The 10 latest publications
This report shows that South African women are often discriminated for being the first in the household to disclose a positive HIV status. Many experience blame, abandonment and abuse upon disclosure of their HIV-positive status to their partners.
In this book, edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen, scholars such as Judith Butler, Alison Stone and Nancy Bauer contribute to a new generation of feminist readings of Hegel.
Since 1950 the number of public systems of care has steadily decreased in the form of shorter lying-in periods in postnatal wards without a corresponding increase in follow-up care at home. There has been less and less emphasis on the mother's need for rest and assistance, and the authors wonder whether this has contributed to a larger amount of postnatal depressions.
In this article the authors investigate how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking. They also discuss how female prostitutes from post-Soviet societies relate to notions of victimhood and how they handle the stigma of prostitution.
The Norwegian discourse about arranged marriages and family reunification legislation is based upon the assumption that the Norwegian partner is a young woman with little ability to make her own decisions, while the foreign partner is a violent man who marries because he wants to emigrate. This is one of the discourses analyzed in Eileen Muller Myrdahl’s thesis.
This report shows that even though women have gained increased presence in political institutions in Burundi and Nepal, entrenched patriarchal norms, gender inequality and discriminatory practices continue to hinder their ability to participate effectively in political decision-making.
This article argues that peacekeeping economies are to a greater or lesser degree dependent on the exploitation of women's and girls' sexual labour.
In this article, the authors discuss whether there are gender differences when it comes to prison inmates' prediction of their chances to avoid future crime.
In her thesis, Kristin Sørung Scharffser has found that an operational, cultural and geographical disconnection between the different organisational levels of the humanitarian system hampers the protection against gender-based violence.
This report examines the situation of women belonging to disadvantaged minority groups, with a particular focus on Roma women, in a variety of areas.