Syllabus/achievement requirements

(Titles marked with * are from books that have to be purchased. The others are to be in compendiums in the bookshop, Akademika, at Blindern)

Introduction

* Rosenbeck, Bente: "Nordic women’s studies and gender research" in Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.): Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, 1998. London: UCL Press. pp 344-357.

Widerberg, Karin: "Harriet Holter: A Pioneer in Gender Studies and Sociology" in Acta Sociologica 43 (4), , 2000. pp 413-420.

Rogg, Elisabet: "Passion and pain in Academia" in NORA 3 (9), 2001. pp 154-161.

Husu, Liisa: "On metaphors on the position of women in academia and science" in NORA 3 (9), 2001. pp 172-181.

Theories on gender

* Haavind, Hanne: "Understanding women in the psychological mode: the challenge from the experiences of Nordic women" and * Ve, Hildur: "Rationality and identity in Norwegian feminism" in challenge from the experiences of Nordic women” : Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, 1998. pp 243-271, 325-343.

Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum: "European Gender Lessons: Girls and boys at scout camps in Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia”" in Childhood 11 (2), 2004. pp 207-226.

Gender politics and equality politics

Rossilli, Mariagracia: ": The European Union’s Gender Politics" in Rossilli, Maraigrazia (ed.): Gender Policies in the European Union, New York: Peter Lang. pp 1-19.

* Borchorst, Anette: "What is institutionalised gender equality?", * Borchorst, Anette: "Equal status institutions” Bergquist" and * Borchorst, Anette: "Gender equality law" in Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.): Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries, 1999. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp 161-166, 167-189, 190-207.

Skjeie, Hege & Mari Teigen: "Political Constructions of Gender Equality : Travelling Towards… a Gender Balanced Society" in NORA 3 (13), 2005. pp 187-197.

Lotherington, Ann Therese: "Innovative Women and Gender-Power in Norwegian Regional Development Policy" in NORA 3 (13), 2005. pp 187-197.

Rönnblom, Malin: "Letting Women in? Gender Mainstreaming in Regional Policies" in NORA 3 (13), 2005. pp 164-174.

Teigen, Mari: "The affirmative action controversy" in NORA 8 (2), pp 63-77.

The Royal Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, Norway: The Norwegian Gender Equality Act, 2000. 7 p.

The Royal Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, Norway: Gender mainstreaming in Norway: Guide to gender impact assessment of Government policy, 2000. 4 p.

Gendered division of labour and reconciliation of paid work and family obligations

Dahl, Tove Stang: "Women’s Right to Money" in Holter, Harriet (ed.): Patriarchy in a Welfare Society, 1984. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp 46-66.

Ellingsæter, Anne Lise: "Women’s right to work: The interplay of state, market and women’s agency" in NORA 2-3 (7), 1999. pp 109-123.

Haavind, Hanne: "Love and Power in Marriage" in Holter, Harriet (ed.) : Patriarchy in a Welfare Society, 1984. pp136-167.

Schunter-Kleemann, Susanne: "Welfare states and family policies in the European countries" in NORA (2), 1995. pp 74-86.

Kjelstad, Randi: "Gender policies and gender equality" in Kautto, Mikko, Johan Fritzell, Bjørn Hvinden, Jon Kvist & Hannu Uusitalo: Nordic Welfare States in the European , 2001. London: Routledge. pp 66-97.

Leira, Arnlaug: Working parents and the welfare state. Family change and policy reform in Scandinavia, 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 1-14, 132-149.

Brandt, Berit and Elin Kvande: "Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers" in BSA publications 15 (2), 2001. pp 251-267.

Magnusson, Eva : "Gendering or Equality in the Lives of Nordic Heterosexual Couples with Children: no Well-paved Avenues yet" in NORA 3 (13), 2005. pp 153-163.

Eriksson, Maria: "Men’s violence, men’s parenting and gender politics in Sweden" in NORA 1 (10), pp 6-15.

Education and work organisations

Lahelma, Elina: "School Grades And Other Resources: “The Failing Boys” Discourse Revisited" in NORA 2 (13) , 2005. pp 78-89.

