Göransson, Anita, Professor

By Stine Adrian on 27 Aug | 0 comments

Anita Göransson is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations at Linköping University. She is co-director of GEXcel and team leader of GEXcel Themes 3 and 6. She is an economic and social historian and has done extensive work on an inter- and transdisciplinary basis. Her general research interest is how the gender order and other social hierarchies affect and interact with the formation of societies and their power orders. She has worked extensively with empirical materials and used the results to develop a theoretical approach that combines poststructural and materialist elements and stresses the analytically primary role of masculinity. Her dissertation studied the transition from the household-based to the market-based society and how the old gender order affected thetransformation of society in the 19th century. She has also done work on the modern labour market, on social stratification in history and today, and on the role of kinship and other networks, as well as on gender theory. Her most recent research focuses on the Swedish power elite and how different combinations of class, gender and ethnicity affect a person´s access to power in various social fields.