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- Alvinius, Aida, 1979-, et al.
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Managing visibility and differentiating in recruitment of women as leaders in the armed forces
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 27:5, s. 534-546
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recruitment is one of the Swedish Armed Forces' (SAF) main challenges today. Recruiting more women into the organization is one of the organization's aims, as well as providing them with more opportunities for career development. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of how female military officers perceive barriers and advantages on their way to higher leadership positions. A total of 10 women from a variety of backgrounds and positions in the armed forces were interviewed. Their ranks ranged from Captain to Colonel and they represented army, naval units and air force. The interviews were analysed using a Grounded Theory approach. The qualitative analysis resulted in two main themes: Supporting visibility of women as leaders and differentiation of women as leaders. The former concerns positive strategies on an individual and organizational level that support an increase in the number of female leaders in the SAF, and is a way of responding to political incitements and the SAF's fundamental values. The second concerns ways how women are portrayed as different and divergent from the male standard. The suggested model may be valuable in recruitment, educational settings and leader development of high-level military officers from a gender perspective.
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- Azadi, Bahar, et al.
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Trans subjectivities in Iran : epistemic misrecognition
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 32:7, s. 671-682
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gender Affirmation Surgery (GAS), or Amali Tasdigi Jinsiyat in Persian, was permitted by Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa in 1982. Although GAS is allowed under Islamic law, trans subjectivities in Iran are misrecognized. Here we investigate the construction of trans subjectivities in Iranian society through an intersectional analysis of different power relations. We analyse discourses and practices of gender at structural, institutional and individual levels. We build on the concept of 'epistemic misrecognition' to explain how Iranian trans people's status is misrecognized both inside and outside Iran, which has made Iranian trans people and their experience invisible in society. Furthermore, we employ the notion of 'subjectivation' to describe the multiplicities of trans subjectivation in Iranian society. We apply Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse forty-six semi-structured face-to-face interviews conducted during 2015-2018.
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- Bjarnegård, Elin, 1976-, et al.
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Disentangling gender, peace and democratization : the negative effects of militarized masculinity
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 20:2, s. 139-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the relationships between democratization, gender equality and peace. We argue that there is a need to scrutinize both the level of democracy as well as the level of masculine hegemony in societies. Methodologically, we use a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses to support our argument. We employ regression analysis to show that the relationship between the extent of democracy and the representation of women in politics appears, at first glance, to be non-existent but turns out to be a curvi-linear one. We also show that democracy can facilitate peace, but only in interaction with the level of political gender equality, so that more democratic societies are more peaceful only if there have been moves to gender equality. Our interpretation of these findings is illustrated by the contemporary politics of Thailand. Recent political violence in southern Thailand can be accounted for in the context of it being only partly democratized, where a culture of militarized masculinity persists alongside with, and even within, democratic institutions. Such a culture makes it both difficult for women to enter the political sphere, despite democratic elections, and fosters political violence.
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- Bjørnholt, Margunn, 1958-
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How men became the local agentsof change towards gender equality
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 20:3, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Work-Sharing Couples Study was an action research project conducted in the early 1970s to reconcile work, family and gender equality in families. Its design involved both spouses working part-time and sharing childcare and housework. This article is based on a follow-up study of the original couples 30 years later. The men played a key role in initiating work-sharing in their families and how the men becameagents of change is the topic of the article. Biographical influences from their families of origin and domestic skills, facilitated by the contemporary concept of a modern, profeminist masculinity, were important background factors, and promoting the careers of wives emerged as an important motivational factor. Their authoritative agency in promoting more egalitarian patterns of work and care in their own families also invokes the question of a constructive use of male power. This could give rise to a further discussion of power and masculinity and men as agents of change towards gender equality.
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- Bogren, Alexandra, 1976-
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Gender and Alcohol : The Swedish Press Debate
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 20:2, s. 155-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The dominant approach to gender in alcohol research still conceives of gender in terms of binary roles and looks for explanations for gender differences in drinking. This paper challenges the binary approach, and instead analyzes the categorization of gender as created in Swedish newspaper stories about alcohol, published between 2000 and 2008. Specific categories examined include “responsible mothers”, “responsible parents”, “party girls”, “career women with drinking problems”, “violent men who drink” and “beer-drinking, sexist male athletes”. Based on this examination, the paper discusses how the media stories do and/or undo gender and how they encourage readers to act by the categories of drinkers that they describe. The study shows that the Swedish media stories produce multiple ways of interpreting drinking. Some of the stories undo gender through linking “male” behaviour (drinking heavily) to female bodies, while others undo gender by treating parenthood as more important than gender. Importantly, however, other stories reproduce the discourse of heteronormativity and gender binarism. The study suggests that analyses of media texts need to take the complexity of ‘undoing gender’ into account, for example by avoiding the assumption that gender is either undone or reproduced.
