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- Burman, Monica, 1962-
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Blaming violent men - A challenge to the Swedish criminal law on provocation
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 88-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminists have long criticized how provocations narrative of a woman 'asking for it' functions as a legal 'abuse excuse' for violent men and confirms their rationalizations and justifications for violence. This article aims to challenge a particular aspect of provocation in Swedish criminal law namely, a tendency to individualize and subjectivize culpability in a way that suggests that the individual male perpetrator's specific understanding of his violence should be the perspective from which to understand and judge his violence. Criminal legal culpability is approached as an important aspect in the relationships between gender, power, and violence, and the author argues that the notion of culpability should be changed in two respects. The tendency to regard emotions as 'factual' should be replaced by an evaluative view on emotions and men's responsibility for their emotional responses to women should be judged by acknowledging how values and reasons intersect with power relations
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- Börjesson, Ida Maria, 1982-
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Book review: Gendering Border Studies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 34:3, s. 261-262
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Carbin, Maria, 1972-
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The requirement to speak : Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour related violence
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 107-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decade, political initiatives against so-called honour-related violence have been undertaken in several Western countries, as well as in the UN. Swedish policy initiatives are relatively ambitious, and have primarily targeted young women as victims, one aim being to make it possible for them to speak up. In this article the overarching concern is to explore how victim stories are used in Swedish policy initiatives. Drawing upon discourse theory and post-colonial feminism, the aim is to challenge the ideal of speech as emancipation and to elaborate the connections between speech, silence and power. The article shows that, despite efforts by policy-makers to include these young women, and not to reproduce stereotypes, the possibility of speaking is formulated within a certain nationalist discursive terrain. The victims are primarily called upon to speak as non-Swedish representatives. Paradoxically, the inclusion of young women into policy discourse has led to a particular exclusion and thereby produced new silences.
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- Darhour, Hanane, 1983-, et al.
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Sustainable representation of women through gender quotas : A decade's experience in Morocco
- 2013
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 41:pt2: SI, s. 132-142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article surveys the adoption and implementation of gender quota provisions in the three Moroccan parliamentary elections, 2002, 2007 and 2011, following the first adoption of gender quotas. Despite being effective in bringing a substantial number of women into the parliament, the question should be asked, can gender quotas, once introduced, lead to more sustainable political representation for women? By introducing the concept of sustainable representation, defined as a durable, substantial political representation of women, this article points to the importance of studying how gender quotas may or may not alter some of the barriers, which prevents women’s equal participation and representation. This study of the nomination and election of women through three subsequent elections in Morocco since the adoption of gender quotas, traces the evolution of the reserved seat system from a controversial and fragile system set by a ‘honorary agreement’ to an expanded and finally legalized system. The analysis suggests that the political uprising in the neighboring countries during 2010-11 created a political transitional atmosphere for the reform of the Moroccan constitution, and provided an opportunity for institutionalizing the principle of gender equality in the 2011 constitution. In exploring the link between the reserved seat system and having women elected in the general district seats in Moroccan elections, the article scrutinizes the widespread supposition in the quota literature that quotas in the form of reserved seats tend to block the nomination of women to constituency seats, thus constituting a kind of glass ceiling.
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- Edin, Kerstin, et al.
(författare)
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Men's violence : narratives of men attending anti-violence programmes in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 96-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The efficacy of batterer-intervention programmes for men has frequently been questioned, inviting additional research and development. Men inclined to violence have multifaceted problems but are frequently squeezed into ‘one-size-fits-all’ programmes with high ambitions for change that often show little evidence of effectiveness. Some research even indicates that any changes in men's violent behaviour might result from factors not at all linked to the programmes.For this study, ten interviews were carried out with men who had attended anti-violence programmes within the Swedish Probation Service. The overall aim was to analyse gendered identity constructions in the narratives of men attending the programmes — how men articulate the course of violent events and in what way they talk about themselves and the programmes.According to our results, men defended themselves by making excuses, explanations and victim positions. Furthermore, the men's gendered identity constructions collided with the programmes' ambitions of changing men's conceptions and behaviour.
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- Gavanas, Anna, 1971-
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Migrant domestic workers, social network strategies and informal marketsfor domestic services in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36, s. 56-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the dynamics of migration, working conditions and in/formalization in the domestic service sector in Sweden. Based on an interview study conducted in Stockholm 2009/2010, the article identifies crucial aspects of a range of large scale social and economic shifts in Sweden. Especially in focus are the conditions of migrant domestic workers (from Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, Africa and South America) within a global division of labor. Compared to other European countries, Sweden is a unique case due to its social democratic welfare state traditions encouraging female work participation and public solutions for care, as well as its longstanding controversies around policies encouraging private domestic services (Gavanas, 2006; Gavanas, 2010a). Due to its hierarchical connotations in line with gender, class and ethnicity, proposals for tax deduction for domestic service have been highly contested in Sweden. The mere idea of a private domestic service goes against the grain of social democratic and feminist traditions as well as cultural preferences for public care (Gavanas, 2006; Öberg, 1999). However, since tax reductions for domestic services were introduced in 2007, rapid transformations have taken place in Sweden. In addition to the tax reductions, the Swedish market for domestic service is also expanding as a result of welfare state cutbacks, as well as privatization of public care, deregulation, internationalization and flexibilization of labor markets (Gavanas, 2006; Platzer, 2003; de los Reyes, 2002). In this article I am arguing that the domestic service market is undergoing segmentation based on social network segregation, as opposed to the policy ambition that a formal sector, as a result of the tax reductions, is replacing an informal sector.
