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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis aims to examine how participants in an antifeminist online discussion forum debate issues of rape and how they further utilize the term rape in their discussions. Research has shown that one of the most common ...
Knowledge, Preference and Agency on contraception: A comparative study on young married and unmarried women in Dhaka city Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This study deals three specific points put forward to explore ‘source of knowledge,’ ‘way of priority’ and ‘practice of sexual agency’ regarding contraception among young married and unmarried women in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Kvinneandelen i norske kommunestyrer har flatet ut de siste tjue åra. På landsbasis har andelen aldri kommet over 40 prosent, men gjennomsnittet dekker over store variasjoner. Valgforskere har studert hvordan partiene og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis analyses Finnish women’s experiences of using pornography. Pornography studies is a large and vibrant field of study but qualitative research on women’s use of pornography is rare, particularly in the Finnish ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque opened its doors in the German capital of Berlin in June 2017. Since its public opening, the mosque has proven a source of numerous controversies with traditional Muslims regarding its validity as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Norge har et sterkt nasjonalt selvbilde som likestillingsforkjemper og fredsnasjon. I denne artikkelen utforsker viskjæringspunktet mellom likestilling og fredsengasjement i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Mens systematisk integrering ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article discusses how perpetrators and victims are constructed in legal rape cases and how these constructions are informed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. It presents an in-depth frame analysis of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This study is qualitative, positioned in the interdisciplinary research field of disability studies, and draws on the theoretical insights of critical feminist studies. The fieldwork consisted of qualitative interviews ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Tildelingen av Nobels fredspris 2018 til Nadia Murad og Denis Mukwege for deres arbeid med å bekjempe seksuelle overgrep i krig representerer en enorm endring i forståelsen av hva denne formen for vold er, og hvordan den ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Based on a multi-methodological fieldwork, conducted in Gaborone and a village in Botswana in 2015/16, this article discusses how new media is used as part of young people’s everyday practices and with what consequences. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Resistance is a concept that may seem out of place in studies of Nordic welfare societies. However, several studies depict how people in these societies act in ways that, whether explicitly or not, question the current ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In research on traffic injury prevention, young male drivers willing to take risks are known as “young problem drivers” and have been identified as the greatest road safety challenge. This intersectional study draws on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A few popular explanations attempt to argue for a weaker relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), parental involvement (PI), and achievement among Asian Americans compared to their white counterparts: Asian American ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Young people today, and in particular young women, report increasing levels of stress, eating disorders, feeling of depression and dissatisfaction with their bodies. This scenario comes from a generation and class of young ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Psychological trauma has become the main framework for understanding the impact of rape on individual victims. Trauma has traditionally been understood as a mental illness conceptualized in opposition to normality. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This study aims to examine how public discourse and how portrayal of women with Muslim backgrounds, have consequences for citizenship in Norway. Growing scepticism towards immigrants, and stronger sense of islamophobia ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
With an expansion of global capitalism and global humanitarian crises, a cosmopolitan rhetoric of the shared world community has surged in the past decades. Recent educational agendas emphasize humanitarian and multicultural ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Sammendrag Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan aseksuelle perspektiver utfordrer hegemoniske forståelser av seksualitet. Oppgaven undersøker og diskuterer aseksualitet som diskurs. Dette betyr aseksualitet knyttet til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The film and television industries are no stranger to terrifying gendered monsters. Pulling from iconic and diverse folklore, the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy have enunciated long-standing human fears in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan kjønn praktiseres og uttrykkes gjennom rutiner for vask og stell av kroppen. Kildematerialet består av spørrelistesvar om personlig hygiene som ble samlet inn i 2014 av det kulturhistoriske ...
