Books:
Books can be bought at Akademika, Blindern, or borrowed at University of Oslo library
*Dahlerup, Drude. 2018. Has democracy failed women? Cambridge: Polity Press.
Master students:
*Fehr Drude von der et al. (eds.). 1998. Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. London: UCL Press
Compendium
Articles marked with * will be made available in a compendium that you can buy in the basement of Akademika/Kopiutsalget, Blindern.
Links
To get access to the titles with link, you must be logged on to the server of the University of Oslo.
- Introduction to the course and to the Nordic welfare state (42 pages)
Kangas, Olli, J. Palme & K. Markus. 2016. “The Nordic Welfare State Model”, in I. Frønes & L.
Kjølsrud (eds.). Det Norske Samfunn bind 3. Oslo: Gyldendal. pp. 38-57 (19 p)
Teigen, Mari & H. Skjeie. 2017. “The Nordic Gender Equality Model”, in Knutsen Oddbjørn
(ed.) The Nordic Model of political science – challenged, but still viable. Oslo:
Fagbokforlaget. pp. 125-148 (23 p)
- What is gender equality? Key concepts in the Nordic context (92 pages)
Borchorst, Anette & B. Siim. 2002. “The women-friendly welfare states revisited”, in NORA –
Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 10(2): 90-98 (8 p)
Dahl, Tove Stang. 1984. “Women’s Right to Money”, in H. Holter (ed). Patriarchy in a
Welfare Society. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp. 46-66 (20 p) ISBN: 82-00-07058-1
Ellingsæter, Anne Lise. 1999. "Women’s right to work: The interplay of state, market and
women’s agency", in NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 7(2-3):
109-123 (15 p)
Hernes, Helga. 1987. Excerpts: “Introduction” and “The Transition from Private to Public
Dependence”, in H. Hernes. Welfare State and Woman Power: Essays in State
Feminism. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. pp. 9-49 (40 p) ISBN: 82-00-18495-1
Ås, Berit. The master suppression techniques. Kilden kjønnsforskning.no (9 p)
- Work-family balance – from a family perspective (66/144 pages)
Halrynjo, Sigtona. 2017. “Exploring the career logic within the Nordic work-family model”, in
B. Brandth, S. Halrynjo & E. Kvande. Work-Family Dynamics. Competing Logics of
Regulation, Economy and Morals. London: Routledge. pp. 189-206 (17 p)
Korsvik, Trine Rogg. 2011. “Childcare policy since the 1970s in the ‘most gender equal
country in the world’: A field of controversy and grassroots activism”, in European
Journal of Women's Studies, 18(2): 135-153 (19 p)
Nadim, Marjan. 2016. “Undermining the Male Breadwinner Ideal? Understandings of
Women’s Paid Work among Second-Generation Immigrants in Norway”,
in Sociology 50(1): 109-124 (15 p)
Smeby, Kristine Warhuus. 2017. “When work meets childcare – the competing logics of
mothering and gender equality”, in B. Brandt, S. Halrynjo & E. Kvande (eds.). Work-
Family Dynamics: Competing logics of regulation, economy and morals. London:
Routledge. p. 89-104 (15 p)
Master students:
Fraser, Nancy. 1994. “After the Family Wage. Gender Equity and the Welfare State”,
in Political Theory 22(4): 591-618 (27 p)
Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum. 2004. “European Gender Lessons: Girls and boys at scout camps in
Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia”, in Childhood 11(2): 207-226 (20 p)
Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum & M. Rudberg. 2000. “Gender, Love and Education in Three
Generations. The Way Out and Up”, in The European Journal of Women’s
Studies 7(4): 423-453 (31 p)
- Access to the public sphere (105/140 pages)
*Dahlerup, Drude. 2018. Has democracy failed women? p. 1-68 (68 p)
Railo, Erkka. 2014. “Women’s Magazines, the Female Body, and Political Participation”, in
NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 22(1): 48-62 (13 p)
Teigen, Mari. 2011. "Quotas in Corporate Boards", in K. Niskanen (ed.). Gender and Power in
the Nordic Countries – with focus on politics and business. NIKK publication 2011:1.
Pp. 87-109 (24 p)
Master students:
Lahelma, Elina. 2005. “School Grades And Other Resources: The “Failing Boys” Discourse
Revisited”, in NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 13(2): 78-89
(12 p)
Sjørup, Karen. 1998. “The gender relation and professionalism in the post-modern world:
social brotherhood and beyond”, in Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist
thought on culture and society. pp. 217-242 (23 p)
- Men’s involvement in gender equal practices (34/53 pages)
Bach, Anna Sofie & H. Aarseth. 2016. “Adaptation, equality, and fairness. Towards a
sociological understanding of ‘the supportive husband'”, in NORMA: International
Journal for Masculine Studies 11(3): 174- 189 (15 p)
Farstad, Gunhild R. & K. Stefansen. 2015. “Involved fatherhood in the Nordic context:
dominant narratives, divergent approaches”, in NORMA: International Journal for
Masculinity Studies 10(1): 55-70 (15 p)
Master students:
Hearn, Jeff, et al. 2012. “Hegemonic Masculinity and Beyond: 40 Years of Research in
Sweden”, in Men and Masculinities 15(1): 31-55 (19 p)
- Branding gender equality + The equality-difference dilemma (87/107 pages)
Aggestam, Karin et al. 2018. “Theorising feminist foreign policy”, in International Relations
33(1): 23-39 (16 p)
Aggestam, Karin, and Annika Bergman-Rosamond. 2016. "Swedish feminist foreign
policy in the making: Ethics, politics, and gender", in Ethics & International Affairs
30(3): 323-334 (10 p)
Borchorst, Anette. 2008. “Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender
equality visions in Scandinavia”, in K. Melby et al (eds). Gender equality and welfare
politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambitions? Bristol: The Polity Press.
