Syllabus

(Titles marked with * are from books may borrow at ISS. The others are in compendiums included in the course)

?    Author year, ”title of article”, title of publication or book. volume, number, editors, publisher, publishing state: city, page numbers from-to. 

  • Ahlberg, Jenny, Christine Roman and Simon Duncan 2008, “Actualizing the "Democratic Family"? Swedish Policy Rhetoric versus Family Practices” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl#ARTICLES. (22p)
  • * Andersen, Charlotte and Anna-Birte Ravn 2008, “From powerful to powerless fathers: Gender equality in Danish family  policies on parenthood.” Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, Policy Press, Bristol, pp 135-148. (14p).
  • Bacchi, Carol 2010, “Poststructuralism, Discourse and Problematization: Implications for gender mainstreaming.” In Kvinder, k?n & forskning 4, 2010 pp 62-72 (11p)
  • Balkman, Dag, LeeAnn Iovanni and Keith Pringle 2009, ”A Reconsideration of Two ”Welfare Paradises”: Research and Policy Responses to Men’s Violence in Denmark and Sweden” in Men and Masculinities 2009 12: 155 (15p). http://jmm.sagepub.com/content/early/2008/05/07/1097184X08318183.full.pdf+html
  • * Bergman, Solveig 1999, ”Women in New Social Movements” in Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.): Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. ISBN: 82-00-12799-0. pp 98-120 (20p). 
  • * Borchorst, Anette 2008, “Women-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of  political ambition?, Policy Press, Bristol, pp 27-43. (17p)
  • Borchorst, Anette and Birte Siim 2008, ”Women friendly policies and state feminisms: Theorizing Scandinavian gender equality” in Feminist Theory 2008 9:207 (15p).
  • http://fty.sagepub.com/content/9/2/207.full.pdf+html
  • Bungum, Brita, Kvande, Elin 2013, The rise and fall of ‘cash for care’ in Norway: changes in the use of child-care policies. Nordic Journal of Social Research. vol. 4. p. 31-54 (23 p) https://boap.uib.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/241/494
  • * Christensen, Ann-Dorte and Nina C. Raaum 1999, “Models of political mobilisation”. Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.): Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, pp 17-26. (10 p)
  • Dahlerup, Drude 2011,"Women in Nordic politics – a continuing success story?” " in Kirsti Niskanen (ed.): Gender and Power in the Nordic Countries. NIKK publication 2011:1. p. 59-86, (28 p)  http://www.west-info.eu/files/nordic1.pdf
  • Ekenstam, Claes 2005, “Manly or unmanly? Fear of falling”. NIKK magasin 3-2005, pp 27-31 (5p) http://www.nikk.no/wp-content/uploads/NIKKmag20053.pdf
  • Ellings?ter, Anne Lise 1999, “Women’s right to work: The interplay of state, market and women’s agency”. NORA  2-3 (7), pp 109-123. (15p) http:// www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a713800935~fulltext=713240930~frm=content
  • * Ericsson, Kjersti 1998, “Sexual harassment and the genderization of work”.  Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 176-196. (21p)
  • Eriksson, Maria 2002, “Men’s violence, men’s parenting and gender politics in Sweden” NORA 1 (10), pp 6-15. (10 p) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a713800835~fulltext=713240930~frm=content
  • * Fiig, Christina 2008, “A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and Gender equality”  in Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.): Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy Press. pp 199-214. (16p)
  • Gislason, Ingolfur V 2011, “Introduction” in Gislason, Ingolfur V. and Gudny Bj?rk Eydal (eds.) Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries. TemaNord 2011:562 pp 13-30 (18 p) http://ffdd.ru/activity/attach/information/182/parental_leave_childcare_and_gender_equality_in_the_nordic_countries.pdf 
  • Haavind, Hanne 1984, “Love and Power in Marriage”. Holter, Harriet (ed.) Patriarchy in a Welfare Society. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, pp 46-66. (22p)
  • Hale, Frederic 2003, “Time for Sex in Sweden”. Scandinavian Studies vol. 75, no 3 (2003), pp. 351-374. (24p) http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE|A111463125&v=2.1&u=oslo&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&authCount=1
  • Hearn, Jeff, Marie Nordberg, Kjerstin Andersson, Dag Balkmar, Lucs Gottzén, Roger Klinth, Keith Pringle and Linn Sandberg 2012, ”Hegemonic Masculinity and Beyond: 40 Years of Research in Sweden” in Men and Masculinities 2012 15: 31 (19p). http://jmm.sagepub.com/content/15/1/31.full.pdf
