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Men also benefit from gender perspectives in health research
Researchers agree that gender perspectives improve health research. But does Norway need a dedicated political strategy for women’s health?
Can Norway formulate its own penal law for sexual assault?
Amnesty believes the new Norwegian draft bill on rape violates the Istanbul Convention. Law professor disagrees.
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.
Female musicians ride the Norwegian country wave
Country music is often portrayed through masculine stereotypes. Nevertheless, female musicians have helped define the genre’s development in Norway, researchers say.
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
This year's third issue of the Journal of Gender Research is a special issue on the gendered effects of the reform of the Biotechnology Act in 2020. What did the changes in the regulation of biotechnology and assisted reproduction bring about? You can read an analysis of how egg donation is now understood in a Norwegian context, about egg freezing as "our generation's birth control pill", about assisted reproduction for trans men and about the parallels between the new Biotechnology Act and the Abortion Act. The issue is rounded off with an interview with Marit Melhuus, an authority within the field of research on reproductive technology. Together, these texts challenge how we reflect on the relationship between the law, cultural conceptions, and people's reproductive and gendered lives and practices.
What's up?
The 2024 Holberg Debate: ‘Is the West in Decline?’
At the 2024 Holberg Debate, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Yanis Varoufakis and Konstantin Kisin will discuss whether or not the West is in decline. Is the West in decline, and if so, what are the implications for the future of democracy and the global order? This is the central question for the 2024 Holberg Debate.
Research seminar on gender and ethnicity
The research group for gender, ethnicity and equality (KEL) at the Faculty of Social Sciences holds a paper seminar on December 16th and 17th on gender, ethnicity and equality, and invites all researchers at Nord university to present or attend the seminar. The seminar will be held both in person in Bodø and online. Students that are interested in the topic might also attend the seminar and listen to the presenters. The deadline for registering is December 2nd 2024.