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- Gil Araujo, Sandra, et al.
(författare)
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International migration, public policies and domestic work Latin American migrant women in the Spanish domestic work sector
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 13-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on the Spanish case, in this article we explore the connection between migration policies, family policies, gender regimes and the insertion of Latin American migrant women into the domestic work sector. Over the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin America became the main region of origin of migrants who had settled in Spain, being women the first link in these migration chains. The main factors that have affected the configuration of this feminization are linked to migration policies and patterns of migration, the features of the welfare state, the characteristics of the labor market and the way in which gender organizes and stratifies migration and domestic work. The achievement of national middle class women's rights to conciliate their professional and family life through outsourcing domestic work to non-national women also brings with it a deep inequality in terms of citizenship.
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- Hedlund, Gun, 1951-, et al.
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New steering methods in regional policy : transforming the alliance of ‘state feminism’
- 2012
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 35:3, s. 166-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the theory of ‘state feminism’ is applied on the area of regional development policy, supplementing existing research about state–citizen relationships in northern and southern Europe. Based on Swedish data, it is argued that the former alliance between the women's movement and the welfare state has been transformed as a result of new steering methods in regional development policy in a way that is best understood as a paradox. This paradox includes both stronger and weaker relations. The public support to Women Resource Centres (WRCs) in Sweden is used as an example of ‘state feminism’. The ability of the WRCs to affect policy has changed over time, however, due to the adoption of new steering methods based on networks and market-orientation in Swedish regional development policy. The conclusions induce further development of ‘state feminism’ theory, making it more up-to-date with the prevalent interaction between women's movements and European welfare states.
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- Lundström, Catrin, 1970-
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"Mistresses" and "maids" in transnational "contact zones" : Expatriate wives and the intersection of difference and intimacy in Swedish domestic spaces in Singapore
- 2013
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36:SI, s. 44-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the tensions that arise when professionally educated Swedish migrant women relocate to a temporary expatriate wife status, with a particular focus on the transnational household as a “contact zone” between expats and migrant domestic workers in Singapore. Based on interviews and ethnographic work with 13 Swedish women and one month of fieldwork in the Swedish community in Singapore in spring 2009, the article investigates the women's altered positions as “trailing spouses” and employers from an intersectional perspective that highlights the politics of difference between women with regard to constructions of race, femininity and intimacy. In this context, the article explores how processes of globalisation, transnational migration and division of labour are played out between the different migrant women in the household sphere, thus broadening contemporary discussions by including privileged practices and positions in transnational migration. As expatriate wives, the Swedish women were often locked into conservative frames, oriented towards “family values”, negotiated in relation to (former) ideologies of gender equality and (new) power relations in the household sphere.
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- Mahlck, Paula
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Academic women with migrant background in the global knowledge economy : Bodies, hierarchies and resistance
- 2013
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 36, s. 65-74
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Across the globe, academic work is changing in order to meet the demands of the global knowledge economy. This process of change is characterised by the dominant discourses of competition, accountability and excellence, which produce an imaginary of a seemingly disembodied researcher. Departing from a Swedish higher education and research policy landscape, the aim of this article is to explore how, in comparison with their Swedish colleagues, women academics with a migrant background make representations of the good researcher in their work practices. This involves exploring how processes of racialisation - including processes of whiteness are at work when different layers of migration are read through a white Swedish normality. The results indicate that whiteness is an attributed quality and contributes to constructing success, and that racialised researchers stand out as being particularly invisible representations within a Research Excellence framework. In this article I suggest that this visibility/invisibility paradox (Mirza 2009) can be interpreted not only as a reflection of the number of racialised researchers in Swedish higher education, but also as a general discourse of colour-blindness and Swedish white privilege.
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- Nilsson, Eva, 1963-
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The 'Refugee' and the 'Nexus' Requirement : The Relation between Subject and Persecution
in the United Nations Refugee Convention
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 123-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The challenge that my paper deals with is the complexities of gender and violence within international refugee law, taking women exposed to male partner violence as a starting point. The focus is the definition of ‘refugee’ in the United Nations Refugee Convention and the requirement that the persecution must be based on specific grounds, the ‘nexus’ requirement. My analysis shows that the Convention is grounded in an essentialist understanding of the subject and that the preservation of its structure and integrity also means preserving the power structures in society. The argumentation suggests that it is time to abolish the ‘nexus’ requirement and the limitation of the grounds, but my conclusion is rather that we must continue to work with our frame of thought focusing on the ‘refugee situation’ and the discursive constitution of the subject in time and space.
