{"title":"The Battleground of Everyday Life: Balancing Motherhood and Career as a Danish Soldier's Partner","authors":"Maj Hedegaard Heiselberg","doi":"10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110850","url":null,"abstract":"Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Danish soldiers and their families, this article focuses on soldiers’ partners’ experiences of military deployment. The aim is to provide an understanding of the social consequences of deployment that goes beyond the scope of a specific military culture and into the intimate world of family relations. The article argues that examining the effects of military deployment on the homefront requires attention to the local and social context in which soldiers’ families live their everyday lives. In a Danish context, military deployment not only disrupts normal routines of everyday family life but causes an imbalance in the ‘moral economy of home’. From the perspective of soldiers’ partners, deployment challenges ideals of equal opportunity among partners outside the domestic sphere of home by preventing the women from pursuing their own careers and social engagements. Moreover, the absence of a parent challenges ideals of parenthood as a shared responsibility belonging to both parents, and consequently places the women in a precarious situation, where they continuously struggle to balance their time and social roles in and outside the home.","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131376001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herstory - Female Veterans of Denmark","authors":"Sara la Cour, Sebastian Mohr, M. Hald","doi":"10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110848","url":null,"abstract":"Essay about the association Female Vetarans","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123627086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"C. Enloe","doi":"10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110845","url":null,"abstract":"Afterword to the chapter Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link, 2nd ed., p. 77-98. The afterword is written exclusively for this issue of Women, Gender & Research. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126957215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This is absolutely gay!\" - Homosexuality within the German Armed Forces","authors":"Marion Näser-Lather","doi":"10.7146/KKF.V27I2-3.110849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KKF.V27I2-3.110849","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity and Foucault’s concept of ‘dispositive’, this paper analyses historical and contemporary discourses on homosexuality within the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces). I argue that the interconnected norms that shape the construction of homosexuality in the Bundeswehr – hegemonic masculinity as a core norm for male as well as female soldiers, and the dispositives of strength and equality – have different impacts on gay men and lesbians, empowering lesbian and devaluating gay soldiers. Through a discourse analysis of legal documents, internet forum discussions, drillmasters’ utterances, and interviews with gay and lesbian soldiers, I show how these gender norms and dispositives reflect the experiences of homosexual soldiers as well as their coping strategies.","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129401768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating Gender: Female Combat Soldiers in Denmark","authors":"S. Knudsen, Marie Sihm Teisen","doi":"10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i2-3.110847","url":null,"abstract":"Based on interviews with female combat soldiers, we explore what role conceptions of femininity and masculinity play for female Danish combat soldiers’ experiences and behaviour in the military community. We find that female combat soldiers’ status and ability to fulfil their potential as soldiers are determined by their capability to navigate expectations linked to their gender and their position as soldiers, respectively. Female combat soldiers must break down negative expectations linked to their gender while simultaneously and continuously navigating the limitations of forms of femininity accepted in the Danish Military.","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134407169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Queen Bees and the Women's Team - A contextual examination of enmity and friendship between military women","authors":"Nina Rones, F. Steder","doi":"10.7146/KKF.V27I2-3.110846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KKF.V27I2-3.110846","url":null,"abstract":"In several studies of women in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we have found an assertion that female groups are so riddled with conflicts and enmity that it is preferable to keep women few in number and mixed up with men, even in dormitories (Hellum 2014; Lilleaas and Ellingsen 2014; Rones 2015). Yet, when the Norwegian Special Operations Command (NORSOC) organized an all-female Special Reconnaissance Platoon, the NORSOC leadership would conclude that they had seen “almost disappointingly little of the conflicts that allegedly should occur in groups of females” (Rones and Steder 2017). Accordingly, this article will critically explore the assertion that women are often so quarrelsome that it is preferable to keep them few in number and mixed with men 24/7.It will be argued that women’s alleged tendency towards enmity is a myth that is made ‘true’ by ‘queen bee behavior’. Queen bee behavior is seen as an act of recognition, whereby women comply with existing gender stereotypes, evaluate women negatively, but set themselves apart from the category of ‘women’ as someone who fits better with men, i.e. a performance of complicit masculinity. It is further argued that queen bee behavior is a response to the social-identity threat women experience when they enter a unit in which their gender has a low reputation and status, and where it is expected that a woman should fit seamlessly in as one of the guys, and accordingly have to make a symbolic ‘change of gender’.","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115935415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen, M. Tonini, K. O. Jensen
