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Bortom den rätta frågan : Metodologiska innebörder av att forska till...
Arora-Jonsson, Seema Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2008)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	In the academy, a clearly defined question is the sine qua non of a good study. Theoretical, rather than practitioner knowledge, is valued. Theories considered to be neutral often have a male bias. Knowing all this, how does one link theoretical and conceptual categories with real change for women and men working with local development/forests and formulate a reasearch question useful not only to scientists but also to community members? I began my research wanting to analyze the dynamics of local forest management with special attention to how gender relations were negotiated in a sparsely populated village in northwestern Sweden. It was important that the research was relevant to the people that I worked with. This approach presented two challenges that I discuss in this article: to let the conceptual categories emerge from the research process rather than from prior theories and to bridge the gap between researcher and "research subjects". The methodology built upon designing a joint inquiry to which we brought our different interests and perspectives. As a researcher, the inquiry provided me with a means to go beyond looking at women’s customary absence from local organizations and how they may be able to get a foothold within them, to understanding how the women themselves framed their needs and issues. The women used the space of the inquiry to create a women’s forum, something that emerged in a process of dialogue with one another. They identified and unsettled practices that produced unequal relations in everyday life. While the process made obvious the differences in our positions as researcher and community members, for the duration of the research, it provided a space where academic research was open for scrutiny by those whom it sought to write about and where everyday questions became a part of social theorising.
Swedish abstract:	Ställer det akademiska skrivandet krav som försvårar viss kunskapsutveckling? Seema Arora-Jonsson menar att deltagande aktionsforskning kräver nya förhållningssätt. När hon studerade kvinnor i glesbygd lät hon de analytiska kategorier växa fram tillsammans med de kvinnor hon utforskade. Hon forskade med dem istället för om dem. Syftet var att kunskapen måste vara till nytta även för dem och inte bara för andra forskare.

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De nya fäderna : Om pappaledighet, jämställdhet och nya maskulina pos...
Johansson, Thomas; Klinth, Roger Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	This article explores the way different groups of Swedish men experience and relate to issues concerning fatherhood, paternity leave and gender equality – how they together construct fatherhood in the field of tension between normative societal visions and their own lived reality. The study included four groups of men: men working in a centre for men in crisis, men involved in a network organization for masculinity issues, men in an association promoting security and social justice in a multiethnic suburb (a majority of the men had immigrant background) and men involved in a Christian church. Conceptions of fatherhood and gender equality were explored through focus group interviews. As starting point for the interviews the groups were confronted with materials from the last 30 years of state initiated paternity leave campaigns. The result confirms conclusions made in previous research, namely that Swedish men in general have a positive attitude to active parenthood. With few exceptions the groups expressed a child orientation and a positive approach to gender equality and shared parental responsibilities. Despite common ground on the importance of fathers taking active part in child care, the four groups displayed differences in the way they conceptualized the question. They related to different experiences and often used different ways of expressing thought, emotions and observations. The result points toward the influence of factors such as age, social and professional position, ethnic background and religion. The group of men working at the crisis centre primarily used individual rather than societal perspectives. Their main concern was the impact of the campaigns on men’s psychological well-being. The group of men from the Christian church placed the question of fatherhood in the context of preserving and promoting the family. In the group dominated by men with immigrant background, the fatherhood question was mainly framed through references to the economic hard-ship and social exclusion distinguishing many multi-ethnical Swedish suburbs.
Swedish abstract:	Hur uppfattar och förhåller sig män till de kampanjer som vill påverka dem att vara hemma mera med sina barn? Artikelförfattarna har träffat fyra grupper av män med skilda erfarenheter och bakgrunder för att utforska hur de konstruerar sitt faderskap i spänningsfältet mellan visioner och levd erfarenhet.

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Ett rotsystem på spåren : Om scenkonst och kön
von Schantz, Ulrika Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	The aim of this article is to show how a key observation, made in an advanced institute for training actors, is effected by gender discourses. These discourses interact with a master-apprentice tradition developed as a central part of the institute's artistic-pedagogical training program. Another tradition was also at play as an important pedagogical inspiration and discursive formation: a matrilinear trainingprogram related to the voice and the body. This hierarchical master-apprentice-tradition was not only an accepted condition, but also a power-contra-power relation in the Foucauldian sense. In this powerplay of submission and resistance specific metaphors and symbols related to the body was crucial. These bodyrelated metaphors and symbols are shown to act subconsciously as part of a system of so called "rootmetaphors". By bringing together an analytic approach informed by Foucault's view on power, as well as one informed by psychoanalysis, this gendered "rootsystem" emerged. A key symbol is the metaphor of metaphors in psychoanalysis: the phallus. The complex role of the phallus was made clear when observing a physical exercise whose aim was to activate and raise the students consciouness of the voice's soundingboard. Allusions to classical theatrical ideals, the dubious status of male students in acting in the cultural hegemony in society at large, as well as the confusion and bodily sensations this exercise caused, activated the meaning of the phallus and in extension the penis. One, in our culture natural symbol or rootmetaphor, the phallus, came more or less unconsciously to the rescue of these men. Ironically, the need of male dominance was reinforced in an environment which not only is endowed with a hierarchical male tradition, but also with values and connotations related to the feminine: the artistic and personal, intuition and the desire to perform and act. The phallus as the metaphor of metaphors seemed to work selffulfillingly, interacting with internalized discourses on gender.
Swedish abstract:	En nyckelobservation gjord på en teaterhögskola är utgångspunkten för en diskussion om hur fallos iscensätts och reproducerar makt i en konstnärlig elitinstitution. En diskursiv strid uppstår som tydliggör skådespelaryrkets pendling mellan till synes oförenliga identiteter och funktioner.

