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1.	Cavaghan, Rosalind, et al. (författare) Experts, Idiots, and Liars : The Gender Politics of Knowledge and Expertise in Turbulent Times 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 27:4, s. 643-647 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This special issue advances feminist inquiry and theorizing of the politics of knowledge within our current, highly paradoxical societal landscape. It draws together feminist analyses of “expertise” with feminist epistemologies of situated knowledge, Black feminist thought, theory of affect and emotions, sociology of knowledge, and science and technology studies (STS). As such, it enables a timely interdisciplinary engagement with current paradigmatic shifts in knowledge production and claims to expertise as well as an examination of the gendered and racialized epistemic authority.For several decades, the study of “knowledge,” changing modes of knowledge production, and the dynamics shaping the recognition of expertise were largely confided to the specialized subfields of sociology of knowledge..
2.	Ahlberg [Alsarve], Jenny, 1980-, et al. (författare) Actualizing the 'democratic family'? : Swedish policy rhetoric versus family practices 2008 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 15:1, s. 79-100 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article, we examine empirically a key element of individualization theory—the democratic family. We do so using the “acid test” of family policy, and family practice, in Sweden. First, we review the progress of family policy in Sweden since the 1960s, which has expressly promoted an agenda of gender equality and democracy in families, with individual autonomy for both adults and children as one key element. We then turn to family practice, looking particularly at negotiation and adult equality, lifelong parenting after separation, and children's autonomy. While Swedish policy makers and shapers seem to have developed the idea of the democratic family long before the sociologist Anthony Giddens, the results in practice have been more ambivalent. While there has been change, there is more adaptation to pre-existing gender and generational norms.
3.	Bergqvist, Christina, 1957-, et al. (författare) When Class Trumps Sex : The Social Democratic Intra-Party Struggle Over Extending Parental Leave Quotas in Sweden 2016 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 23:2, s. 169-191 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract One challenge within gender and politics literature is understanding the circumstances under which gender equality policies are adopted. This article analyzes a “failed” case of adoption in a gender-progressive setting: the Swedish Social Democrats' failure in 2005 to reform parental leave legislation by extending the quota for each parent. The analysis builds on interviews with high-ranked party representatives—both advocates and opponents of the reform. We identify tensions between proponents' gender concerns and opponents' class-based interests and suggest that left-oriented parties are unlikely to adopt gender equality policies when competing class interests coincide with veto players' short-term electoral goals.
4.	Bygren, Magnus, 1968-, et al. (författare) Are Women Discriminated Against in Countries with Extensive Family Policies? A Piece of the “Welfare State Paradox” Puzzle from Sweden 2021 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 28:4, s. 921-947 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A common assumption in comparative family policy studies is that employers statistically discriminate against women in countries with dual-earner family policy models. The empirical evidence cited in support of this assumption has exclusively been observational data, which should not be relied on to identify employer discrimination. In contrast, we investigate whether employers discriminate against women in Sweden—frequently viewed as epitomizing the dual-earner family policy model—using field experiment data. We find no evidence supporting the notion that Swedish employers statistically discriminate against women.
5.	Cooke, Lynn Prince, et al. (författare) Labor and Love : Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context 2013 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 20:4, s. 482-509 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife's employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife's employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Finland, Norway, and Sweden, wives' employment predicts a significantly lower risk of divorce when compared with wives who are out of the labor force. The results indicate that greater policy support for equality reduces and may even reverse the relative divorce risk associated with a wife's employment.
6.	Duncan, Duane, et al. (författare) Obscuring Gendered Difference : The Treatment of Violence in Australian Government Alcohol Policy 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 29:3, s. 1057-1079 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Despite public debate about alcohol and public violence among young people in Australia, the issue of masculinities or gender is rarely visible in alcohol policy. Instead, policy recommendations aimed at reducing violence focus on changing the availability and consumption of alcohol. Drawing on concepts from feminist and science and technology studies scholarship, this article analyses how “alcohol-related violence” is constituted as a specific policy object, and how it coheres to obscure men’s contributions to and experiences of violence. Attention to the political effects of these policy practices is necessary for the development of more equitable alcohol policies.
