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1.	Rydström, Helle (författare) Sexed bodies, gendered bodies : Children and the body in Vietnam 2002 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 25:3, s. 359-372 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article examines how local Vietnamese ideas about female and male bodies, the patrilineage, and morality intersect with one another and influence girls' and boys' different social positions. In the rural commune of Thinh Tri, the meaning of patrilineal ancestor worship is salient. It is perceived to be a person's moral obligation to provide male progeny in order to continue either one's own or one's husband's patrilineage. Because only sons are thought to be able to continue their father's lineage, their genitals (i.e. the Phallus) and by extension, their bodies are imbued with symbolic meaning. Therefore, males hold a special position within the local community. Since daughters are not assumed to be able to reproduce their father's lineage, their bodies are not celebrated in similar ways as boys'. Hence, a child's body is construed as a powerful socio-symbolic and material sign that reflects local life in terms of hierarchies, positions, and power. Local understandings of female and male bodies crystallize the ways in which a child's body simultaneously is wrought socially (i.e. in terms of 'gender') and biologically (i.e. in terms of 'sex'), both the notions of sex and gender have a history, which is constructed discursively. In other words, both notions address the same question, which is namely, how female and male bodies are rendered meaningful in time and space. Since the notions of sex and gender are overlapping one another, this article suggests that we approach the human body as an analytical category that can substitute the notions of sex and gender. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
2.	Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi (författare) The Domestic Sphere as a Political Site : A Study of Women in the Indian Nationalist Movement 1997 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - Oxford : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 20:4, s. 493-504 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Indian women participated in the nationalist movement not only in the public domain but also from the domestic domain. A large majority of women during the movement retained their traditional roles and still made significant contributions to the movement from within the domestic sphere. The movement's success was dependent on women's contribution and the nationalist movement benefited from the nationalist activities of women. The relationship between the nationalist movement and middle-class women was thus mutually beneficial. The nationalist symbols and representations of women created by the leaders greatly facilitated women's involvement in the movement. The nature of activities that women engaged in helped the politicisation of women's consciousness.
3.	Nyman, Charlott, 1962- (författare) The social nature of money : Meanings of money in Swedish families 2003 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier Science, Ltd. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 26:1, s. 79-94 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article is based on a study of 10 married Swedish couples considering the different meanings money acquires and the implications of these meanings for individuals' access to money and consumption. The article examines the ways in which money and its use can create meaning and construct acts in couple relationships. The findings show that there are several kinds of 'special' monies. Money is often defined in terms of ownership and the data illustrate a variety of ways of defining money as jointly or privately owned. Family needs are central in defining money, but personal ownership of money is also important. Despite Swedish perceptions of gender equality and sharing, the data demonstrate persisting inequalities in terms of money. While using private money for family needs can express love and trust, it can also maintain the existing balance of power. The data support theories of gender system and gender contracts and the article argues that money is one way of shaping couple relations, while being also shaped by couple and other social relationships. Support was also found for the resource theory of power in that higher earnings and perceptions of ownership of money meant more control over money.
4.	Akpinar, Aylin, 1959- (författare) The Honour/Shame Complex Revisited : Violence against Women in the Migration Context 2003 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 26:5, s. 425-442 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article is based on the life histories of two immigrant women of Turkish origin living in Sweden. Fictive names are used in the article. The women are given in marriage at a very young age to attach them to men who will take over the function of their control from their fathers. By analyzing the life histories with the help of Delaney and Bourdieu's theoretical approaches, I try to explain the implicit idea in the honour/shame complex whereby protection of women is maintained through control on their sexuality. The control is accelerated to the extent that women live in “immigrant enclaves”. The function of women as carriers and bearers of group identity gains importance in case of the “immigrant situation” where ethnic identity becomes an issue to consider. Women are abused when they violate the boundaries of the definition of acceptable femininity by their ethnic community.
5.	Bergnehr, Disa, 1974- (författare) Mothering for discipline and educational success: Welfare-reliant immigrant women talk about motherhood in Sweden 2016 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 54, s. 29-37 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study is based on 16 immigrant welfare-reliant women's discourses on motherhood in five focus groups. The women connect their mothering strategies for promoting discipline and their children's educational success with living on scarce finances: welfare dependence, children's education, and discipline are intertwined and recurrent themes that the interviews prompted. A dominant argument is that discipline diminishes the risk of school failure and deviant behaviour. Educational success is imperative for the children's chances to obtain employment and self-provision as adults; deviant behaviour must be stifled to avoid criminal activities, school failure, and future welfare dependence. The women argue that Swedish society obstructs their mothering through lax discipline in school, a disregard for parental authority, and restrictive welfare stipulations. They desire better support. This study widens our understandings of immigrant women's experiences of mothering on welfare, and informs political decision-makers and professionals in their work to develop supportive services for migrants.
