La participation entravée des femmes. Le cas des processus d’innovation démocratique au Pays basque

  1. Martínez Palacios, Jone 1
  2. Ahedo Gurrutxaga, Igor 1
  3. Suso Menzada, Alicia 1
  4. Rodríguez Lara, Zuriñe 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Participations. Revue de sciences sociales sur la démocratie et la citoyenneté

ISSN: 2034-7650,  2034-7669

Year of publication: 2015

Volume: 11

Pages: 31-56

Type: Article

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Abstract

This article aims to identify the obstacles that women have encountered in their participatory projects within the democratic innovation processes in the Basque Country (Spain). Through a dialectic approach, this article analyzes the ways through which the male-domination sex-gender system is reproduced in those spaces. We identify and explain four main groups of obstacles that limit women’s participation in the processes of democratic innovation: institutionalized social structures, elements linked to an absence of a symbolic power, the formal structure of the device, and embodied social structures. The conclusion highlights the need to influence these embodied structures to contribute to the progressive disabling of the male-domination sex-gender system that is being reproduced through democratic innovations.