pp. 27-42 (15 p)
Skjelsbæk, Inger & T. L. Tryggestad. 2018. “Donor States Delivering on WPS. The Case of
Norway” in S. E. Davies & J. True (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and
Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (12 p)
Towns, Ann. 2002. "Paradoxes of (in) equality: Something is rotten in the gender equal
state of Sweden", in Cooperation and conflict 37(2): 157-179 (20 p) Tryggestad, Torunn L. 2014. "State feminism going global: Norway on the United Nations
Peacebuilding Commission", in Cooperation and Conflict 49(4): 464-482 (14 p)
Master students:
*Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson. 1998. "Equal or different? That’s not the question.
Women’s political strategies in a historical perspective", in Is there a Nordic
Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. pp. 21-40 (20 p)
- Gender equality in an intersectional perspective (95 pages)
Borchorst, Anette, et al. 2012. “Institutionalizing Intersectionality in the Nordic Countries:
Anti-Discrimination and Equality in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden”, in A.
Krizsan et al. (eds.) Institutionalizing Intersectionality. The Changing Nature of
European Equality Regimes. London: Palgrave Macmillian. p. 59-88 (29 p)
Gullestad, Marianne. 2007. “Invisible fences: reinventing sameness and difference”, in M.
Gullestad. Plausible Prejudice. Everyday experiences and social images of nation,
culture and race. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p 168-192 (24 p)
Knobblock, Ina & R. Kuokkanen. 2015. “Decolonizing Feminism in the North: A Conversation
with Rauna Kuokkanen”, in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
23(4): 275-281 (6 p)
Mulinari, Diana. 2008. “Women-friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden”, in K.
Melby, A.-B. Ravn & C. W. Carlsson (eds.). Gender equality and welfare politics in
Scandinavia: The limits of political ambition? London: Policy Press. p 167 -181 (14 p)
Siim, Birte & H. Skjeie. 2008. “Tracks, intersections and dead ends. Multicultural challenges
to state feminism in Denmark and Norway”, in Ethnicities 8(3): 322-344 (22 p)
- Gender and the Military in the Nordics (61 pages)
Ellingsen, Dag, Ulla-Britt Lilleaas, and Michael Kimmel. 2016. "Something is Working—
But Why? Mixed Rooms in the Norwegian Army", in NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist
and Gender Research 24(3): 151-164 (13 p)
Persson, Alma, and Fia Sundevall. 2019. "Conscripting women: gender, soldiering, and
military service in Sweden 1965–2018", in Women's History Review (2019): 1-18
(13 p)
Skjelsbæk, Inger, and Torunn Tryggestad. 2010. "Women in the Norwegian Armed
Forces. Gender Equality or Operational Imperative", in Minerva Journal of Women
and War 3(2): 34-51 (17 p)
Åse, Cecilia, and Maria Wendt. 2018. "Gendering the new hero narratives: Military death
in Denmark and Sweden", in Cooperation and Conflict 53(1): 23-41 (18 p)
- Gender-based violence (104 pages)
Bredal, Anja. 2014. “Ordinary v. Other Violence? Conseptualising Honour Based Violence in
Scandinavian Public Policies”, in A. K. Gill et al. (eds.). ‘Honour’ Killing and Violence.
Theory, Policy and Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 135-155 (20 p).
Eriksson, Maria. 2010. “Children Who “Witness” Violence as Crime Victims and Changing
Family Law in Sweden”, in Journal of Child Custody 7(2): 93-116 (23 p)
Keskinen, Suvi. 2011. “Troublesome Differences—Dealing with Gendered Violence, Ethnicity,
and ‘Race’in the Finnish Welfare State”, in Journal of Scandinavian Studies in
Criminology and Crime Prevention 12(2): 153-172 (19 p)
Lucas Gottzén. 2018. “Chafing masculinity: Heterosexual violence and young men’s shame”,
in Feminism and Psychology 29(2), 286-302 (16 p)
Morken, Kristin & P. Selle. 1995. “An alternative movement in a'state-friendly'society: the
women's shelter movement”, in L. Karvonen & P. Selle. Women in Nordic Politics.
Closing the Gap. Dartmouth: Aldershot. pp. 177-201 (24 p) ISBN: 1-85521-533-0
- Gender equality, a myth or reality? (47/94 pages)
Lister, Ruth. 2009. “A Nordic Nirvana? Gender, Citizenship, and Social Justice in the Nordic
Welfare States”, in Social Politics 16(2): 242-278 (36 p)
Skjeie, Hege & M. Teigen. 2005. “Political Constructions of Gender Equality: Travelling
Towards … a Gender Balanced Society”, in NORA – Nordic Journal of Women’s
Studies 13(3): 187-197 (11 p)
Master students:
Haavind, Hanne. 1998. “Understanding women in the psychological mode: the challenge
from the experience of Nordic women”, in Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic
feminist thought on culture and society. pp. 243-271 (28 p)
Ve, Hildur. 1998. “Rationality and identity in Norwegian feminism”, in Is there a Nordic
Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society. pp. 325-343 (19 p)
Total readings: 733/932