  • * Hein?maa, Sara and Martina Reuter 1998, “Reflections on the rationality of emotions and feelings”, Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 272-290. (19p)
  • Holter, ?. G. 2013, “Masculinities, gender equality and violence”. Masculinities and Social Change, 2013-2(1), pp 51-81. (31p)  http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/MCS.2013.21
  • *Holter, ?ystein Gullv?g 2003, Can men do it: men and gender equality. The Nordic experience. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. (195p)
  • Husu, Liisa 2001, “On metaphors on the position of women in academia and science”. NORA 3 (9), pp 172-181. (10p) www.informaworld.com/index/FFDVCRRYWF0M7REG.pdf 
  • * Jonasdottir, Anna G. and Drude von der Fehr 1998, “Introduction: ambiguous times – contested spaces in the politics, organization and identities of gender”, Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.). Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London,  pp 1-18. (19p)
  • *Jutterdal, Anna 2014, “The Swedish Law, Kvinnofrid: Knowledge About Men’s violence Against Women” in Korsvik, Trine and Ane St? (eds.): The Nordic Approach. 2014. Kolofon Forlag, Oslo. pp 21-35 (15 p) To be handed out in class.
  • Kantola, Johanna and Judith Squires 2012, “From stat feminism to market feminism?” International Political Science Review 33(4), pp382-400 http://ips.sagepub.com/content/33/4/382.full.pdf+html
  • * Karlsson, Gunnel 1998, “Social Democratic women’s coup in the Swedish parliament”, Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.). .):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 44-66. (23p)
  • Korsvik, Trine Rogg 2011, "Childcare policy since the 1970s in the “most gender equal country in the world”: a field of controversy and grass root activism”. European Journal of Women’s Studies 2011-18, pp135-53 (19p) http://ejw.sagepub.com/content/18/2/135.full.pdf+html
  • Korsvik, Trine and Ane St? 2014, “The Nordic Battle for the Minds of Men” in Korsvik, Trine and Ane St? (eds.): The Nordic Approach. Kolofon Forlag, Oslo. pp 7-21 (14 p)  To be handed out in class.
  • INN Krizsan, Andrea Hege Skjeie & Judith Squires, 2014 ”The changing nature of European equalityregimes: explaining convergence and variation”. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 30:1, 53-68, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21699763.2014.886612
  • Kvande, Elin 2002, “Doing Masculinities in Organizational Restructuring”. NORA 1 (10), pp 16-25. (10p) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713800840
  • Lahelma, Elina 2005, “School Grades And Other Resources: “The Failing Boys” Discourse Revisited”. NORA 2 (13), pp 78-89. (12p) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a727444420~db=all
  • Langvasbr?ten, Trude 2008, “A Scandinavian Model? Gender Equality Discourses on Multiculturalism”, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 2008 (15): pp. 32-52 (21p) http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl#ARTICLES. 
  • Lister, Ruth 2009, ”A Nordic Nirvana? Gender, Citizenship, and Social Justice in the Nordic Welfare States” in Social Politics 16 (2) 2009. Pp 242-278 (36p). http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/2/242.full.pdf+html
  • Longva, Anh Nga 2003, “The Trouble with Difference: Gender, Ethnicity and Norwegian Social Democracy”. Grete, Brochmann Longva, (ed.):  The multicultural Challenge Comparative Social Research  22. Elsevier Ltd., pp 153-175. (23p)
  • Lotherington, Ann Therese 2005, “Innovative Women and Gender-Power in Norwegian Regional Development Policy”, NORA 2 (13), pp 101-114. (14p) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a727444422~fulltext=713240930~frm=content
  • Lovenduski, Joni 2000, “Change in Women’s Political Representation”.  In Rossilli, Mariagrazia (ed.): Gender Policies in the European Union. Peter Lang, New York, pp 87- 104. (18p)
  • Lützen, Karen 1998, “Gay and Lesbian Politics: Assimilation or Subversion: A Danish Perspective”. In L?fstr?m, Jan (ed.):  Scandinavian Homosexualities. Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies. Hayworth Press, New York, pp 233-243. (11p)
  • * Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg 2008, “A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Policy Press, Bristol, pp 1-26. (26p)
  • Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum 2004, “European Gender Lessons: Girls and boys at scout camps in Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia”.  Childhood  11 (2), 207-226. (20p)  http://chd.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/2/207
  • Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum and Monica Rudberg 2000, “Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations. The Way Out and Up”. The European Journal of Women’s Studies 7 (4). pp 423-453. (31p) http://ejw.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/7/4/423
  • Railo, Erkka 2014, ”Women’s Magazines, the Female Body, and Political Participation” in NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 2014 1. pp 48-62 (13 p). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08038740.2013.869620
  • Rogg, Elisabet 2001, “Passion and pain in Academia,” NORA  3 (9), pp 154-161. (8p) www.informaworld.com/index/713801038.pdf
  • *Rosenbeck, Bente (1998): “Nordic women’s studies and gender research”, Fehr, Drude von der et al (eds.), Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, UCL Press, London, pp 344-357. (14p)
  • Rydstr?m, Jens 2011, “Summary and conclusions” in Rydstr?m, Jens: Odd Couples. A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia. Amsterdam: Aksant (11p)
  • Sainsbury, Diane 2001 “Gender and the Making of Welfare States: Norway and Sweden. Social Politics Spring 2001. (27p). http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1/113.full.pdf+html
  • * Sigurbjarnardottir, Sighurdur, Helga 1998, “”On their own premises”: the political project of the Icelandic Women’s Alliance”, Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.). .):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 69-88. (20p)
  • * Siim, Birte 2008, “Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Policy Press, Bristol, pp 149-166. (18p)
  • * Sj?rup, Karen 1998, “The gender relation and professionalism in the postmodern world: social brotherhood and beyond”. Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 217-242. (26p)
  • Skjeie, Hege & Mari Teigen 2012, ”Duties to promote equality” in Freidenvall, Lenita and Michele Micheletti (eds.) Comparisons, Quotas and Critical Change: in honor of Drude Dahlerup. Stockholm Publisher: Department of Political Science, Stockholm University (12p). To be handed out in class.
  • Skjeie, Hege & Mari Teigen 2005, “Political Construction of Gender Equality: Travelling Towards …. A Gender Balanced Society?”, NORA 2 (13), pp 187-197. (11p) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a743922780~fulltext=713240930~frm=content
  • * Smaadahl, Tove 2014, “”Radical Feminists” and the Dispute About How to Understand Prostitution” in Korsvik, Trine and Ane St? (eds.): The Nordic Approach. Kolofon Forlag, Oslo. pp 84-98 (14 p) To be handed out in class.
  • * S?rensen, Anne Scott 1998, “Taste, manners and attitudes – the bel esprit and literary salon in Scandinavia c. 1800”,  Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.). .):  Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 121-145. (25p)
  • Teigen, Mari 2002,”The Universe of Gender Quotas”. NIKK magasin 3-2002. (5p) http://www.nikk.no/en/publications/nikk-magasin-2002-no-3/
  • Teigen, Mari 2011, “Quotas in Corporate Boards” in Kirsti Niskanen (ed.): Gender and Power in the Nordic Countries, 2011. NIKK publication 2011:1. p. 87-110. (24 p) http://www.west-info.eu/files/nordic1.pdf
  • * Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson 1998, ”Equal or different? That’s not the question. Women’s political strategies in a historical perspective”,  Fehr, Drude von der et al. (eds.). Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. UCL Press, London, pp 21-40. (20p)
  • * Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson and Kari Melby 2008, “The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy Press, pp 43-62. (20p)
  • Widerberg, Karin 2000, “Harriet Holter: A Pioneer in Gender Studies and Sociology”, Acta Sociologica 43 (4), pp 413-420. (8p) http://asj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/43/4/413.
  • Aarseth, Helene 2007, “Between Labour and Love: The Re-erotization of Home-making in Egalitarian Couples within a Nordic Context”. NORA Vol. 15, No 2-3 pp 133-143. (21p) www.informaworld.com/index/781665260.pdf

 

Books:

?    Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.) 1999, Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.

?    Fehr,  Drude von der et al. (eds.) 1998, Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. London: UCL Press.

?    Holter, ?ystein Gullv?g (ed.) 2003, Can men do it: men and gender equality. The Nordic experience. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.

?    Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.) 2008, Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy Press

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