It starts with wanting children: Norwegian parents’ experiences with commercial surrogacy in the USA
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores Norwegian parents’ experiences with commercial surrogacy in the USA. Surrogacy is a controversial phenomenon, and illegal in Norway, yet relatively little research has been done on the population of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis, dominating, dichotomous ways of understanding and explaining sex are outlined and questioned. Dichotomous ideas and experiences of sex are sat in connection with the troubling times that the world finds ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
For almost two decades, the public debate about Islam in Western Europe has been dominated by concerns about the lack of gender equality in the racialized Muslim population. There has been a tendency to victimize “the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article reflects on the value of engaging with visual methods in a fieldwork situation. It portrays various forms of visual methods used in a recent research in Botswana and discusses – by using a concrete example – ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke koblingene mellom høyre-ekstremisme, maskulinitet og miljøvern. Miljøvern bli gjerne assosiert med den politiske venstresiden, ikke ekstremhøyre, og med femininitet fremfor maskulinitet. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The departure point for this thesis was a national online debate on Chinese sex education. In spring 2017, beginning with a mother complaining about the “explicit” contents in a sex education textbook on Sina Weibo, thousands ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Denne artikkelen har som mål å undersøke den akademiske kulturen innenfor realfagene med et kjønnsperspektiv, samt å diskutere likestillingstiltak innenfor det akademiske idealet om meritokrati. Funnene fokuserer på disse ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Er gutter de nye skoletaperne? Artikkelen ser nærmere på tre av hovedtemaene i debatten om kjønn og skole: karakterforskjeller i grunnskolen, frafall i videregående skole og kjønnede overganger til høyere utdanninger. Det ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article is an autoethnography of fieldwork carried out as part of a research project about the legal processing of rape cases in Norway. The author observed 15 rape trials and interviewed ten defense lawyers. During ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This position paper by four key researchers from two projects (one in Norway and one in Sweden) aims to define and discuss terms and concepts in Gender Studies. It is inspired by the concept of dialogue as a method of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introductory article to the special issue Women and War in Kurdistan, we connect our topic to feminist theory, to anthropological theory on war and conflict and their long-term consequences, and to ...
Women fleeing from Tibet: An ethnographic study of the migratory experiences of women in the Tibetan diaspora Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Why do Tibetan women flee to Dharamsala? Are there other, more social and less explicitly political, reasons than simply wanting to escape Chinese rule and follow the Dalai Lama? How are refugee and migratory experiences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I denne artikkelen bruker vi institusjonell etnografi til å utforske kvinnelige førsteamanuensers arbeidshverdager og forskningskarrierer ved Universitetet i Agder (UiA) og hvordan disse erfaringene er sosialt organiserte ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling / PublishedVersion, 2018)
The overall aim of this thesis is to explore the monumental remains and the non-literary ostraca and papyri as different layers of situated material-discursive practices. I approach the records seeking both patterns of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Spiseforstyrrelser er et økende fenomen blant menn. Menn som står frem med spiseforstyrrelser forteller ofte om et opplevd stigma ved å ha en lidelse som kulturelt sett forbindes med kvinner og det kvinnelige. Målsettingen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis examines the reinterpretation of sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction. In omegaverse fanfiction, characters from popular culture are written into a parallel gender structure, as alphas, betas, or omegas. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Politiet er en organisasjon som i noen tiår har jobbet med en viss suksess med å øke kvinneandelen. Nå har politiet lagt vekten over på et mangfoldsperspektiv. Hva betyr det? Intervjuer med sentrale informanter i politiet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis investigates the perspectives, experiences, and relationships of young men living in post-conflict Mostar, in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Adopting gender as an analytical device to study relations and processes ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
There were two goals with this thesis. The first goal was to find out what the United Nations’ policy of gender was in United Nations’ peacebuilding missions as shown in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
In the rich literature on ‘new fathers’ there is an emergent focus on the role of class in shaping fathering practices and identities. According to time-use measures, the new ‘hands-on-father’ involved in the daily activities ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article explores the emotional dynamics involved in the shaping of middle-class subjectivities, aiming to move beyond the ‘fear of falling’ thesis and the attendant emphasis on the quest for positional advantage. I ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article maps and discusses the legal processing of rape cases in Norwegian appellate courts. Drawing on data from a multivariate regression analysis and a qualitative frame analysis, we examine the significance of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper reflects on queer grassroots activism in China, in the context of globally travelling queer and gender theory, politics and culture.[2] In particular, the importance and meaning of public visibility in activist ...
