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PLUREQ – Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions
Web exhibition on trafficking and prostitution in Norway.
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Camilla Collett is famous for writing one novel, but her authorship consists of a large body of essays. Tone Selboe directs the attention to the essayist Camilla Collett in a new book.
(25.04.2013) Read more
ArticlesWealthy women voted first If a country girl in the nineteenth century wanted to show romantic feelings for a boy, she might give him a self-knitted codpiece as a token of love. The knitted codpiece is one of many objects displayed at an exhibition about women’s rights and living conditions in Norway. (11.04.2013) Read more“Drop the pen and pick up the needle” Badly written, trivial, unlikely plot, rubbish, aimed at immature young women. Comments on modern Pulp Fiction? No, these reviews are approximately 250 years old. (18.03.2013) Read moreStrong gender equality legislation has enhanced overall protection against discrimination The Norwegian Gender Equality Act has become a model for expanding the protection against discrimination in other areas as well. In this way the Act has strengthened anti-discrimination laws in general. (04.03.2013) Read moreThe soldier as sexual aggressor Soldiers can degenerate into barbarians during times of war. A political-psychological study of sexual violence committed during the Bosnian War reveals the mechanisms behind this behaviour and provides valuable insight into what can be done to prevent such transgressions in the future. (04.03.2013) Read more |
Publications Marriage is politics : prospects for women's equality after the Arab springRather than safeguarding women’s equal rights, the Arab spring have so far reinforced patriarchy in many states rocked by the uprisings, according to this article.  Gender and equality in muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal traditionThis book examines the construction of male guardianship in the Islamic tradition and seeks to create an argument for women's full equality before the law.  The good, the bad, and the invisible father : a phenomenological study of fatherhood in men with substance use disorderThis article investigates fatherhood from the perspective of men with substance addiction, and claims that the role of these fathers is largely ignored in the research litterature.  Masculinities, gender equality and violenceIt is misleading to speak of "gender-based" violence when empirical data shows that the real issue is lack of equality, according to this article. |
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28.05.2013 -
Antwerp
Young Researchers Seminar on Gender and Sexuality -
28.05.2013 - 30.05.2013
Bergen
PhD course: Theories of affect -
30.05.2013 - 01.06.2013
Maastricht
Gender, Sexual Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Orientalism in European Identity Discourses -
31.05.2013 -
Bergen
Seminar: Gender implications of the Arab Spring