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Fewer young women want children
The average age of first-time mothers continues to rise. This may help explain why the percentage of young women wanting to have children has fallen from 2019 to 2022, according to Sara Cools.
Study on men and abortion: All of them felt loss of control
What is it like for a man when a woman considers abortion? Hege Follestad has gained insight into men’s fear and uncertainty in her doctoral dissertation.
Hot topics in the Nordic courts
Trans people, indigenous peoples and consent law: Daniela Alaattinoğlu’s award-winning research challenges the Nordic region’s perception of itself as a leader on minority rights.
Online violence is silencing academics
Academic disagreement and critical engagement are essential to knowledge production. But the line is crossed when critique targets the person rather than the scholarship, writes Hande Eslen-Ziya.
Angel healing courses and self-help books compensate for shortcomings in the welfare state
"It's striking how many women attend yoga classes and try alternative healing," says Suvi Salmenniemi, who is researching therapeutic culture.
Amazons of the far Right
An increasing number of far-right parties in Europe are led by women. Yet, these parties have relatively few women among their voters, members, and elected representatives, according to researchers.
"My struggle" – the struggle to be a man and a writer
"Knausgård's novel thematises men who can’t find their place in the modern masculine role," says Professor Inger Skjelsbæk.
Early puberty in girls has a limited effect on grades
There is, however, no doubt that reaching puberty early has an impact on school performance, according to a new study.
She paved the way for the anti-racist movement in Norway
When the classical singer Ruth Reese arrived in Norway in 1956, she brought with her a strong commitment to fight racism and apartheid.
Charlotte Koren: Has documented the value of care
“I’ve always strived to make women and children visible in the statistics,” says the economist.
Taking medication during pregnancy rarely causes birth defects
‘Pregnant women, like the rest of the population, have chronic or acute conditions that require medical treatment,’ says Hedvig Nordeng. She recently won the NAR Brain Power Award for her research.
NEWS FROM KILDEN:
The first issue this year is an open issue. But even though the articles are varied, all of them are aimed at hot topics in the public debate. The articles illustrate the breadth of the field of gender research and examine in different ways how power works. You can read about transmasculines' experiences of discussing their own desire for reproduction during treatment for gender incongruence. You can also read a discursive analysis of Christian conservative mobilization against teaching about gender in school, as well as about how gender and resistance can have a mobilizing effect in gender equality work in academia.
Taking medication during pregnancy rarely causes birth defects
‘Pregnant women, like the rest of the population, have chronic or acute conditions that require medical treatment,’ says Hedvig Nordeng. She recently won the NAR Brain Power Award for her research.
Most read articles from Kilden genderresearch.no in 2024
The five most read articles in 2024 covered a variety of issues - from country music to political love letters to health perspectives in gender research.
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Gender Equality Days 2025
Nordic gender equality actors gather to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and to discuss the intersections of safety and gender. The Gender Equality Days is intended for everyone working with or interested in gender equality issues, including policymakers, public officials, researchers, students and specialists in labour market organisations, CSOs, the private sector and projects. The objectives of the event are to: bring together actors promoting gender equality, share information, exchange experiences, discuss the goals of promoting gender equality, develop coordination and working methods in gender equality efforts and enhance participants’ own expertise.
Karen River Barad in dialogue with Rebecca Schneider on Barad's forthcoming book "Energetics of the Otherwise: A Laboratory of the Possible."
Karen River Barad's new book, Energetics of the Otherwise: A Laboratory of the Possible, is forthcoming with Yale University Press. The book presents a unique understanding of the inseparability of the theological, political, and scientific aspects of worlding, while offering alternative ways of (re)configuring Kabbalah, materialism, and quantum physics in their intra-relationality. It puts forward a critical methodology that attends to entangled histories of the oppressed and the urgently required messianic work of ever ongoing reparation.
Rebecca Schneider, a performance theorist, has been in conversation with Barad for some time. Their conversations on gesture, worlding, inseparability, interinanimation, emergency, and Black feminist thought -- have informed some of the book's errant currents. Introducing the book, this public conversation will flow and pool in and around some possible thoughts Barad and Schneider have shared in the interstices of their (un)disciplines.
