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{"title":"Embodying Difference: Iranian Women’s Working Life Experiences in Norway","authors":"Fatemeh Fathzadeh","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2075462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2075462","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With reference to postcolonial intersectional scholarship, this article examines working life narratives of Iranian immigrant women before and after migration to Norway in relation to questions of equality along gender and racial lines. This interview-based study asks, ‘How do Iranian immigrant women who have resettled in Norway narrate their work experiences in their home and host countries, and how does this inform us about processes of othering and discrimination in both contexts?’ To what extent these othering processes can be understood in terms of the intersectional dimensions of gender and race. The study shows that although the move from a state considered repressive to one considered a model of gender equality entails positive experiences at work along gendered lines, these positive experiences are often encountered by the processes of racial and ethnic sorting, thus leading to distress and alienation. Accordingly, the interviews show a nuanced picture of working life in both countries, with both positive and negative stories of work in each context. Overall, the paper addresses a need to move beyond reductionist interpretations of migration that portrays immigration to the West as an unproblematic journey towards a better life in the accounts of immigrants coming from the East.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45970085","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":"Panopticon in the Urinal? the Stockholm homo-sex Commission C. 1950–1965","authors":"Andrés Brink Pinto","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2071336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2071336","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the records of the so-called homo-sex commission—a part of the municipal Stockholm police force dedicated to the policing of male same-sex practices—as a case study of the role of policing in shaping historical understandings of homosexuality. Building on a series of documents left by the commission and high-ranking police officers, from memoranda describing the nature of homosexuality to descriptive records of individual suspects and cruising sites, I argue that anti-homosexual policing in Stockholm served three key functions: producing knowledge about homosexual identities and practices, rendering the homosexual population and social spaces visible, and regulating the perceived homosexual use of the urban landscape. While historians have carried out important work on the policing of homosexuality in Anglo-American cities, issues pertaining to other national contexts remain largely unexplored in an international setting. Thus, this article is an effort to bridge geographic gaps in the international historiography of sexuality. It is also an effort to enrich the history of sexuality with a theoretical framework from governmentality studies, examining how sexual categories are produced, made legible and thus becomes possible objects of regulation and management.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48363937","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":"Editorial","authors":"Anne Nørkjær Bang, Charlotte Kroløkke, Dag Heede, Janne Rothmar Herrmann","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2074664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2074664","url":null,"abstract":"With the Covid-19-pandemic decreasing, many of us have returned to the physical sites of our workplaces with re-configured ideas about what constitutes work, the workspace(s), colleagues, clients and professional interactions. Though the studies presented in this second issue of 2022 were undertaken before the mass shutdowns of the pandemic, the five articles featured provide very timely reflections on gender inequality and the power dynamics in these exact spheres, spaces and places, connected to the concept of work. The contributions range from qualitative case studies in traditional male-dominated industries, such as Information Technology and mining, to mixed methods explorations in public sector healthcare, which in Denmark, where NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research is currently based, is tellingly characterized under the term “kvindefag”—women’s work. They come together in showing how contemporary feminist research can contribute to ongoing scholarly and public debates about working conditions and gender norms in the, perhaps now more than ever, multi-sited, stratified field of organizationaland working life. We open this issue with “Contradictions in care: Ward nurses’ experiences of work and management in the Swedish public sector”, in which Rebecca Selberg, Magnus Sandberg and Paula Mulinari argue for a refocusing of feminist organizational critique of capitalism. Feminists should, they suggest, move beyond the focus on New Public Management-regimes to explore the specific spaces, processes, and contexts in which contradictions between labour and capital are, as they write, “reshaping the very essence of care”. Their qualitative analysis of interviews with 50 ward nurses working in the public health care system in Sweden is aiming at precisely this, showing how contradictions between care work and logics of capital are negotiated amongst the nurses. Following this thought-provoking contribution, Lisa Ringblom in “‘It is Just a Joke!’ Informal Interaction and Gendered Processes Underground” examines workplace gender inequality from the perspective of the Swedish mining industry, paying special attention to “humorous” informal interaction, such as banter. Her study shows how workplace banter works to both maintain and challenge gendered norms and processes of organizations and so, reveal that informal, collegial chatter, that often goes unnoticed is ”in fact not just (italics!) a joke”, but very serious in its consequences. “Gendered work–life ideologies among IT professionals” similarly takes its empirical starting point in a male-dominated industry, in this case that of Information Technology in Finland. In their study, focusing on the discursive construction of work-life relations, Suvi Heikkinen and Marke Kivijärvi detect and characterize two distinctly different work-life ideologies that seem to produce different gendered agencies, norms, and expectations, shaping how workers reconcile work with life. These ideologies,","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42720910","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":"Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890–1939): The Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key’s Ideas on Motherhood and Female Sexuality","authors":"E. Vikström","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2071531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2071531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49318718","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":"Revolutionary Feminisms. Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought","authors":"Sari Kouvo","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2071530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2071530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209394","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":"And Then We Wept – an Academic Obituary of Bell Hooks 1952–2021","authors":"Victoria Kawesa","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2071989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2071989","url":null,"abstract":"The brilliant and radiant scholar, bell hooks, transitioned on 15 December 2021. bell hooks’ scholarly work spans over four decades, during which she authored around 40 books. Her work has been part of my life since my early twenties, when her books introduced me to black feminism and activism. I am writing to honour hooks’ memory by focusing on her academic work and her love of liberation and justice. Before she was bell hooks, she was Gloria Jean Watkins, born on 25 September 1952 in the small rural town of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She came from a working-class African American family and went to racially segregated schools as a child. From an early age, she was drawn to reading and poetry and was accepted by Stanford University, where she received her BA in English Literature in 1973. This was followed by an MA in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983, with a dissertation on Toni Morrison’s novels. During the mid-1970s, hooks taught English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California and during the 1980s she taught African and Afro-American studies at Yale University. During the 1990s and 2000s, hooks taught women’s studies at Oberlin College and English at the City College of New York. In 2004, hooks became Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, Kentucky, where she later founded the bell hooks Institute in 2014. hooks published her first poetry chapbook And There We Wept in 1978 under the pseudonym bell hooks as a way of honouring her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Hooks, who was known to be a “sharp-tongued woman”. Thus, she affirmed the link with her “female ancestors who were bold and daring in their speech”. Watkins spelled her name in lowercase letters to emphasize that she wished to focus on her ideas, rather than on her personality. bell hooks became Watkins’ constructed “writeridentity”, who challenged and overcame “all impulses” that would lead her away from “speech into silence”. bell hooks will be remembered as a trailblazing feminist scholar, cultural critique, public intellectual, activist, and teacher. Her scholarship explores subjects such as psychology, masculinity, spirituality, love, art, poetry, history, sexuality, pedagogy, and healing. Love has always been present in hooks’ work, and her devotion to the subject is made clear in her trilogy of books on love from its social, ethnic, religious, and sexual perspectives. As a black feminist scholar, I celebrate hooks’ great impact on and critical contribution to feminist theory and epistemologies, which caused an epistemic shift in intersectionality and black feminism. hooks coined the phrase “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” as a useful","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42768363","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":"Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State","authors":"Malte Breiding Hansen, M. Jansson","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2044379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2044379","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to investigate how articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency has changed in Sweden between 1977 and 2017; a period characterized by the introduction and implementation of a neoliberal political rationality. By way of discourse analysis, the article highlights the reciprocal relationship between the construction of the welfare state and women. To this end, it analyses the debates following two films that problematize women’s relation to the welfare state, Summer Paradise (1977) and Beyond Dreams (2017). The article argues that: (a) childcare as a structuring factor for women’s work is replaced by a focus on the responsibility of the individual to provide for herself; (b) gender as a structuring principle is replaced by gender as an attribute of the individual, and; (c) the relation between women and the state is individualized. As a result, the state becomes articulated as an individualized collectivity, which aims to serve the individual’s self-preservation as opposed to the state being an arena for solving societal and collective problems. We argue that the neoliberal turn has changed women’s political subjectivity from a focus on collective action to an atomization of agency against systemic gender inequalities.