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- Botto, Matteo, et al.
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Swallowing and spitting out the Red Pill : Young men, vulnerability, and radicalisation pathways in the manosphere
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 33:5, s. 596-608
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last decades, new forms of men’s rights activism have emerged, commonly referred to as the ‘manosphere’. This loosely connected, misogynistic online movement particularly attracts young men. Its shared ideology is the Red Pill, a neoconservative ideology that adopts essentialist notions of gender and sexuality, and selectively employs evolutionary psychology to support male supremacy. While the discourses of the manosphere have been mapped, little research exists on how and why young men join and leave such misogynist groups. This article contributes to critical youth and feminist scholarship by analysing the gendered dynamics of online misogynist radicalisation pathways. Based on narratives shared on a Reddit community for former ‘redpillers’, this article explores 30 young men’s experiences of entering and exiting the manosphere and details the essential role of vulnerability in these processes. The stories are synthesised into three phases to illustrate the paths in and out of the manosphere.
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- Coe, Anna-Britt, 1967-
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Policy change as one piece of the picture : Outcomes among reproductive rights advocates in Peru
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 21:2, s. 151-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the 1990s, feminist movements in Peru began to shift strategies from a focus on community training to an emphasis on policy advocacy. Since then, they have seen many of their demands translated into public policies favoring gender equity and reproductive rights. Some scholars argue that such policy changes have a limited impact on women’s daily life in Latin America and it is necessary to conceptualize the outcomes of social movements more broadly to include their cultural and political effects as well as the links between these. Findings are presented from a study of two coalitions engaged in reproductive rights advocacy in Arequipa and Cusco, Peru. The approach for evaluating the materials included participant observation, focus group discussions and individual interviews with coalition members. The study found that coalition members perceive the effects of their advocacy on government policies in terms of five dimensions: coalition-government interactions, issue visibility and recognition, policy enactments, policy implementation and policy position. I conclude that a broader definition of social movement outcomes is needed to evaluate efficacy and models for future action and that this should take into account the complexities of social and political change particularly concerning reproductive rights and gender equity.
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Contesting ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ difference in emotions through music use in the UK
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - London : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 25:1, s. 66-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article builds on social psychological critiques of ‘hardwired’ gender difference inemotions, looking at the topic through the emotional use of music. Starting from thepremise that gender differences in emotion are socially and discursively constructedrather than innate, it moves on to challenge existing work in which masculinity andfemininity are treated as singular, oppositional concepts, that are ‘normally’ attached toideas of existing sex differences. Drawing on data, generated from a UK-based onlinesurvey of 914 respondents (male = 361; female = 553), this article highlights thatwhilst gender plays a significant part in shaping the emotional experience of music, thisis often mediated heavily by age and personal experience. It suggests that music is apractical means of moving beyond ideas of differences in gender or sex differences inemotional display, towards ideas of diversity, especially given that existing face-to-face research has often found men to be ‘unable’ to communicate emotional experiencein particular ways. Both inductive quantitative trends and open-ended fragments frompeople’s emotional experiences of music are included in order to demonstrate howemotions and gender intersect discursively.
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| 10. |
- Drew, Eileen
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Navigating unChartered waters : anchoring Athena SWAN into Irish HEIs
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 31:1, s. 23-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The UK Athena SWAN (AS) Charter was extended to Irish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in 2015 to provide a catalyst for change towards gender equality and to transform institutional cultures, through AS Gender Action Plans. This paper charts: the journey of Athena SWAN to Ireland; its rate of adoption by Irish HEIs; and its impact on the sector. Drawing upon the perspective and contribution of Trinity College Dublin, as an institutional case study accelerator, the paper examines some prevailing critiques of the Athena SWAN Charter and demonstrates how some of these shortfalls have been overcome in the Irish HEI sector, most notably through linking Athena SWAN awards to sectoral and research funding.
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- Egeberg Holmgren, Linn, 1979-, et al.
