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Tracing Testosterone in Women’s Elite Sports News Coverage: Cisnormatively Policing the Category of Women NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Signe Uldbjerg, Molly Occhino
The study is tracing testosterone through debates and regulations of participation in women’s elite sport between 2015 and 2022. We are interested in the ways that testosterone becomes an agent in ...
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Molecular Rebellions. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Aesthetics of Contamination in Trans Performance Art NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Wibke Straube
Hormones are molecular messengers in the body’s metabolism. They regulate, for instance, reproduction, digestion, organ systems and gene expression. The past century brought with it a proliferation...
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Hormones as (Rebellious) Messengers – An Interview with Professor Celia Roberts from the Australian National University NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Charlotte Kroløkke, Karen Hvidtfeldt
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)
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“It’ll be All Right, Everybody Has Children”: Regretting Motherhood in Iceland NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Margaret Anne Johnson, Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir
Social expectations of women as mothers significantly impact the reproductive decision-making process for those who have the potential for childbirth. This article focuses on women in Iceland who r...
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Brynja E. Halldórsdóttir, Eyja Margrét Brynjarsdóttir, Irma Erlingsdóttir
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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Two Gender–Equal Nations? Anti-Gender Re-Configurations of National Belonging in Sweden and Spain NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Hansalbin Sältenberg, Silvia Díaz Fernández, Paloma Caravantes
Gender equality and the rights of LGBTQI* and people of colour are being contested across the globe due to the rise of anti-gender far-right politics and movements that threaten feminist socio-poli...
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Women’s Academic Career Trajectory to the Top: Strategies and Ways of Doing Gender NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Jorun Ulvestad
In recent years, the political approach to gender balance in academia has shifted from “fixing the women” to “fixing the system”. Based on an action research (AR) project aimed at enabling more wom...
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‘We Are Stuck in Our Own Heads’: Immigrant Women and Institutional Practices in Iceland NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Flora Tietgen
Immigrant women in Iceland have reported experiencing discrimination and marginalization in society and when interacting with institutions. However, this topic remains under-researched in the Icela...
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Differences in the Classroom: Gender, Race, and Trauma as Affective Hotspots in Finnish Education for Adult Migrants NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Miitta Järvinen, Tiina Suopajärvi
In this article, we examine the affects that become constructed in Finnish education for adult migrants. Our point of departure for analysing the research material—educators’ interviews—is in the e...
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Refraining Co-Becomings: The Affective Pulse of Companionships NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Tuuli Innola
This article studies the affective pulsations of relating in the enduring and changing experiences of companionship. In particular, its interest lies in relational arrangements that form outside th...
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Challenging Precarization: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Portrait of a Young Mother in Emily Forever (2021) NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Christine Hamm
The article argues that Maria Navarro Skaranger’s novel Emily forever (2021) can be interpreted as a comment on the situation of young mothers in contemporary Norway. The main character is a 19-yea...
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“Maybe We Can't Actually Have it All?” Egg Freezing, Solo Motherhood by Donor Conception and Intimate Desires and Normativity in a Late Modern Nordic Welfare State NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Kristin Engh Førde
In this article I discuss the accounts of middle-class women in their 30s living in Norway, who face choices between egg freezing or solo motherhood by donor conception. I show that the women sough...
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“Being a Girl Has Become a Public Health Problem!”: Feminist Organizations Both Resisting and Reproducing Postfeminist Mental Health Discourses NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Hanna Bäckström Olofsson
An apparent decline in youth mental health in the Nordic countries has received a lot of attention over the last decade, and young women have been described as a particularly vulnerable group. To c...
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Nuancing Young Masculinities: Helsinki Boys’ Intersectional Relationships in New Times NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Baird Campbell
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2024)
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#MeToo in the Manosphere: The Formation of a Counter Discourse on the Swedish Online Forum Flashback NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Karin Hansson, Malin Sveningsson, Hillevi Ganetz
In Sweden, a relative consensus of liberal and feminist values has long been dominant in public discourse. This could be observed in coverage of the #MeToo movement, which was largely presented in ...
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Equality on Male Terms or Reconstruction of Gender Roles? Association 9 and the Finnish Sex Role Ideology of the 1960s NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Arja Turunen
The public and political discussion on women’s position in society and gender equality was initiated in the Nordic countries in the 1960s in the form of the so-called sex role debate. Previous stud...
