KULT 2207 and KULT 2208 - 2010 Contact: Priscilla Ringrose

GENDER AND NORWEGIAN CULTURE: PARADOXES OF EQUALITY I and II IMPORTANT NOTE: KULT 2207 students follow lectures 1 to 7, purchase the 2 course books below and Compendium 1. KULT 2208 students follow all 13 lectures, purchase the 2 course books below and Compendiums 1 and 2. All the articles in the reading list are to be found in the compendium(s), apart from the chapters which are taken from the two course books.

Course Books: Gullestad, Marianne (1992) The art of social relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press Melby, Kari, Ravn, Anna-Birte and Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson (eds) (2008) Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy Press Lecture 1:

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Richardson, Diane (2008) „Conceptualizing Gender.‟ In Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies, third edition, edited by D. Richardson and V. Robinson. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (16 p.) Hines, Sally (2008) „Feminist Theories.‟ In Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies, third edition, edited by D. Richardson and V. Robinson. New York: PalgraveMacmillan (12 p.) Melby, Kari, Ravn, Anna-Birte and Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson (2008), „A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press, 1-21 (20 p.)* Rosenbeck, Bente (1998) „Nordic women‟s studies and gender research.‟ In Is there a Nordic Feminism? Nordic feminist thought on culture and society, edited by F. von der Drude et al. London: UCL Press. 344-357 (13 p.) Holter, Oystein Gullvag (2003) „The Nordic example.‟ In Can men do it: men and gender equality, edited by O. G. Holter. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, 31-62 (31 p.) Borchost, Anette (2008) „Women-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equlity visions in Scandinavia.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press, 27-42 (15 p.)* Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU

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*This chapter is also included in the reading list for lecture 2 and is included only once in the total page count. Total pages: 87 (not counting Gender Equality Intro) Lecture 2:

Stine Helena Bang Svendsen

Christensen, Ann-Dorte (2008) „Young women‟s attitude towards feminism and gender equality‟. In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press (14 p.) Gullestad, Marianne (1992) „Egalitarian Individualism‟. The art of social relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (18 p.) Gullestad, Marianne (1992) „Symbolic Fences‟. The art of social relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (18 p.) Melby, Kari, Ravn, Anna-Birte and Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson (2008), „A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press (20 p.) Total pages: 70 Lecture 3:

Kristin Spilker

Gullestad, Marianne (1992) „Equality and Marital Love.‟ The art of Social Relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Scandinavian University Press (20 p.) Lorentzen, Jørgen L (2007) „Love and Intimacy in Men's Lives.‟ NORA, Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, Volume 15 Issue 2 & 3, 2007, 190 – 198 (8 p.) Magnusson, Eva (2008) „Conflict, danger and difference. Nordic heterosexual couples converse about gender equality and fairness‟. In Critical Studies of Gender Equalities. Nordic dislocations, dilemmas and contradictions, edited by E. Magnusson, M. Rönnblom, and H. Silius. Göteborg: Makadam (17 p.) Melby, Kari, Rosenbeck, Bente, Pylkkänen, Anu and Wetterberg, Christina (2006) „The Nordic Model of Marriage.‟ Women’s History Review, vol. 15, 4, 651-661 (11 p.) Total pages: 56 Lecture 4: Malin Noem Ravn Aarseth, Helene (2008) „From Modernized Masculinity to De-gendered Lifestyle Projects: Changes in Men‟s Narratives on Domestic Participation 1990 - 2005.‟ Men and Masculinities, Vol. 4, 424-440 (17p.) Aarseth, Helene (2007) „Between labour and love. The re-erotization of home-making in egalitarian couples within a Nordic context.‟ Nordic Journal of Women's Studies 2007, 15(2/3):133-143 (10 p.) Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU

KULT 2207 and KULT 2208 - 2010 Contact: Priscilla Ringrose Danielsen, Hilde (2005) „Wage-earning housewives in the 1950s: Negotiating work and money.‟ In Twentieth -century housewives- Meanings and implications of unpaid work. Unipub, 217-233 (16 p.) Gullestad, Marianne (1992) „Home Decoration as Popular Culture.‟ The art of Social Relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (31 p.) Melby, Kari (1989) „The housewife Ideology in Norway between the Two World Wars.‟ Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 14, 181-193 (12 p.) Solheim, Jorun (1995) „Shelter from the Storm.‟ In Labour of Love. Beyond the selfevidence of everyday life, edited by T. Borchgrevink and Ø. G. Holter. Aldershot: Avebury (25 p.) Total pages: 111 Lecture 5:

