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- Bergnehr, Disa, 1974-
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Mothering for discipline and educational success: Welfare-reliant immigrant women talk about motherhood in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 54, s. 29-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study is based on 16 immigrant welfare-reliant women's discourses on motherhood in five focus groups. The women connect their mothering strategies for promoting discipline and their children's educational success with living on scarce finances: welfare dependence, children's education, and discipline are intertwined and recurrent themes that the interviews prompted. A dominant argument is that discipline diminishes the risk of school failure and deviant behaviour. Educational success is imperative for the children's chances to obtain employment and self-provision as adults; deviant behaviour must be stifled to avoid criminal activities, school failure, and future welfare dependence. The women argue that Swedish society obstructs their mothering through lax discipline in school, a disregard for parental authority, and restrictive welfare stipulations. They desire better support. This study widens our understandings of immigrant women's experiences of mothering on welfare, and informs political decision-makers and professionals in their work to develop supportive services for migrants.
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- Carvalho, Ines, et al.
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Agency, structures and women managers views of their careers in tourism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tourism is an important employer for women in many countries. However, despite this seeming women friendliness, women are still underrepresented at the top of tourism businesses. Previous research on women managers careers in tourism has neglected the analysis of their careers in the light of new career concepts, such as the boundaryless career. Hence, in-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with twenty-four female senior managers in Portuguese hotels and travel businesses, including entrepreneurs across a wide range of business sizes. The aim was to analyse these womens perspectives on how they have reached the top. It is concluded that women regard their careers as an outcome of their inherent characteristics, agency and a desire to seize challenges that lead to intrinsic satisfaction. They downplay the role of both structural enablers and structural barriers. This article analyses these issues from a boundaryless career model perspective and with a gender lens.
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- Jansson, Maria, 1968-
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An economy of protection : agency, responsibility and the criminalization of HIV
- 2018
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 69, s. 171-179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes the protection logic that legitimizes criminalization and investigates how this logic affects gender and state-citizen relations. Viewing criminalization as a political response to the challenge HIV poses to the post-Cold War security state, the article examines the intersection between protection as a pretext for controlling vulnerable groups and criminalization as a way to withdraw protection. The article analyzes the constructions of those in need of protection (referents) and the providers of protection according to HIV-specific state laws and media reports of arrests and prosecutions, and it shows that the requirements for being considered worthy of protection are highly gendered. The article argues that laws and the media construct the idea that a popular demand for protection exists and that criminalization practices are produced as the supply needed to meet this demand.
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- Jonsson, Sofia, 1985, et al.
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Is buying sex morally wrong? Comparing attitudes toward prostitution using individual-level data across eight Western European countries
- 2017
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Ingår i: Womens Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 61, s. 58-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- States try to combat sex trafficking through both the criminalization of buying sex and by entirely legalizing or regulating the market for prostitution. Proponents of criminalization argue that this approach leads to less acceptance of prostitution, creating a smaller sex market, and reducing the inflow of trafficked victims. Few studies examine if prostitution laws are associated with attitudes toward prostitution. We assess attitudes in eight European countries, using newly collected survey data. This is one of few studies comparing attitudes across different prostitution regimes. Citizens in countries where the purchase of sex is criminalized are less tolerant toward the buying of sex compared to citizens living in countries where the purchase of sex is legalized. Also, people viewing gender equality as important are less accepting of the purchase in countries where buying sex is prohibited, but more accepting in countries where buying sex and running a brothel are legal. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Nyman, Charlott, et al.
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The tension between gender equality and doing gender Swedish couples' talk about the division of housework
- 2018
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 68, s. 36-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is considered as one of the most gender equal countries in the world and most Swedes claim to embrace gender equality. Yet, the majority of couples still organize their family lives according to traditional gendered patterns. This article aims to investigate how gender plays a role for how couples in Sweden talk about, articulate and frame their arguments regarding their division of housework. We identify three practices that act to support and reproduce a traditional gender order. These practices are: constructions of (un)suitability, placement of responsibility and comparison. Through these practices the couples' uneven division of housework is made into something other than a question of gender (in)equality, and change of the present order is made into a non-issue. We argue that the tension between striving for gender equality on the one hand and doing gender on the other, characterizes everyday interaction in modem couples. Recognizing this complexity is important for understanding the slow changes in gendered and gendering patterns and for the slow movement towards greater gender equality. The analysis brings the complex, interwoven and contradictory processes of doing gender to the fore.
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- Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983-, et al.