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Framing 'men in feminism' : theoretical locations, local contexts and practical passings in men's gender-conscious positionings on gender equality and feminism
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - London : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 18:4, s. 403-418
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses some aspects of the 'Man Question' in feminism, by way of the analysis of men's diverse gender-conscious positionings in relation to gender, gender equality and feminism. It builds on earlier work, making use of theoretical models in feminist literature combined with the micro-sociological concept of passing. The article is primarily concerned with the theoretical and empirical complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of men's positionings, as when they are self-defined as 'feminists' (or similar identifications) in radical or deconstructive ways. In this, Swedish interview data are used. Sweden is considered particularly interesting, with a qualified societal consensus on gender equality and a broadly positive place accorded to men's relations with feminism. The authors argue in the final section that there is a need to further dialogue between analyses of men/masculinities and the multidimensionality of feminisms, as well as a need for more empirical studies of men's different (pro) feminist positionings in order to elaborate the theoretical implications of different social contexts. The framing presented seeks to provide greater possibilities for such complex, nuanced and situated understandings of men's relation to feminism, theoretically, analytically and politically.
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| 13. |
- Hall, Matthew, et al.
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Revenge pornography and manhood acts : A discourse analysis of perpetrators’ accounts
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 28:2, s. 158-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Revenge pornography (hereafter, revenge porn) is the online, sometimes offline, non-consensual distribution or sharing, of explicit images of someone else by ex-partners, partners, others or hackers seeking revenge or entertainment – also referred to as non-consensual pornography. The vast majority of revenge porn is committed by men on women ex-partners. In this paper, we discursively analyse men’s electronic texts accompanying their posting of explicit images on arguably the most popular revenge porn-specific website MyEx.com. Situating our analysis as a contemporary form of online gendered violence and abuse, we show the complex ways in which manhood acts are invoked by men to account for their practices. The impacts on victims/survivors and possible interventions are also discussed.
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- Hellum, Merete, 1959, et al.
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'Doing gender and gender equality' through emotional expressions during a research interview. Views of highly educated Swedish young adults
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 28:3, s. 304-317
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to contribute to the knowledge on how concepts of gender and gender equality are constructed within research interviews, deepening our understanding of the underlying gender system in society. We focus on emotions and emotional processes expressed during interviews on work and family when specific questions originating in the World Value Survey were asked. Our study is based on interviews with highly educated women and men, in two metropolitan areas of Sweden. In this article, we seek to shed more light on how incorporating emotional expressions and the evaluation of these emotions can grasp the construction of gender and gender equality. We highlight the range of emotional expressions that appear during the interviews, differences in their usage by women and men and the links to the construction of gender and gender equality. We explore how the specific situation of the interview influences 'doing gender and gender equality' through emotions. Our results reveal that men and women use similar but also different emotional expressions in conforming to the gender equality norm. Men and women, interviewers and interviewees agreed on this norm, but the ways they 'performed' the norm are gender based.
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- Hoffman, Robert D., et al.
(författare)
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Gender differences in self-care for common colds by primary care patients : a European multicenter survey on the prevalence and patterns of practices (the COCO study)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 30:7, s. 756-771
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although generally harmless, the common cold disturbs the lives of billions yearly. It is frequently treated by self-care, yet little is known about the effect gender may have on self-care. Our study set out to discover whether self-care for common colds differs by gender. We also wanted to test the 'Man cold' belief: that men 'break down' when they have a cold and suffer more than women when they are sick. We distributed questionnaires asking for a selection of self-care practices in eight categories to 3,240 consecutive patients in 14 Eurasian countries at 27 primary care sites. Of 2,654 patients included, 99% reported engaging in self-care for common colds. Discomfort was reported more frequently by women (74.7% vs. 66.5%, p < 0.001). There were gender differences in several self-care categories. The mean use of self-care items was higher in women than in men (12.0 vs. 10.3, p < 0.001). Women reported a greater variety of self-care items than men. However, more men reported using alcohol (17.8% vs. 8.4%, p < 0.001). This cross-national study documented gender differences in self-care for common colds.
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- Hunehäll Berndtsson, Kristina, 1977, et al.
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They don’t even think about what the girl might think about it’: students’ views on sexting, gender inequalities and power relations in school
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 30:1, s. 91-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores teenage students’ views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students’ sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys’ sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls’ consent. The girls express how the exchanging of explicit images puts them in a vulnerable position, stating that they are exposed to threats as well as slut- shaming. Sharing explicit sexual images without consent is a form of sexual harassment aimed at the girls, which has an impact on their well-being. This study hopes to contribute knowledge about teens’ experiences and practices of sexting and how this behaviour shapes students’ power relations in school.
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- Jansson, Maria, 1968-, et al.
