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TGV 2007 nr 1-2
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TGV 2007 nr 1-2
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Från redaktionen Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1/2;Tema: Konst - scen, film, forskning (2007)other -
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
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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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Maskulinitet och mode som genusvetenskaplig och etnografisk utmaning
Nordberg, Marie; Mörck, Magnus
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)scientific
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English abstract: Fashion is a topic that deserves to be taken seriously, and our contribution sets out to explore the vitalizing possibilities of combining critical men's studies/gender studies and queer with new impulses in fashion, consumer and visual studies, not only in terms of theory, but also in terms of grounding this work empirically in new ethnography. Through ethnographical observation we have followed masculinity being groomed and performed through different aesthetical practices, in particular we have focused on the pleasure culture of the hair studio and the business suit in the context of annual meetings. Our approach seeks to span the large scale movements of the fashion system and local practices. We discuss the problematic relationship between feminism and fashion studies and argue that RWConnell's hugely successful conceptualisation of hegemonic masculinity prevents a more dynamic and differentiated understanding of competing masculinities, performed through varying, although largely unacknowledged aesthetic practices – a neglected field of study we think is highly promising. On the other hand, we also suggest that fashion studies today suffers from limitations that could be overcome by taking seriously the challenge of the new conceptualisations of gender and sexuality, not as given macro systems or discourses, but in butlerian terms as ongoing embodied iterations. It is a curious paradox that fashion studies often seems marginalise itself, making clothes and hair simply mirror other cultural and social entities, not as important discursive forces in themselves. We call for more traffic between gender - and fashion studies, in terms of theory, but without neglecting the necessity to ground with careful ethnographic work in "writing bodies in movement". Swedish abstract: Hur kan modeforskning och genusvetenskap förenas? Marie Nordberg och Magnus Mörck ger ett svar och presenterar med några exempel från en etnografisk studie hur mode formar kroppar, makt och maskulinitet.
TGV 1-2.07 7.pdf
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Kraften i att sy ihop
Lindström, Kristina; Ståhl, Åsa
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)scientific
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Swedish abstract: I stitching together är konstnärerna Kristina Lindström och Åsa Ståhl ute efter kraften i att sy tillsammans. Det sker i fysiska möten i en syjunta och med hjälp av digitala kommunikationskanaler. De blev förvånade över att nålar och trådar kunde stöta på så många maktstrukturer och provocera i en mängd olika riktningar.
TGV 1-2.07 6.pdf
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Drömmen om den goda pornografin : Om sextio- och sjuttiotalsfilmen oc...
Larsson, Mariah
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)scientific
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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.
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