Merete Lie

Melhuus, Marit (2005) “„Better safe than sorry‟: Legislating assisted conception in Norway.‟ In State Formation. Anthropological Perspectives, edited by C. KrohnHansen and K. G. Nustad. London: Pluto Press, 212-233 (22 p.) Ravn, Malin Noem (2005) „A Matter of Free Choice? Some Structural and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Have or Not to Have Children in Norway.‟ In Barren States. The Population ‘Implosion’ in Europe edited by C. B. Douglass. Oxford: Berg (18 p.) Spilker, Kristin and Lie, Merete (2007) „Gender and Bioethics Intertwined. Egg donation within the context of equal opportunities.‟ European Journal of Women’s Studies Vol. 14(4): 327-340 (13 p.) Total pages: 53 Lecture 6:

Merete Lie

Andenæs, Agnes (2005) „Neutral Claims – Gendered Meanings: Parenthood and Developmental Psychology in a Modern Welfare State.‟ Feminism and Psychology 2005; 15; 209-226 (17 p.) Annfelt, Trine (2008) „From soft fathers to the rights of the sperm? Biologism as a heteronorming resource.‟ In Critical Studies of Gender Equalities. Nordic dislocations, dilemmas and contradiction, edited by E. Magnusson, M. Rönnblom, and H. Silius. Göteborg: Makadam (22 p.) Annfelt, Trine (2008) „The „new father‟: gender equality as discoursive resource for family policies.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press (14 pp.) Total pages: 53

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KULT 2207 and KULT 2208 - 2010 Contact: Priscilla Ringrose Lecture 7:

Agnes Bolsø

Bolsø, Agnes (2008) „Mission Accomplished? Gay Elitism and the Constant Misery of a Minority‟. Trikster – Nordic Queer Journal # 1 2008. (10 p.) Røthing, Åse (2008) „Homotolerance and heteronormativity in Norwegian classrooms‟. Gender and Education 2008 ;Volum 20.(3) s. 253-266 (14 p.) Kristiansen, Hans W. 2004. Narrating Past Lives and Present Concerns: Older Gay Men in Norway. In: G. Herdt and B. de Vries Gay and Lesbian Aging. Research and Future Directions. New York: Springer Publishing Company (27 p.) Pedersen, Willy, Kristiansen, Hans W. (2008) „Homosexual Experience, Desire and Identity Among Young Adults‟. In: Bjørby, Pål, Ryall, Anka (eds). Queering Norway. Published as Journal of homosexuality vol 54, no1/2: 68-103. (35 p.) Hellesund, Tone (draft, forthcoming in print). Norway. Overview over LGBT Issues. In: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide 305-318 (13 p.) Total: 120 pages Lecture 8:

Agnes Bolsø

Buss, Doris, Gross Aeyal, Otto, Diane, Shalakany, Amr, Wilde, Ralph (2007) Queering International law (a conference panel debate) (14 p.) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6999/is_101/ai_n28506655/ Gross, Aeyal M. 2008. Sex, Love and Marriage: Questioning Gender and Sexuality Rights in International Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 21:235-253 (18 p.) Halperin, David M. (1990) „One Hundred Years of Homosexuality‟, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and other Essays on Greek Love,. London, New York: Routledge, 15-41 (26 p.) Halperin, David M. (1990) „Homoesexuality: A cultural contract. An exchange with Richard Schneider‟, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. London, New York: Routledge, 41-53 (12 p.) Wieringa, Saskia (2005) „Women marriages and other same-sex practices: historical reflections on African women‟s same-sex relations.‟ In Tommy boys, lesbian men and ancestral wives: female same-sex practices in Africa, edited by R. Morgan and S. Wieringa. Johannesburg: Jacana, Hivos, Gala. 281-309 (28 p.) Total pages: 116 Lecture 9:

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Andersen, Britt (2004) „Gender and Ethnicity in Hamsun‟s Look Back on Happiness‟. In The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in TwentiethCentury Texts, edited by E.Witt-Brattström. Huddinge: Södertorns högskola 109-123 (14 p.) Langås, Unni (2004) „The impact of Nora: Performing Gender with Butler and Ibsen‟. In The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in TwentiethCentury texts, edited by E. Witt-Brattström, 51-66 (16 p.) Lorentzen, Jørgen (2003) „Masculinity and Paranoia in Strindberg's The Father.‟ In Among Men, edited by E. Søren and T. Johansson. Farnham: Ashgate. 264-288 (24 p.)