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Entanglements of feminist activism and gender equality policy in the Spanish and Swedish film industries : between convergence and critique
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares entanglements between activist demands and policy in the Spanish and Swedish film industries using a critical frames approach. Considering contextual factors such as domestic discourse on film policy and resistance against gender equality, the comparison is based on deep insider knowledge aiming to deepen the understanding of feminist activism and its relation to policy in the two countries. In both Spain and Sweden, activists have demanded equality in the film sector since the seventies. Today, both countries feature gender equality measures and vivid feminist organizations. Based on current equality policies, reports from the Swedish and Spanish Film Institutes, documents from feminist filmmakers' associations and interviews with activists, the article shows that feminist activists oscillate between strategically converging their demands to policy and criticizing reforms. Furthermore, policy echoes activists' arguments but are less informed by ideas about structural inequalities. Activists in both Spain and Sweden stand up for the gender equality measures which have been implemented, but the Spanish activists are more prone to simultaneously voice criticism against the reforms..
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- Johansson, Thomas, 1959, et al.
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Ruptures in hegemonic masculinity: the dialectic between ideology and utopia
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 24:2, s. 192-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the 1990s, Raewyn Connell published her groundbreaking study on the transformation of masculinity. In Masculinities, the concept of hegemonic masculinity was put forward as a key concept in gender studies. Originally applied in Marxian studies to power and class, the concept of hegemony was now used to analyse a historically mobile and dynamic power structure and hierarchical relation between different groups of men and women. Although using the concept of hegemonic masculinity is considered a powerful way of approaching and analysing gender relations, the main question is whether this conceptual turn, in fact, leads to a more dynamic theory of masculinity and gender. The main objective of this article is to contribute to conceptual clarifications and to the theorizing on gender, hegemony and masculinity. The conceptual and theoretical exploration aims at opening up ways of redefining and reconceptualizing hegemonic masculinity. Using Ricoeur’s and Laclau and Mouffe’s theorizations of hegemony, the concept of hegemonic masculinity is expanded and reformulated. A short case study of contemporary Scandinavian fatherhood is used to discuss the empirical implications of this theoretical effort.
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- Larsson, Gerry, Professor, 1952-, et al.
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Comparison within gender and between female and male leaders in female-dominated, male-dominated and mixed-gender work environments
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; :7, s. 739-750
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to compare the self-rated leadership behaviors of men and women in female-dominated, male-dominated and mixed-gender work environments and make within-gender comparisons across these three contexts. Data was collected using the Developmental Leadership Questionnaire from a sample of Swedish leadership course participants (N = 1897). Female leaders rated themselves more favorably than male leaders in female- dominated and mixed-gender work environments. Only small gender differences were found in male-dominated settings. Women in female dominated and gender-mixed work environments reported more favorable self-ratings than women in male dominated contexts. Among male leaders, fewer differences were observed between different work environments. The results are discussed in terms of organizational culture, individual selection preferences and a rapidly growing proportion of women leaders in the Swedish labor market.
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- Larsson, Håkan, 1967-
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The discourse of gender equality in youth sports : a Swedish example
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 30:6, s. 713-724
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two key value issues in youth sports development intersect in this article: 1) gender equality, and 2) the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns about their own participation. The purpose is to explore ?gender equality? as a topic of deliberation in Swedish youth sport, and specifically young sports person?s possibilities for speaking out about gender equality issues. The article draws on material from an interview study with 17 leaders and coaches, and 24 teenage athletes, with a particular attention on a focus group interview with three young badminton players. The findings indicate a dominating discourse about sport and gender that may contribute to undermine both the legitimacy of gender equality efforts and the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns. According to most leaders and coaches in the study, no problems with gender equality exist. However, some of the athletes voice experiences of injustice in their sports participation. At the same time, they indicated that talking about perceived injustice can be problematic in a sporting context. The article concludes that that there is ample room for creating opportunities for young athletes to systematically voice their concerns about their own participation, for example concerning gender (in)equality.
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- Lazoroska, Daniela
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Vulnerable agency: fat, bodies and their making among youth in a Brazilian favela
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 29:5, s. 547-557
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary social and cultural conditions in Brazil, together with technological developments and social media have enabled more young people of the favela to participate in different spheres of public life. These social and cultural changes have brought diversified new images of what it means to be an embodied subject. In this article, I explore the ways in which the body holds a seemingly paradoxical role as a locus of agency while being the primary site of attempts to be read, classified, and controlled for Brazilian favela youth. I explore the essential role of the body in enabling agency, as they deal with shame, fat, and exercise. Through an examination of the ways in which they were vulnerable, as a subjective experience, and its connections with their social context, this article aims for a nuanced understanding of their agency, as it intersects with gender, class, and race.
