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Medieval law in Norway gave women new rights
In 2024, Norway celebrates 750 years since the Code of the Norwegian Realm was adopted. For women, that meant more access to financial resources and power.
Islamic women's organisations confront Western feminism
They oppose international conventions for gender equality and distance themselves from Western feminism. The conservative network aims to promote women's interests on their own terms.
Norway has not succeeded in preventing or combating rape
Rape prevention in Norway faced scrutiny from the government-appointed rape committee: An under-prioritised an unsolved social problem, the commitee concludes. Along with 30 measures to combat rape.
The political love letters of Camilla Collett and Amalie Skram
Both Camilla Collett and Amalie Skram challenged the role of women in their writing. Even the letters they wrote to their hearts' chosen reflected the debates of their times about the role of women in matters of love, marriage, and society.
Female musicians ride the Norwegian country wave
Country music is often portrayed through masculine stereotypes. Nevertheless, female musicians have helped define the genre’s development in Norway, researchers say.
"It's become more dangerous to be a journalist"
Foreign correspondents have traditionally been seen as a "macho club" with few female members. Today, there are more women, but the profession has also become more risky.
Fathers want to share parental leave equally
In a sense, men are more oriented towards gender equality than women when it comes to sharing parental leave, says Ragni Hege Kitterød.
Most read articles from Kilden genderresearch.no in 2023
The five most read articles in 2023 covered a variety of issues: from fatherhood and paternity tests; intimacy among whalers in the early 20th century to the treatment of gender dysphoria.
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
This year's second issue of the Journal of Gender Research is an open issue. The common denominator for the articles is a fundamentally critical project. Through close reading of contemporary texts, discourse analysis and rhetorical analysis of texts from recent history, the articles provide perspectives on both historical and current debates in gender research: the disciplining of the body, controversies within feminism, as well as sexist and racist structures that affect the living conditions of individuals and groups. The articles illustrate how tools from the feminist and anti-racist toolbox can be used to understand these themes and phenomena both in the present and in the past.
What's up?
Gendered Realities in Gaza
The Centre for Gender Research at The University of Oslo invites to a seminar, where PhD research fellow Khalid Dader (Tampere University) will present his research on shifting gender roles and identities in Gaza. The talk will explore the profound reconfigurations of gender roles, highlighting how both men and women in Gaza are forced to renegotiate their identities in the face of devastation.
Panel conversation about the documentary Your Fat Friend
In connection with the screening of the documentary Your Fat Friend at Bergen international film festival (BIFF), the University of Bergen is organizing a panel conversation with the film’s director about fat activism and fat representation. Joining the conversation will be director Jeanie Finlay and PhD candiate at the Centre for Digital Narrative, Ella Maria Holi. PhD candidate at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, will moderate the conversation.