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Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;2 (2008) ARTICLE

Swedish abstract: Redaktionellt förord till Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. Tema Feministiskt skrivande

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Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;4 (2007) other
Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; de los Reyes, Paulina; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3-4;Tema: Klass (2008) other
Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1/2;Tema: Konst - scen, film, forskning (2007) other

Förortsfeminismens villkor – transversell politik
Velásquez, Juan Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	Juan Velásquez is recognizing the difficulties that frame the fight against discrimination, segregation and racism in Sweden. Gender mainstreaming and anti-discrimination work usually go for disparate roads, in spite that growing racism, homophobia and antifeminism require bigger unification between civil society, administrators and the scientific community. To articulate these actors Velásquez proposes transversal politics. He has studied this type of transversal work within the frame of a research project conducted in the multicultural community of Fittja, Botkyrka municipality in the metropolitan region of Stockholm. To advance this work he has developed a perspective based on participatory research that has turned into a transversal research. From the interaction among municipal officials, women’s networks and researcher, Velásquez seeks to make two fundamental contributions to the discussion on transversal politics. The first one is to engage in the local community. Transversal politics has been lifted 80 Tidskrift för genusvetenskap nr 3 2007 t e m a as a perspective to build feminist alliances to overcome global patriarchal structures, and case studies on micropolitics related to that discourse are still few. Both the way in which women performed diversity as well as the search for commonality among them is subject to a series of conditions that frame what Velásquez in the context of a multicultural suburb in the Swedish welfare state calls a suburban feminism. The second contribution is based on a study how women in a place like Fittja overcome the conditions that frame their political underrepresentation. Velásquez shows how women practice what feminist scholars named ”rooting” to analyse their subordinate condition, advancing dialogues where the use of affections and feelings are fundamental. These affections have been important to make ”shifting”, to go from the understanding of subordination to the construction of a local alliance to face the patriarchal outline that concern them. The understanding of the conditions that frame the construction of local feminist alliances is also analyzed in relation to the problems that urban governance can generate, when a transversal frame between women networks, the public administration and researcher is established in order to empower underrepresented groups among women.
Swedish abstract:	Jämställdhets- och antidiskrimineringsarbete har oftast dragit åt olika håll. Det har inneburit att centrala dimensioner av förtryck har förbisetts inom respektive område. Med hjälp av begreppet transversell politik diskuterar Juan Velásquez ett sätt att föra dem samman. Förort

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Handling som kunskapande : en kunskapskritisk reflexion över konstnär...
Gislén, Ylva Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	The article consists in a discussion of the epistemological implications of the knowledge claims in practice-based research. Rather than arguing a special case for knowledge in art and design, it tries to problematize what is often taken for granted in the distinction between theory and practice, as well as between formal scientific method and creative action. Thus the question is posed: how come knowledge in praxis, creation and action seems problematic in relation to conventional scientific epistemology? Point of departure is the problems and failures of the design theory movement, as well as different attempts to reconcile and negotiate what is often described as a ”structural anxiety” in the relation between practice based and conventional research. This is analyzed in relation to the complex and intricate picture of how research actually is done, as well as to the critique of conventional scientific epistemology and scientific self-image, offered by the last decades science- and technology studies, most notably from a feminist perspective. With subsequent attempts to envisage a different, more responsible, kind of research: in the concepts of situated knowledges, strong objectivity and in the relentless insisting on the active and necessary it is not only possible, but also more interesting and fruitful, to couple the question of practice-based research. What was seen as problematic in relation to conventional scientific epistemology, the situatedness and embodiedness, the difficulties in making generalizations, the role of artefacts, is here seen as a strength. It does not, however, say that anything goes: it rather sets up a different set of standards for good knowledge construction which can be summarized as a critical including of our positions and aims (relevance), a radical curiosity and humbleness in the meeting with that, or those, we regard as our objects of knowledge, and a recognition of the controversies, value conflicts and insecurities that lies at the heart of the political projects we inevitably are involved in. And that practice-based research thus, especially coupled with the critical and constructive perspective of feminist epistemology, can offer new paths and models also for more conventional areas of knowledge production.
Swedish abstract:	När konstnären och designern blir forskare aktualiseras en rad vetenskapliga och kunskapsteoretiska antaganden som berör frågan vad kunskap är, hur den produceras, av vem och i vilket sammanhang. Dessa frågor är själva grundbulten i den feministiska vetenskapskritiken. Den feministiska kritiken tydliggör spänningen och släktskapet mellan "vetaren-designern" och "vetaren-konstnären". Den visar även hur den praktikbaserade konstnärliga forskningen kan berika och påverka vårt förhållningssätt till vetenskap och kunskap i en mer situerad och ansvarstagande riktning.