6.	Bradby, Hannah, 1966-, et al. (författare) Something is (still) missing? : Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom 2023 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 98 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract AimSexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a clear harm for individual and family health, as well as for society at large. A feminist public health should ensure that services meet women's self-identified needs, with an inclusive definition of woman-kind and an understanding of the intersectional nature of the disadvantage that forced migrant women face.MethodsSemi-structured interviews with 166 forced migrants who have suffered SGBV and 107 providers of services to forced migrants in Australia, Sweden, Turkey and the UK, were undertaken as part of wider project. After translation and transcription, thematic analysis sought all mentions of feminism, descriptions of services along feminist lines and evaluations of the feminist-nature of services.ResultServices were said to be hard to approach much of the time and did not always focus on forced migrants' assessments of their own needs. Those services that did attend to migrants' own expression of their needs were said to be helpful in the recovery process. Interviews with service providers indicated that, while feminism was regularly a personal philosophy, it less often informed service design and delivery. A tension between individual empowerment and a collective assertion of women's rights is part of the contested understanding of feminism, with an intersectional criticism of secular, individualist assumptions of a wholly rights-based approach. The co-opting of women's rights to pursue a securitization agenda indicates tensions between different versions of feminism.ConclusionThe failure to design and deliver services that facilitate forced migrants' recovery from SGBV represents an ongoing failure to understand, apply and test the insights of decades of feminism.
7.	Burman, Monica, 1962- (författare) Blaming violent men - A challenge to the Swedish criminal law on provocation 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 88-95 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Feminists have long criticized how provocations narrative of a woman 'asking for it' functions as a legal 'abuse excuse' for violent men and confirms their rationalizations and justifications for violence. This article aims to challenge a particular aspect of provocation in Swedish criminal law namely, a tendency to individualize and subjectivize culpability in a way that suggests that the individual male perpetrator's specific understanding of his violence should be the perspective from which to understand and judge his violence. Criminal legal culpability is approached as an important aspect in the relationships between gender, power, and violence, and the author argues that the notion of culpability should be changed in two respects. The tendency to regard emotions as 'factual' should be replaced by an evaluative view on emotions and men's responsibility for their emotional responses to women should be judged by acknowledging how values and reasons intersect with power relations
8.	Burman, Monica, 1962-, et al. (författare) Challenging gender and violence : Positions and discourses in Swedish and international contexts 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 81-82 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
9.	Börjesson, Ida Maria, 1982- (författare) Book review: Gendering Border Studies 2011 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 34:3, s. 261-262 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
10.	Carbin, Maria, 1972- (författare) The requirement to speak : Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour related violence 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 107-114 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Over the last decade, political initiatives against so-called honour-related violence have been undertaken in several Western countries, as well as in the UN. Swedish policy initiatives are relatively ambitious, and have primarily targeted young women as victims, one aim being to make it possible for them to speak up. In this article the overarching concern is to explore how victim stories are used in Swedish policy initiatives. Drawing upon discourse theory and post-colonial feminism, the aim is to challenge the ideal of speech as emancipation and to elaborate the connections between speech, silence and power. The article shows that, despite efforts by policy-makers to include these young women, and not to reproduce stereotypes, the possibility of speaking is formulated within a certain nationalist discursive terrain. The victims are primarily called upon to speak as non-Swedish representatives. Paradoxically, the inclusion of young women into policy discourse has led to a particular exclusion and thereby produced new silences.
11.	Cárdenas, Magda (författare) Rooting, shifting and mobilizing : Women's peacebuilding across differences in Georgia and Myanmar 2022 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 91 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores how female peace activist's experiences of armed conflict drive their activism. By analyzing women's peace activism as a manifestation of transversal politics, I capture how women's experiences and social positioning in relation to the armed conflict influence how they shape their identities and create alliances across conflict divides. Building on the narratives of activists and members of women's organizations in Georgia and Myanmar, I argue that when experiences such as displacement and loss are articulated with the awareness of the gendered dynamics of the conflict, women expand the categories in which their identities are defined, and challenge political stances which were hitherto only guided by the ethno-political context. This process allows women to approach other parties (which were previously either neglected or considered as opponents) and to build common ground for peace activism despite the existence of multiple differences within and across groups.
12.	Carvalho, Ines, et al. (författare) Agency, structures and women managers views of their careers in tourism 2018 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 71 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Tourism is an important employer for women in many countries. However, despite this seeming women friendliness, women are still underrepresented at the top of tourism businesses. Previous research on women managers careers in tourism has neglected the analysis of their careers in the light of new career concepts, such as the boundaryless career. Hence, in-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with twenty-four female senior managers in Portuguese hotels and travel businesses, including entrepreneurs across a wide range of business sizes. The aim was to analyse these womens perspectives on how they have reached the top. It is concluded that women regard their careers as an outcome of their inherent characteristics, agency and a desire to seize challenges that lead to intrinsic satisfaction. They downplay the role of both structural enablers and structural barriers. This article analyses these issues from a boundaryless career model perspective and with a gender lens.