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Eyja M.J. Brynjarsdóttir, Irma Jóhanna Erlingsdóttir, Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Excluding the Involved Father: Having a Child During the COVID Pandemic in Iceland NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sunna Símonardóttir, Ásdís Arnalds
Iceland has prioritized the importance of active fatherhood through the implementation of public policies that encourage men to be actively involved in caregiving. However, during the COVID-19 pand...
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National Policies Supporting Gender Equality in Academic Careers: Are the “Global Leaders” Doing What It Takes? NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Charlotte Silander, Liza Reisel, Ida Drange, Maria Pietilä
National policies used to advance gender equality in academic careers in higher education in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, are examined based on publicly available documents from 1990 to 2023. Drawi...
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Still Blaming the Women? Gender Equality Work in Academic Organizations NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Lotta Snickare, Anna Wahl
The purpose of the article is to explore, through comparative analysis, how different objectives within the universities influence the process when implementing programmes with a gender-theoretical...
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Contemporary Forced Adoption Policy in Denmark and Norway: Rationales for the Biopolitical Regulation of Reproduction and Kinship NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Amalie Sehested Rom
This article presents a critical reading of Norwegian and Danish contemporary forced adoption policy as biopolitical regulation of reproduction and kinship in the Nordic welfare state. The analysis...
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Maternity Leave as Upskilling: A Danish (Neoliberal) Feminist Movement on LinkedIn? NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Freja Lomaz Jørgensen, Ea Høg Utoft
In Denmark, parental leave in relation to childbirth has long been a political hot topic. This study adds a new perspective to this issue by examining a newly emergent LinkedIn discourse which we c...
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Sex and Gender Perspectives as Quality? On the Controversy About Gender and Science in the Swedish Research Debate NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Evelina Johansson Wilén
In a 2016 bill, the Swedish government tasked state-governed research councils with incorporating sex and gender perspectives (SGP) into their assessment of research quality. The present article ex...
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“Can ‘We’ Survive Ourselves?” NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 A. Samuel Kimball
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2024)
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Promises of Cyborgs: Feminist Practices of Posthumanities (Against the Nested Crises of the Anthropocene) NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Cecilia Åsberg
The cultural technologies of gender, race and empire drive much of the present Anthropocene crisis, now and in the past. Everyday algorithms reproduce and multiply our cultural biases on a global s...
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Crip-Queer Ethics of Care in Amruta Patil’s Kari and Sybil Lamb’s I’ve Got a Time Bomb NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Anhiti Patnaik, Jaya Sarkar
This essay examines how crip-queer ethics of care is represented in two case studies from contemporary feminist graphic fiction. A comparative textual and theoretical analysis is conducted to exami...
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Eyja Margrét Brynjarsdóttir, Irma Jóhanna Erlingsdóttir, Brynja Elisabeth Halldórsdóttir
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Love Power in the Rear-View Mirror: Interview with Anna G. Jónasdóttir NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Lena Gunnarsson
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Cymene Howe
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Revisiting the Second Shift – Rethinking Value in the Outsourcing of Social Reproduction NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Elisabeth Wide, Lena Näre
This article examines the link between outsourcing social reproduction and the valuation of time by approaching the employers of domestic workers as workers who themselves labour to produce surplus...
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir, Eyja Brynjarsdóttir, Irma Erlingsdóttir
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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What Integration Discourses “Do”: The Gendered Migratization of Policy Issues and Justification of Welfare Retrenchment NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
This article argues that when integration discourses are used in newspaper articles to discuss social policy issues, the issues are framed as being “about migrants” and not as issues that impact th...
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“You Don’t Want to Be One of Those stories” Gossip and Shame as Instruments of Social Control in Small Communities NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Gréta Bergrún Jóhannesdóttir, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir
Small, tight-knit communities often have the image of being places that are full of gossip and where everybody knows each other’s business. This closeness can be claustrophobic for individuals who ...
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Girls Claiming Discursive Space within the Dominant Discourse on Gender Performativity: A Case Study from a Compulsory School in Iceland NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Bergljót Þrastardóttir, Jón Ingvar Kjaran
This article investigates how four teenage girls claim discursive space in a compulsory school in Iceland where the dominant discourse sustains traditional gender performances and (cis)heteronormat...