{"title":"Book Reviews & Ph.D. notices","authors":"Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen, M. Tonini, K. O. Jensen","doi":"10.7146/KKF.V26I1.109803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KKF.V26I1.109803","url":null,"abstract":"Book Reviews: \u0000Ragnhild Lund, Philipe Doneys & Bernadette P. Resurrección: \"Gendered Entaglements: Revisisting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia.\" (reviewed by Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen) \u0000Cecilia Bergstedt: \"Cultivating Gender: Meanings of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam.\" (reviewed by Maria Tonini) \u0000Jonathan Leer & Karen Klitgaard Povlsen:\"Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias.\"(reviewed by Katherine O´Doherty Jensen) \u0000Ph.D. notices: \u0000Line Henriksen: \"In the Company of Ghosts - Hauntology, Ethics, Digital Monsters\" \u0000Verena Lenneis: \"The work, life and recreational physical activity of female cleaners\"","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131194495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonhuman and Human 'Victims' and 'Perpetrators': Intra-active InSecurity Becomings of the Ebola Outbreak","authors":"Theresa Ammann","doi":"10.7146/KKF.V27I1.109679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KKF.V27I1.109679","url":null,"abstract":"Although feminist theory and security studies have long criticized post-war gendered meta-narratives that categorize people as either victims or perpetrators based on their (imagined) insecurities, these criticisms have mainly focused on the agency of humans, but have dismissed nonhuman entities as irrelevant. This article explores this binary by assessing the victim- and perpetrator-hood dynamics of nonhuman and human matter during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Drawing on Karen Barad’s agential realism, I assess these dynamics by means of three vignettes of inSecurity becoming in peri-urban Liberia. The vignettes are based on ethnographic fieldwork, individual and focus-group interviews, and solicited diaries. This agential realist exploration provides the following new insights into understandings of victim- and perpetrator-hood: (1) nonhuman entities can emerge as victims and perpetrators; (2) victim- and perpetrator-hood are not exclusive states of existence but relational processes of intra-actively emerging becomings; and (3) both insecurity and security emerge concurrently through the entangled becoming of victim and perpetrator. These insights require further research to reconsider concepts such as intentionality, responsibility and ethics in discussions of war, post-conflict justice and humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts.","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132018702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trouble of sex: Sex-determination, prenatal diagnosis and politics","authors":"L. Lindén, H. Ljungberg","doi":"10.7146/KKF.V27I1.109678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KKF.V27I1.109678","url":null,"abstract":"Recent decades have seen the rapid development of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and methods of prenatal diagnosis. As a result, there are now several ways to predict the genetic sex of embryos as well as visualizing the sex of fetuses. However, how, when and where these technologies may be used have become politicized questions, both internationally and in Sweden. By providing a close reading of the Swedish political debate about technologies for the determination of the sex of fetuses and embryos from the end of the 1980s onwards, this article shows how technologies of prenatal diagnosis are articulated as problematic in the context of sex-determination. By “staying with the trouble” of sex in the political debate about sex-determination, we discuss how the ability to identify fetal or chromosomic sex through prenatal diagnosis is articulated as an unwanted trouble warranting political and ethical concern. The article also highlights the “ethico-political” restrictions imposed on information about the unborn’s sex. It shows that, rather than prenatal diagnosis enabling promissory or hopeful visions of the future, the political debate is preoccupied with feelings of concern about the potential misuses of these technologies. ","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130113841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Olie som misfittende relation: En nymaterialistisk analyse af det sorte gulds klæbrige karaktertræk i Inferno (2014)","authors":"Karl Emil Rosenbæk","doi":"10.7146/kkf.v27i1.109680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v27i1.109680","url":null,"abstract":"Oil as a misfitting relation. A new-material analysis of the black gold’s sticky character in Inferno (2014)The article examines Ida Marie Hede’s novel Inferno (2014) through the lens of new materialism’s theoretical interest in matter and materiality. By focussing on the actions of oil in the novel the article shows how seemingly ‘dead’ and finite non-human objects express liveliness. Oil influences, affects, creates, and disrupts, in a word acts, on its surroundings. And due to the global-political relations oil is entangled in, oil seems particularly inclined to produce a certain effect – a disabling misfit between ecosystems. Therefore, although the article pivots around Inferno, it also tries to connect this idea of non-humane liveliness to the socio-political reality of climate change. Perhaps the realisation of a global “planetan misfit” is a necessary first step towards an ontological reconceptualization: A move from substances to relations as the ontological base. Philosopher Rosi Braidotti proposes the term process-ontology. This article uses that concept as a guiding principle when it reads Inferno. What does oil do and what is done to oil – in and outside the novel?","PeriodicalId":111191,"journal":{"name":"Kvinder, Køn & Forskning","volume":"22 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120812391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}