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40 år av genusforskning! : Festskrift till Centrum för genusvetenskap
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med denna Festskrift firar vi att Centrum för genusvetenskap i över fyrtio år har fungerat som en viktig mötesplats för kunskap och vetenskapande – en sådan plats som många uppfattar som absolut nödvändig för sin överlevnad i akademin. Genom att sätta genus i centrum på Centrum skapar vi kunskap över gränser mellan vetenskapsområden, fakulteter och forskningsfält.Centrum består i grund och botten av de människor som verkar där. Den här Festskriften är också en hyllning till alla dessa människor – deras arbete, engagemang, intelligens, uthållighet och inspirationsförmåga. Centrum existerar också tack vare de viktiga nationella och internationella nätverk inom forskning och utbildning som Centrum är del av. Med denna bok skickar vi alltså en hälsning och ett tack till alla våra kollegor inom fältet. Kapitlen i denna volym är en blandning som sträcker sig från essäer och personliga historieskrivningar om Centrum, till reflektioner om arbetslivet vid Centrum eller som genusforskare överlag, till forskningsartiklar om en rad mycket olika områden, vilka i sig också vittnar om den livliga och variationsrika forskningsmiljö som vi fortsätter att bygga tillsammans.
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- Bergnehr, Disa, 1974-, et al.
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Hardworking women: representations of lone mothers in the Swedish daily press
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feminist Media Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1468-0777 .- 1471-5902. ; 21:1, s. 132-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lone mothers are a diverse group but it has been argued in the previous research that they tend to be homogenised. This article explores representations of single mothers in Swedish newspapers. Material from the two largest morning papers and the two largest tabloids was collected from the years 2015–2017. The results of the study suggest that although the newspaper representations do not fully reflect the diversity of social realities, there are indeed varying images of lone mothers in the sample. A recurring representation is as a comparatively poor and hardworking—even heroic—woman, who in political argumentation is referred to as someone in need of societal support and policy reforms. A less frequent representation, that often occurs in lengthy, in-depth pieces, is the affluent official person who despite her prosperity struggles with combining single (good) motherhood with her career, or the middle-class woman who becomes a lone mother via assisted reproductive technologies. Teenage motherhood (i.e., age), race/ethnicity, sexuality, and welfare dependence are seldom, if at all, alluded to. There is no vilification or condemnation of the lone mother, as has been found in research on other national contexts.
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- Bergnéhr, Disa, 1974-, et al.
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Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish Daily News
- 2023
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Ingår i: Feminist Media Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1468-0777 .- 1471-5902. ; 23:4, s. 1559-1574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the 1960s, Swedish family policies have encouraged parents to share their parental obligations equally, and in the 1980s joint legal custody became standard after divorce or separation. Mothers as well as fathers are expected to financially provide for the family and to take part in the everyday care and fostering of the child. This study explores how single parenthood, non-residential parents and co-parenting play out and become conventionalized in daily news in this national context. The material consists of articles that mention single parenthood and “the other parent” from the four most widely read newspapers published in the period 2010–2019. The analytical focus has been on the written language and what is spelled out, alluded to or ignored, and dominant and less dominant representations. The results show that there are contrasting depictions of mothers and fathers. While the mother as a single parent, co-parent and non-residential parent overall is represented as good and attentive, the father is more of a split figure. He recurrently comes across as absent and negligent as the non-residential parent, but as committed and involved as the primary parent or co-parent with joint residential custody.
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Enförälderfamiljer : Om ensamstående föräldrar, singelföräldrar och soloföräldrar
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Vägarna till ensamstående föräldraskap är många, och de kan vara frivilliga eller ofrivilliga, omdebatterade eller okontroversiella. Livet som ensamstående förälder kan också vara präglat av ensamhet, eller inte alls ensamt.Enförälderfamiljer synliggör de många betydelser och nyanser, vanligheter och ovanligheter, värden och känslor som ryms i erfarenheter av att vara ensamstående förälder. Boken undersöker också skildringar av ensamstående föräldrars familjeliv i litteratur, film och andra medier, från banbrytande romaner på 1930-talet till komplexa filmberättelser och humoristiska seriealbum på 2000-talet.Kapitlen är skrivna av forskare, författare och journalister med olika perspektiv och utgångspunkter. Detta gör att boken som helhet ger en bred bild av hur det ensamstående föräldraskapet beskrivs, förstås och upplevs i olika sammanhang och situationer.