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- Leibetseder, Doris, Dr. 1973-, et al.
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States of reproduction : the co-production of queer and trans parenthood in three European countries
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 29:3, s. 310-324
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Achieving parenthood with the help of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) remains a fraught business, particularly for queer and trans people who want to use sperm donation, egg donation, procedures involving surrogates, or other ARTs. This is because the regulation of fertility treatment and associated issues such as the documentation of parenthood in birth certificates and passports varies across countries including European jurisdictions. These variations include who is considered an appropriate prospective parent, what kind of treatment they should be allowed, and to what documented parent status they are entitled. Elaborating a continuum model of classifying countries according to their relatively permissive or restrictive ART regulations, we argue that other criteria of assessment need to be used to acknowledge queer and trans people. We compare Estonia, Austria and the UK in terms of LGBTIQ people's opportunities to access ART and the documentation of parenthood. The concept of 'ontological surgery' regarding the regulation of biotechnology in different states suggests ways of thinking about differences in access to ART and parenthood status both within and across countries for LGBTQI people seeking to form families and to create new kinds of kinship.
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- Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria, 1969-
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Abnormal Fears : the Queer Arctic in Michelle Paver's Dark Matter
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 26:4, s. 462-472
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With focus on queer resistance emanating from place, this article examines Michelle Paver’s 2010 novel Dark Matter: A Ghost Story, set in the 1930s and telling the tale of an all-male expedition to Svalbard. The Arctic as depicted in travelogues and fiction has traditionally been embodied and gendered according to heteronormative models of interpretation as a formidable male adversary or a lethal female seductress; constructions that Paver’s fictional expedition members attempt to enforce as representatives of the norm. However, several aspects of the Arctic blur the boundaries between previously discreet categories, and offer resistance to the expedition’s normative assumptions. With a starting point in Sara Ahmed’s discussions about both spatial and existential orientation in Queer Phenomenology (2006), the article maps how the Arctic is imagined and perceived by Jack Miller, the novel’s protagonist, and how resistive features of the landscape and climate affect his ability to orient himself. Although hoping that the remote Svalbard will constitute a productive testing ground for a particular kind of inter-war, British masculinity, specificities of place represent a threatening transgression of what Jack perceives of as normal, which is brought to a climax by strange events he experiences in the isolated bay where the bulk of the text is set. This article consequently analyzes how the Arctic is initially constructed as a stable place, how geographical particularities then overturn possibilities for Jack’s orientation, and how supernatural occurrences finally violate boundaries between past and present, sane and mad. What Ahmed refers to as ‘queer moments’ that slant that subject’s perception of the world and, from a heteronormative perspective, need to be ‘straightened’ are in the novel produced by the actual as well as the supernatural Arctic. These queer moments distort perspectives, sometimes in highly productive ways, and highlight a continuous, geographically specific resistance to categorization.
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- Linehagen, Frida, 1981-
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Collective agreement as investment in women in the Swedish Armed Forces : A critical discourse analysis
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 31:3, s. 364-376
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How organizations engage with gender equality is crucial to them being perceived as fair and attractive employers. As recruitment and training of personnel is a core function of the military organization, it is relevant to investigate this from a gender critical perspective. The aim was to critically examine how a military organization operates in respect of equality of pay between women and men by means of a collective agreement, as an example of how the organization tries to address gender inequality. A qualitative analysis using Bacchi's 'What is the problem represented to be' (2009) analysis of policy documents was conducted. The analysis focuses on how the actual issue is problematized and what is left unproblematised, and the key findings are that efforts to achieve gender equality within the Swedish Armed Forces are counterproductive and result in perpetuating deficiencies in the organization's work with wider gender-equality issues. Despite external pressures, there is a structural reluctance and inability within the Swedish Armed Forces to seriously engage with addressing the organization's gender-equality issues. As resistance to gender-equality work is usually implicit, this study's strongest contribution to the field is that such resistance can be identified as being explicit and therefore more easily challenged.
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- Mendick, Heather, et al.