13.	Danielsson, Anna T. (författare) Breaking into the Lab. Engineering Progress for Women in Science 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 38, s. 147-147 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
14.	Darhour, Hanane, 1983-, et al. (författare) Sustainable representation of women through gender quotas : A decade's experience in Morocco 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 41:pt2: SI, s. 132-142 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article surveys the adoption and implementation of gender quota provisions in the three Moroccan parliamentary elections, 2002, 2007 and 2011, following the first adoption of gender quotas. Despite being effective in bringing a substantial number of women into the parliament, the question should be asked, can gender quotas, once introduced, lead to more sustainable political representation for women? By introducing the concept of sustainable representation, defined as a durable, substantial political representation of women, this article points to the importance of studying how gender quotas may or may not alter some of the barriers, which prevents women’s equal participation and representation. This study of the nomination and election of women through three subsequent elections in Morocco since the adoption of gender quotas, traces the evolution of the reserved seat system from a controversial and fragile system set by a ‘honorary agreement’ to an expanded and finally legalized system. The analysis suggests that the political uprising in the neighboring countries during 2010-11 created a political transitional atmosphere for the reform of the Moroccan constitution, and provided an opportunity for institutionalizing the principle of gender equality in the 2011 constitution. In exploring the link between the reserved seat system and having women elected in the general district seats in Moroccan elections, the article scrutinizes the widespread supposition in the quota literature that quotas in the form of reserved seats tend to block the nomination of women to constituency seats, thus constituting a kind of glass ceiling.
15.	Edin, Kerstin, et al. (författare) Men's violence : narratives of men attending anti-violence programmes in Sweden 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 96-106 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The efficacy of batterer-intervention programmes for men has frequently been questioned, inviting additional research and development. Men inclined to violence have multifaceted problems but are frequently squeezed into ‘one-size-fits-all’ programmes with high ambitions for change that often show little evidence of effectiveness. Some research even indicates that any changes in men's violent behaviour might result from factors not at all linked to the programmes.For this study, ten interviews were carried out with men who had attended anti-violence programmes within the Swedish Probation Service. The overall aim was to analyse gendered identity constructions in the narratives of men attending the programmes — how men articulate the course of violent events and in what way they talk about themselves and the programmes.According to our results, men defended themselves by making excuses, explanations and victim positions. Furthermore, the men's gendered identity constructions collided with the programmes' ambitions of changing men's conceptions and behaviour.
16.	Gavanas, Anna, 1971- (författare) Migrant domestic workers, social network strategies and informal marketsfor domestic services in Sweden 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36, s. 56-64 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores the dynamics of migration, working conditions and in/formalization in the domestic service sector in Sweden. Based on an interview study conducted in Stockholm 2009/2010, the article identifies crucial aspects of a range of large scale social and economic shifts in Sweden. Especially in focus are the conditions of migrant domestic workers (from Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, Africa and South America) within a global division of labor. Compared to other European countries, Sweden is a unique case due to its social democratic welfare state traditions encouraging female work participation and public solutions for care, as well as its longstanding controversies around policies encouraging private domestic services (Gavanas, 2006; Gavanas, 2010a). Due to its hierarchical connotations in line with gender, class and ethnicity, proposals for tax deduction for domestic service have been highly contested in Sweden. The mere idea of a private domestic service goes against the grain of social democratic and feminist traditions as well as cultural preferences for public care (Gavanas, 2006; Öberg, 1999). However, since tax reductions for domestic services were introduced in 2007, rapid transformations have taken place in Sweden. In addition to the tax reductions, the Swedish market for domestic service is also expanding as a result of welfare state cutbacks, as well as privatization of public care, deregulation, internationalization and flexibilization of labor markets (Gavanas, 2006; Platzer, 2003; de los Reyes, 2002). In this article I am arguing that the domestic service market is undergoing segmentation based on social network segregation, as opposed to the policy ambition that a formal sector, as a result of the tax reductions, is replacing an informal sector.
17.	Gil Araujo, Sandra, et al. (författare) International migration, public policies and domestic work Latin American migrant women in the Spanish domestic work sector 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 13-23 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Based on the Spanish case, in this article we explore the connection between migration policies, family policies, gender regimes and the insertion of Latin American migrant women into the domestic work sector. Over the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin America became the main region of origin of migrants who had settled in Spain, being women the first link in these migration chains. The main factors that have affected the configuration of this feminization are linked to migration policies and patterns of migration, the features of the welfare state, the characteristics of the labor market and the way in which gender organizes and stratifies migration and domestic work. The achievement of national middle class women's rights to conciliate their professional and family life through outsourcing domestic work to non-national women also brings with it a deep inequality in terms of citizenship.
18.	Gustafsson-Larsson, Susanne, et al. (författare) Bun-baking mums and subverters: The agency of network participants in a Rural Swedish county 2007 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 30:1, s. 48-58 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract During the 1990s rural Swedish women positioned themselves as women and formed networks aimed at addressing various local and most often gender-related problems that limited their quality of life. The aim of this article is to empirically describe and theoretically discuss the idea of agency in the context of women's social practices of networking and to examine how the participants either reproduce or transform the gendered structures that shape them. The empirical data for this article consist primarily of discussions with focus groups and interviews with network participants. Through interpretations, a pattern of gendered power-relations was illuminated, which both influenced and constrained the participants' activities. We have interpreted the participants' networking agency as acts of protest against everything that limits their living conditions. As women develop strategies through networking, their resistance seems to become increasingly significant for the ongoing transformations of the gender order.
