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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.
"It's become more dangerous to be a journalist"
Foreign correspondents have traditionally been seen as a "macho club" with few female members. Today, there are more women, but the profession has also become more risky.
Fathers want to share parental leave equally
In a sense, men are more oriented towards gender equality than women when it comes to sharing parental leave, says Ragni Hege Kitterød.
Most read articles from Kilden genderresearch.no in 2023
The five most read articles in 2023 covered a variety of issues: from fatherhood and paternity tests; intimacy among whalers in the early 20th century to the treatment of gender dysphoria.
"It wasn't my fault" – 13 men about femicide
The killing of women and girls is such a big problem in Latin America that a number of countries have incorporated femicide into their penal code. A study from Buenos Aires looks at how the killers account for their crimes.
How the AIDS epidemic changed Norway
According to historians, the Norwegian authorities reacted differently to the AIDS epidemic than other Western countries.
Fewer women reach the peak in snowboarding
When it comes to snowboarding, women are in the minority of top athletes, coaches, referees and in the boardroom. New research reveals how invisible structures help maintain an unequal gender balance in the sport.
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
This year's second issue of the Journal of Gender Research is an open issue. The common denominator for the articles is a fundamentally critical project. Through close reading of contemporary texts, discourse analysis and rhetorical analysis of texts from recent history, the articles provide perspectives on both historical and current debates in gender research: the disciplining of the body, controversies within feminism, as well as sexist and racist structures that affect the living conditions of individuals and groups. The articles illustrate how tools from the feminist and anti-racist toolbox can be used to understand these themes and phenomena both in the present and in the past.
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UiB AI #11: AI, Ethics, Aesthetics
The shifts in music technology that have driven musical innovation in the last 80 years have largely consolidated historic gender imbalances in the creation and production of music. Today, AI technologies are amplifying imbalances in ways that extend existing marginalisation and shape biases in music listening. Jill Halstead (Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies) will in her presentation "Hearing Bias? The Impact of AI-Driven Technologies on music production and listening" consider these issues in relation to the Gender, Technology, Participation Project, a collaboration between Grieg Academy and Center for Women and Gender Studies at The University of Bergen. The project seeks to develop interdisciplinary research collaboration networks with the music sector, which will raise and address questions of gender bias in music technology design, music production and distribution.
Women’s work? Production and circulation in the New Kingdom textile industry
Contrary to representations of most crafts in ancient Egypt, those of textile production indicates an overt female presence. Archaeological Friday Seminar at The University of Oslo invites to a seminar with Associate Professor Reinert Skumsnes from The Centre for Gender Research. He will discuss the assumption that women, as opposed to men and foreigners, were restricted to small-scale domestic production, and instead focus on textile production and circulation as a collective enterprise, bridging small-, middle- and large-scale, by foreigners and Egyptians alike.
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