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Geek Entrepreneurs: The Social Network, Iron Man and the Reconfiguration of Hegemonic Masculinity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 32:3, s. 283-295
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we argue that the geek entrepreneur is a new hegemonic masculine formation superseding the macho formation exemplified by John Wayne and the global business masculinity proposed as hegemonic by Connell and Messerschmidt more recently. This formation fuses the technological genius and suffering of geekiness with the disruption and innovation of entrepreneurialism. It is the masculinity of the geek entrepreneur that today legitimates both male domination and capitalism. We construct this argument through looking in detail at two cinematic representations of the geek entrepreneur: Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and Tony Stark in Iron Man. We hope to open up a debate about how gendered discursive formations have changed since the 1980s, what masculinity is now hegemonic, and how this can illuminate gender and other power relations.
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- Neuman, Nicklas, 1987-, et al.
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Narratives of progress : Cooking and gender equality among Swedish men
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 26:2, s. 151-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist food studies have repeatedly identified a dichotomy of ‘masculine’ self-oriented cooking as leisure and ‘feminine’ other and care-oriented foodwork (meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning up after meals). However, recent research suggests that there is a great deal of variety and contradiction in men’s accounts of their cooking practices. For example, men may find cooking a tedious and stressful responsibility and foodwork a fatherly duty. This article draws on interviews with 31 Swedish men from 22 to 88 years of age, and explores stories about cooking and foodwork as part of their everyday lives and their life transitions and how these relate to broader notions of food and gender equality. The data illuminating the men’s stories can be synthesised into two narratives of progress: a narrative of progress in gender equality in Sweden, where men’s participation in household labour has become taken for granted, and a narrative of culinary progress among Swedish men in general and among some of the interviewed men themselves. We agree with previous scholars who have argued for a reconsideration of the simplistic picture of men’s cooking as only being for the self and for leisure. We further show how the men express foodwork as a self-evident responsibility, regardless of whether the men find it fun or not, and that a desirable masculinity is represented by a man whose cooking skills have progressed beyond the survival level and who is more gender equal than what are perceived to be less-progressive men from previous generations and foreign cultural backgrounds.
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- Olofsson, Jennie
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Leakage : being a risk object or an object at risk? Investigating potential synergies between gender studies and discard studies through the concept of risk
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 32:2, s. 144-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article employs the concept of risk to explore potential synergies and points of contact between gender studies and discard studies. In doing so, the focus is on the risk of leakage, such as pollution, toxic discharges, urine leakage and menstruation. Leakage is of interest to scholars, both within gender studies and discard studies as it concerns the (female) body as well as pollutants seeping into the environment. Applying the concept of risk, it is suggested that discard studies add to gender studies an understanding of the ways in which bodies and environment mutually enfold one another in and through leakages while it is also evident that these enfoldings are far from symbiotic and harmonious. In addition, discard studies' focus on leakage as at once troublesome and mundane brings to the discussion an understanding of the risk of leakage as it is managed on a daily basis. From the perspective of gender studies, we learn that bodily leakages are commonly framed as an individual matter. Hence, gender studies' contribution to discard studies lies in its ability to assign responsibility to humans for environmental leakages and spills, rather than viewing them as passive victims.
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- Ozcurumez, Saime, et al.
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The Conceptualization problem in research and responses to sexual and gender-based violence in forced migration
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 30:1, s. 66-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The conceptualization of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has developed rapidly over recent decades and the understanding of SGBV in the context of forced migration continues to evolve. Based on a scoping review of scholarly work and reports by non-governmental organizations and international organizations between 1993 and 2018, this study identifies limitations to the current conceptualization of SGBV, and proposes a re-conceptualization. The paper argues that the existing literature overemphasizes the contexts of war zones and conflict and excludes post-flight settings, and focuses mainly on the victimization of women, excluding other at-risk groups. The tendency to focus on conflict zones and to underline the victim status of women constrains the usefulness of the conceptualization for informing research as well as protection and response. This review considers the multifaceted causes and consequences of gendered vulnerabilities and insecurities that are exposed in forced migration processes in order to make sense of SGBV as a gendered harm. Through a constructivist and de-essentialising theoretical lens, the study proposes to conceptualize SGBV in terms of continuities in forced migration occuring over time in interwoven territories and a variety of contexts from countries of origin to settlement.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974-, et al.
