Transforming Intimate Citizenship social movements, policy, everyday life.

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Transforming Intimate Citizenship social movements, policy, everyday life

What difference have women’s and lesbian and gay movements made to the ways that we to live our intimate lives, to our experiences of relationships, and to the stories that we tell about that which is most personal to us?

How have the struggles of women, and others who have been excluded and marginalized on the grounds of gender and sexuality – lesbians, gay men, transgender people, bisexuals – changed the landscape of intimate and sexual possibility?

Contemporary Women’s Movements Gendered Citizenship in a Multicultural Europe – Integrative Analysis Towards a New Architecture of Gender-Fair Citizenship Social Citizenship Political Citizenship Economic Citizenship Ethnic and Religious Citizenship Bodily Citizenship Intimate Citizenship

The FEMCIT intimate citizenship team  Sasha Roseneil  Isabel Crowhurst  Tone Hellesund  Ana Cristina Santos  Mariya Stoilova

The concept of intimate citizenship is concerned with “the control (or not) over one’s body, feelings, relationships; access (or not) to representations, relationships, public spaces, etc.; and socially grounded choices (or not) about identities, gender experiences, erotic experiences” (Plummer, 1995) the processes, practices, and discourses that regulate and shape the exercise of agency in intimate life – specifically here: the laws, policies & social relations that regulate and shape experiences of self-determination, belonging and recognition in intimate life

How have women’s (and other social) movements impacted on intimate citizenship in multicultural Europe? Researched (transdisciplinarily and transnationally) by: Studying the claims and demands of women’s movements and other movements for gender and sexual equality and change ( ) Studying law and policy around intimate citizenship Studying the biographies and narratives of intimate life and intimate citizenship of people living outside the conventional family

Bulgaria – “post-Communist” state Norway – “social democratic” Nordic “woman- friendly” welfare state Portugal – “southern European”, Catholic, post- dictatorship state UK – north-western European “(neo-)liberal”/ social investment welfare state “Most different” comparative methodolog y

Movement claims & demands  4 main inter-related areas of claims- making re. intimate citizenship:  Partnership  Reproductive rights and parenting  Sexual and gender identities and practices  Gender and sexual violence

Everyday lives  Biographical-narrative interpretive (BNIM) study of the lived experiences and narratives of intimate life and citizenship of people living outside conventional families (67 interviews)  single people; people in a non-cohabiting relationship; lesbians/ gay men/ people in same- sex relationship; people living in shared housing;  from majority and minoritized/ racialised groups (Roma – BG & PT; Turkish – UK & BG; Pakistani – NO & UK; Sami – NO; Cape Verdeans – PT).

 Interviewees across all four countries were living their intimate lives in a wide-range of ways which are largely unrecognized by policy-makers – e.g.  in non-cohabiting relationships  sharing homes and lives with people to whom they are not biologically or sexually related  striving for both autonomy and connection, stability and the capacity for change

Impacts of the movements on experiences of intimate citizenship Clear impact (43 of 67) Traces of impact (11 of 67) No impact (13 of 67)

The Impact of Women’s and LGBT Movements on Experiences of Intimate Citizenship Clear impact Traces of impact No impact Total WomenMenWomenMenWomenMen Bulgaria Norway Portugal UK Total

 Considerable evidence of the difference that movements for gender and sexual equality and change had made on our interviewees’ experiences of intimate citizenship …  Feminist discourses and ideas about gender and sexual equality, lesbian and gay rights and sexual liberation, and legal and policy changes relating to intimate life that were successfully pursued by social movements, had had a tangible and clear impact on the lives and subjectivities of the overwhelming majority of the women, and of many of the men we interviewed, and there were “traces of impact” in the stories of many more  But there were cross-national differences which might be related to the strength and focus of national movements…

Narratives of intimate citizenship Narratives of self-realization and authenticity Narratives of struggle Narratives of un-fulfilment or failure Conventional narratives Narratives of oppression

Failures of full intimate citizenship Partnership Reproductive rights and parenting Sexual and gender identities and practices Gender and sexual violence

The longing for full intimate citizenship… “the (as yet unachieved) freedom and ability to construct and live selfhood (encompassing psychic and embodied experience) and close relationships (sexual/ love relationships, friendships, parental and kin relations, and household companionship and community) safely, securely and according to personal choice, in their dynamic and changing forms, with respect, recognition and support from state and civil society” (Roseneil, 2010)