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Companion Texts and Spaces of Encounter: Reading Experiences in Shazia Majid, Ivo de Figueiredo and Yohan Shanmugaratnam’s Life Writing NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Tonje Vold
ABSTRACT Analyzing reading experiences represented in transnational literature clarifies how the author’s story connects to a larger world literature. Building on the feminist and postcolonial work of Sarah Ahmed, and Elleke Boehmer, Rita Felski's study of the uses of literature, I investigate the signification of the representations of reading experiences in three contemporary Norwegian works. These
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Unashamed Citizenship: Activist Voices in Scandinavia NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Elisabeth Oxfeldt
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Beyond Heroes and Hostility: Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, and The Transnational Politics of Girl Power NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jill Locke
ABSTRACT This article develops a feminist and democratic theory of girls’ activism framed around the work of Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, and the global youth climate movement. It draws from recent work in girlhood studies to criticize the discourse of the “girl hero” and challenge the two dominant ways that political theorists engage with girls and politics or political change, through Sophocles’
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An Evasive Aesthetics: Appropriation, Witnessing and War in Shadi Angelina Bazeghi’s Flowmatic NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Lea Allouche
ABSTRACT In this article, I investigate how Shadi Angelina Bazeghi writes about the Iran-Iraq War in her poetry collection Flowmatic (2020). Bazeghi assembles several different kinds of texts in Flowmatic, and one of these texts is a testimony by an Iranian soldier-engineer who worked as a programmer setting up at system to identify the bodies and body parts of fallen Iranian soldiers. Both the words
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“Women Became Free!” Activism, Feminism, Race, and Political Poetry of the Second Degree in Henrika Ringboms Händelser ur Nya Pressen 1968-1974 NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Kristina Malmio
ABSTRACT Author Henrika Ringbom’s collection of poems entitled Händelser ur Nya Pressen 1968–1974. Prosadikter (2009) is a rare piece of Finland-Swedish literature. Rewriting news from a Finland-Swedish evening press paper during the 1960s and 1970s, it offers a view on the colonial mind-set of the Nordic countries. The poems not only depict political events from various parts of a global world, they
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Sámi Feminism and Activism in Ann-Helén Laestadius’ Novel Stöld NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Madelen Brovold
ABSTRACT The article examines the thematization of (intersectional indigenous) feminist criticism and activism in the novel Stöld (2021), written by the Sámi-Tornedalian-Swedish author Ann-Helén Laestadius. The novel depicts life in a small town in Sápmi, where reindeer herders are strongly affected by the brutal killings of their animals and the lack of legal security they experience. A central motif
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Queer Narratives in Nordic Sami Literature: Coming-Out Narratives and Final Exposures in Savior of the Lost Children (2008) and Himlabrand (2021) NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Cathrine Bjerknes
ABSTRACT This article explores how two queer narratives in Nordic Sami literature challenge, expand and change norms and stereotypes related to queer indigenous experiences. Characteristic for these narratives is the ambition to highlight taboos and challenge stereotypes in Sami contexts. In the article, I explore the characters’ coming-out processes and relate them to larger narrative traditions.
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Invisible, Responsible Women in Sweden – Planning Pregnancies, Choosing Contraceptives NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Sofia Zettermark
In this study I explore discourses of contraception and reproduction, which are drawn upon and reproduced in Swedish official online sources on contraceptive advice, through the theoretical framewo...
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Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Over Time: Young Women’s and Nonbinary People’s Accounts in 2000 and 2021 NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Satu Venäläinen, Sanna Aaltonen, Ann Phoenix
The #metoo movement and various other social media campaigns have made sexual harassment increasingly visible in recent years. Such collective practices of naming and thereby resisting sexual haras...
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Building Death Literacy Through Last Aid: An Examination of Agency, Ambivalence and Gendered Informal Caregiving Within the Swedish Welfare State NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jamie Woodworth
In the last two decades, health promotion strategies have gained significant attention in end-of-life care contexts—engendering greater focus on community and informal care in policy and healthcare...
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Undoing the Regional Demos? Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Regional Development NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Tomas Mitander
The aim of this article is to contribute to the discussions about the relationship between feminism and neoliberalism and the status of feminist emancipatory claims in marketized policy fields. My ...
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Emergence of LGBT Movements in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Rebeka Põldsam, Sara Arumetsa
In this article, we study the emergence of gay, lesbian and trans community organizing in 1989–1994 in Estonia. During the post-Soviet transition period, issues of human rights and democracy were a...
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Extremely Private and Incredibly Public – Free Menstrual Products and the “Problem” of Menstruation in the Finnish Public Discourse NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Aino Koskenniemi
In December 2021, the Helsinki City Council decided to experiment the distribution of free menstrual products in schools and educational institutions. The act follows similar decisions internationa...
