-8