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Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State
Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7427-8991
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. (Gender Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7336-8015
2023 (English)In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 31, no 1, p. 17-31Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article aims to investigate how articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency has changed in Sweden between 1977 and 2017; a period characterized by the introduction and implementation of a neoliberal political rationality. By way of discourse analysis, the article highlights the reciprocal relationship between the construction of the welfare state and women. To this end, it analyses the debates following two films that problematize women’s relation to the welfare state, Summer Paradise (1977) and Beyond Dreams (2017). The article argues that: (a) childcare as a structuring factor for women’s work is replaced by a focus on the responsibility of the individual to provide for herself; (b) gender as a structuring principle is replaced by gender as an attribute of the individual, and; (c) the relation between women and the state is individualized. As a result, the state becomes articulated as an individualized collectivity, which aims to serve the individual’s self-preservation as opposed to the state being an arena for solving societal and collective problems. We argue that the neoliberal turn has changed women’s political subjectivity from a focus on collective action to an atomization of agency against systemic gender inequalities.

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Routledge, 2023. Vol. 31, no 1, p. 17-31
Keywords [en]
welfare state, gender, discourse theory, film, media, neoliberalism
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Gender Studies Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Studies on Film Media Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-97838DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2022.2044379ISI: 000765608800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85126183775OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-97838DiVA, id: diva2:1642498
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Representing women - gendering Swedish film culture
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P17-0079:1Available from: 2022-03-07 Created: 2022-03-07 Last updated: 2023-07-28Bibliographically approved

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