Sara de Jong
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190626563
- eISBN:
- 9780190626587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190626563.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter examines responsibility, motivation, and the professional positioning of women who work on gender issues or support women specifically, either for organizations that operate ...
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This chapter examines responsibility, motivation, and the professional positioning of women who work on gender issues or support women specifically, either for organizations that operate internationally or for local organizations with migrant women. The chapter argues that the women’s sense of responsibility is simultaneously articulated through sameness and difference, mirroring the contradictions around alterity in “global citizenship.” The chapter demonstrates that women’s desire to provide others with similar opportunities disregards global relations between privilege and marginalization. The chapter subsequently shows how they engage in (re)drawing the gendered boundaries between the public and the private to give meaning to their work practices and to position themselves as both passionate and professional workers. The final section discusses how decisions related to location are explained and justified by women who work in the global North to support women in the global South in the light of a broader discourse on distance and morality.Less
This chapter examines responsibility, motivation, and the professional positioning of women who work on gender issues or support women specifically, either for organizations that operate internationally or for local organizations with migrant women. The chapter argues that the women’s sense of responsibility is simultaneously articulated through sameness and difference, mirroring the contradictions around alterity in “global citizenship.” The chapter demonstrates that women’s desire to provide others with similar opportunities disregards global relations between privilege and marginalization. The chapter subsequently shows how they engage in (re)drawing the gendered boundaries between the public and the private to give meaning to their work practices and to position themselves as both passionate and professional workers. The final section discusses how decisions related to location are explained and justified by women who work in the global North to support women in the global South in the light of a broader discourse on distance and morality.
