Invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

By Katherine Harrison on 23 Oct | 0 comments

Örebro University and Linköpings University of Sweden are pleased to announce the continuation of the five-year project supported to establish a Centre of Gender Excellence-- "Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment". With support from the Swedish Research Council GEXcel is carrying out new research as part of its development of a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the six professors in Sweden who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.

In 2010, one research theme will be “Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this research are now open for competition. For more information on this theme, please click here.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for one-month fellowships in Fall 2010 (one or two fellowships will be available). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Fellows selected for the program will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in late May 2010 in Örebro, and then return in Fall 2010 for their residency.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for one or two fellowships of four – eight months’ duration (Fall 2010). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Fellows selected for the program will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in late May 2010 in Örebro, and then return in Fall 2010 for their residency.

Proposals must include a current cv, an abstract of the proposed project, a narrative description (maximum: five pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography.
Applicants must explain specifically how the work will contribute to understanding the research theme (http://www.genderexcel.org/node/220). Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor. Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) related to the research topic.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to GEXcelTheme10@oru.se
A committee will evaluate all applications and select finalists.

Application Deadline:
10 January 2010

GEXcel Symposium: Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, power and deconstruction

By Katherine Harrison on 24 Apr | 0 comments

A one-day GEXcel Symposium on "Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, Power and Deconstruction" will be held at Temcas room, T Building-Linköping University, Tuesday 5 May, 2009.  The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 2, "Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence" (for more information) with a special focus on transnational and transdisciplinary studies of gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment at which the following current GEXcel scholars present their work:

Dr. Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide, Australia: "The Challenge of Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex in Gender Masculinity Studies"
Dr. David Bell, Leeds University, UK: "The Gays and the Geeks"
Nil Mutluer, Central European University Budapest, Hungary: "The Role of Transnational and National Networks in Internally Displaced Men's Everyday Life"
PK Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University, India: "The RSS and the Cultivation of the National Man"

To participate, please register with Alp Biricik (alpbi@tema.liu.se) before April 30, 2009.

GEXcel Theme 2 Conference – Call for participation

By Katherine Harrison on 06 Mar | 0 comments

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. In 2008-09, one research theme of GEXcel is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities,” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University. See full description of the Theme.

Sub-themes for this conference are:

• Embodiment: The body, ageing, older men, disability.
• Virtuality: Current and future impacts of information and communication technologies.
• Transnationalisation: Multiple aspects of globalisation and transnationalisation, such as multinational corporations, international finance and migration.

Each of these raises complex questions and contradictions for current critical theorising on men and masculinities.

Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than 13 April 2009.

Provisional speakers include: Christine Beasley (University of Adelaide, Australia), David Bell (University of Leeds, UK), Marina Blagojevic (Altera MB, Budapest, Hungary), Toni Calasanti (Virginia Tech, US), Fataneh Farahani (Linköping University, Sweden), Karen Gabriel (Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, India), Brendan Gough (Nottingham Trent University), Miklós Hadas (University of Budapest), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Richard Howson (Wollongong University), David Jackson (Nottingham), Katarzyna Kosmala (University of West of Scotland), Marie Nordberg (Karlstad University, Sweden), Irene Ryan (Auckland University of Technology), Gurchathen Sangera Singh (University of St Andrews, Scotland), Niels Ulrik Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (Bristol University), Jutta Weber (University of Uppsala, Sweden).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday afternoon (27 April 2009) with keynote addresses. Tuesday and Wednesday (28-29 April 2009) will be based on a small-scale conference format, along with some workshop meetings (on each of the four sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 29 April.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants.

Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Costs: Meals and hospitality will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. Very exceptionally, some contribution may be made.

Address for Registration:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Deadline for Registration:
13 April 2009

GEXcel Conference “Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”

By Malena Gustavson on 05 Dec | 0 comments

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. In 2008-09, one research theme of GEXcel is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities,” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University. See full description of the Theme. 

We invite applications for the conference from junior and senior scholars whose research addresses one of the following sub-themes:

• Embodiment: The body, ageing, older men, disability.
• Virtuality: Current and future impacts of information and communication technologies.
• Transnationalisation: Multiple aspects of globalisation and transnationalisation, such as multinational corporations, international finance and migration.