7.	Engeman, Cassandra (författare) Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers : Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965–2016 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 30:4, s. 1137-1161 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In recent decades, governments have created and expanded paid leave rights for fathers, but policies have developed along different timelines and trajectories. Using event history methods, this research investigates the timing of fathers’ leave rights adoption across twenty-two countries from 1965 to 2016. With a focus on “first laws,” the findings support explanations of family policy development that emphasize political actors. Specifically, results suggest leftist parties and institutions are important for the adoption of nontransferable leave, a hallmark of gender egalitarian family policy models. However, new leave rights-adoption is sensitive to incremental increases in confessional-right party power, indicating possible negotiations between partisan actors. Finally, results suggest a role for women lawmakers but only for transferable parenting leave, which is often taken by mothers, complicating previous research on the role of women lawmakers in family policy development. Overall, results underscore the need to distinguish between social provisions when examining their drivers.
8.	Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al. (författare) What Can We/Do We Want to Know? : Reflections from Researching SGBV in Military Settings 2018 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 25:4, s. 521-544 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores methodological challenges that arose in two perpetrator-centered research projects on sexual and gender-based violence in two different armed forces contexts: the British Army and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We examine how the interplay between research subjects’, in this case perpetrators’, performances and our own desires and investments as researchers shape the knowledge we produce. Ultimately, we seek to encourage continuing (self)critical discussions on how various discursive framings and ethico-political desires shape the stories we hear as well as those that we tell.
9.	Estevez-Abe, Margarita, et al. (författare) Outsourcing Domestic (Care) Work : The Politics, Policies, and Political Economy 2015 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 22:2, s. 133-146 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article introduces the theme of the special issue on Outsourcing Domestic (Care) Work. We conceptualize outsourcing of domestic work as a process by which both the state and family increase their reliance on private markets to carry out both care and non-care domestic services. We argue that this outsourcing is happening in response to three deficits that many wealthy European countries face- care deficit, time deficit, and job deficit.
10.	Evertsson, Marie (författare) Is Gender Inequality Greater at Lower or Higher Educational Levels? Common Patterns in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. 2009 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford Journals. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 16:2, s. 210-241 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
11.	Finseraas, H., et al. (författare) The Gender Gap in Political Preferences: An Empirical Test of a Political Economy Explanation 2012 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 19:2, s. 219-242 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A womans labor market participation and risk of divorce are argued to be important explanatory factors for the gender gap in political preferences. We utilize a Norwegian data set which allows a rigid test of these arguments because it includes information on vote choice, preferences regarding child and elder care spending, and extensive information on the relationship with the current partner. We find a gender gap in political preferences, but no evidence that it can be explained by womens risk of divorce, while the impact of labor market participation is not robust across specifications. To some extent, the gender gap in voting is driven by unmarried women voting left.
12.	Freidenvall, Lenita, 1963- (författare) Gender knowledge and gender expertise : The implementation of gender mainstreaming in Swedish state agencies 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 27:4, s. 742-764 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Through an analysis of the Swedish government development program for gender mainstreaming in state agencies—the JIM (Jämställdhet i myndigheter)program—this article analyzes how gender equality is constructed (gender knowledge) and what role specialized knowledge (gender expertise) has in policy implementation. The article claims that even in best-case scenarios, such as Sweden, where intensive efforts to integrate a gender perspective have been undertaken, gender knowledge is based on visions and strategies that do not question prevailing policy paradigms. However, cross-cutting and intersectional conceptualizations of gender equality have created epistemic space for transformative interventions on the part of gender experts.
13.	Gavanas, Anna, 1971- (författare) Domesticating masculinity and masculinizing domesticity in contemporary U.S. fatherhood politics 2004 Ingår i: Social Politics. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 11 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
14.	Haas, Linda, et al. (författare) "It's About Time!": Company Support for Fathers' Entitlement to Reduced Work Hours in Sweden 2016 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 23:1, s. 142-167 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Fifteen nations offer fathers the right to reduce work hours to care for children. Incorporating a gender perspective, this study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the implementation of this policy in the first nation to offer it, Sweden. It investigates whether the institutional and cultural environment exerts pressure on companies to facilitate fathers' hours reduction, companies' levels of support for fathers' use of this entitlement and correlates of company support. The persistence of the "male model of work" appears to be an important barrier to implementation of a policy that offers promise in offering fathers time to care.