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Militarized Nationalism as a Platform for Feminist Mobilization? : The Case of the Exiled Burmese Women’s Movement
- 2019
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist scholars have convincingly demonstrated how militarism and nationalism rely on the (re)production of gendered hierarchies. As a result, feminism is often assumed to be at odds with these political projects. In this article, we demonstrate that this is not always and not necessarily the case: in contrast, militarized nationalism may even constitute fertile ground for the mobilization of feminist organization and activism. We make this argument drawing on an in-depth case study of the emergence and evolution of an exiled Burmese women's movement from within armed ethno-nationalist struggles in the borderlands of Myanmar. Drawing on interviews with women activists, we examine when and how militarized nationalism can provide a space from which feminist agendas can be articulated and successfully pursued. This case demonstrates that militarized nationalism does not only have the potential to mobilize women's participation, but can provide a platform for feminist organization and activism that transcends, challenges, and eventually reshapes militarized nationalist projects in ways that advance women's rights and equality. These findings call into question generalized assumptions about the conflictual relationship between feminism, militarism and nationalism, and contributes to advance feminist debates about women's mobilization in contexts of armed conflicts and nationalist struggles.
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- Olivius, Elisabeth, 1983-
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Refugee men as perpetrators, allies or troublemakers? : Emerging discourses on men and masculinities in humanitarian aid
- 2016
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 56, s. 56-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The importance of including men and boys in order to successfully promote gender equality has been increasingly emphasized in international policymaking and governance. This article examines emerging discourses on men, masculinities and gender equality in the field of humanitarian aid to refugees. Through an analysis of key policy texts as well as interviews with humanitarian workers, three main representations of the role of refugee men in relation to the promotion of gender equality are identified. Refugee men are represented as perpetrators of violence and discrimination; as powerful gatekeepers and potential allies; and as emasculated troublemakers. These ways of conceptualizing men and masculinity are problematic in ways which significantly limit their potential for the transformation of unequal gender relations: gendered power relations are obscured; refugee men's masculinity is pathologized as “primitive”; and attempts to take the needs of men into account are often turned into an argument against the empowerment of refugee women.
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- Peterson, Helen, 1974
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Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Women's Studies: International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 53, s. 182-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Freedom is an often mentioned motive for remaining childfree. However, there is a lack of systematic approaches attempting to disentangle the situated meaning of freedom in voluntary childless women's lives. This article draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 21 Swedish childfree women in order to further research how they understand and define freedom. The analysis identifies two different discourses of freedom relevant for the construction of the childfree position. The first discourse includes positive experiences of freedom aspects that the childfree women enjoyed in their everyday lives. This discourse also defines freedom as part of a deep-rooted identity that also involves other life choices, besides rejecting mother- hood. The second discourse comprises negative opinions about children as risk, motherhood as time-consuming and parents as “trapped”. The article contextualizes these discourses within the contemporary Swedish welfare society.
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- Sainsbury, Diane
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Gender differentiation and citizenship acquisition : Nationality reforms in comparative and historical perspective
- 2018
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 68, s. 28-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feminist scholars have made an impressive contribution to the rethinking of citizenship, but they have largely neglected the gender differentiation of citizenship acquisition. This neglect has resulted in a lack of knowledge concerning the processes of change underpinning nationality reforms that have weakened the patriarchal nature of citizenship. This article seeks to fill the current void through a comparative analysis of nationality reforms that have granted married women an independent right to nationality and mothers the right to transmit their nationality to their children. It examines the politics of these reforms in the United States, France and Germany as well as the international dimension of these nationality reforms. The analysis reveals the long-term significance of the early internationalization of women's nationality rights and the interplay between domestic and trans national feminist activism.
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- Webster, Natasha Alexandra, 1978-, et al.
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Thai women entrepreneurs in Sweden : Critical perspectives on migrant small businesses
- 2017
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 60, s. 17-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Thai migrant women are an important and visible part of the small business community in Sweden, most notably through restaurants, massage spas and small shops. In this paper we explore the overlap between migration and entrepreneurship and position ourselves within the feminist entrepreneurial framework. We ask: which Thai women become entrepreneurs? How does being migrant women shape their entrepreneurial activities and practices? Our paper employs a mixed-method design to explore Thai migrant businesses, giving a detailed overview of which women become entrepreneurs based on register data, and providing space for the narratives of women. We find a gendered approach to understanding the business activities of Thai women business practitioners does challenge normative perspectives on entrepreneurship. We show that family structure, migration length, education and partner's labor market status all play important roles. Furthermore, we find that small businesses are sites of negotiation and contestation.
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- Fahlgren, Siv, et al.
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Resisting 'overing'- Teaching and researching Gender studies in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Women's Studies International Forum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-5395. ; 54, s. 119-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to raise and explore some of the challenges we as gender scholars have experienced in Sweden today in what could be conceptualized as 'overed' academic landscapes. Our argument is framed by Sara Ahmed's (2012) statement that the very idea that we are 'over race' is how racism is reproduced where it also has to be emphasized that the notion of being 'over race' needs to be understood as intertwined with being over gender. With autobiographical methods, we take leverage in a problematization of gender studies as 'a room of our own' and discuss related themes in academe such as the paradox of gender studies as a perspective and/or a discipline, pluralism and the academic institutional division of labour, feminism and neoliberal New Public Management, collaborative interdisciplinary work in audit cultures. The paper concludes with a discussion about resisting 'overing' through the conflicted position of the feminist scholar.
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