Ukrainian feminist and chief of the world girls’s motion Femen, Inna Shevchenko, at a protest in opposition to Russia on the Venice Biennale (2026) © Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Photographs
This episode of Political Section is set our bodies and tool, about men and women – and concerning the query of what occurs when girls are now not observed as simply susceptible sufferers, however combat, face up to and, if important, use violence. In opposition to the backdrop of a world backlash in opposition to feminist achievements, we talk about why authoritarian photographs of masculinity are as soon as once more common in politics and why feminine defensiveness continues to aggravate many of us to nowadays.
Within the podcast, Ileana Grabitz and Heinrich Wefing communicate to ZEIT correspondent Andrea Bohm, who wrote a ebook at the matter: Combat as a Lady. The tale of girls preventing again (Rovohlt). Within the dialog with the hosts, she talks about girls from other instances and areas of the sector who bodily protect themselves in opposition to violence, oppression and conventional function fashions. And it explains what their resistance unearths about gender members of the family, energy and emancipation. In step with Behm, the speculation of males’s herbal bodily superiority could also be a cultural device of energy.
Each week on The Politics Section podcast, we speak about what drives politics, give an explanation for the background and talk about the connections. Each Friday, with two presenters and a visitor – and noise. Ileana Grabic and Peter Dowsend or Tina Hildebrand and Heinrich Weffing take turns as presenters. This time the moderators are Ileana Grabitz and Heinrich Weffing.