15.	Halldén, Karin, et al. (författare) Does the Motherhood Wage Penalty Differ by Individual Skill and Country Family Policy? A Longitudinal Study of Ten European Countries 2016 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 23:3, s. 363-388 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Previous research shows considerable variation in the strength of the motherhood wage penalty across countries, which has partially been attributed to differences in policies supporting maternal employment. Although such policies are usually understood to be complementary, their effects on workers—and especially on employees in jobs of diverse skills levels—may differ. Using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for ten countries, this article describes the associations of different maternal employment policies with the motherhood wage penalty by skill. Findings from Hausman–Taylor panel models indicate that both a high share of small children in publicly funded child care facilities and long paid maternity leave are associated with a decrease in the motherhood wage penalty regardless of skill level. The standardized total effects were larger for the latter policy.
16.	Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al. (författare) From gender regimes to violence regimes : Re-thinking the position of violence 2022 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 29:2, s. 682-705 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract What happens when we focus primarily on violence as a central question—either within the gender regime approach or by making violence regime an approach in itself? The article first interrogates gender regimes theoretically and empirically through a focus on violence, and then develops violence regimes as a fruitful approach, conceptualizing violence as inequality in its own right, and a means to deepen the analysis of gender relations, gender domination, and policy. The article is a contribution to ongoing debate, which specifically and critically engages with the gender regime framework.
17.	Hellgren, Zenia (författare) Markets, Regimes, and the Role of Stakeholders : Explaining Precariousness of Migrant Domestic/Care Workers in Different Institutional Frameworks 2015 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 22:2, s. 220-241 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Spain and Sweden represent societies with very different welfare, migration, and employment regimes in a European context, but in both countries, female migrant workers in the private domestic/care sectors experience precarious job conditions. The purpose of this article is to explain the situation of migrant workers in these societies through an analysis of both structural components and the position of stakeholders involved in the private care/domestic services sector. Comparing the cases of Spain and Sweden, I argue that different characteristics of regimes and markets-rather paradoxically-produce similar results for the workers. In both countries, there is pressure to keep the wages low. Work hours are often unpredictable and adapted to the clients' demands. In Spain, these workers fill the care gap, representing a comparably affordable solution to the lack of public eldercare. In Sweden, the private domestic services market expanded after the so-called RUT tax subsidy was implemented in 2007. Here, cleaning companies play a key role as middlemen who receive a large share of the cost for these services. Few actors represent the workers, and those who do find themselves restrained by structural factors (as NGOs in Spain) or ambiguous in their support (as the Swedish trade unions). All in all, the female migrant domestic/care workers in Spain and Sweden apparently form part of the development towards a migrant precariat in European societies.
18.	Hobson, Barbara, et al. (författare) Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work–Life Balance : A Comparison of Sweden and Hungary 2011 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 18:2, s. 168-198 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study develops a conceptual framework with a capabilities and agency approach for analyzing work–life balance (WLB) applied in two societies (Hungary and Sweden), which have different working time regimes, levels of precarious employment, and gender equality discourses and norms. Inspired by Amartya Sen, we present a model illustrating how agency freedom for WLB depends on multiple resources at the individual, work organizational, institutional, and normative/societal levels. Using a unique qualitative survey conducted in two cities, Budapest and Stockholm, we analyze how mothers and fathers subjectively experience the tensions between family and work demands, and their possibilities for alternative choices (agency freedom). We find similarities in these tensions involving time pressure and time poverty, cutting across gender and education. Our Hungarian parents, nevertheless, experience greater agency inequalities for WLB, which reflect weaker institutional resources (conversion factors) as well as cultural/societal norms that act as constraints for WLB claims in the workplace and household. Our study reveals that Swedish parents, both men and women, express a strong sense of entitlement to exercise rights to care.
19.	Hobson, Barbara (författare) The Agency Gap in Work-life balance : Applying Sen's Capabilities Framework Within European Contexts 2011 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 18:2, s. 147-167 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
20.	Holm, Malin (författare) Beyond Antifeminist Discourses : Analyzing How Material and Social Factors Shape Online Resistance to Feminist Politics 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 30:2, s. 422-443 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Online platforms present new challenges to feminist politics since they provide antifeminist groups with additional possibilities to come together and advocate their claims towards wider publics. This article argues that new analytical perspectives are needed to understand how antifeminist discourses are successfully produced and promulgated online. In particular, it suggests that in addition to analyzing the content of antifeminist discourses we need to pay attention to how the design and governance of online platforms, as well as the resources among antifeminist activists, shape online resistance to feminist politics. Two analytical dimensions are introduced that help to specify how the design and governance of online platforms, as well as the social composition of antifeminist groups, enable these to come together online and influence mainstream publics. To demonstrate the usefulness of this analytical approach, a study of an influential antifeminist blogosphere in the Swedish context is used as an illustrative case.