Each of these raises complex questions and contradictions for current critical theorising on men and masculinities.

Papers are also invited more generally on the sub-theme:
• Theorising men and masculinities: On power, hegemony, deconstruction and related debates.

Provisional speakers include: Christine Beasley (University of Adelaide, Australia), David Bell (University of Leeds, UK), Marina Blagojević (Altera MB, Budapest, Hungary), Toni Calasanti (Virginia Tech, US), Fataneh Farahani (Linköping University, Sweden), Karen Gabriel (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, India), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Richard Howson (Wollongong University), James Messerschmidt (University of Southern Maine, US), Winifred Poster (Washington University, St Louis, US), Niels Ulrik Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday afternoon (27 April 2009) with keynote addresses. Tuesday and Wednesday (28-29 April 2009) will be based on a small-scale conference format, along with some workshop meetings (on each of the four sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 29 April.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants.

Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Costs: Meals and hospitality will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. Very exceptionally, some contribution may be made.

Application Requirements: Send an Abstract of Proposed Paper of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to one of the sub-themes. Please also include a Brief Biographical Note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status.

Address for Applications
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Application Deadline
20 January 2009

Notification
A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by early February 2009.

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 Conference

By bjorn on 24 Mar | 0 comments

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 Conference
14-16 June 2010
Linköping University, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

POWER SHIFTS AND NEW DIVISIONS IN SOCIETY, WORK AND UNIVERSITIES

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6, “Distinctions & Authority” and “Gender, Class and the Power over Immaterial Production”, invite junior and senior scholars to apply for a joint international conference 14-16 June 2010 at GEXcel Gender Centre of Excellence, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden..

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5-year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2010, Themes 3 & 6 will be headed by Anita Göransson, Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations, Linköping University.
See full description of the Theme 3
See full description of the Theme 6

Conference subthemes:

1) Rethinking Class in an Intersectional Perspective
2) Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Care and Knowledge Work
3) Shifting the Power over and within Universities

Keynote speakers include (confirmed so far):

Professors
Joan Acker, USA
Ursula Apitzsch, Germany
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, USA
Elin Kvande, Norway

Format: This conference will begin on Monday morning (14 June 2010) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 3&6. Tuesday and Wednesday (15-16 June 2010) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 16 June. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Application Requirements: Send an Abstract of Proposed Paper of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to one of the sub-themes. Please also include a Brief Biographical Note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status.

Address for Applications
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Application Deadline
Abstracts should be emailed no later than April 16, 2010. The result will be announced later in April. 

Participant Registration: Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than May 1, 2010.

GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships

By Katherine Harrison on 08 Mar | 0 comments

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to
participate in this research are now open for competition in five of
the GEXcel themes:

•    GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 - Distinctions and Authority: Power Shifts
and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities. EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR
APPLICATIONS: 9 APRIL 2010.
•    GEXcel Themes 7 & 8 - Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid
of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative
Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics. DEADLINE FOR
APPLICATIONS: 16 APRIL 2010.
•    GEXcel Theme 9 - Gendered sexualed transnationalisations,
deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, “centres” and
knowledge/policy/practice. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 16 APRIL 2010.
•    Please read on for full details of all five themes. 

Background to GEXcel

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre
of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a
European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary
Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and
Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is
carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more
permanent International Collegium for Advanced Transnational and
Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Scholars Programme has been organized to attract scholars at
different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of
disciplinary backgrounds. The visiting scholars will carry out
thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of
one or two of the professors, responsible for the programme,  and
collaborate with invited senior researchers.

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Information on the Themes

Themes 3 & 6

In 2010 there will be a joint theme titled “Distinctions and Authority:
Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities”. This
joint theme will be directed by Anita Göransson, Professor of Gender,
Organization and Economic Change, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, Linköping University. Positions for
doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this
research are now open for competition. For more information on this
theme, please click here for Theme 3, and here for Theme 6

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for
one-month fellowships in 2010. Fellowships include salary (with a
deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to
Sweden. Scholars selected for the program will be expected to
participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in mid-May in
Linköping and then stay on and/or return in the autumn for their
residency.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for fellowships of 1-4
months’ duration in the late spring and/or early autumn of 2010.
Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary),
housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Scholars selected for the
programme will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the
theme in mid-May 2010 in Linköping and then stay on and/or return in
autumn 2010 for their residency.