Forced Marriage Women,s Rights discourse: A study from Pakistan Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In recent years, stories of forced marriage are being widely reported in western media .It is evident from these media reports that mostly cases of forced marriage are from developing third world countries especially ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
Men, Masculinities and Self-help Groups An Ethnographic Study from an Urban Slum in Kerala, India Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The research enclosed considers the perspectives and experiences of men from a masculinities perspective in the context of the women-specific poverty alleviation program Kudumbashree. The Kudumbashree program is a government ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Denne oppgaven retter søkelys mot kvinners erfaringer med seksuelle krenkelser som av ulike grunner vanskelig lar seg definere. Dette er erfaringer som oppfattes som uønsket og mer eller mindre ufrivillig, men som ikke ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Introductory Law passed in 2003 represents the most comprehensive and systematic effort in integration of immigrants and refugees in the modern history of immigration in Norway. The ultimate goal of integration measures ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Sommaren 1975 slo Nasjonalgalleriet i Oslo alle utstillingsrekordar med utstillinga ”Solens rike - Akhnaton - Nefertiti - Tut-Ank-Amon”. Vandreutstillinga med gjenstandar frå egyptiske museum besto av skulpturar og andre ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This research is accordingly based on interdisciplinary perspectives that exchange concepts and methodologies for the purpose of exploring the relationship(s) Muslim women have to religion in a secular setting like Norway. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Internasjonalt finnes det en rekke studier som tematiserer ulike kjønnsidentiteter i sammenheng med «rase»/etnisitet. I norsk sammenheng finner vi et fåtall studier som tar for seg levekår blant transpersoner, ingen av ...
Mammablogging Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Blogging som fenomen er like gammelt som internett selv, og er fremdeles like populært og aktuelt. Mammabloggerne skriver og legger ut bilder av sine familieliv og sin tilværelse som mor, mammarollen er for tiden deres ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Norge ligger vanligvis på toppen i evalueringer når det gjelder likestilling. Likevel mener noen at det fortsatt en del som må endres for å oppnå likestilling mellom kjønnene. For å utforske dette, valgte jeg å bruke ...
Psykisk utviklingshemning - maskulinitet - seksualitet: En studie av kjønnskonstruksjon og seksualliv hos unge menn med psykisk utviklingshemning Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Hvordan skapes det kvinnelige subjektet? Er subjektsutvikling en gjensidig prosess mellom kjønnene? Med utgangspunkt i Simone de Beauvoirs konklusjon i Det annet kjønn diskuterer jeg denne problemstillingen. Beauvoir ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Summary Author s name: Yasmine Shakari Title: Family, Socialization and Migration in Norwegian-Pakistani Families: A Study of the First and the Second Generation Supervisor: Øystein Gullvåg Holter Co-supervisor: Thomas ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The thesis interrogates the US policy on Women, Peace and Security. This policy is based on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the subsequent resolutions that address the situation of women in conflict and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i kunstboken Rewilding av den amerikanske fotografen Cass Bird. Av bokens førti fotografier har jeg gjort et utvalg på femten bilder til analysen. Boken inneholder bilder av kvinner med et tvetydig ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This study focuses on discourses on gender that are disseminated by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). These discourses about gender have been contrasted with how gender is lived and experienced in rural Zambian women ...
En evaluering av likestillings- og mangfoldsstrategier i politiet. : Muligheter, barrierer og vilje.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Norge regnes som et av verdens mest likestilte land, likevel er vi et av landene i Europa som har det mest kjønnssegregerte arbeidsmarkedet. Følgelig er det på overordnet politisk nivå et fokus på å øke andelen kvinner ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Arundhati Roys første og eneste roman Guden for små ting finner fortsatt veien til nye lesere og bokhyller. Boksalget og forfatterstjernestatusen har gitt henne økonomisk frihet og en internasjonal talerstol. Roy er ...