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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?
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.
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
This year's final issue of The Journal of Gender Research contains five peer-reviewed articles and two book reviews. Read about gender and sexuality norms and how these norms can be challenged in society, analysed partly through the lens of queer theory. You can also get an insight into the situation of women in traditionally male-dominated fields in education and working life. In addition, you can read about how governance logics and ideals work in gendered ways in academia. This last issue of the year is an open issue and bears the mark of a type of tension that is present in the field of gender research more generally, between gender studies that is rooted in the category of women, and gender studies where it is examined how gender norms, as well as other societal norms, are reproduced.
What's up?
What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility?
In recent years, there has been increasing concern about falling birthrates in the Global North. While people of all genders can be affected by infertility, public debates often center specifically on women’s bodies and life choices, such as prioritizing career ambitions over motherhood, or being overly “picky” in their search for a partner.
This seminar takes a step back and asks: what is on the line in public conversations about fertility? And how are certain debates and silences surrounding reproduction linked to deeper societal norms about gender, sexuality, race, and social class?
Speakers:
- Kari Nyheim Solbrække (Helsam, UiO)
- My Rafstedt (IKRS, UiO)
- Eviane Leidig (Independent scholar, affiliated with C-REX, UiO)
- Daniela Alaattinoglu (University of Turku, Finland)
Call for papers: Special Issue on (En)gendering the Digital World
The journal Kvinder Køn & Forskning invites feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, artists and activists to think with and through digital matters (in both senses of the word) from intersectional, feminist, queer/trans, decolonial, and posthuman perspectives. The editors encourage submissions from junior scholars as well as more experienced scholars. They welcome submissions that deploy radical and experimental methodologies. In addition to academic articles, they also welcome essays and book reviews. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is the 15th of March 2025.