Applicants to this joint theme (Themes 3 & 6) should explain how
their project will make a contribution to the understanding of at least
one of the three sub-themes of the “Distinctions and Authority”
research theme. The three sub-themes are:

1.    Rethinking Class in an Intersectional Perspective
2.    Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Care and Knowledge Work
3.    Shifting the Power over and within Universities

Themes 7 & 8

In 2010/2011, there will be a joint research theme titled, “Teaching
Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary,
TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment,
Emotions and Ethics”. The research will be carried out with a focus on
two sub-themes:

1.    Gendered violence – will be in focus in the FALL/WINTER of 2010/11.
2.    Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities – will be in focus in SPRING of 2011.

This joint theme will be directed by Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden, and Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in sub-theme 1are now open for competition.
Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in sub-theme 2 will be announced later this year. 

For more information on the themes, please click here

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for one- to
four-months fellowships in the Fall/Winter of 2010/11 and with a ‘peak
period’ Week 41-42 (October 11-24), where all scholars are expected to
be in residence and participate in joint seminars. Up to four
fellowships will be available. Fellowships include salary (with a
deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to
Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for one- to six-months 
fellowships in the Fall/Winter of 2010/11 with a ‘peak period’ Week
41-42 (October 11-24), where all scholars are expected to be in
residence and participate in joint seminars. Up to nine fellowships
will be available. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for
existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Applicants should explain how their project will make a transnationally
informed contribution to the understanding of the overall theme 
“Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence TRANSdisciplinary,
TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment,
Emotions and Ethics”  with a particular focus on the subtheme ‘Gendered
violence’.

Theme 9

In the academic year 2010-2011, there will be a research theme on
“Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant:
Transforming men, “centres” and knowledge/policy/practice” directed by
Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to
Critical Studies on Men, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden. This builds on previous
Themes 1 “Gender, sexuality and global change”  & 2 “Deconstructing the
hegemony of men and masculinities” . Positions for doctoral students
and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this research are now open
for competition. Theme 9 has three sub-themes:

1. impact of transnationalisations on privileged “centres”
2. transnationalisations of knowledge
3. deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities

For more information on this Theme 9, please click here.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for
one-month fellowships in late May/early June 2011 (up to 4 fellowships
will be available). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for
existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.
Scholars selected for the program will be expected to participate in a
workshop launching the theme of research in the week commencing 24
January 2011 in Linköping, and then return in in May/June 2011 for
their residency (all scholars must be in Linköping for the key period
23 May 2011 - 3 June 2011).

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for up to 5 fellowships of
1-4 months’ duration (May/June 2011). Fellowships include salary (with
a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.
Scholars selected for the programme will be expected to participate in
a workshop launching the theme of research in week commencing 24
January 2011 in Linköping, and then return in May/June 2011 for their
residency (all scholars must be in Linköping for the key period 23 May
2011 - 3 June 2011).

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Application instructions for Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9

All proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed
project, a narrative description (maximum: five pages) of the project
to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. We
welcome applications (focusing on one or more of the sub-themes of the
chosen theme), to become part of this thriving research environment.

Doctoral candidates must include the name and contact information for
their research supervisor. Postdoctoral applicants must also include
two samples of their work (published or unpublished) related to the
research topic.

It is also possible to make an application to participate in the theme
as a self-funded GEXcel Open Position Scholar. Applications for this
should include similar materials.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
GEXcel Academic Coordinator
Email: application@genderexcel.org
All applications must be clearly marked in the subject of the email:
Application for GEXcel Research Theme 3/6/7/8/9 (delete as applicable).

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
Themes 3 & 6: EXTENDED TO 9 April 2010
Themes 7 & 8: 16 April 2010 (Awards Announced by mid- May 2010)
Theme 9: 16 April 2010 (Awards Announced by end of May 2010)

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Conference – Call for abstracts and participation

By Katherine Harrison on 01 Oct | 0 comments

November 24-26
Linköping University, Sweden

GEXcel’s current theme, Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps invites junior and senior scholars to attend a workshop conference 24-26 November 2009.

