The emergence of gender equality legislation in the Faroe Islands: A discursive study Hvussu javnstøðulóggáva varð til í Føroyum: Ein greining av diskursi
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Dec 4, 2024
Erika Anne Hayfield
Jórun Vágsheyg
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-2364
Jórun Vágsheyg
Abstract
This article concerns the emergence of gender equality legislation and public discourse on gender equality in the Faroe Islands. The article examines which gender equality discourses and underlying gender ideologies are evident in the Faroe Islands. We commence our study in 1980, when public debate on gender equality legislation intensified. Methodologically, we apply critical discourse analysis in our analysis of newspaper articles, interviews, public documents, and parliamentary debates. Taking an island perspective, we examine tensions between being an island context, on the one hand, and being Nordic on the other. Three discourses emerged from our inductive analysis, which relate to certain time-periods: 1) navigating the concept of gender equality in a religious small-island society, 2) gender equality in the context of (Faroese) identity and 3) the (ir)relevance of gender equality in the Faroe Islands. In the discussion, we argue that gender equality ideologies have evolved and transformed over time in constant interaction with Faroese identity, islandness, and the outside world. We identify gender equality ideologies of traditionalism, religious essentialism, and egalitarianism in our early time period. Subsequently, more recent ideologies of liberal egalitarianism, feminist egalitarianism, neotraditionalism and flexible egalitarianism are identified.
Úrtak
Greinin snýr seg um, hvussu javnstøðulógin varð til, og um almenna diskursin um kynjajavnstøðu í Føroyum. Greinin viðger hvørjir kynjajavnstøðudiskursar og undirliggjandi kynjahugsjónir eru sjónligar í Føroyum. Viðgerðin strekkir seg fra 1980, tá ið almenni diskursurin viðvíkjandi javnstøðulóggávu øktist. Vit nýta kritiska diskursanalysu til at greina tíðindablaðgreinar, samrøður, almenn skjøl og kjak á tingi. Frá einum oyggjasjónarmiði greina vit spenningin millum oyggjakontekstin øðrumegin og tann norðurlendska kontekstin hinumegin. Í tí induktivu viðgerðini eyðmerkkja vit tríggjar diskursar, ið hvør sær knýta seg at ávísum tíðarskeiðum: 1) naviger-ing av kynjajavnstøðuhugtakinum í einum átrúnaðarligum smáoyggjasamfelag, 2) kynjajavnstøða úr einum (føroyskum) samleikakonteksti, og 3) týdningurin av kynjajavnstøðu í Føroyum. Í kjakinum vísa vit á, at kynjajavnstøðuhugsjónir eru mentar og broyttar yvir tíð í áhaldandi ávirkan millum føroyska samleikan, oyggjakontekstin og tann ytra heimin. Í tí fyrra tíðarskeiðnum eyðmerkja vit hugsjónirnar traditionalismu, átrúnaðarliga essentialismu og egalitarianismu. Í tí seinna tíðarskeiðnum eyðmerkja vit hugsjónirnar liberala egalitarianismu, feministiska egalitarianismu, neotraditionalismu og fleksibla egalitarianismu.
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Keywords
Gender equality, gender ideologies, critical discourse analysis, politicising gender, island studies, Nordic, kritisk diskurs greining, politisering av kyni, oyggjagransking, kynjajavnstøða, kynjaideologiir
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