Not a toolkit : a conversation on the discomfort of feminist design pedagogy
Det kvinnliga geniet : En representationsanalys av protagonisten Beth Harmon i TV-serien The Queen’s Gambit / The Female...
Syftet med studien var att analysera hur det kvinnliga geniet liksom kvinnlig genialitet representeras i Netflix-serien The Queen’s Gambit genom protagonisten Beth Harmon. På studien tillämpades en representationsanalys som utgår ifrån Stuart Halls representationsteori, och hade som utgångspunkt i feministisk filmteori med en queerteoretisk ingång....
Conditions of a Feminine Man : Rumors of a “Hermaphrodite” Pastrycook in Nineteenth-Century Sweden
The pastrycook Aron Forss was a well-known person in his hometown Uppsala in the 1840’s and 1850’s, famous both for his popular café and for his femininity. This article analyses the rumors that surrounded his person, using paintings, newspaper clippings, and memoirs written by his former customers. Through his business, Forss could lay claim on no...
Legal Boundaries : Women's Reproductive Self-determination Rights Versus Fetus's Right to Life. – An Analysis on Georgia...
Through the fetal heartbeat House-Bill-481, Georgia (U.S) has taken a Pro-life stance on the constitutionally enshrined women's reproductive self-determination rights versus the proposed fetus's right to life by banning abortion after six weeks of gestation. The purpose of this research was to analyze how rights are debated in the media, argued in ...
Language requirements and constructions of belonging : A critical WPR policy analysis of the proposal for language and c...
This study provides a feminist critical examination of the proposal to add a language and civic knowledge requirement for citizenship acquisition and the ideas of belonging that are constructed within the proposal. The analysis has been made with Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be’-approach to policy analysis, examining what is re...
Un Aleph Fotocopiado. Un presente posible de los fanzines de historieta y las publicaciones independientes producidas po...
A present defined by an energetic re-interest in comics and the feminist struggle at a global level, finds the current situation of Argentine comics determined by the work of new female authors. During the last decade, Argentine female authors found in the fanzine format -inherited from the ‘80s and ‘90s- a way to build work and community at the si...
COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices.
Published in Gender, work, and organization
'A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?' This invitation - sent by one of the authors to the others - led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practices and on...
'Kids' in between? : Views on work, gender, and family arrangements among men and women of migrant descent in Sweden
This study used qualitative interviews to explore perceptions of labour market participation in relation to gender norms and parenting ideals among employed Swedish men and women of migrant descent. Using an abductive thematic approach, we demonstrate how the respondents viewed labour market participation from different perspectives. The females sa...
(Dis)embodied masculinity and the meaning of (non)style in physics and computer engineering education
Physics- and computer-related disciplines are strongly male dominated in Western higher education. Feminist research has demonstrated how this can be understood as reflecting a strong privileging of mind and rationality (over body/nature/emotions) in these disciplines, which harmonises with broader notions of masculinity as transcendental and disem...
Black women in and beyond Belgian mainstream media : between opinion–making, dissidence, and marronage
This article focuses on Black women in and beyond Belgian mainstream media. It discusses media practices and interventions by Black women in Belgium and examines the discourses that Black women use when engaging with the topics of coloniality, racism, and blackness. Drawing from semi-structured interviews (N = 20) with Black women in Belgium, this ...