* Jensen, Hanne Nexø: "Gender as the dynamo: when public organizations have to change" and * Ericsson, Kjersti: "Sexual harassment and the genderization of work" in Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.): Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, 1998. London: UCL Press. pp 161-175, pp 176-196.

Kvande, Elin: "Doing Masculinities in Organizational Restructuring" in NORA 1 (10), 2002. pp 16-25.

Political participation and representation

Lovenduski, Joni: "Change in Women’s Political Representation" in Rossilli, Mariagrazia (ed.): Gender Policies in the European Union, 2000. New York: Peter Lang. pp 87- 104.

* Christensen, Ann-Dorte and Nina C. Raaum: "Models of political mobilisation", * Raaum, Nina C: "Women in Parliamentary Politics: Historical lines of development", * Raaum, Nina C: "Political Citizenship: New participants, new values?" and * Christensen, Ann-Dorte: "Women in the political parties" in Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.): : Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries, 1999. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp 17-26, pp 27-47, pp 48-64, pp 65-87.

Ethnic relations/Human Rights

Stoltz, Pauline. : "Who are ’we’ to tell? Black, Immigrant and Refugee Women and the Politics of Analysing Feminist Movements" in Christensen, Hilda Rømer et al (eds.): Crossing Borders, 2004. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. pp 309-325.

Gressgård, Randi and Christine M. Jacobsen: "Questions of gender in a multicultural society" in NORA 2 (11), 2003. pp 69-77.

Longva, Anh Nga: "The Trouble with Difference: Gender, Ethnicity and Norwegian Social Democracy" in Grete, Brochmann, (ed.): The Multicultural Challenge Comparative Social Research 22, 2003. Elsevier Ltd.. pp 153-175.

Love and Sexuality

Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum and Monica Rudberg: "Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations. The Way Out and Up" in The European Journal of Women’s Studies 7 (4), 2000. pp 423-453.

Kleven, Kari Vik: "Girl culture as a chastity belt" in NORA 1 (2), 1993. pp 90-104.

Månsson, Sven -Axel: "Men´s Practices in Prostitution. The Case of Sweden" in Pease, Bob and Keith Pringle: A Man´s World? Changing Men´s Practices in a Globalized World, 2001. London: Zed Books. pp135-149.

Löfström, Jan: "Introduction: Sketching the Framework for a History and Sociology of Homosexualities in the Nordic CountriesIntroduction: Sketching the Framework for a History and Sociology of Homosexualities in the Nordic Countries" and Lützen, Karen: "Gay and Lesbian Politics: Assimilation or Subversion: A Danish Perspective" in Löfström, Jan (ed.): : Scandinavian Homosexualities. Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies, 1998. New York: Hayworth Press. pp 1-15, 233-243.

Just for students at KFL4060: Nordic feminist thought on culture and society

*Jonasdottir, Anna G., Drude von der Fehr: "Introduction: ambiguous times – contested spaces in the politics, organization and identities of gender", *Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson: "Equal or different? That’s not the question. Women’s political strategies in a historical perspective", *Karlsson, Gunnel: "Social Democratic women’s coup in the Swedish parliament", *Sigurbjarnardottir, Sighurdur, Helga: ""On their own premises”: the political project of the Icelandic Women’s Alliance", *Bjørnsdottis, Inga Dora: "They had a different mother: the central configuration of Icelandic nationalist discourse", *Shands, Kerstin W.: "Make a line, so I can cross it: postmodernist space in Camilla Paglia’s Sexual personae", *Sørensen, Anne Scott: "Taste, manners and attitudes – the bel esprit and literary salon in Scandinavia c. 1800", *Lyngfelt, Anna: "The dream of reality: a study of feminine dramatic tradition, the one-act play", *Haavio-Mannila: "Attraction and love at work", *Sjørup, Karen: "The gender relation and professionalism in the postmodern world: social brotherhood and beyond", *Heinämaa, Sara, Martina Reuter : "Reflections on the rationality of emotions and feelings", *Drotner, Kirsten: "Asta Nielsen: a modern woman before her time?”, " and *Pape, Lis Wedell: "Oscillations: on subject and gender in late modernism" in Fehr, Drude von der et al., (eds.): Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, 1998. London: UCL Press.

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