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2009-10, Themes 4&5 will be jointly headed by Nina Lykke, feminist cultural studies scholar and Prof. of Gender and Culture, Linköping University. and Barbro Wijma, feminist Gynaecologist and Prof. of Gender and Medicine, Linköping University. Click here for full description of the Themes.

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Ann Pelligrini (New York University, USA) and Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden), with panel presentations by the GEXcel Themes 4&5 visiting scholars (for more details on the scholars, click here).

Abstracts are now invited for this conference. Please send abstracts (max 250 words in English) and a brief biography (max 150 words) no later than 23 October 2009 to coordinator@genderexcel.org

Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than 23 October 2009. Places are limited.

Format: This conference will begin on Tuesday morning (24 November 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Wednesday and Thursday (25-26 November 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 26 November. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Costs: There is no conference registration fee. Lunches, welcome reception and coffees will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. (The cost of the conference dinner on November 25th will be covered for GEXcel scholars and members of the Network on Sex Education and Critical Sexuality Studies. All other participants will be asked to contribute SEK 400 if they wish to attend the dinner).

Address for Registration and Abstract submission:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Deadline for Registration and Abstract submission:
23 October 2009

New invitation to apply for GEXcel visiting fellowships

By Malena Gustavson on 05 Dec | 0 comments

The research theme is "Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" (Theme 4-5), jointly directed by
* Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
* Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

EXTENDED DEADLINE - February 1, 2009 (for Spring and Autumn 2009)

See detailed theme description at:  http://www.genderexcel.org/node/107

Announcement:

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars at different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The visiting fellows will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one  or two of the professors, responsible for the programme,  and collaborate with invited senior researchers.

In 2009, one of the research themes is “Sexual Health, Embodiment and  Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps”, directed by
* Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
see also: http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-g
* Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
see: www.hu.liu.se/ike/genus_medicin/amnet

Positions for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in thematic research on “Sexual Health, Embodiment and  Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" are now open for competition. Postdoctoral researchers may or may not have graduated recently.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to 8 one or two-month fellowships (in Nov-Dec 2009, including Nov 23-Dec 6, 2009, and a shorter 1-2 weeks stay in Spring 2009, including June 15-17, where a joint kick-off conference for all fellows of Theme 4-5 will take place). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are also invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least 3-4 fellowships of up to 6-8 months’ duration (preferably starting May-June 2009 including June 15-17 + Nov 23-Dec 6, 2009). Applications for periods less than 6 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping University with their own funding.

Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description of the project (maximum: 5 pages) to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography.

Applicants should explain how their project will contribute to the understanding of at least one of the three sub-themes of the “Sexual Health, Embodiment and  Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" research theme. The three sub-themes are:
* sex education and sexual empowerment
* critical sexology
* gendered violence

Preferably, applicants should also reflect on the ways in which their contribution will interact with the cross-cutting theme:
* cross- and transdisciplinary, feminist approaches to gendered, sexualised and racialised bodies and ethics.

Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor(s). Postdoctoral applicants must include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic in their application.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
GEXcel Academic Coordinator Katherine Harrison application@genderexcel.org , marked application for GEXcel Research Theme 4-5.

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
Feb 1, 2009, for 2009 (Awards Announced in March 2009)

New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

By Malena Gustavson on 26 Aug | 0 comments

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars at different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the 6 professors who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.

In 2008-09, one of the research themes is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University. For information on the Department of Gender Studies, see: http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=55198, and on the area of critical studies on men and masculinities there, see:
http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=57818&l=en

Positions for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in thematic research on Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities are now open for competition. Postdoctoral researchers may or may not have graduated recently.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to five one-month fellowships (2-3 in April/May 2009). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least two fellowships of up to 5 months’ duration (Spring 2009, including 15th-29th April 2009). Applications for periods less than 5 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping with their own funding.
Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description (maximum: 5 pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. Applicants should explain how the work will contribute to understanding at least one of the sub-themes (body/ageing/disability; transnationalisation; virtuality/ICTs) of the Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities research theme (see detailed description at: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101).

Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor(s). Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic in their application.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Jeff Hearn, GEXcel Research Theme 2 Director (jefhe@tema.liu.se)

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
October 14 2008 for Spring 2009 (Awards Announced in November 2008)

Theme 2: Theme-leader: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence

This research program approaches empirical inquiry and theorizing on gender relations, intersectionality and embodiment through a focus on hegemony in relation to men and masculinities. The place of both force and consent of men in patriarchies is illuminated by a concept like hegemony that can assist engagement with both material and discursive gender power relations. Recent conceptual and empirical uses of hegemony, as in ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in the analysis of masculinities, have been subject to a variety of qualified critiques over the last 10 years or more (e.g. Hearn, 1996, 2004; Howson, 2006). Instead this program examines shifts from masculinity to men, to focus on ‘the hegemony of men’. It addresses the double complexity that men are both a social category formed by the gender system and collective and individual agents, often dominant agents. It examines through textual (official, media) and material (organizational, private) data how the category ‘men’ is used in national and transnational gender systems. These uses are both intersectional and embodied in specific ways. Dominant uses of the social category of men have often been restricted by e.g. class, ethnicity/racialization and (hetero)sexuality; these issues have been explored in e.g. postcolonial and queer theory. Less examined is the construction of the category of men in terms of assumptions about i) age, (dis)ability, ii) nationality/national context, and iii) bodily presence. This program examines how the hegemony of men is being (re)defined in relation to 3 intersectional, embodied arenas: in terms of older age, transnationalization and virtualization. These 3 aspects and ‘exclusions’ are problematized as the focus of this program over the 5 years of GEXcel. In each case these are arenas that can be seen as forms of absent presence (Hearn 1998), by marginalization by age/death, disconnection from nation, and disembodiment respectively. Each of these presents reinforcements, challenges and contradictions, to hegemonic categorizations of men.

(i) The Body, Older Men and Disability project: An under-explored area is the frequent exclusion of older men, men with certain disabilities and dying men from the category of ‘men’. (Older) Age is a contradictory source of power and disempowerment for men. This sub-theme links with qualitative/discursive doctoral research on older men and other ongoing research.

(ii) The Men of the World project: Transnationalization problematizes taken-for-granted national and organizational contexts, and thus men in those contexts in various ways, in. One interesting case here is transnational businessmen in large transnational corporations, but other relevant foci, such as militarism, and migration, are also welcome.

(iii) The Virtual Men project: Virtualization processes present sites for contestations of hegemony in terms of bodily presence/absence of men. One example is the positive, negative and contradictory effects of certain uses of ICTs upon men’s, and women’s, sexual citizenships, as men act as producers and consumers of virtuality, and are being represented and representing women in virtual media.
All these structural and agentic differentiations, with and without force, may suggest multiply differentiated (trans)patriarchies that are stable and changing, fixed and flexible. Charting the particular, changing forms of these rigidities and movements of and around the taken-for-granted social category of men may be a means of interrogating the possibility of the abolition of ‘men’ as a significant social category of power.

References: * Hearn, Jeff Is masculinity dead?? A critical account of the concepts of masculinity and masculinities, in M. Mac an Ghaill (ed.) Understanding Masculinities: Social Relations and Cultural Arenas Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1996, pp. 202-217 * Hearn, Jeff Theorizing men and men's theorizing: men’s discursive practices in theorizing men, Theory and Society, Vol. 27(6), 1998, pp. 781-816. * Hearn, Jeff From hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men, Feminist Theory, Vol. 5(1), 2004, pp. 49-72. At: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/1/49 * Hearn, Jeff and Parkin, Wendy Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: the Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations, Sage, London, 2001. * Hearn, Jeff and Pringle, Keith European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006. * Howson, Richard Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Routledge, London, 2005. * Zalewski, Marysia and Palpart, Jane (eds.) (1998) The ‘Man’ Question in International Relations, Westview Press, Oxford.

Professors Directing Project

* Anita Göransson is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations. 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 with extensive empirical materials and used the results in developing 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 the transformation 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.

* Jeff Hearn is Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to Critical Studies on Men. He has a background in geography, urban planning, sociology, social policy and organization studies, leading onto inter- and transdisciplinary gender researches, including studies and collaborations with law, history, social psychology and medical science/gerontology. His doctoral dissertation examined social planning and social theory, with special emphasis on patriarchy theories. He has researched and published books on such areas as sexuality in workplaces, gender and oppression, children and child abuse, information society, men’s violence to women, late 19th century socio-economic change, social welfare, consumption and cultural studies, political change, management, business, European comparative studies - with a focus on empirical inquiry and intersectional theorizing.

