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

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.

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