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- Westerstrand, Jenny, 1969-
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King Captures Queen : methodology in research on violence in violently equal Sweden
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 47:3, s. 5-34
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Research and debate on violence against women in a Swedish context is here discussed from a perspective that focuses on the different understandings and epistemological claims behind existing positions. I crystallize a dominant perspective on violence, centred around fragmentation/deviance, and a challenging feminist understanding, centred around coherence/normality. I relate these understandings to a wider set of methodological choices and epistemological claims within research on violence against women, captured in what I call a discourse on partner violence (fragmentation) and a feminist discourse on men's violence against women (coherence). The article also examines the reactions, in media and academic life, that a quantitative study on men's violence against women in Sweden provoked, Captured Queen, Men's violence against women in equal Sweden. A prevalence study (Lundgren et al 2001). By applying a coherent methodological approach, stemming from the feminist discourse on violence against women, the study seems to have placed itself outside what was comprehensible for many voices in the debate (from media and the academic field). I discuss the hostile reactions the study aroused, in relation to its methodology and the above presented conflicting understandings that occupy the research field "violence against women".
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- Westerstrand, Jenny, 1969-
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Kung slår dam : Våldsforskningsmetodologi i ett våldsamt jämställt Sverige
- 2010
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In: Sociologisk forskning. - Uppsala : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 47:3, s. 5-34
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- King Captures Queen. Methodology in research on violence in violently equal SwedenResearch and debate on violence against women in a Swedish context is here discussed from a perspective that focuses on the different understandings and epistemological claims behind existing positions. I crystallize a dominant perspective on violence, centred around fragmentation/deviance, and a challenging feminist understanding, centred around coherence/normality. I relate these understandings to a wider set of methodological choices and epistemological claims within research on violence against women, captured in what I call a discourse on partner violence (fragmentation) and a feminist discourse on men’s violence against women (coherence).The article also examines the reactions, in media and academic life, that a quantitative study on men’s violence against women in Sweden provoked, Captured Queen, Men’s violence against women in equal Sweden. A prevalence study (Lundgren et al 2001). By applying a coherent methodological approach, stemming from the feminist discourse on violence against women, the study seems to have placed itself outside what was comprehensible for many voices in the debate (from media and the academic field). I discuss the hostile reactions the study aroused, in relation to its methodology and the above presented conflicting understan- dings that occupy the research field “violence against women”.
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- Westerstrand, Jenny, 1969-
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Mellan mäns händer : Kvinnors rättssubjektivitet, internationell rätt och diskurser om prostitution och trafficking
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The present study has a three folded focus, framed by one over all aim; to critically discuss and evaluate the constructions of women’s legal subjectivity in dominant feminist discourses on prostitution and trafficking. First, I set out to develop a gender theoretical understanding of prostitution. I relate prostitution to a context of reproduction and gender, where the separation between women’s sexuality and reproduction is understood as operating as creating a split femininity, and likewise to construct a unified masculinity. Secondly, I examine the discursive orders on prostitution and trafficking. I examine the frameworks of thought on prostitution and trafficking as they have been formulated in an international debate (on international law) during the last decades. Thirdly, focusing on the discourse that seeks to normalise prostitution as sex work, I examine how the creation of women's legal personhood with in this discourse takes place through an oscilliation between discursive orders on prostitution and trafficking, emphasizing some times different and conflicting ways of promoting women’s rights. One crucial question is how understandings of prostitution, when transposed to a context of trafficking, are expressed through a "judicial reasoning", and how these expressions might shed light upon the construction of women’s legal standing. The aim of the dissertation is to contribute to a comprehensive feminist theoretical understanding of the relation between, on the one hand, different positions on prostitution and trafficking within international law, and the discourses disputing its substance on the other.
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