19.	Hedlund, Gun, 1951-, et al. (författare) New steering methods in regional policy : transforming the alliance of ‘state feminism’ 2012 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 35:3, s. 166-172 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article, the theory of ‘state feminism’ is applied on the area of regional development policy, supplementing existing research about state–citizen relationships in northern and southern Europe. Based on Swedish data, it is argued that the former alliance between the women's movement and the welfare state has been transformed as a result of new steering methods in regional development policy in a way that is best understood as a paradox. This paradox includes both stronger and weaker relations. The public support to Women Resource Centres (WRCs) in Sweden is used as an example of ‘state feminism’. The ability of the WRCs to affect policy has changed over time, however, due to the adoption of new steering methods based on networks and market-orientation in Swedish regional development policy. The conclusions induce further development of ‘state feminism’ theory, making it more up-to-date with the prevalent interaction between women's movements and European welfare states.
20.	Jansson, Maria, 1968- (författare) An economy of protection : agency, responsibility and the criminalization of HIV 2018 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 69, s. 171-179 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article analyzes the protection logic that legitimizes criminalization and investigates how this logic affects gender and state-citizen relations. Viewing criminalization as a political response to the challenge HIV poses to the post-Cold War security state, the article examines the intersection between protection as a pretext for controlling vulnerable groups and criminalization as a way to withdraw protection. The article analyzes the constructions of those in need of protection (referents) and the providers of protection according to HIV-specific state laws and media reports of arrests and prosecutions, and it shows that the requirements for being considered worthy of protection are highly gendered. The article argues that laws and the media construct the idea that a popular demand for protection exists and that criminalization practices are produced as the supply needed to meet this demand.
21.	Jansson, Maria, 1968- (författare) Feeding children and protecting women : The emergence of breastfeeding as an international concern 2009 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 32:3, s. 240-248 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
22.	Jansson, Maria, 1968- (författare) Feeding children and protecting women : The emergence of breastfeeding as an international concern 2009 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 32:3, s. 240-248 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article examines the emergence and development of breastfeeding as an international concern, focusing on its basis of legitimization and what discourse it (re)produces regarding breastfeeding and gender relations. Using official documents, such as conventions and declarations from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) that are often prepared in cooperation with the UNICEF, the article seeks to answer how policies are legitimized and how gender is construed. The study shows that discourse develops towards stressing medical arguments and individual behavior. This development is crucial for the construction of breastfeeding as a universal practice. Further, the idea of protection of mothers/women is found to be a key to understanding the discourse. An important feature of the article is how breastfeeding policies facilitate constructions of hierarchy among nations framed in terms of the ability to protect women and children.
23.	Jansson, Maria, 1968-, et al. (författare) Opposition to gender quotas in Sweden and Spain : Debates about gender equality in the film industry 2022 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 93 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article analyses how gender quotas in film policy are debated in the Spanish and Swedish film industries. By analysing public records, media material and interviews with industry stakeholders, four categories of arguments are found: (1) Arguments for quotas, articulating the problems women face in the industry; (2) Arguments against quotas related to the specificities of the industry; (3) Arguments for and against quotas which refer to women's shortcomings, and; (4) Arguments problematising quotas by feminists who want more transformative reforms. While policies are designed differently and have different conceptualisations of gender, arguments discussing quotas are similar in both countries. Gender equality policies in both countries seem unable to change the male norm in the industry. Arguments put forth by opponents tend to point to women's lack of talent and how quotas will jeopardise the industry, whereas feminist arguments problematising quotas point at the limitations of the reforms to seriously question structural inequalities.
24.	Jonsson, Sofia, 1985, et al. (författare) Is buying sex morally wrong? Comparing attitudes toward prostitution using individual-level data across eight Western European countries 2017 Ingår i: Womens Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 61, s. 58-69 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract States try to combat sex trafficking through both the criminalization of buying sex and by entirely legalizing or regulating the market for prostitution. Proponents of criminalization argue that this approach leads to less acceptance of prostitution, creating a smaller sex market, and reducing the inflow of trafficked victims. Few studies examine if prostitution laws are associated with attitudes toward prostitution. We assess attitudes in eight European countries, using newly collected survey data. This is one of few studies comparing attitudes across different prostitution regimes. Citizens in countries where the purchase of sex is criminalized are less tolerant toward the buying of sex compared to citizens living in countries where the purchase of sex is legalized. Also, people viewing gender equality as important are less accepting of the purchase in countries where buying sex is prohibited, but more accepting in countries where buying sex and running a brothel are legal. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
25.	Joseph, Cynthia, et al. (författare) Gender, culture and work in global cities : Researching ‘transnational’ women 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36:SI, s. 1-4 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
26.	Lauri, Marcus, 1973-, et al. (författare) The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden : Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women 2023 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 99 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Drawing on recent parliamentary debates and policy proposals, this article illustrates how penal policies and punitive agendas to combat gendered violence are on the rise in Sweden. While right-wing parties have long deployed a rhetoric of crime and punishment, today the Social Democrats and Left Party (labelling themselves feminist), as well as parts of the women's shelter movement, are deploying a similar discourse. This article shows how men's violence against women suddenly became a highly prioritised political issue within a discursive framework of ‘crime and punishment’, thereby asking whether carceral feminism is emerging in Sweden. Firstly, we analyse the logic of this approach, after which we discuss associated risks, such as how carceral feminism (re)shapes the understanding of gendered violence, that it is neither effective nor demanded by victims and has stratifying and stigmatising effects on racialised communities. Furthermore, it silences material welfare solutions and ultimately legitimates the expansion of penal policies, thereby providing a foundation for a carceral state in which repression becomes the standard response to social problems.