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Men are Always Better? How Swedish Municipalities Justify Pay Differences in Gender Pay Audit Reports NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Minna Salminen-Karlsson, Anna Fogelberg Eriksson
This study analyses how pay inequality among Swedish municipal employers is justified in their mandatory pay audit reports. Critical discourse analysis was used to examine the overarching message t...
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Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work. Insights from the Swedish Riksdag NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Josefina Erikson, Lenita Freidenvall
Recent research has pointed to the need for addressing gender equality in parliaments in a broader perspective, focusing on “gender sensitivity” in parliaments in relation to structures, operations...
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Crip Theory: A Useful Tool for Social Analysis NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Mikael Mery Karlsson, Jens Rydström
The article gives an overview of Crip Theory, a diverse assembly of critical perspectives on dis/ability, and outlines how it can be used to analyse social relations and intersectionality in contem...
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Persistent Paradoxes, Pragmatic Postfeminism: How Young Women Negotiate the Contradictions of Gender Equality NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Emma Lamberg
Due to social change and gender detraditionalisation, young women in the Global North have been positioned as agentic subjects who can benefit from increasing freedom in education and work. However...
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Wages for Care Work: COVID-19 and the Public Struggle for Nurses’ Wage Equality NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Heini Kinnunen
The article examines the news media debate on nurses’ wages in Finland during the COVID-19 crisis. By looking at the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic context, the study presents the pandemic as a so...
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Eyja Margrét Jóhönnu Brynjarsdóttir, Irma Erlingsdóttir, Jón Ingvar Kjaran
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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“Daring to Be True and to Shine Brightly in the Time That Remains”: Imagining Transgender Ageing in Fredrik Ekelund’s Q NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Linn J Sandberg, Sam Holmqvist
ABSTRACT This article explores imaginings of transgender ageing, and more specifically visions of transfeminine ageing futures, through an analysis of the auto-fictional novel Q by Swedish author Fredrik Ekelund. The novel tells the story of Fredrik, who comes out as transvestite at the age of 60, and subsequently struggles to come to terms with and explore their transfeminine identity as Marisol.
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Neurosexism, Neurofeminism, and Neurocentrism: From Gendered Brains to Embodied Minds NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Claus Halberg
ABSTRACT Over the course of the last decade, a strand of feminist science scholarship has come together under the rubric of “neurofeminism”. One of the driving concerns for scholars in this area is to expose and criticize what is sometimes called “neurosexism”. This is a tendency among some neuroscientists, science writers and journalists to exaggerate cognitive, emotional, and behavioural sex differences
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The Gendering of Technology Education: minority Ethnic Students’ Experiences of a Women-Dominated Vocational Dental Technology Programme NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Inkeri Tanhua
ABSTRACT The gendering of technology-related work and education has spurred a lively debate. While the majority of research assumes that women and minority ethnic groups are under-represented in technology, there is a lack of research on their typical paths and positions in vocational technology education. This intersectional study examines students’ experiences of dental technology, which is a women-dominated
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“Grandmas Do Worse:” The Kristevan Feminine in Contemporary Versions of Little Red Riding Hood NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Carola Maria Wide
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship on intergenerational female relationships in “Little Red Riding Hood” often stresses conflict. Examining such relationships from the perspective of adolescent daughtering through Julia Kristeva’s idea of the feminine in three contemporary versions of the story, Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf”, Kiki Smith’s “Bedlam”, and Gillian Cross’s Wolf, this study demonstrates that some
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Editorial NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Anne Nørkjær Bang, Charlotte Kroløkke, Dag Heede, Janne Rothmar Herrmann
Published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2022)
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From Polarizing to Shared Shame: Multicultural Daughters, Pakistani Mothers, and Norwegian Child Welfare Services in What Will People Say NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Adriana Margareta Dancus
ABSTRACT This article is a close analysis of the feature film What Will People Say (2017) by the Norwegian-Pakistani director Iram Haq through the lens of shame as a filmic emotion experienced both by the Pakistani mother in the film and by the Norwegian majority viewers. The film’s reception reveals a polarized discourse that pitches the Norwegian majority against minority women and builds up the
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Enduring Emotions. Fat Time and Weight Loss in the Finnish Body Positive Podcasts Jenny and the Fat Myth Busters and The Soft NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg
ABSTRACT The article analyses two Finnish body positive podcasts, Jenny and the Fat Myth Busters and The Soft, zooming in on their way of discussing weight loss. Drawing on queer studies’ understanding of queer time, the article discusses fat time as a nonlinear temporality, which, as a product of fat-marginalizing culture, is hurtful yet characterized by a potential to resist. The article utilizes