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Gender mainstreaming in Swedish academia: translating policy into practice
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 31:1, s. 87-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs) conceptualized and organized the 2016 Swedish government directive to gender mainstream their operations. The directive provided the general guidelines for the programme Gender Mainstreaming in Academia (GMA), which was to be implemented by HEIs between 2017 and 2019. This analysis draws on interviews with people at 13 HEIs responsible for, or in other ways participating in, the development of tailor-made gender mainstreaming plans (GMPs), which served as the starting point for the GMA programme. Using organizational translation theory, the article explores how the informants translated gender mainstreaming, as a broad policy strategy, into more specific conceptual and practical terms to fit their local contexts. The analysis focuses on how these gender mainstreaming translation processes were organized and who was invited to participate in the process. The results highlight how the organization of the translation process, the appointment of translators and the local translation of the GMA programme were guided by different principles, most often resulting in an integrationist rather than transformative translation of gender mainstreaming. The limitations and potentials of different translations of gender mainstreaming in relation to achieving organizational change and ultimately a more gender-equal organization are discussed.
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- Pitti, Ilaria, 1985-
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Being women in a male preserve : an ethnography of female football ultras
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 28:3, s. 318-329
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article looks at the characteristics of contemporary sports audiences from the perspective of gender, focusing on the phenomenon of female ultras or ‘professional’ football fans. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in an Italian football ultras group composed of male and female fans, this paper offers an analysis of female participation in communities of organized supporters. In examining the role and position of women inside the considered group, the paper pays attention to their perception of the existing gender differences showing how female ultras explain inequalities on the basis of ‘natural’ and ‘innate’ differences and capacities between men and women. Existing patterns of male dominance are supported by female fans’ own discourses and performance of their gender identity in the ‘male preserve’. Rather than questioning male dominance and gender hierarchies, female supporters’ efforts appear aimed at being recognized as ultras ‘despite being women’.
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- Reimers, Eva, 1957-
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Primary mourners and next-of-kin : how grief practices reiterate and subvert heterosexual norms
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 20:3, s. 251-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses practices in connection with death and mourning. It argues that kinship is an ambiguous and contingent concept, and that rituals done in connection with death and mourning have consequences for how people are acknowledged as bereaved. The discussion is based on data from a Swedish study of bereavement. Besides evincing the salience in death practices of a notion of kinship based on conjugal relations and blood ties, the results of analysis of participant observations in a grief group and in-depth interviews with gay widowers reveal that the dominant kinship norm both constrain and enables differing positions as primary mourners. Drawing on Judith Butler and discourse theory, the study shows that claiming a position as bereaved can entail struggles concerning acknowledgement of kinship, and that examples of denunciation simultaneously stand out as resistance and subversion. To avoid marginalizing prospective mourners, it is important to be aware of how these practices of kinship and grief work together.
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- Saeidzadeh, Zara, 1980-
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"Are trans men the manliest of men?" : Gender practices, trans masculinity and mardanegi in contemporary Iran
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 29:3, s. 295-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I examine how trans men who undergo or plan to undergo medical transition construe their masculinity or mardanegi (I follow IJMES's transliteration guide - Persian to English) in Persian language, through certain gender practices that manifest their manhood as manly, real and psychologically well. I argue that trans men in Iran practice masculinity in ways that is not only in strong entanglement with women but also is distanced from non-trans heterosexual men, trans women and gay men. Drawing on 14 semi-structured interviews with trans men in Iran as part of a bigger project on sex change in contemporary Iran, I explain that trans men's masculinity in Iran is a localized, traditional-modern kind of trans masculinity that distinguishes itself from other gender groups due to trans men's specificity of gender location.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Ellie’s first time : constructing self-cutting in a teen drama
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 27:5, s. 574-588
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Self-cutting attracted a growing interest in society during the 1990s and the early 2000s, and this was reflected in a similar increase in media during this period. In this article, the example of Ellie Nash’s self-cutting in the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation is used to investigate articulations of the phenomenon during this period. The starting point is that self-cutting, a behaviour that previously had mostly been connected to masculinity, had to be rearticulated to fit into already established constitutions of femininity. If this was not possible, self-cutting could only be understood as a radical and aggressive behaviour easily connected to movements such as Riot Grrrls that emerged during the same period. With the help of formal and narrative methods, and discourse theory, the scene that includes Ellie’s first cut is analysed. The results of the analysis show that themes such as success, control, family and alternative culture framed self-cutting as being executed by girls who are fragile and vulnerable but also sensible. Even if the things that led up to Ellie’s self-cutting were presented as structural problems, the solution for her was individual conversational therapy, which fitted with the hegemonic neoliberal values that dominated this period.