Hem ljuva hem

Thörn, Catharina
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007) scientific
ARTICLE

Swedish abstract: Alla människor har inte egen bostad, inte ens i Sverige. Hur ser hemlösa kvinnors situation ut? Och varför bedöms kvinnors hemlöshet annorlunda än mäns?

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Intersektionella rumsligheter
Molina, Irene Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	There is an increased interest for spatial aspects in social sciences in general today. But the interest also raises questions of how space is conceptualised; whether power relations are included, or if space is understood as neutral and as a container. Historically, geography’s disciplinary base is colonial and patriarchial. Additionally, in Sweden economic geography’s specific interest in the 'homo economicus' has dominated. In contemporary critical spatial theory, space is understood as constructed, produced, fluid and relational. Space is constructed through, and by, different power relations. In this article the concept of intersectionality is used to see how race, gender and class coincide with time and space. Through these different perspectives issues of exclusion and discrimination are revealed. The focus is on the home, homelessness, the nation and the under-privileged suburbs in relation to how space and place are racialised, sexualised and classified. Firstly, it is illustrated how the home is sexualised, but also racialised, through the strong identification with having a place to belong to. This repetitive consolidation with a place also reflects the nationalisation of home, and the similar exclusion from home; the home is private and strangers should be kept out. The racialised female body is intrinsically problematic as she has a stronger connection to the private, at the same time as she is a stranger. In the growing segregation in the metropolitan suburbs these intersections of class, gender, race, time and space is at its most visible, and a revisited colonial approach to these areas can be seen today. The author calls for an increased awareness of the intersectional aspects of space in gender theory formation today since space is a fundamental category in relation to gender, class and race.
Swedish abstract:	Rumsteorier har historiskt utvecklats i en kolonial och patriarkal omgivning. Därför har det inte varit oproblematiskt att införa maktperspektiv på rums- och platsförståelser. Irene Molina tar upp hur tid och rum interagerar med intersektionella maktordningar samt dessa rumsliga ordningars konkreta konsekvenser. Här illustreras komplexiteten i hur stad, hem och nation formeras på diskursiv nivå, vilket oundvikligen får återverkningar på människors vardagsliv.

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Swedish abstract:	Chandra Talpade Mohanty, en av världens ledande feminister inom det postkoloniala fältet, reflekterar över möjligheter till ett emancipatoriskt handlande och för en solidaritet över nationsgränserna. Genom att använda begreppet "kvinnoarbetare" menar hon att klasskonflikternas specifika könsdimension framträder och tillåter analyser av rasifierad dominans.

Swedish abstract:	Moderna reproduktionstekniker har sedan länge skapat alternativa föreställningar om vad det innebär att vara mänsklig. Inte minst inom populärkulturen utmanas de gränser som omgärdar våra uppfattningar om människan. Judith Halberstam menar i sin analys av två animationsfilmer att det är viktigt att dessa alternativa gestaltningar inte koloniseras av heteronormen.

English abstract:	The dream of the good pornography today, draws its argument from a feminist anti-porn analysis that concludes that pornography is an expression of the patriarchal society where women are being obejctified and degraded. However, in the 1960s, there was another dream of the good pornography, one which claimed that the existing pornography was bad from an aesthetic point of view. It had to do with the fact that pornography was forbidden in Sweden until 1971, and one argument for legalization was that porn would then become much better. The article examines the dream of the good pornography, the relationship between art (cinema) and porn (film), and what happens to the issue of gender when the dividing line between the two categories is questioned. Historically, the relationship between art cinema and the pornographic film is complex and the two categories that at a first glance are so easy to distinguish, have lived in a mutual dependency of each other. Art films with sexually explicit material pushed the limits for censorship during the 1960s, but at the same time, the success of art films with sexually explicit material often relied on a censorship that allowed sex in art but not for pornographic purposes. The undefined border between art and pornography also bring to the fore a discussion of the gender ascribed to each category. Art, belonging to the realm of modernism and high culture, has, by some theorists, been regarded as masculine, whereas porn, belonging to what has sometimes been regarded as the feminine mass culture, is often discussed and analyzed as a male genre. At the same time, one point of departure for the dream of the good pornography in the 1960s as well as in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is woman, her sexuality and her consumption of pornography.
Swedish abstract:	Mariah Larsson diskuterar den komplexa relationen mellan konstfilm och pornografisk film och de könspolitiska implikationerna av drömmen om den goda pornografin.

Swedish abstract:	Går det att rucka på husens tröghet och sega strukturer? Katarina Bonnevier lyfter fram kvinnliga arkitekters motmakt för att tänka nytt och visa att rum går att förvandla.