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Medieval law in Norway gave women new rights
In 2024, Norway celebrates 750 years since the Code of the Norwegian Realm was adopted. For women, that meant more access to financial resources and power.
Islamic women's organisations confront Western feminism
They oppose international conventions for gender equality and distance themselves from Western feminism. The conservative network aims to promote women's interests on their own terms.
Norway has not succeeded in preventing or combating rape
Rape prevention in Norway faced scrutiny from the government-appointed rape committee: An under-prioritised an unsolved social problem, the commitee concludes. Along with 30 measures to combat rape.
The political love letters of Camilla Collett and Amalie Skram
Both Camilla Collett and Amalie Skram challenged the role of women in their writing. Even the letters they wrote to their hearts' chosen reflected the debates of their times about the role of women in matters of love, marriage, and society.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is expected to open up great opportunities for society, but what do we know about artificial intelligence and gender equality?
Gender Equality in Research in Europe
Kilden genderreseach.no has mapped similarities and differences among European knowledge centres that work with gender perspectives and gender balance in research.
Master suppression techniques
Master suppression techniques are strategies people or groups of people can use to dominate or humiliate others in a subtle, indirect way.
What's up?
Apply for funding from the Nordic Gender Fund this autumn
The Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg is committed to supporting the infrastructure for a broad field of research on gender and other power structures. As part of this work, the Secretariat has established a Nordic Gender Fund, which will be announced once a year. Applications for funding can include journals, conferences and networks for research on norms, beliefs and structures that create, reproduce and maintain inequalities based on, for example, gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, class and age. The first call for applications will open on 15 October 2024. Deadline for applications is 15 November.
Activating the queer archive!
The Nordic Network for Queer History Archives and Activities (Nnaqh) invites archivists, museum workers, queer and history scholars, activists and other people interested in queer history to the third conference: from different angles and depths the conference will explore what activating the archive means. What are the meanings of a queer archive and for whom? Or is the queer archive a negation?