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KULT 2207 and KULT 2208 - 2010 Contact: Priscilla Ringrose Moi, Toril (2006) “„First and Foremost a Human Being:‟ Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll’s House.‟ In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism. Art, Theater, Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (23 p.) Moi, Toril (2006)„The Art of transformation. Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea.‟ In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism. Art, Theater, Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (22 p.) Total pages: 99 Lecture 10: Priscilla Ringose Angell, Olav Helge (2004) „Welfare, Church and Gender in Norway.‟ In Welfare, Church and Gender in Eight European Countries, edited by N. E. Beckman. Uppsala: Diakonvetenskapliga instittets skriftserie, 9, 63-102 (39 p.) Røthing, Åse (2003) „Doing couples: negotiating faith and gender. Ideals and strategies.‟ NORA. Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 2003, Vol. 11 (1) 55-58 (3 p.) Røthing, Åse (2007) „Who gets the final word? Gender and negotiations in late modern interfaith relationships.‟ Religion in Late Modernity. Essays in Honor of Pål Repstad. Trondheim: Tapir. 101-116 (15 p.) Østberg, Sissel (2003) „Norwegian-Pakistani Adolescents: Negotiating Religion, Gender, Ethnicity and Social Boundaries.‟ Young Vol. 11, No 2, 2003, 161-181 (20 p.) „Religion and Secularized Everyday Life.‟ The art of social relations. Essays on Culture, Social Action and Everyday Life in Modern Norway. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (18 p.) Total pages: 95 Lecture 11: Berit Gullikstad Gullikstad, Berit (2010). „Doing Gender and Racialisation in work organisations. Norwegian Nursing homes as a strategic case-study.‟ In Elder care in Norway: a descriptive overview and a case study, FEMCIT- Report D.3.8 WP3 Strand 2B, edited by A.-J. Berg, B. Gullikstad and E. Ljunggren, 22-37 (15p.) Gullikstad, Berit (2009) Norwegian policy on economic citizenship for gender equality and ethnic integration. FEMCIT –report, D.3.5. WP3 Strand 2A, 1-25 p. (25p.) Hagelund, Anniken og Hanne C. Kavli (2009). ‘If work is out of sight? Activation and citizenship for new refugees.‟ Journal of European Social Policy, 19 (3) 259-270 (21p.) Kavli, Hanne C. (2004). „Cooking class or carpenter shop? Gender bias in government qualification programs.‟ In Barrierer på arbeidsmarkedet for kvinner med innvandrerbakgrunn, edited by B. Berg and E. Ferrari de Carli. Copenhagen: Nordisk ministerråd, 22 -28 (6p.) Sollund, Ragnhild (2009). „Migrant au pairs in the Norwegian welfare state: Care chains and transnational care.‟ The Journal of Social Criminology, 1(1):122-148 (26p)

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KULT 2207 and KULT 2208 - 2010 Contact: Priscilla Ringrose Total pages: 93 Lecture 12: Berit Gullikstad Gullestad, Marianne (2006) „Introduction: the social production of conventional wisdom.‟ In M. Gullestad, Plausible prejudice: everyday experiences and social images of nation, culture and race. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 23-67 (44 p.) Langvassbråten, Trude (2008). „A Scandinavian Model? Gender equality and multiculturalism.‟ Social Politics 15(1): 32-52 (20 p.) Teigen, Mari and Trude Langvassbråten (2009). ‟The “Crisis” of Gender Equality: The Norwegian Newspaper Debate on Female Gential Cutting.‟ NORA- Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 17 (4): 256-272 (16 p.) Siim, Birte and Hege Skjeie (2008). „Tracks, intersection and dead ends: Multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway.‟ Ethnicities 8(3): 322-344 (22p.) Skjeie, Hege and Mari Teigen (2005). „Political construction of gender equality: Travelling towards…..a gender balanced society?‟ NORA- Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 13 (3): 187-197 (10 p.)

Total pages:112p Lecture 13: Paradoxes of equality Lister, Ruth (2008) „Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from outside.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press (7 p.) Pringle, Keith (2008), „Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries.‟ In Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, edited by K. Melby, A-B Ravn and C. C. Wetterberg. Bristol: Policy Press (6 p.) Total: 13 pages

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