Deciphering Political Utopias. Unions, Female Night Work, and Gender Justice

Abstract: The group discussion is a qualitative method perfectly suited for analyzing attitudes and opinions at the supra-individual level and tracing the process of how they emerge. Psychoanalytic group theories expand our understanding of group processes by adding the dimension of the unconscious: groups, too, display defense reactions and forms of repression. By adding this dimension, we can show how social groups proceed to collectively relegate important issues to the realm of the unconscious. In this way, social defense processes are reproduced in actu. In group discussions involving female union members, the predicament of working mothers comes to the fore particularly clearly. An excerpt from a group discussion illustrates that the women seem to perceive night work as the only realistic solution to the problem of reconciling work and family. Only when we turn to a psychoanalytic hermeneutics of scenic understanding are we able to reveal a repressed conception of life looming behind t.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1898

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Deciphering Political Utopias. Unions, Female Night Work, and Gender Justice ; volume:13 ; number:3 ; day:29 ; month:09 ; year:2012 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 13, Heft 3 (29.09.2012)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Morgenroth, Christine

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-13.3.1898
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs120315
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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