21.	Hudson, Christine, 1950- (författare) Hell's Grannies and Crazy Ladies : Challenging the Precarization of Older Women 2021 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 28:2, s. 314-334 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Older women are often portrayed as particularly vulnerable and in need of protection, producing processes of ageist “othering” that deny agency, foster “appropriate” behaviors, and work to exclude them from everyday life. While not denying many women face a precarious situation in later life, some older women resist their subjectivation as vulnerable. Drawing on a concept of precarity as governmentality, older women’s acceptance and resistance to being characterized as “vulnerable” and in need of protection are explored in relation to focus group interviews with female pensioners in four Swedish municipalities.
22.	Kalm, Sara, et al. (författare) Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745. ; 30:2, s. 556-579 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and material produced by the WCF itself. We discuss the WCF’s role in relation to political polarization, and we also analyze it as a social structure: its actor constellations and new forms of activism. The analysis shows that strategic networking with elites as well as grassroots has rendered the WCF a significant player in global politics.
23.	Kornrich, Sabino, et al. (författare) Family Life in Context : Men and Women’s Perceptions of Fairness and Satisfaction Across Thirty Countries 2016 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 23:1, s. 40-69 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Existing scholarship contends that satisfaction with family life is relative: that what individuals expect out of their marriages in terms of housework and possibly more generally depends on what is typical in that country. These expectations are derived from a relative deprivation framework, which claims that individuals engage in social comparison with similar others and experience dissatisfaction or other forms of psychological distress if these comparisons indicate that they are relatively worse off. In this article, we extend existing research on women’s satisfaction with family life by asking two primary questions. First, can research which suggests that relative deprivation structures women’s perceptions of fairness in and satisfaction with family life be extended to understand men’s experiences? Second, what other individual-level features and country policies interact to influence satisfaction with family life? To answer these questions, we rely on individual-level data (N=14,351) from the International Social Survey Programme (2002) and country-level data (N=30) from the OECD Family Database, the World Economic Forum, and other sources. Using multilevel models, we find that relative deprivation does not explain men’s experiences, suggesting the importance of the salience of egalitarian norms rather than relative deprivation for men and possibly for women. In addition, we find other significant individual- and country-level variables, broadening understandings of satisfaction with family life across a variety of institutional contexts.
24.	Korolczuk, Elżbieta, PhD (författare) Counteracting Challenges to Gender Equality in the Era of Anti-Gender Campaigns : Competing Gender Knowledges and Affective Solidarity 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 27:4, s. 694-717 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article focuses on the epistemic strategies employed by ultraconservative movements to oppose women's reproductive rights and the ways in which the women's movement counteracts these efforts. The core argument is that nowadays the opponents of gender equality and sexual democracy are seeking not only political but also epistemic power, producing a new body of gender knowledge. A detailed analysis of the struggles around the 2016 Stop Abortion bill in Poland shows, however, that the women's movement can counteract these challenges by mobilizing not only medical and legal expertise, but also tacit knowledge and affects.
25.	Korpi, Walter, 1934-, et al. (författare) Women's Opportunities under Different Family Policy Constellations : Gender, Class, and Inequality Tradeoffs in Western Countries Re-examined 2013 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 20:1, s. 1-40 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores tradeoffs reflecting interaction effects between socioeconomic class and different types of family policies on gender inequalities in terms of agency and economic inequality in eighteen Organization for Economic and Cultural Development countries. We identify multiple dimensions in family policies, reflecting the extent to which legislation involves claim rights supporting mothers' paid work or supporting traditional homemaking. We use constellations of multidimensional policies in combination with multilevel analysis to examine effects on class selectivity of women into employment and glass ceilings with respect to women's access to top wages and managerial positions. Our results indicate that while major negative family policy effects for women with tertiary education are difficult to find in countries with well-developed policies supporting women's employment and work-family reconciliation, family policies clearly differ in the extent to which they improve opportunities for women without university education.