* Anna G. Jónasdóttir is Professor of Gender Studies. Her background is in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology with social and political theory as the main field of interest. Her doctoral dissertation developed a novel approach to feminist theory of patriarchy in which she sketches three distinct but related theories: an alternative way of using historical materialism for feminist aims; a historically specific explanatory theory of contemporary patriarchy in Western societies; and a theory of gendered interests which establishes a theoretical space that allows for both common concerns and different needs and preferences. Patriarchy is theorized in terms of how love as sociosexual practices is politically organized and love power exploited. Later she has elaborated further some of the main arguments of her thesis and she has published books and articles on ongoing international feminist theory debates, governance and gender equality politics in Sweden, and feminist theory and research in Nordic countries.

* Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture. From a background within literary theory and cultural studies, she has devoted her academic career to the field of inter- and transdisciplinary gender research. This has led her to an outspoken interest in feminist theory and epistemologies. Her doctoral dissertation developed a new feminist-marxist-psychoanalytical conceptual framework for analysis of embodied subjectivities and sexualities, based on literary material. In recent years, she has researched and published books and articles on feminist cultural studies of technoscience and studied relationships of sex/gender, bodies, nature, animals, science and technologies in a transnational and cultural perspective. Another current research focus is theorizing of diversity and difference in gender studies through genealogical explorations of conceptualizations of intersectionality and their reflections in feminist theorizing.

* Christine Roman is Professor of Sociology. A main area of research is continuity and change in gender relations in work and family. Her doctoral dissertation, which examines gendering processes in the so-called new economy, addresses questions concerning relations between working life and family life, as well as intersections between class and gender. She has conducted several studies within this research field, including in-depth studies of negotiations between heterosexual couples, studies of the interplay between the social sciences and family policy, and studies on feminist theory on intimate relations. Another of her research interests is social movements, with a focus on how redistribution and recognition claims are balanced, both vis-à-vis the state and vis-à-vis groups within movements, i.e. how major social divisions such as gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity intersect in claims for social justice.

* Barbro Wijma is Professor of Gender and Medicine, a medical doctor with gynaecology as her area of specialization, and a psychotherapist. Her thesis 1982 approached “Fear of childbirth in pregnant women” from a quantitative and a qualitative approach, and was at that time pioneering. Combining feminist perspectives on sex/gender with her medical expertise has led her to explore interdisciplinary ways of bridging the gap between natural science approaches (with focus on biology and quantitative methodology, e.g. epidemiology) with ethical, philosophical and sociological ones. Her research includes studies of women’s and men’s experiences of violence and violations in various context e.g. partner relationships and in health care, and based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and on theories from ethics and sociology. Another field of interest is empowerment of women vis-à-vis gynaecological examinations and methods of teaching medical students how to do gynaecological examinations in a caring, sensitive and empathic way. To take control over the body, in particular in relation to sexual practices, is a related research area. Among others she leads a project about young women who feel pain during intercourse, reflected as an effect of dominating attitudes to sex and gender relations.

International Advisory Board

Elzbieta Olesky, Prof., Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Raewyn Connell, Prof., University of Sydney, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Prof., Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Karen Barad, Prof., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kathleen B. Jones, Emerita Prof., Women’'s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Birte Siim, Prof., Gender Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leonore Davidoff, Emerita Prof., Sociology, University of Essex, UK
Berit Schei, Professor of Women’s Medicine, The Technical University of Norway, Norway

Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships

By Malena Gustavson on 17 Jan | 0 comments

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars at different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the 6 professors who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.

In 2008-09, one of the research themes is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University. For information on the Department of Gender Studies, see: http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=55198, and on the area of critical studies on men and masculinities there, see:
http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=57818&l=en

Positions for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in thematic research on Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities are now open for competition. Postdoctoral researchers may or may not have graduated recently.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to five one-month fellowships (2-3 in November/December 2008; 2-3 in April/May 2009). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least two fellowships of up to 6 months’ duration (from September 2008, including 12th Nov-26th November; or in Spring 2008, including 15th-29th April 2009). Applications for periods less than 6 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping with their own funding.

Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description (maximum: 5 pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. Applicants should explain how the work will contribute to understanding at least one of the sub-themes (body/ageing/disability; transnationalisation; virtuality/ICTs) of the Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities research theme (see detailed description at: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101).

Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor(s). Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic in their application.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Jeff Hearn, GEXcel Research Theme 2 Director (jefhe@tema.liu.se)

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
March 14 2008 for Autumn 2008 (Awards Announced in May 2008)
October 14 2008 for Spring 2009 (Awards Announced in November 2008)

Theme 2: Theme-leader: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence

This research program approaches empirical inquiry and theorizing on gender relations, intersectionality and embodiment through a focus on hegemony in relation to men and masculinities. The place of both force and consent of men in patriarchies is illuminated by a concept like hegemony that can assist engagement with both material and discursive gender power relations. Recent conceptual and empirical uses of hegemony, as in ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in the analysis of masculinities, have been subject to a variety of qualified critiques over the last 10 years or more (e.g. Hearn, 1996, 2004; Howson, 2006). Instead this program examines shifts from masculinity to men, to focus on ‘the hegemony of men’. It addresses the double complexity that men are both a social category formed by the gender system and collective and individual agents, often dominant agents. It examines through textual (official, media) and material (organizational, private) data how the category ‘men’ is used in national and transnational gender systems. These uses are both intersectional and embodied in specific ways. Dominant uses of the social category of men have often been restricted by e.g. class, ethnicity/racialization and (hetero)sexuality; these issues have been explored in e.g. postcolonial and queer theory. Less examined is the construction of the category of men in terms of assumptions about i) age, (dis)ability, ii) nationality/national context, and iii) bodily presence. This program examines how the hegemony of men is being (re)defined in relation to 3 intersectional, embodied arenas: in terms of older age, transnationalization and virtualization. These 3 aspects and ‘exclusions’ are problematized as the focus of this program over the 5 years of GEXcel. In each case these are arenas that can be seen as forms of absent presence (Hearn 1998), by marginalization by age/death, disconnection from nation, and disembodiment respectively. Each of these presents reinforcements, challenges and contradictions, to hegemonic categorizations of men.

(i) The Body, Older Men and Disability project: An under-explored area is the frequent exclusion of older men, men with certain disabilities and dying men from the category of ‘men’. (Older) Age is a contradictory source of power and disempowerment for men. This sub-theme links with qualitative/discursive doctoral research on older men and other ongoing research.

(ii) The Men of the World project: Transnationalization problematizes taken-for-granted national and organizational contexts, and thus men in those contexts in various ways, in. One interesting case here is transnational businessmen in large transnational corporations, but other relevant foci, such as militarism, and migration, are also welcome.

(iii) The Virtual Men project: Virtualization processes present sites for contestations of hegemony in terms of bodily presence/absence of men. One example is the positive, negative and contradictory effects of certain uses of ICTs upon men’s, and women’s, sexual citizenships, as men act as producers and consumers of virtuality, and are being represented and representing women in virtual media.
All these structural and agentic differentiations, with and without force, may suggest multiply differentiated (trans)patriarchies that are stable and changing, fixed and flexible. Charting the particular, changing forms of these rigidities and movements of and around the taken-for-granted social category of men may be a means of interrogating the possibility of the abolition of ‘men’ as a significant social category of power.

References: * Hearn, Jeff Is masculinity dead?? A critical account of the concepts of masculinity and masculinities, in M. Mac an Ghaill (ed.) Understanding Masculinities: Social Relations and Cultural Arenas Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1996, pp. 202-217 * Hearn, Jeff Theorizing men and men's theorizing: men’s discursive practices in theorizing men, Theory and Society, Vol. 27(6), 1998, pp. 781-816. * Hearn, Jeff From hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men, Feminist Theory, Vol. 5(1), 2004, pp. 49-72. At: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/1/49 * Hearn, Jeff and Parkin, Wendy Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: the Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations, Sage, London, 2001. * Hearn, Jeff and Pringle, Keith European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006. * Howson, Richard Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Routledge, London, 2005. * Zalewski, Marysia and Palpart, Jane (eds.) (1998) The ‘Man’ Question in International Relations, Westview Press, Oxford.

