"care sex net work" - A review

Article in the Perspectives series by Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt. Tanja Carstensen, Melanie Groß, Kathrin Schrader (eds.): care sex net work. Feminist struggles and critiques of the present. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-89771-307-9, 176 p.The volume is dedicated to Gabriele Winker, the founder and initiator of the Care Revolution network, on her 60th birthday. In this respect, the 22 contributions by fellow campaigners deal both with their academic careers and joint activities, as well as with the suggestions provided by the anniversary celebrant for the emergence and substantive and practical support of feminist struggles. The contributions are arranged according to three main themes: feminist analyses as a response to current challenges; care work in motion and the care revolution; technology as a field of feminist debate. The first section begins with a work by Nina Degele on the topic of "Intersectionalising recognition". She thus opens the volume with a topic that is still topical and that she has been pursuing together with G. Winker for a dozen years: "How can the sometimes deadlocked discussions on feminism, gender and social inequality be meaningfully pursued without ignoring 'capitalism' as a structural principle of reality and without losing sight of groups of people or individuals?" (S. 12). The other contributions take up this debate, which tends to be conducted among theorists, on the basis of current discussions in all circles of society - firstly Kathrin Schrader with her analysis of the positions of so-called "concerned parents" on early childhood (sexual) education; Tina Habermann on language and concept analyses, Melanie Groß on prostitution and sex portals, Michel Raab on (non-)monogamy and forms of living. This is followed by contributions by Jette Hausotter and Stefan Paulus on the understanding of labour, its evaluation and privileges in neoliberalism. The second section turns to the centrepiece of G. Winker's work: the Care Revolution (see the book "Care Revolution"): Care Revolution (see also the book "Care Revolution. Steps towards a society based on solidarity"). In the first contribution by Anna Köster-Eiserfunke, the necessity of transversal policies is explained, followed by Wibke Derboven's discussion of parenthood, before a critical discussion of "Parecon" fills the sentence "another world is possible" with content (Matthias Neumann). Ann Wiesental provides a theoretical justification for this with Karl Marx's "Capital", while Arnold Schnittger quotes a poem on the subject of "revolution" by Konstantin Wecker. The third section explores the following questions in several contributions: "What characterises the discursive agency of net actors and bloggers? What is the connection with 'media and discourse'? What is the visionary content of the discourses? How can the discursive potential for change be assessed?" (Christina Schachtner, p. 156). Here, the topic of solidarity dealt with earlier is taken up again under the aspect of "digital solidarity", empowerment in social networks is described and Helene Götschel addresses "gender and diversity in physics" using the example of her own courses. This mix of theoretical considerations and the authors' practical experience is what makes this book so appealing. Experience shows that contributions in commemorative publications tend to be short and raise more questions than they answer. However, it is precisely because of this that they also encourage further discussion - and here also the imitation and continuation of the practical movement experience described.