27.	Lundström, Catrin, 1970- (författare) "Mistresses" and "maids" in transnational "contact zones" : Expatriate wives and the intersection of difference and intimacy in Swedish domestic spaces in Singapore 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36:SI, s. 44-53 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores the tensions that arise when professionally educated Swedish migrant women relocate to a temporary expatriate wife status, with a particular focus on the transnational household as a “contact zone” between expats and migrant domestic workers in Singapore. Based on interviews and ethnographic work with 13 Swedish women and one month of fieldwork in the Swedish community in Singapore in spring 2009, the article investigates the women's altered positions as “trailing spouses” and employers from an intersectional perspective that highlights the politics of difference between women with regard to constructions of race, femininity and intimacy. In this context, the article explores how processes of globalisation, transnational migration and division of labour are played out between the different migrant women in the household sphere, thus broadening contemporary discussions by including privileged practices and positions in transnational migration. As expatriate wives, the Swedish women were often locked into conservative frames, oriented towards “family values”, negotiated in relation to (former) ideologies of gender equality and (new) power relations in the household sphere.
28.	Madsen, Diana Højlund (författare) Localising the Global : Resolution 1325 as a Tool for Promoting Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Rwanda 2018 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 66, s. 70-78 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
29.	Mahlck, Paula (författare) Academic women with migrant background in the global knowledge economy : Bodies, hierarchies and resistance 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36, s. 65-74 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Across the globe, academic work is changing in order to meet the demands of the global knowledge economy. This process of change is characterised by the dominant discourses of competition, accountability and excellence, which produce an imaginary of a seemingly disembodied researcher. Departing from a Swedish higher education and research policy landscape, the aim of this article is to explore how, in comparison with their Swedish colleagues, women academics with a migrant background make representations of the good researcher in their work practices. This involves exploring how processes of racialisation - including processes of whiteness are at work when different layers of migration are read through a white Swedish normality. The results indicate that whiteness is an attributed quality and contributes to constructing success, and that racialised researchers stand out as being particularly invisible representations within a Research Excellence framework. In this article I suggest that this visibility/invisibility paradox (Mirza 2009) can be interpreted not only as a reflection of the number of racialised researchers in Swedish higher education, but also as a general discourse of colour-blindness and Swedish white privilege.
30.	Nilsson, Eva, 1963- (författare) The 'Refugee' and the 'Nexus' Requirement : The Relation between Subject and Persecution  in the United Nations Refugee Convention 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 123-131 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The challenge that my paper deals with is the complexities of gender and violence within international refugee law, taking women exposed to male partner violence as a starting point. The focus is the definition of ‘refugee’ in the United Nations Refugee Convention and the requirement that the persecution must be based on specific grounds, the ‘nexus’ requirement. My analysis shows that the Convention is grounded in an essentialist understanding of the subject and that the preservation of its structure and integrity also means preserving the power structures in society. The argumentation suggests that it is time to abolish the ‘nexus’ requirement and the limitation of the grounds, but my conclusion is rather that we must continue to work with our frame of thought focusing on the ‘refugee situation’ and the discursive constitution of the subject in time and space.
31.	Nyman, Charlott, et al. (författare) The tension between gender equality and doing gender Swedish couples' talk about the division of housework 2018 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 68, s. 36-46 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Sweden is considered as one of the most gender equal countries in the world and most Swedes claim to embrace gender equality. Yet, the majority of couples still organize their family lives according to traditional gendered patterns. This article aims to investigate how gender plays a role for how couples in Sweden talk about, articulate and frame their arguments regarding their division of housework. We identify three practices that act to support and reproduce a traditional gender order. These practices are: constructions of (un)suitability, placement of responsibility and comparison. Through these practices the couples' uneven division of housework is made into something other than a question of gender (in)equality, and change of the present order is made into a non-issue. We argue that the tension between striving for gender equality on the one hand and doing gender on the other, characterizes everyday interaction in modem couples. Recognizing this complexity is important for understanding the slow changes in gendered and gendering patterns and for the slow movement towards greater gender equality. The analysis brings the complex, interwoven and contradictory processes of doing gender to the fore.