26.	Kulawik, Teresa (författare) Political Epistemology in Gender Policy-Making : The German Democratization of Expertise 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 27:4, s. 765-789 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article proposes the concept of feminist political epistemology to examine the changing modalities of knowledge production in Germany. The article examines how German gender equality policies have been embedded in and shaped by the shifting modalities of knowledge production and the remaking of the science expertise–politics nexus. The two formative time periods investigated—the 1960s–1970s and 1998 to the present—account for major shifts in the gender and political knowledge regime in Germany. The findings provide insights into the contradictory dynamics involved in transformations of political and epistemic authority.
27.	Lindvert, Jessica (författare) The rules of the game : Organizing gender policies in Australia and Sweden 2007 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 14:2, s. 238-257 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This comparative analysis examines how policy issues central to the feminist agenda were introduced and eventually established in Swedish and Australian politics from the early 1960s to late 1980s. The theoretical discussion revolves around the analytical concept gender policy logics and its relevance in empirical analyses of gender policy-making. Focus is specifically set on the role of administrative structures in the processes of policy formation and on how certain institutional mechanisms accelerate certain gender policy paths and depoliticize others. The analysis indicates that different mechanisms stand out as decisive for gender policy-making in Sweden and Australia. Australian gender politics was to a great extent maintained by the actors' organizational skills: by their ability to reconfigure, change arenas, and find alternative coalitions. In Sweden, the crucial capacity for continuation rather concerned a discursive competence: how to conceptualize the demands and to stretch or revise the policies in order to meet approval. Four policy issues were examined over time: childcare, job training, sex discrimination, and violence against women.
28.	Lundqvist, Åsa (författare) Activating Women in the Swedish Model 2015 Ingår i: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 22:1, s. 111-132 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The 1960s marked the beginning of a new era of family and gender relations in Sweden. It was a time when traditional values and ideas concerning the family were questioned and redefined in policymaking. The Women's movement and political radicalization underpinned the emergence of gender equality policy ambitions, culminating in several gender neutral reforms in the 1970s. These policy ambitions coincided with the introduction of active labour market policies. In fact, the introduction of activation policies contributed already in the 1960s to incentivizing various groups to enter the labour force, among others married women without gainful employment. In this article, the National Labour Market Board is investigated as an active agent in a time when women's participation in the labour market increased dramatically. Attention is drawn to how activation policies were established, designed, and performed in order to enable women to do paid work. Three examples of how activation was accomplished will be presented: first, vocational training for women, second, a radio programme from 1966 called “The Housewife Changing her Profession”, and, third, the work done by a group of civil servants labelled activating inspectors. The empirical data are grounded in a comprehensive body of qualitative material amassed from in-depth interviews with former civil servants working within the National Labour Market Board and archive material. The results suggest that activation programmes in the 1960s functioned as a link between the ambition to increase female labour market participation to secure economic growth and to support women's economic independence.
29.	Palme, Joakim, 1958-, et al. (författare) A Taxonomy of Child Policies : Conceptualizing the Missing Step in Defamilization of Social Policy 2021 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 28:2, s. 405-427 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has created momentum for the notion of child policy to be advanced. The article elaborates a taxonomy of child policies for analyzing policy instruments aimed at promoting various aspects of children's welfare, and four different types of child policies are identified. The article explores the feasibility of this conceptual framework with a case study of Sweden. We frame the move toward child-centered policies in terms of defamilization: such policies may enhance "freedom as non-domination" and could be seen as the second round of the defamilization of social policy.
30.	Reuterswärd, Camilla (författare) The Inter- and Intra-Party Politics of Moral Policy: Free Voting and Abortion Reform in Uruguay 2020 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 28:4, s. 1137-1161 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Moral policies such as abortion are often up to the conscience of individual legislators who can vote against the party line without sanctions. While free votes might jeopardize reform, party leaders can enforce discipline to achieve policy objectives. This article develops a framework to explain legislative behavior on abortion. It highlights how individual-level religiosity and party characteristics—voter linkage mechanisms and elite-base ties—shape votes on proposed bills. Analyzing three attempts to decriminalize abortion in left-governed Uruguay, this article highlights party variables beyond ideology and sheds more light on the puzzle of Latin America’s slow progress on reproductive rights.
