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Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 crisis has intensified already existing social inequalities in different spheres. The authors examine how fundamental and sustainable the social changes over the course of the corona pandemic are at the social levels of labour, care work and state regulation in their gender dimensions. The contradictory organisation of labour and life under capitalist conditions and their gender relations is particularly visible in the service sector as well as in the sectors of health, care and childcare. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the social recognition of these previously devalued activities has risen to new heights. However, gestures of symbolic acknowledgements do not meet with comprehensive material recognition. So how (strongly) do processes of recognition and appropriation in system-relevant professions actually change in times of social crisis and what role do gender relations play?
Table of ContentsFrom the Contents Antonia Kupfer/Constanze Stutz: Continuity, not change: The unequal catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic. An introduction 1. The sphere of production, labour and professions Karin Sardadvar: Ambivalent (in)visibility: Commercial cleaning work during the Covid-19 crisis in Austria Frauke Grenz & Anne Günster: Who is relevant? And to Which System? The Re/Production of Power Relations during the Debate about ‘System-Relevant’ Professions from a Discourse Analytical Perspective Daria Dudley ‘Systemic Relevance’ for Social Work: More than Just a Compliment – Not Yet a Proper Law. An Evaluation of Pandemic-Related Legal Changes in Germany 2. The sphere of reproduction and care Céline Miani, Lisa Wandschneider, Stephanie Batram-Zantvoort, Oliver Razum: Covid-19 pandemic: A gender perspective on how lockdown measures have affected mothers with young children Caterina Rohde-Abuba: Children as actors of family care during the Covid-19 pandemic Rikela Fusha: Covid-19 case: Public health literacy in an adult sample of the Albanian population Sayendri Panchadhyayi: Cartographies of Caring: Time, Temporality and Caring in Pandemic 3. (Transnational) state regulations Ania Plomien/Alexandra Scheele/Martina Sproll: Social Reproduction and State Responses to the Global Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Capitalism on the Move? Gundula Ludwig The Gendered Architecture of the State and the Covid-19 Pandemic 4. Directions of feminist transformation Bianca Sola Claudio Time for caring in quarantine: The democratic value of spending and wasting time together Loren Britton/Pinar Tuzcu Witnessing Fabrics: How Face Masks Change Social Perceptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Digital Times