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48204446","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":"“Hot Case-workers and Squint-eyed Whores” - Sexual Harassment of Norwegian Social- and Health Care Students in Practical Training","authors":"Irene Trysnes, E. Furrebøe, Laila Nordstrand Berg, Åsta Lovise Håverstad Einstabland, C. Klostergaard, Hanne Drangsholt","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2022.2030403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2030403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sexual harassment is a societal challenge. Youth, women, students, and health care professionals are some of the groups most at risk for experiencing sexual harassment. In this study, we examine how higher education institutions and practice institutions handle sexual harassment and how students in practical training experience and cope with sexual harassment. A survey and in-depth interviews were conducted among nursing students and social work students at one Norwegian university. Our results indicate that students experience sexual harassment during practice that is an obligatory part of training, that guidance and follow-up are often lacking, and that they experience negative consequences from these incidents. We also identified a range of strategies used to cope with SH, strategies that are not necessarily compatible with a sound development as a health care professional.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628712","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":"International or Transnational? Continuities or Ruptures? Introduction to the Special Issue on Nordic Women and the Transnational Networks during the Cold War","authors":"Elisabeth Elgán, Yulia Gradskova, H. Kurvinen","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2021.2019974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2021.2019974","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of women’s and gender history in the Nordic countries, this geographic region has served as an important contact point for scholars since the interest in women’s history awakened in the 1970s. The Nordic point of view was placed at the centre when the first biannual Nordic women’s history conference was organized in 1983. The exchange of ideas has flourished since then, following the research trends within the field in the Anglophone world (e.g. Blažević, 2015; Kurvinen & Matilainen, 2021). Despite the longstanding research networks on Nordic women’s and gender history, research has mostly been based on national case studies whereas comparative or border-crossing projects have been a rarity. This reflects the organization of historical research that necessitates archives as well as language and cultural knowledge to be performed. Nevertheless, national case studies have made an important contribution in increasing our knowledge of the variety of ways gender has affected the history of the Nordic countries. For example, previous scholarship has shown the differences in the history of Nordic women’s ways of organizing as well as their understandings of feminism, even though the Nordic countries—as a single entity—are often portrayed, in popular speech, as the leaders of gender equality in the world. The more multifaceted image of Nordic gender history is partly a result of the transnational turn that has taken place in history as well as other humanities and social sciences during the 2000s (e.g. Kurvinen & Yoken et al., forthcoming; Seigel, 2005; Yoken, 2020). Among other things, it has led scholars to trace the histories of the transnational organization of social movements and it is this scholarship, in particular, to which this special issue is connected. The idea for the special issue was born as part of the workshop that took place at Stockholm University, Department of History, in February 2021. The workshop brought together about 15 researchers from several Nordic and European countries and dealt with transnational women’s rights activism during the Cold War period in the Nordic countries and beyond. The papers published in this special issue, however, were selected based on a specific Call for Papers. Some of the articles are further developed versions of the workshop presentations whereas others came from outside of the original circle. All papers touch upon multiple aspects of transnational activism, but they cannot cover all the topics and problems connected to women’s rights, feminism and transnationalism in the Nordic countries. Thus, the aim of this introduction is to place the articles in their historical context and to show some points of interconnection.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41278276","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":"Film Pioneers? Swedish Women’s Documentaries about the “Third World” in the 1970s and 80s","authors":"I. Ryberg","doi":"10.1080/08038740.2021.2019108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2021.2019108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores an obscure category of documentaries made by Swedish women in the 1970s and 80s, about women’s situation in the so-called “Third World”. The films were supported by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA), through an allocated budget for information aimed at raising the Swedish population’s awareness about and sympathies for the “Third World” and Swedish development assistance. Distributed at a strikingly gender equal rate, SIDA’s film support implied rare opportunities for Swedish women filmmakers in a film industry otherwise heavily marked by inequalities and restrictions. Examining this unique case of women’s film history from the perspectives of feminist and postcolonial film studies, employing archival research, film historical contextualization and critical film analysis, the article seeks to understand the complex interplay between the feminist film movement and Swedish solidarity politics at this time. How did the production context that opened up through the SIDA support overlap with women’s film culture? What kinds of films did the support result in? What kinds of gender and racial politics and national imaginary did they articulate? How can the legacy of these unrecognized but problematic films be approached and included in women’s film history? By unravelling and contextualizing the layered meanings and intricate politics of this small film culture, the aim is to add original insights into the operations of Swedish exceptionalism in women’s cultural production, as well as to address key issues in feminist film historiography. Looking closer at a sample of films, the article critically discusses their mobilization of a colonialist imaginary that evokes Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s (1984) pivotal critique of Western feminist discourse and explores their role in the context of Swedish solidarity politics and constructions of notions of Swedish moral superiority.","PeriodicalId":45485,"journal":{"name":"NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43790110","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}