31.	Saxonberg, Steven, et al. (författare) The continuing legacy of the communist legacy? : The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic 2007 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 14:3, s. 351-379 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article compares family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic in order to explain why the two countries have different policies. Previous studies are right to claim that post-communist family policies are basically going in a refamilialist direction that gives mothers a greater incentive to return to the home, but they tend to neglect the important differences that exist between countries. Although previous studies were correct to emphasize the role of the anti-feminist communist legacy in explaining this trend toward re-famialilization, it is a country's economic-institutional legacy that goes the farthest in explaining the differences in policies.
32.	Scuzzarello, Sarah (författare) National security versus moral responsibility: An analysis of integration programs in Malmo, Sweden 2008 Ingår i: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 15:1, s. 5-31 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article proposes that people working with integration projects in Sweden are driven by a wish to help immigrants integrate into the host society. At the same time, however, the practices of multiculturalism tend to reproduce narratives that depict immigrants as threats to the host society and as inherently different from it. This tension can be analyzed through the intersections of a dilemma of security versus moral responsibility. Secondly, this article argues that integration programs in Sweden tend to reproduce and maintain articulations of nation, culture, gender, and race, and thus contribute to the construction of a harmonious and singular sense of the Swedish self.
33.	Smrek, Michal, 1989- (författare) Can Personal Parties Facilitate Women’s Political Seniority? : A Study of Internal Rules of Conduct 2022 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 29:1, s. 240-259 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Leader-driven personal parties often campaign on a ticket promising elite renewal and novel ways of doing politics. One way of looking apart from the sitting political establishment is to recruit women into visible party positions. This study examines whether personal parties can improve women’s access to reelection by institutionalizing performance-based rules of internal promotion, which are necessitated by the lack of organic party cohesion. A site-intensive study of the Slovak Freedom and Solidarity party identifies a number of gendered structural constraints that impede the party’s female incumbents from excelling in those tasks that are deemed important by the party.
34.	Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena, 1965-, et al. (författare) Do Family Policy Regimes Matter for Children's Well-Being? 2011 Ingår i: Social Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 18:1, s. 82-124 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Researchers have studied the impact of different welfare state regimes, and particularly family policy regimes, on gender equality. Very little research has been conducted, however, on the association between different family policy regimes and children's well-being. This article explores how the different family policy regimes of twenty OECD countries relate to children's well-being in the areas of child poverty, child mortality, and educational attainment and achievement. We focus specifically on three family policies: family cash and tax benefits, paid parenting leaves, and public child care support. Using panel data for the years 1995, 2000, and 2005, we test the association between these policies and child well-being while holding constant for a number of structural and policy variables. Our analysis shows that the dual-earner regimes, combining high levels of support for paid parenting leaves and public child care, are strongly associated with low levels of child poverty and child mortality. We find little long-term effect of family policies on educational achievement, but a significant positive correlation between high family policy support and higher educational attainment. We conclude that family policies have a significant impact on improving children's well-being, and that dual-earner regimes represent the best practice for promoting children's health and development.
35.	Stockemer, Daniel, et al. (författare) Quotas, the electoral system type and the election of young women 2021 Ingår i: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 28:4, s. 1025-1045 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article focuses on a specific group of legislators facing large hurdles during recruitment processes, namely young women. Building on the institutional literature, we hypothesize that gender quota regulations, youth quotas, and proportional representation (PR) electoral systems should particularly benefit young women. Our quantitative study, capturing one hundred elections conducted between 2012 and 2017, finds partial support for our expectations. For the three hypotheses, we find that legislative quotas and voluntary party quotas for both youths and gender do not significantly increase the share of young women. In contrast, PR electoral systems render the electoral arena less discriminatory toward younger women.
36.	Strid, Sofia, 1976-, et al. (författare) Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities : Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women 2013 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 20:4, s. 558-581 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Intersectionalities have long been theorised. It is time to move on to empirical testing of intersectionality theory in order to develop it further. The paper analyses visibility of multiple intersecting inequalities in policy on violence against women in Britain. It finds and develops a continuum of inclusion of multiple inequalities to analyse visibility in policy, ranging from the simple naming of inequalities, the intersection of inequalities, and fields of violence and policy domains, to the inclusion of the voices of minoritised women. It is proposed that while recognition of intersectionality is required for good quality policy, it is the way in which this is achieved that is particularly important. We argue that the implications of previous research that finds silencing of groups positioned at the point of intersection of two or more inequalities and invisibility of multiple inequalities in policy need to be re-thought. Previous research showing silencing and invisibility is based on a too narrow understanding of the concept of intersectionality and has not taken sufficiently into account the implications of the politico-discursive process of degendering.