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- Holmgren Troy, Maria, 1962-, et al.
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Making Home : Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels
- 2021. - 1st paperback
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Making home explores the orphan child as a trope in contemporary US fiction, arguing that in the times of perceived national crisis, concerns about American identity, family and literary history are articulated around this literary figure.The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison among others, and investigates genres as carriers of cultural memory, looking particularly at the captivity narrative, historical fiction, speculative fiction, the sentimental novel and the bildungsroman. From a decisively literary perspective, Making home engages socio-political concerns such as mixed-race families, child welfare, and racial and national identity, as well as shifting definitions of familial, national and literary home.By analysing how contemporary novels both incorporate and resist gendered and raced literary conventions, how they elaborate on symbolic and factual meanings of orphanhood, and how they explore kinship beyond the nuclear and/or adoptive family, this book offers something distinctly new in American literary studies. It is a crucial study for students and scholars interested in the links between literature and identity, questions of inclusion and exclusion in national ideology, and definitions of family and childhood.
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Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
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- Nilsson, Elina, 1984-
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Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy : Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. Based on in-depth interviews with twelve former surrogate mothers, the thesis analyses their accounts in relation to gendered, local, and global dimensions of transnational commercial surrogacy. More specifically, it investigates how surrogacy has affected the women materially, socially, and personally; how they understand and negotiate family, kinship, and relationships in connection with their surrogacy experiences; but also how the global surrogacy market and local context interact in shaping the conditions for surrogacy in Thailand. The thesis engages in dialogue with research on commercial surrogacy in other settings, and draws upon theoretical frameworks of gender, motherhood and kinship, local moral economies, and precarious intimate labour. The analysis explores, first, how the women’s decisions to undertake surrogacy, and, for some, further involvement in surrogacy are enabled through women’s social networks and family relationships. Second, it investigates how, through the framing of surrogacy as primarily an opportunity to earn money for their own family but also as an act of making merit, the women draw upon material and religious rationalities as well as gender ideals that allow them to live up to their obligations as mothers and daughters. Third, it explores how their trajectories are marked by im/mobility and flexibility, taking shape in relation to the global reproductive market as well as local and national conditions. Finally, it demonstrates how the women use strategies of de/kinning that both align with and resist the idea that the surrogate mother is not related to the child. The results highlight the precariousness of these women’s labour and how surrogacy stretches into their lives beyond the nine months of pregnancy. Results also focus the women’s own decision-making and negotiations within the context of constrained but real agency. This thesis contributes knowledge about the situation of surrogate mothers post-pregnancy, and also in a context where surrogacy is illegal. It also contributes to the research fields of transnational reproduction, gendered and global division of intimate labour and feminist discussions on motherhood.
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- Wahlgren, Catarina, 1967-, et al.
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Barns berättelser : kamratkulturer skapas kring förskolans fotodokumentation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Barn. - : Norwegian University of Science and Technology. - 0800-1669 .- 2535-5449. ; 40:1, s. 43-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Preschool documentation aims to enchance children's participation in everyday practice. However, research shows that documentation tends to be controlled in a way that fulfils teachers' intentions rather than compels teachers to listen to the children. Drawing on theories of normalizing power and agency of subjects, this study analyses stories about documentation from 19 preschool children, aged 4-6 years. Children were asked to speak freely as the study aimed to catch children's perspectives. Resulsts show two co-existing discourses of negotiating relations among peers. A "community peer discourse", oriented towards preschool practice and community interests, and an "individual centered peer discourse", focused on the self and material objects to negotiate relations. Children negotiated relations by constructing belongings and differences, often by using stereotypical gendered expressions and mannerisms. The study shows that childrens' interest in themselves and their peers, in combination with teachers' active challenge of stereotypical gendered expressions, can contribute to preschool's active work with relations among peers.
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