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- Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi
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Negotiating ‘Otherness’ : Dilemmas of a Non-Western Researcher in the Indian Sub-Continent
- 1999
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 8:1, s. 57-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on certain methodological issues that arose while interviewing Indian women activists in Uttar Pradesh, a state of North India. These activists had actively contributed to the anti-colonial struggle from 1920 till India's independence in 1947. This paper addresses two key issues. Firstly, the category 'Other' was not a fixed category. Its meaning was continuously negotiable, both, in my relationship with respondents and in terms of what I understood to be feminist methodology. Moreover, in the Indian context it was difficult to follow the precepts of what I understood to be feminist methodology because I could not write about the respondent's experiences by using their own language. At the same time, present feminist concepts such as gender-equality, oppression and consciousness had little meaning for women born at the turn of the century. Secondly, there were dilemmas around interviewing Indian women which made me aware of issues of class, religion, gender and generation. This paper is divided in three main sections. The first section focuses on other sources of evidence such as official and unofficial records, newspapers and magazines which provide the initial framework as well as help to locate the historical context of any research. However, they have to be studied in conjunction with oral narratives, which provide the crucial link between all the other sources of evidence. The second section deals with the dilemmas of 'Otherness' and the third section focuses on the dilemmas that arose while conducting interviews.
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- Varea, Valeria, 1983-, et al.
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The Powerpuff Girls : making it as early career academics in physical education
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 30:6, s. 687-698
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Early career academics (ECAs) working in neoliberal universities have been recognized as a vulnerable group who experience anxiety, uncertainty, exhaustion, stress, frustration, insomnia, shame and guilt. These feelings are often intensified among academics from developing countries, such as Argentina. Using the theoretical ideas of liquid subjectivities, risk and uncertainty, this paper aims to explore what we experienced while transitioning from undergraduate students to ECAs in the field of Physical Education (PE). Collective biographies were used as a method for data collection, and three main themes were constructed from the data in relation to power relations, gender and liquid subjectivities from the transition from students to ECAs. The paper concludes by highlighting the positive side of working in academia with the hope that working conditions will be improved for the next generation of ECAs in PE.
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- Wamala, Sarah, et al.
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How do gender, class and ethnicity interact to determine health status?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 18:2, s. 115-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main aim of this study was to evaluate intersections of gender (female/male), class (household income), and ethnicity (country of birth) in relation to various measures of psychological and physical health. The study is based on data from the Swedish National Public Health Survey 2006, comprising a randomly-selected sample of 26,305 men and 30,584 women aged 16-84 years. Of these 2147 men and 2916 women were born outside Sweden. Results from the present study show that being female and from an ethnic minority were consistently and statistically significantly associated with poor health outcomes. Men born in Sweden had overall better health than women who had been born in Sweden, who had better health than men born outside Sweden. The worst-off category was women born outside Sweden, particularly those in households with high income levels. Low income was consistently and statistically significantly associated with all measures of poor health outcomes among men but this association was not so clear for women. Based on the findings from the present study, we conclude that the strongest risk factor with regards to health is being from an ethnic minority, then being female and finally, having a low income. This study contributes to knowledge on the complex association between socio-economic factors and health which provides an evidence base for considering gender when formulating strategies to tackle health inequalities. We hope that the present study will inspire further studies that simultaneously evaluate combinations of differing social constructs.
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- Åström, Berit, 1969-
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Referred pain : privileging male emotions in narrative instances of female physical suffering
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Routledge. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 20:2, s. 125-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses literary patterns of female subordination, and focuses in particular on what the author terms "referred pain." By juxtaposing two early modern texts, William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, with two modern visual texts, John Woo's Mission Impossible 2 and Baz Lurhman's Moulin Rouge, the author discusses the recurring trope of privileging male emotional suffering over female physical suffering, and suggests that one reason for the continuing popularity of this can be sought in the kinship system and its exchange of women. The article argues for the application of a transhistorical perspective when studying literature, as a means of revealing patterns that may otherwise go unnoticed.
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- Åström, Berit, 1969-
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"Sucking the Corrupte Mylke of an Infected Nurse" : regulating the dangerous maternal body
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 24:5, s. 574-586
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on medieval medical encyclopaedias, early modern and Victorian advice books, as well as twentieth scientific advice to mothers, and linking them to present-day mothering discourse in the media, this article discusses cultural attitudes towards breast-milk and nursing mothers. The texts present a paradox in that while breast-milk is claimed as the best food for an infant, and mothers who choose not to nurse are vilified, it is simultaneously discussed as a potential poison and corrupting agent. I argue that the fear of breast-milk is a symptom of a cultural anxiety that periodically resurfaces, constructing the maternal body as threat to the infant, a threat that must be controlled and contained.
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