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- Rojas, Yerko, 1978-, et al.
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Informal social capital in childhood and suicide among adolescent and young adult women : A cross-sectional analysis with 30 countries
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; :42, s. 1-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2005/2006, and World Health Organization (WHO), this study examined the relationship between girls' informal social capital and female suicide rates in adolescence and young adulthood in 30 European and North American countries. Regression analyses using normal, robust and bias-corrected confidence intervals were used for this purpose. Informal social capital (involvement with friends after school) among 15 year-old girls explained,9% of the total variation in the young female suicide rate. This effect was of approximately the same magnitude as that of the corresponding male suicide rate. Although the findings of this study provide support for the common notion that female suicide can be understood in relation to male suicide, the association we observed between female informal social capital in adolescence and early adult female suicide highlights the need for more female-specific studies on suicide.
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- Waltman, Max
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Sweden’s prohibition of purchase of sex : the law's reasons, impact, and potential
- 2011
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - Oxford : Pergamon Press. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 34:5, s. 449-474
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1999, Sweden passed a law criminalizing the purchase of sex and decriminalizing the prostituted person. The law was part of an omnibus bill against violence against women, recognizing prostitution as related to such violence. This article analyzes the reasons for the Swedish law and documents the law’s impact, concluding that the law has significantly reduced the occurrence of prostitution in Sweden compared to neighboring countries. In addition, it addresses some important remaining obstacles to the law’s effective implementation and responds to various common critiques of (and misinformation about) the law and its effects. Finally, this article argues that, in order to realize the law’s full potential to support escape from prostitution, the civil rights of prostituted persons under current law should be strengthened to enable them to claim damages directly from the tricks/johns for the harm to which they have contributed.
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- Winter, Katarina, 1982-, et al.
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The realization of sexed bodies : stable and fragile gender dichotomies in Swedish media representations of biomedical alcohol research
- 2013
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 37, s. 53-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During recent decades, biomedical research has increasingly entered the press scene, particularly in media stories of healthy bodies and lifestyles. One of the fields where this is visible is in the discussion of alcohol consumption and problems, a field where references to biological sex differences are common. This paper analyzes how facts about sexed bodily difference are made real in Swedish newspaper stories of biomedical alcohol research. Our findings indicate that newspapers represent the body at different levels of abstraction; from detailed descriptions at the molecular level (hormones and genes), through discussion at the molar level (body parts, organs and disease), to more general discussion at the social level (inner nature, sensitivity, and responsibility). We also find a double metaphorical meaning of the word alcohol: alcohol is a solution (a soluble liquid) that also dissolves the dimorphism of bodily sex difference.
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- Öhman, Ann, et al.
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Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedish gender equality and global health
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 46, s. 115-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses current Swedish international development policies on gender and violence. It deals with the relationship between development policies, global health, promotion of gender equality, and violence against women in a global perspective. The focus is on intimate partner violence and the highly promoted gender mainstreaming policy. Theoretically, our point of departure lies within a feminist notion of gender relations, power structures, and male hierarchies that constrain and subordinate women and girls and which expose them to gendered violence. We claim that stronger links need to be created between local activist groups in low and middle income countries and the international development agencies. It is important to initiate and formalize a North South dialogue between such groups, as well as enhancing South South dialogue and cooperation.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Forty years of gender research and environmental policy: Where do we stand?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395. ; 47, s. 295-308
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forty years of gender research has ensured that gender is an important category that needs to be taken into account in environmental policy and practice. A great deal of finances and attention are currently being directed to gender in development and environmental organizations. At the same time, as gender research has become more sophisticated and theoretically strong, there is also frustration among academic researchers as well as practitioners and policy makers that it appears to have had a marginal effect on environmental practice on the ground.Policies have turned to gender mainstreaming, attempted to include women and other marginalized social groups in environmental management and markets. Change has been mixed. Mainstreaming can become a technocratic exercise. The assumption that competing interests can be negotiated by adding women to organizations for environmental governance, in disregard for social relations, is problematic. Stereo-types about women and men, sometimes buttressed by gender research predominate in policy and programs. Inclusion in markets offer new options but can further curb women's agency. Contradictions arise - as gender becomes a part of the official machinery, when women are regarded as a collective but addressed as individuals in programs and when the focus is on the governance of gender with little attention on the gender of neoliberal governance. Yet, support for 'gender programs' has also led to unintended openings for empowerment. It is clear that the meaning of gender is far from settled and there are intensified efforts to define what 'gender' is in each context. I discuss the renewed interest in gender and what this engagement with power might mean for gender research, policy and practice and where we might go from here. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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