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Angel healing courses and self-help books compensate for shortcomings in the welfare state
"It's striking how many women attend yoga classes and try alternative healing," says Suvi Salmenniemi, who is researching therapeutic culture.
Amazons of the far Right
An increasing number of far-right parties in Europe are led by women. Yet, these parties have relatively few women among their voters, members, and elected representatives, according to researchers.
"My struggle" – the struggle to be a man and a writer
"Knausgård's novel thematises men who can’t find their place in the modern masculine role," says Professor Inger Skjelsbæk.
Early puberty in girls has a limited effect on grades
There is, however, no doubt that reaching puberty early has an impact on school performance, according to a new study.
She paved the way for the anti-racist movement in Norway
When the classical singer Ruth Reese arrived in Norway in 1956, she brought with her a strong commitment to fight racism and apartheid.
Charlotte Koren: Has documented the value of care
“I’ve always strived to make women and children visible in the statistics,” says the economist.
Taking medication during pregnancy rarely causes birth defects
‘Pregnant women, like the rest of the population, have chronic or acute conditions that require medical treatment,’ says Hedvig Nordeng. She recently won the NAR Brain Power Award for her research.
Most read articles from Kilden genderresearch.no in 2024
The five most read articles in 2024 covered a variety of issues - from country music to political love letters to health perspectives in gender research.
French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution
The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were also common, according to a historian at the University of Oslo.
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?
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
The first issue this year is an open issue. But even though the articles are varied, all of them are aimed at hot topics in the public debate. The articles illustrate the breadth of the field of gender research and examine in different ways how power works. You can read about transmasculines' experiences of discussing their own desire for reproduction during treatment for gender incongruence. You can also read a discursive analysis of Christian conservative mobilization against teaching about gender in school, as well as about how gender and resistance can have a mobilizing effect in gender equality work in academia.
What's up?
Female Is an Experiential Category
Lecture by Jennifer McWeeny, Professor II at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo and professor at Emerson College. The question underlying the lecture is that of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir: What is a woman? McWeeny uses Beauvoir’s phenomenological approach to trace the meaning of woman beyond the alternatives of biological determinism and social constructionism. According to this theory, being female is a practical and experiential category, not an empirical one. McWeeny will also show how the phenomenological notion of female opens the door to other phenomenological theories of other sexed locations including male, non-binary, agender, queer, and trans.
Nordic Gender Conference on Men's Underrepresentation in Communal Occupations
The UArctic network "Gender Disparities in Health and Early Education in the Arctic" invites you to an interdisciplinary conference addressing men’s underrepresentation in communal occupations, with a particular focus on nursing and health care. Among the featured speakers Professor Colette van Laar (University of Leuven) will explore the social psychological mechanisms keeping men in and out of communal occupations and roles. Assistant Professor Christopher Smith (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) will present on the underrepresentation of men in the nursing profession.