Professors Directing Project

* Anita Göransson is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations. 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 with extensive empirical materials and used the results in developing 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 the transformation 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.
* Jeff Hearn is Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to Critical Studies on Men. He has a background in geography, urban planning, sociology, social policy and organization studies, leading onto inter- and transdisciplinary gender researches, including studies and collaborations with law, history, social psychology and medical science/gerontology. His doctoral dissertation examined social planning and social theory, with special emphasis on patriarchy theories. He has researched and published books on such areas as sexuality in workplaces, gender and oppression, children and child abuse, information society, men’s violence to women, late 19th century socio-economic change, social welfare, consumption and cultural studies, political change, management, business, European comparative studies - with a focus on empirical inquiry and intersectional theorizing.
* Anna G. Jónasdóttir is Professor of Gender Studies. Her background is in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology with social and political theory as the main field of interest. Her doctoral dissertation developed a novel approach to feminist theory of patriarchy in which she sketches three distinct but related theories: an alternative way of using historical materialism for feminist aims; a historically specific explanatory theory of contemporary patriarchy in Western societies; and a theory of gendered interests which establishes a theoretical space that allows for both common concerns and different needs and preferences. Patriarchy is theorized in terms of how love as sociosexual practices is politically organized and love power exploited. Later she has elaborated further some of the main arguments of her thesis and she has published books and articles on ongoing international feminist theory debates, governance and gender equality politics in Sweden, and feminist theory and research in Nordic countries.
* Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture. From a background within literary theory and cultural studies, she has devoted her academic career to the field of inter- and transdisciplinary gender research. This has led her to an outspoken interest in feminist theory and epistemologies. Her doctoral dissertation developed a new feminist-marxist-psychoanalytical conceptual framework for analysis of embodied subjectivities and sexualities, based on literary material. In recent years, she has researched and published books and articles on feminist cultural studies of technoscience and studied relationships of sex/gender, bodies, nature, animals, science and technologies in a transnational and cultural perspective. Another current research focus is theorizing of diversity and difference in gender studies through genealogical explorations of conceptualizations of intersectionality and their reflections in feminist theorizing.
* Christine Roman is Professor of Sociology. A main area of research is continuity and change in gender relations in work and family. Her doctoral dissertation, which examines gendering processes in the so-called new economy, addresses questions concerning relations between working life and family life, as well as intersections between class and gender. She has conducted several studies within this research field, including in-depth studies of negotiations between heterosexual couples, studies of the interplay between the social sciences and family policy, and studies on feminist theory on intimate relations. Another of her research interests is social movements, with a focus on how redistribution and recognition claims are balanced, both vis-à-vis the state and vis-à-vis groups within movements, i.e. how major social divisions such as gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity intersect in claims for social justice.
* Barbro Wijma is Professor of Gender and Medicine, a medical doctor with gynaecology as her area of specialization, and a psychotherapist. Her thesis 1982 approached “Fear of childbirth in pregnant women” from a quantitative and a qualitative approach, and was at that time pioneering. Combining feminist perspectives on sex/gender with her medical expertise has led her to explore interdisciplinary ways of bridging the gap between natural science approaches (with focus on biology and quantitative methodology, e.g. epidemiology) with ethical, philosophical and sociological ones. Her research includes studies of women’s and men’s experiences of violence and violations in various context e.g. partner relationships and in health care, and based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and on theories from ethics and sociology. Another field of interest is empowerment of women vis-à-vis gynaecological examinations and methods of teaching medical students how to do gynaecological examinations in a caring, sensitive and empathic way. To take control over the body, in particular in relation to sexual practices, is a related research area. Among others she leads a project about young women who feel pain during intercourse, reflected as an effect of dominating attitudes to sex and gender relations.

International Advisory Board

Elzbieta Olesky, Prof., Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Raewyn Connell, Prof., University of Sydney, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Prof., Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Karan Barad, Prof., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kathleen B. Jones, Emerita Prof., Women’'s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Birte Siim, Prof., Gender Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leonore Davidoff, Emerita Prof., Sociology, University of Essex, UK
Berit Schei, Professor of Women’s Medicine, The Technical University of Norway, Norway