32.	Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983-, et al. (författare) Militarized Nationalism as a Platform for Feminist Mobilization? : The Case of the Exiled Burmese Women’s Movement 2019 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 76 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Feminist scholars have convincingly demonstrated how militarism and nationalism rely on the (re)production of gendered hierarchies. As a result, feminism is often assumed to be at odds with these political projects. In this article, we demonstrate that this is not always and not necessarily the case: in contrast, militarized nationalism may even constitute fertile ground for the mobilization of feminist organization and activism. We make this argument drawing on an in-depth case study of the emergence and evolution of an exiled Burmese women's movement from within armed ethno-nationalist struggles in the borderlands of Myanmar. Drawing on interviews with women activists, we examine when and how militarized nationalism can provide a space from which feminist agendas can be articulated and successfully pursued. This case demonstrates that militarized nationalism does not only have the potential to mobilize women's participation, but can provide a platform for feminist organization and activism that transcends, challenges, and eventually reshapes militarized nationalist projects in ways that advance women's rights and equality. These findings call into question generalized assumptions about the conflictual relationship between feminism, militarism and nationalism, and contributes to advance feminist debates about women's mobilization in contexts of armed conflicts and nationalist struggles.
33.	Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983- (författare) Refugee men as perpetrators, allies or troublemakers? : Emerging discourses on men and masculinities in humanitarian aid 2016 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 56, s. 56-65 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The importance of including men and boys in order to successfully promote gender equality has been increasingly emphasized in international policymaking and governance. This article examines emerging discourses on men, masculinities and gender equality in the field of humanitarian aid to refugees. Through an analysis of key policy texts as well as interviews with humanitarian workers, three main representations of the role of refugee men in relation to the promotion of gender equality are identified. Refugee men are represented as perpetrators of violence and discrimination; as powerful gatekeepers and potential allies; and as emasculated troublemakers. These ways of conceptualizing men and masculinity are problematic in ways which significantly limit their potential for the transformation of unequal gender relations: gendered power relations are obscured; refugee men's masculinity is pathologized as “primitive”; and attempts to take the needs of men into account are often turned into an argument against the empowerment of refugee women.
34.	Peterson, Helen, 1974 (författare) Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation 2015 Ingår i: Women's Studies: International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 53, s. 182-191 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Freedom is an often mentioned motive for remaining childfree. However, there is a lack of systematic approaches attempting to disentangle the situated meaning of freedom in voluntary childless women's lives. This article draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 21 Swedish childfree women in order to further research how they understand and define freedom. The analysis identifies two different discourses of freedom relevant for the construction of the childfree position. The first discourse includes positive experiences of freedom aspects that the childfree women enjoyed in their everyday lives. This discourse also defines freedom as part of a deep-rooted identity that also involves other life choices, besides rejecting mother- hood. The second discourse comprises negative opinions about children as risk, motherhood as time-consuming and parents as “trapped”. The article contextualizes these discourses within the contemporary Swedish welfare society.
35.	Rojas, Yerko, 1978-, et al. (författare) Informal social capital in childhood and suicide among adolescent and young adult women : A cross-sectional analysis with 30 countries 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; :42, s. 1-8 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Using data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2005/2006, and World Health Organization (WHO), this study examined the relationship between girls' informal social capital and female suicide rates in adolescence and young adulthood in 30 European and North American countries. Regression analyses using normal, robust and bias-corrected confidence intervals were used for this purpose. Informal social capital (involvement with friends after school) among 15 year-old girls explained,9% of the total variation in the young female suicide rate. This effect was of approximately the same magnitude as that of the corresponding male suicide rate. Although the findings of this study provide support for the common notion that female suicide can be understood in relation to male suicide, the association we observed between female informal social capital in adolescence and early adult female suicide highlights the need for more female-specific studies on suicide.
36.	Rydström, Helle, 1963- (författare) Sexed Bodies/Gendered Bodies : Children and the Body in Vietnam 2002 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 25: 3, s. 359-372 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
37.	Sainsbury, Diane (författare) Gender differentiation and citizenship acquisition : Nationality reforms in comparative and historical perspective 2018 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 68, s. 28-35 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Feminist scholars have made an impressive contribution to the rethinking of citizenship, but they have largely neglected the gender differentiation of citizenship acquisition. This neglect has resulted in a lack of knowledge concerning the processes of change underpinning nationality reforms that have weakened the patriarchal nature of citizenship. This article seeks to fill the current void through a comparative analysis of nationality reforms that have granted married women an independent right to nationality and mothers the right to transmit their nationality to their children. It examines the politics of these reforms in the United States, France and Germany as well as the international dimension of these nationality reforms. The analysis reveals the long-term significance of the early internationalization of women's nationality rights and the interplay between domestic and trans national feminist activism.
38.	Serdar, Ayşe, et al. (författare) A typology of right-wing populism in Europe : Intersections of gender, religion and secularity 2023 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 97 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study attempts to advance our understanding of the role gender plays in populist politics by proposing a typology of gendered populism. Our argument is that populist parties' discursive construction of “the people” against “elites” and “non-people” is a gendered process, in which gender operates as a constitutive element for determining who is included in or excluded from “the people”. We also argue that the gendered construction of “the people” intersects with parties' configurations of religion and secularism. We propose that this intersection forms a four dimensional space of gendered populism composed of inclusionary or exclusionary and religious or secular populisms. Our analysis comparatively examines the discourses and policies of the right wing populist parties (RWPPs) and their leaders in France, Sweden and Turkey. Despite sharing an exclusionary understanding of “the people”, the selected RWPPs represent a variegated gendered populism because of their diverging approaches to gender, religion and secularity. Our comparative analysis approaches national-institutional backgrounds concerning the legal status of secularism, political and socio-cultural secularization as possible explanatory factors for the formation of religious and secular exclusionary populism in the four dimensional space. We believe, a four dimensional approach to populism sheds light on our understanding of gendered populism and proposes a fruitful avenue for future comparative studies of populism.
