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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.
Changing legal gender and gender points: Is the scheme being abused?
The regulations don't readily allow individuals to impulsively change their legal gender, a legal experts explains.
Whalers dressed up as women and slept snugly together
At the same time, life on the whaling vessels was both boring and extremely dangerous, according to one researcher.
“I don't post porn”: Norwegian master's thesis about OnlyFans
The competition on the popular site was fierce. In the beginning, the women made a decent profit from their content, but then the income dwindled, writes Astrid Rokstad in the masters blog.
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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.
“I don't post porn”: Norwegian master's thesis about OnlyFans
The competition on the popular site was fierce. In the beginning, the women made a decent profit from their content, but then the income dwindled, writes Astrid Rokstad in the masters blog.
Circumcision method creates confusion
A less invasive form of circumcision is becoming more common among Norwegian-Somalis, but the women have very different ideas of what it entails.
Killer children arouse our underlying fears
They kill with pigtails and dresses, and they shoot down members of their family in tight, sensual clothes. But the motifs of the murderous children we encounter in literature remain mysterious, says literary scholar.
When DNA tests show that dad is not the father
"As the law currently stands, there is no limit to how long one of the biological or social parents can withhold information about biological parenthood," a law professor warns.
Gender quotas on corporate boards? Norwegian researchers share their views
The Norwegian government wants to introduce requirements for gender balance on private boards, but do gender quotas really work? Read what researchers in the field think of the proposal.
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Where are the boys in climate action? How to break the bubbles and join forces
Young people are vital agents for a just green transition, but participation varies across social identities and backgrounds. Men and boys tend to be less interested in both sustainability and gender equality than women and girls. How can we strengthen the conscious and committed, while also bringing underrepresented voices to the table? Nordregio (a research centre established by the Nordic Council of Ministers) invites to a webinar and launching of a new report by Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK) and Nordregio. Key insights on how we can approach inclusivity and diversity based on interviews with Nordic youth organisations will be provided.
General course 2024: The National Research School in Gender Research
The National Research School organizes a PhD course in gender research. The course focuses on intersectionality as a concept, theory and methodology in gender studies. It will deal with questions about how inequality-creating social differentiations such as gender, class, ethnicity, race, sexuality are mutually constituent. Based on their own PhD projects, the participants will include the intersectionality perspective as an analytical strategy in the form of fellow-driven workshops supported by teachers.
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