37.	Strid, Sofia, 1976-, et al. (författare) Intersectionality and the quality of the gender equality architecture 2012 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 19:4, s. 446-481 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The restructuring of the equality architecture in Britain is analyzed for its implications for the theory and practice of intersectionality. Going beyond McCall and Hancock, different approaches to the intersection of multiple inequalities are identified and investigated for their utility in the theory and practice of equality in the context of multiple intersecting equalities. In particular, the preference for “mutual constitution” rather than “mutual shaping” is interrogated. Several definitions of and several criteria of quality of the equality architecture are identified, drawing on a discussion of the literature. It is found that while restructuring of the British equality architecture increased its quality in some aspects, by widening its coverage of multiple inequalities and policy domains, in other aspects it reduced it, notably in its resources. The findings vary according to the definition of the equality architecture deployed. Conclusions for the theory and practice of intersectionality are drawn. The prioritization of “mutual constitution” in theory and practice is found to be flawed; “mutual shaping” is offered as a more successful approach.
38.	Sundkvist, Emma, Högskolelektor (författare) Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History : Egyptian Feminist Activists’ Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014 2022 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 30:1, s. 47-68 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article analyzes the efforts of Egyptian feminist activists to insert gender equality in the country’s post-revolutionary constitutions in 2012 and 2014. While the literature on women’s political role during this period provides insights into exclusionary gender practices and conditions for bargaining power structures, this study contributes with a conceptual analysis of how feminist activists construed constitutional gender equality. The study is based on interviews with, and written statements by, activists engaged in the constitutional process. The article argues that these activists viewed the constitution as a central instrument in the struggle for gender equality and demanded a gender equality model beyond the sameness/difference paradigm. Instead, they argued for a substantive notion of gender equality that reflected women’s situated experiences while they, at the same time, navigated the legacies of Egypt’s earlier constitutions.
39.	Svallfors, Signe, 1991- (författare) Gender Dynamics During the Colombian Armed Conflict 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics. - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates gender dynamics during the Colombian armed conflict, where the ongoing peace process has had a unique focus on gender equality. Using a lens of militarized masculinity and original expert interviews with Colombian stakeholders in peacebuilding and human rights, the study analyzes how gender norms have been upheld and sanctioned in the context of conflict. Gender essentialisms have been reinforced by armed actors, with women’s and LGBT people’s bodies as central channels for reproducing traditional sociobiological roles. Expressions not conforming to the heterocisnormative gender order have been sanctioned with violence. While men have been disproportionally affected by combat violence, women and sexual and gender minorities have been more vulnerable to sexual violence and forced displacement. This militarization of gender norms in Colombia has constructed women’s and queer bodies as battlefields of war, severely undermining their safety, dignity, and autonomy.
40.	Tervola, Jussi, et al. (författare) Promoting Parental Leave for Immigrant Fathers-What Role Does Policy Play? 2017 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 24:3, s. 269-297 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The gender differences in labor force participation and take-up of parental leave are accentuated in immigrant populations. This study examines whether certain policy features of parental leave are effective in leveling out the gendered differences among immigrants. We compare two distinct policy contexts, Finland and Sweden, and analyze the impacts of three policy reforms. Our results imply that policy features such as the earmarking of days and flexibility are the reason why immigrant fathers' take-up of leave is higher in Sweden. However, analysis of policy reforms suggests that other contextual factors also play a role.
41.	Ulmanen, Petra (författare) Working Daughters : A Blind Spot in Swedish Eldercare Policy 2013 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 20:1, s. 65-87 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Care services help women who are mothers or daughters to combine caregiving and gainful employment. While Swedish childcare policy expanded services to meet the needs of children and working mothers, this discourse analysis of Swedish eldercare policy shows that the expansion of eldercare services from the 1950s to the end of 1970s was justified solely on the basis of older people's needs. The lack of connection in policy documents between the needs of working daughters and the provision of eldercare services made it easier to cut services beginning in the 1980s, without considering the consequences for family members.
