Syllabus/achievement requirements

The articles in the syllabus marked with * you will find in a compendium that you can buy in the basement of Akademika/Kopiutsalget, Blindern.

Compendium

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.

 

  1. 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. Fr?nes & L.

Kj?lsrud (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 Oddbj?rn

(ed.) The Nordic Model of political science – challenged, but still viable. Oslo:

Fagbokforlaget. pp. 125-148 (23 p)

  1. 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

Ellings?ter, 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

?s, Berit. The master suppression techniques. Kilden kj?nnsforskning.no (9 p)

  1. 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) 

  1. 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) 

Sj?rup, 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)

                                                                                                                                             

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

Skjelsb?k, 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

Skjelsb?k, 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)

?se, 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)

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

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