39.	Strid, Sofia, Docent, 1976-, et al. (författare) Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality : A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden 2021 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 88 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The paper examines the prevalence and patterns of honour-based violence and oppression by documenting and analysing self-reported experiences among youth in contemporary metropolitan Sweden. The material is gathered via three surveys of 15-year-olds in metropolitan Sweden (N6002). The analysis draws on feminist intersectional violence studies and situates honour-based violence at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. It develops the concepts of isolation and mobility within and between groups at family, community, and societal levels.The paper finds higher levels of multiple forms of violence and control, including physical, psychological and sexual violence, among youth who live with honour norms. The prevalence of violence is higher with each of the forms of isolation explored in the paper.
40.	Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi, et al. (författare) I’d rather you’d lay me on the floor and start kicking me : Understanding Symbolic Violence in Everyday Life 2006 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 29:5, s. 441-452 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article we argue that to understand the intransigence and plurality of violence, we need to understand the presence of symbolic violence with other direct forms of violence. We argue that it is important to analyse symbolic violence since its subtle and non-visible ways of working do not allow us to understand its mechanisms completely. Drawing on the narratives of women who have experienced violence, we have identified specific features of symbolic violence that were evident in these narratives. We illustrate features of symbolic violence embedded in everyday life such as consent, complicity and misrecognition. At the same time, we also analyse how institutional language and implementation of procedural norms can also be a form of symbolic violence.
41.	Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi (författare) Women as arm-bearers : Gendered caste-violence and the Indian state 2006 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - Oxford : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 29:5, s. 474-488 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article examines the intersections between gender, caste and violence in a post-colonial context. It analyses how in specific cultural and historical contexts, men, women and children can act as both victims and perpetrators of violence and ‘inhuman atrocities’. This is coupled with the lack of law and order and protection from the state, the state understood in terms of both the pan-Indian state and the provincial state of Bihar. The complexities involved when women do take up violence moves the analyses beyond a circumscribed understanding of women as ‘vulnerable victims’ and ‘recipients of violent acts’. The empirical research draws on recent and ongoing caste conflicts in rural Bihar (but also in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat), North India. Dalit women are the chief arms bearers who defend their interests over economic resources (land and water) and have taken the responsibility to protect their own integrity against sexual violence from the upper caste men.
42.	Tholander, Michael, 1965-, et al. (författare) The shame of casual sex : Narratives of young Swedish women 2022 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 93 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study is based on the narratives of four young Swedish women, who were interviewed about their experiences of heterosexual casual sex. The analyses are based on phenomenological sociology and focus on sequences in which the participants orient towards shame in connection with casual sexual encounters. The results show that the participants struggle with shame before, during, and after casual sex, that they do so in relation to a great variety of people, places, and situations, and that they through their experiences encounter a complex set of socializing forces. Hence, despite coming of age in a very liberal sexual environment, the social conditions of the young women’s casual sexual encounters appear as highly challenging. Different audiences, selves, and voices, which do not always blend well together, create a crossfire of conflicting ideals, expectations, and feelings. To alleviate the sexual shame that often seems to beset young women, methods of sex education need to focus on scrutinizing cultural practices rather than the individual.
43.	Udén, Maria (författare) A located realism: Recent development within feminist science studies and the present options for feminist engineering 2009 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 32:3, s. 219-226 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The article states that in order to be meaningful gender studies in engineering need to conceptualize feminist understandings into the web of routines created and maintained in engineering practice. Its theme is the area in-between laboratory settings and human-machine interfaces. This huge area includes civil engineering, energy production, mechanical engineering and more, but has hardly been addressed in feminist writing on technology. The works of Evelyn Fox Keller and Karen Barad are investigated. Their respective approaches to language differ, as do their stances with regards to the possibility of universal knowledge. As an experiment, agential realism is applied to a fictive case of a collapsing structure, and found to make sense as feminist conceptualization of such an event. But engineering takes place in complex and disruptive processes that produce situated experience. Therefore, feminist concepts of embodiment and plurality remain crucial. The author recommends a located realism.
44.	Waltman, Max (författare) Sweden’s prohibition of purchase of sex : the law's reasons, impact, and potential 2011 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - Oxford : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 34:5, s. 449-474 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In 1999, Sweden passed a law criminalizing the purchase of sex and decriminalizing the prostituted person. The law was part of an omnibus bill against violence against women, recognizing prostitution as related to such violence. This article analyzes the reasons for the Swedish law and documents the law’s impact, concluding that the law has significantly reduced the occurrence of prostitution in Sweden compared to neighboring countries. In addition, it addresses some important remaining obstacles to the law’s effective implementation and responds to various common critiques of (and misinformation about) the law and its effects. Finally, this article argues that, in order to realize the law’s full potential to support escape from prostitution, the civil rights of prostituted persons under current law should be strengthened to enable them to claim damages directly from the tricks/johns for the harm to which they have contributed.