42.	Uyar Mura, Elif S. (författare) Hosting Overnight Guests : Gendered Unpaid Work as a Solidarity Mechanism of Migrants in the Process of Urbanization in Turkey 2022 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745. ; 29:2, s. 497-520 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article addresses overnight guest hosting, which is a widespread solidarity practice among rural-to-urban migrants in Turkey. The fieldwork, based on in-depth interviews with 28 first-generation migrant women, reveals that it was mostly the young migrant women who shouldered hosting tasks as gendered unpaid work, which deepen their time poverty and reinforce their dependence on family. The analysis highlights the links between intersectional disadvantages of young migrant women and poverty, the failure of the welfare state to provide social assistance for migrants, and the familialist character of social policy during the peak years of migration.
43.	Valarino, Isabel, et al. (författare) Exploring Leave Policy Preferences : A Comparison of Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States 2018 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 25:1, s. 118-147 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This study analyses preferences regarding leave length, gender division of leave,and leave financing in four countries with different welfare-state and leaveregimes. Embedded in a gender perspective, institutional, self-interest, and ideationaltheoretical approaches are used to explore the factors shaping individuals’preferences (ISSP 2012 data). Findings show dramatic cross-country differences,suggesting the institutional dimension is most strongly related to leave policy preferences.Self-interest and values concerning gender relations and state responsibilityare also important correlates. The study identifies mismatches between leavepreferences, entitlements, and uptake, with implications for policy reform and thegendered division of parenting.
44.	Windwehr, Jana, et al. (författare) The Nordic Model of Father Quotas in Leave Policies : A Case of Policy Transfer? 2022 Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 29:1, s. 190-214 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This contribution asks whether the most recent innovation of Nordic family policies, the so-called father quota, has been an object of policy learning in countries that followed the Nordic example of leave policies earlier, such as Germany, Slovenia, and Japan. Our case studies show that analyses of policy learning, especially in the social field, need to take into account the specific contexts and actor constellations in "export"and "import"countries. Rather than representing a blueprint, the Nordic father quotas have served as an inspiration within messy and fragmented processes of policy learning leading to hybrid arrangements in import countries.
45.	Kim, Yeon-jin, et al. (författare) Parental Leave Reforms in South Korea, 1995–2021: Policy Translation and Institutional Legacies 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. - 1072-4745. ; 30:4, s. 1113-1136 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article aims to explore how policy translation and institutional legacies have shaped South Korean parental leave policies between 1995 and 2021. It draws on a document analysis of central political documents and interviews with a number of key policy actors in South Korea. The findings show that reforms of parental leave policies were implemented according to four major rationales: maternity protection; combating low-fertility rates; (working mothers’) work–family life reconciliation; and, finally, men's involvement in childcare. Swedish parental leave policies, especially the introduction of the quota system (the “daddy month”), served as inspiration. The current design of Korean parental leave differs, however, from that of Sweden, and is analyzed as a result of localized reforms surrounding plummeting fertility rates and institutional legacies, mainly connected to the organization of the labor market.
46.	Off, Gefjon, 1995 (författare) Complexities and Nuances in Radical Right Voters' (Anti)Feminism 2023 Ingår i: Social Politics. - 1072-4745. ; 30:2, s. 607-629 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract While radical right parties commonly advance conservative gender positions, research on radical right voters' gender attitudes remains inconclusive. To understand radical right voters' gender attitudes, I first analyze previous research for frames that antifeminist actors commonly use to advance their arguments. I then draw on interviews with eastern German radical right voters to analyze whether and how these voters apply antifeminist frames to argue about feminist policy. I demonstrate that they use antifeminist frames to oppose mostly third-wave and recently salient feminist issues, but also support certain feminist policies, sometimes for instrumental reasons. Further, voters include particularities of their context in their arguments. Eastern Germany constitutes an atypical context, allowing for insights into voters' (anti)feminism in a post-socialist context marked by atheism and relatively advanced gender norms. The study contributes to understanding complexities and nuances in radical right voters' gender attitudes, and thereby to understanding cultural grievances beyond anti-immigration attitudes.
47.	Scuzzarello, Sarah (författare) National security vs. moral responsibility. An analysis of integration programs in Malmö, Sweden 2008 Ingår i: Social Politics. - 1072-4745. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)

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