Cool to be queer in the Norwegian music scene

Norwegian musicians make careers from experimenting with queer gender identities. According to musicologist Agnete Eilertsen, pop music shows that the gender norms are changing although there is still a shortage of queer musicians.

Justifying gender equality through Islam

Young Norwegian Muslims are more liberal than their parents’ generation when it comes to equality and homosexuality, but both groups find support for their view in Islam, according to Levi Geir Eidhamar’s study.

Public breastfeeding: When the sexy boob becomes baby food

According to Norwegian researchers, the nursing breast has a safe place within the cafe scene, but they warn against increasing puritanism and less rights for the mother.

Women dealers empowered by selling drugs

Female drug dealers are a minority. According to sociologist Heidi Grundetjern, they gain self-confidence by succeeding in a cutthroat business, but they do not challenge the male dominance.

Sami victims of violence do not seek help

People with Sami background who experience domestic violence seek help from the authorities less often than other Norwegians. A new report has looked at what may be done.

Surrogacy: The impossible dream of a fair trade baby

While western couples get their longed-for child, Indian surrogate mothers are left with a feeling of having sacrificed more than they have gained. Surrogacy can never become a win-win situation, according to anthropologist Kristin Engh Førde.

New publications

ARTICLE: The Role of Family Policy Regimes in Work–Family Adaptations: Polish Parents in Norway and Poland

Author(s):
Bjørnholt, Margunn, Kari Stefansen, Agata Wężyk and Dorota Merecz-Kot
Published:
2017

ARTICLE: Non-disabled ableism: An autoethnography of cultural encounters between a non-disabled researcher and disabled people in the field

Author(s):
Svendby, Rannveig, Grace Inga Romsland, and Kåre Moen
Published:
2017

PHD THESIS: Queer Challenges to the Norwegian Policies and Practices of Immigration: Asylum seeking in Norway on the grounds of sexual orientation-based persecution.

Author(s):
Akin, Deniz
Published:
2017

BOOK CHAPTER: Linking Prostitution and Human Trafficking Policies: The Nordic Experience

Author(s):
Skilbrei, Mai-Len and Charlotta Holmström
Published:
2017

ARTICLE: Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women’s public roles and political participation

Author(s):
Horst, Cindy
Published:
2017
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Until infidelity, disappearance or impotence do us part – the history of divorce in Norway

The history of divorce reveals hidden stories of love, domestic violence and societal ideals for a healthy marriage.

A warning against desirable facts about women in peace and conflict

Oversimplified perceptions of gender roles in war and conflict reproduce gender stereotypes and existing inequalities, according to researcher Maria Eriksson Baaz.

Feeling gender: from housewife to working mum

When Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen interviewed three generations of Norwegian women and men, she discovered how the emotional perception of gender has developed over time.

Norwegian courts discriminate: Ethnicity and location matter in sentencing of rape cases

A survey of rape convictions in Norway reveals systematic discrimination of men with minority background and of women.

Girls beaten by their boyfriend avoid the word ‘violence’

Young women who have experienced violence may be difficult to detect. In online reader’s queries, they try to put what is going on in their relationship into words.

Gender-equality ideals make Muslim women more religious

When gender equality is portrayed as a uniquely Western value, immigrant Muslim women choose to embrace religion as a result, according to new research.

Underachieving boys, or clever girls?

Boys and girls perform differently at school, but researchers are uncertain whether this has to do with how they mature.

Gender matters in war reporting

Being a journalist in war zones and armed conflicts is becoming increasingly dangerous. Most of the journalists killed in the field are men, but the concern is about the security of their female colleagues.

Children have the right to their own gender identity

In Norway, children under the age of sixteen can now change their legal gender. Anniken Sørlie investigates how the legislation affects the way children and youth perceive their own identity.

Assisted fertilisation has become natural

The debate concerning reproductive technology in Norway challenges the limits for what is considered natural pregnancy.

Parenting programmes benefit daddies in prison

Training programmes focusing on fatherhood may make fathers in prison more law-abiding, according to Gunnar Vold Hansen.

Calendar

21 Aug 2017

International Workshop on Gender in Academia at the University of Bergen

Bergen

The workshop will bring together researchers and academics who are interested in gendered cultures and structures in the changing academic world.

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27 Aug 2017

Age Agency Ambiguity - gender and generation in times of change

Oslo

International conference at the University of Oslo

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28 Aug to Sep 2017

Geneva Summer School: Human Rights, Gender and Alterity

Geneva

This unique transdisciplinary course, jointly organised by the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute Geneva, is aimed at students and practitioners from all academic backgrounds and will enable participants to critically engage with human rights from a gender and a postcolonial perspective.

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This issue of the Journal for Gender Research is titled "Gender Balance and Gender Equality". Several of the articles are based on BALANCE projects, supported by the Research Council of Norway's BALANCE program.
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