45.	Webster, Natasha Alexandra, 1978-, et al. (författare) Thai women entrepreneurs in Sweden : Critical perspectives on migrant small businesses 2017 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 60, s. 17-27 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Thai migrant women are an important and visible part of the small business community in Sweden, most notably through restaurants, massage spas and small shops. In this paper we explore the overlap between migration and entrepreneurship and position ourselves within the feminist entrepreneurial framework. We ask: which Thai women become entrepreneurs? How does being migrant women shape their entrepreneurial activities and practices? Our paper employs a mixed-method design to explore Thai migrant businesses, giving a detailed overview of which women become entrepreneurs based on register data, and providing space for the narratives of women. We find a gendered approach to understanding the business activities of Thai women business practitioners does challenge normative perspectives on entrepreneurship. We show that family structure, migration length, education and partner's labor market status all play important roles. Furthermore, we find that small businesses are sites of negotiation and contestation.
46.	Winter, Katarina, 1982-, et al. (författare) The realization of sexed bodies : stable and fragile gender dichotomies in Swedish media representations of biomedical alcohol research 2013 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 37, s. 53-63 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract During recent decades, biomedical research has increasingly entered the press scene, particularly in media stories of healthy bodies and lifestyles. One of the fields where this is visible is in the discussion of alcohol consumption and problems, a field where references to biological sex differences are common. This paper analyzes how facts about sexed bodily difference are made real in Swedish newspaper stories of biomedical alcohol research. Our findings indicate that newspapers represent the body at different levels of abstraction; from detailed descriptions at the molecular level (hormones and genes), through discussion at the molar level (body parts, organs and disease), to more general discussion at the social level (inner nature, sensitivity, and responsibility). We also find a double metaphorical meaning of the word alcohol: alcohol is a solution (a soluble liquid) that also dissolves the dimorphism of bodily sex difference.
47.	Öhman, Ann, et al. (författare) Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedish gender equality and global health 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 115-122 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper discusses current Swedish international development policies on gender and violence. It deals with the relationship between development policies, global health, promotion of gender equality, and violence against women in a global perspective. The focus is on intimate partner violence and the highly promoted gender mainstreaming policy. Theoretically, our point of departure lies within a feminist notion of gender relations, power structures, and male hierarchies that constrain and subordinate women and girls and which expose them to gendered violence. We claim that stronger links need to be created between local activist groups in low and middle income countries and the international development agencies. It is important to initiate and formalize a North South dialogue between such groups, as well as enhancing South South dialogue and cooperation.
48.	Arora Jonsson, Seema (författare) Forty years of gender research and environmental policy: Where do we stand? 2014 Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395. ; 47, s. 295-308 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Forty years of gender research has ensured that gender is an important category that needs to be taken into account in environmental policy and practice. A great deal of finances and attention are currently being directed to gender in development and environmental organizations. At the same time, as gender research has become more sophisticated and theoretically strong, there is also frustration among academic researchers as well as practitioners and policy makers that it appears to have had a marginal effect on environmental practice on the ground.Policies have turned to gender mainstreaming, attempted to include women and other marginalized social groups in environmental management and markets. Change has been mixed. Mainstreaming can become a technocratic exercise. The assumption that competing interests can be negotiated by adding women to organizations for environmental governance, in disregard for social relations, is problematic. Stereo-types about women and men, sometimes buttressed by gender research predominate in policy and programs. Inclusion in markets offer new options but can further curb women's agency. Contradictions arise - as gender becomes a part of the official machinery, when women are regarded as a collective but addressed as individuals in programs and when the focus is on the governance of gender with little attention on the gender of neoliberal governance. Yet, support for 'gender programs' has also led to unintended openings for empowerment. It is clear that the meaning of gender is far from settled and there are intensified efforts to define what 'gender' is in each context. I discuss the renewed interest in gender and what this engagement with power might mean for gender research, policy and practice and where we might go from here. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
49.	Bak Mckenna, Miriam (författare) Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora 2019 Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - 0277-5395. ; 73:March–April 2019, s. 69-70 Recension (refereegranskat)
50.	Fahlgren, Siv, et al. (författare) Resisting 'overing'- Teaching and researching Gender studies in Sweden 2016 Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395. ; 54, s. 119-128 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The aim of this paper is to raise and explore some of the challenges we as gender scholars have experienced in Sweden today in what could be conceptualized as 'overed' academic landscapes. Our argument is framed by Sara Ahmed's (2012) statement that the very idea that we are 'over race' is how racism is reproduced where it also has to be emphasized that the notion of being 'over race' needs to be understood as intertwined with being over gender. With autobiographical methods, we take leverage in a problematization of gender studies as 'a room of our own' and discuss related themes in academe such as the paradox of gender studies as a perspective and/or a discipline, pluralism and the academic institutional division of labour, feminism and neoliberal New Public Management, collaborative interdisciplinary work in audit cultures. The paper concludes with a discussion about resisting 'overing' through the conflicted position of the feminist scholar.

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