Is There A Nordic Feminism?: Nordic Feminist Thought On Culture And Society (Gender, Change & Society)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Is there a Nordic feminism?......Page 17
Themes and central problematic of the book......Page 18
Politics in ambiguous times......Page 21
Organization and contested spaces......Page 23
Identity/subjectivity—between equality and difference......Page 28
Notes......Page 34
bibliography......Page 35
PART ONE Politics in ambiguous times......Page 36
Introduction......Page 37
What is political?......Page 38
The conflict between work and motherhood......Page 40
Women and politics......Page 43
The organization of women......Page 44
The century of the child and the woman—an ideological alternative......Page 46
The conflict between work and motherhood in practical politics......Page 49
Power and the conflicting interests of women......Page 52
Concluding remarks......Page 54
Notes......Page 56
References......Page 57
CHAPTER THREE Social Democratic women’s coup in the Swedish parliament......Page 60
Women’s conditional participation in politics......Page 61
Women’s interests......Page 63
The Social Democratic Women’s Federation......Page 65
In retrospect......Page 66
The problem......Page 69
Feminist revolt and parental allowance......Page 70
Background......Page 71
Apportioning blame......Page 73
Re-allocating the issue......Page 74
Splitting the women......Page 76
Denying the gender conflict......Page 77
Notes......Page 79
References......Page 83
CHAPTER FOUR “On their own premises”: the political project of the Icelandic Women’s Alliance......Page 86
The start......Page 88
The ideological basis......Page 90
The Women’s Alliance as a political project......Page 92
The Women’s Alliance of 1993: what is it? What will it become?......Page 100
Political reality......Page 102
Now what?......Page 103
Notes......Page 104
References......Page 106
CHAPTER FIVE They had a different mother: the central configuration of Icelandic nationalist discourse......Page 108
Warfare and the resurrection of the nation......Page 109
Herder: man, nature, nation......Page 110
Icelanders, they had a different mother......Page 111
Iceland: a Mountain Woman......Page 113
From the symbolic to the social: the Mountain Woman and Icelandic women......Page 116
References......Page 120
CHAPTER SIX Make a line, so I can cross it: postmodernist space in Camille Paglia’s Sexual personae......Page 123
The Apollo-Dionysos or culture-nature dichotomies spatially visualized......Page 126
Masculinity and femininity, spatially conceived......Page 130
Concluding thoughts......Page 133
References......Page 136
PART TWO Organization and contested spaces......Page 137
The Utopia of the salon......Page 138
The cultural history of the salon in Europe and the North......Page 141
The cultural poetics of the salon and the bel esprit......Page 146
The house and the garden......Page 149
The meal and the conversation......Page 152
Art and literature......Page 154
The body and the attitude......Page 157
Images and myths of the Nordic bel esprit and salon......Page 159
Notes......Page 162
References......Page 163
CHAPTER EIGHT The dream of reality: a study of a feminine dramatic tradition, the one-act play......Page 166
Notes......Page 173
References......Page 177
CHAPTER NINE Gender as the dynamo: when public organizations have to change......Page 178
Changes in public organizations......Page 179
Gender and organization under change: an analytical framework......Page 180
The analytical framework......Page 181
The significance of gender for change in public organizations......Page 188
Notes......Page 191
References......Page 192
The mushroom and the mycelium......Page 194
Sexual harassment and gender as qualification......Page 195
The norm of “objectified masculinity”......Page 199
The archetypical proletarians......Page 202
Masculinity as counter-power......Page 204
Femininity without borders......Page 207
A fruitful foreign element?......Page 211
References......Page 213
CHAPTER ELEVEN Attraction and love at work......Page 216
Study design and data......Page 219
Falling in love at work......Page 220
Consequences of love at work......Page 222
Unrequited, hidden and reciprocal love......Page 224
Sexual and non-sexual relationships......Page 225
Summary and discussion......Page 228
References......Page 232
Introduction......Page 235
Modern brotherhoods......Page 236
The new professionals in Denmark today......Page 237
Case study: the change of gender construction in gynaecology......Page 239
Professionality, brotherhood and female doctors......Page 241
Scientific standards—the clinical gaze......Page 243
Functional specificity—affective neutrality......Page 245
Sexuality in professional brotherhood......Page 247
New postmodern tones in the brotherhood and the profession......Page 249
The feminization of the public sector—mother love as a social matter......Page 252
Sexuality in a state of flux......Page 253
Conclusion......Page 255
References......Page 257
PART THREE Identity/subjectivity—between equality and difference......Page 259
Introduction......Page 260
The twofold changes......Page 264
Integration as an ideal and male dominance as illegitimate......Page 267
A cultural contextual method in the psychological study of gender......Page 270
Negotiating meanings of gender into a gendered self......Page 274
Human activity gives gender to everything......Page 280
The relative subordination of femininity to masculinity......Page 282
References......Page 284
1 The historical relation of the reason—emotion opposition to the mind-body distinction......Page 289
2 A feminist argument for the rationality of emotions......Page 291
3 The cognitivist theory of emotions......Page 292
4 Intentionality......Page 294
5 Bodily intentions......Page 295
6 The connection to beliefs......Page 297
7 Emotions versus beliefs......Page 299
8 The physiological body and the body subject......Page 301
9 Bodily feelings......Page 302
Conclusions......Page 304
Notes......Page 305
References......Page 308
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Asta Nielsen: a modern woman before her time?......Page 312
A star is made......Page 313
The Gaucho dance: body and movement......Page 317
Asta Nielsen’s persona as indexical sign......Page 320
“Die Asta” and the audience......Page 322
References......Page 326
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Oscillations: on subject and gender in late modernism......Page 328
The poetic discourse......Page 329
The processuality of becoming......Page 333
Naming Being......Page 334
Naming as the essence of poetry......Page 335
The work of poetry......Page 336
Subject and gender in the middle voice......Page 337
Différance......Page 338
Writing as “woman”......Page 339
Notes......Page 341
Bibliography......Page 342
Introduction......Page 344
The relationships between technical limited and responsible rationality......Page 345
Rationality and the meaning of being human......Page 347
Rationality and socialization......Page 348
A critique of new tendencies......Page 349
Postmodernism......Page 351
Identity—a sociological approach......Page 353
Constructivism, deconstructivism and power......Page 355
Responsible rationality and autonomy......Page 357
Conclusion......Page 359
Notes......Page 360
References......Page 361
What constitutes the Nordic element?......Page 363
What constitutes Nordic women’s studies?......Page 368
Notes......Page 374
References......Page 376
Index......Page 378