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National Research School in Gender Research, Norway
PLUREQ – Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions
Web exhibition on trafficking and prostitution in Norway.
Female minority politicians favoured
Both voters and political parties use the opportunities they have to give extra votes to female politicians of ethnic minority background.
(24.05.2013) Read more
ArticlesOlder, brighter and funnier 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 moreWealthy 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 more |
Publications Back to the future : temporality and gender security narratives in SerbiaWomen and men often experience different security threats. This article investiges gender security narratives among activists of feminist and women’s organizations in Serbia.  Essays in development economicsAmong the findings in Kartika Sari Juniwatys thesis on microfinance in Tanzania is that women cooperate better and take more risks when grouped in all-woman groups.  Witches of the north : Scotland and FinnmarkThis book sheds light on the witch hunts in Scotland and Norway during the seventeenth century through statistics and close-reading of trial documents in witchcraft cases.  Assigning cultural valuesThis collection of essays offers perspectives on the value given to different cultural phenomena, including masculinity in American action movies and sexuality in Norwegian novels. |
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26.08.2013 -
Oslo
Aasta Hansteen-forelesningen 2013: Feminism and Politics of 'Experience' for the Study of Islam -
26.08.2013 - 30.08.2013
Utrecht
NOISE Summer School 2013 -
28.08.2013 - 30.08.2013
Bergen
PhD course: Queer Theory's Foucault -
14.10.2013 - 15.10.2013
Bergen
Gendered Citizenship: History, Politics and Democracy: The Ida Blom Conference