Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
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<p><em>Tidskrift för genusvetenskap</em> (TGV) är en expertgranskad genusvetenskaplig tidskrift. TGV speglar den svenska genusforskningens bredd och centrerar dess intersektionella och kritiska epistemologier. TGV presenterar ny forskning, teorier och begrepp samt tillgängliggör forskning för en bredare krets.</p>Ämnesföreningen för Genusvetenskapsv-SETidskrift för genusvetenskap2001-1377<p>Författaren/författarna behåller copyright till verket. </p>Säkerhet – för vem, och under vilka villkor?
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Linnéa Bruno
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.18025Vad spelar sexualitet för roll i kriget? Om den ryska invasionen, hbtq-rättigheter och civilsamhällets motstånd i Ukraina
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Maryna Shevtsova
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.18007Läkaren Andrea Andreen, Koreakriget och bakteriologisk krigföring i arkivet
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Sanna Hellgren Landbris
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.8728Drömmen som kraschade. Könade känslor och kroppar i medierapporteringen om Jas 39 Gripens krasch på Långholmen 1993
https://publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/view/7423
<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>On the 8th of August 1993, JAS 39 Gripen, the pride of the Swedish air force, crashed during an air show in downtown Stockholm. The pilot miraculously survived this accident, witnessed by half a million specta- tors, and no serious injuries were reported among the audience. This article draws on feminist theory in studies of international relations and a discourse analytical framework to reveal how gendered representations of emotions and bodies featured in, and contributed to, making meaning about collective identity and possible futures in the aftermath of the event. The empirical focus lies on the four major Swedish newspapers during the early 1990s, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen and Svenska Dagbladet. The analysis shows that the crash triggered intense criticism of JAS, a costly state-industrial military project at the core of the Swedish welfare state project, and the historical policy of armed neutrality which relied on notions of defensive masculine protection. By doing so, the crash contributed to destabilize notions of defensive masculinist protection practiced through the armed neutrality policy during the Cold War period. These findings are not only relevant for our understanding of the past. By shedding light on how logics related to masculinist protection were de-stabilized in a period when Sweden’s first steps towards increased military cooperation with NATO were taken, the findings also provide important clues to our understanding of contemporary security developments. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div>Stina MalménEmma Rosengren
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.7423Kön, heterosexualitet och (o)trygghet: En feministisk analys av svenska säkerhetsdebatter i skuggan av kriget i Ukraina
https://publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/view/8446
<p>This article examines how the war in Ukraine and the subsequent re-orientation of Swedish security and defense policy leading up to a NATO-application, has been discussed in Swedish public debate. We ask what work gender does in the sense-making of the war and the changes in security policy. Departing from feminist theories of security and gendered protection, the study discusses the ambivalent ways in which gender and the trope of Sweden as a gender equal nation is negotiated in the media (print media and television) and by policy makers. The gendered imaginaries of masculinist protection and the vulnerability of women and children legitimize violence as the most adequate way to respond to this new situation. Gender is used to depoliticize security politics and to frame militarization as unavoidable. In this context, gender equality is both seen as a value worthy of protection and as an internal threat weakening men, and inclining women to object to the military responses suggested. We argue that the production of hypermasculinity and militarization promotes a security ideology imbued with violence, hierarchies, and control.</p>Cecilia ÅseMaria WendtMaria JanssonMaud Eduards
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.8446A Rainbow Flag Worth Defending? Swedish Armed Forces’ Pride Campaigns 2017-2022
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<p>Recent decades have seen an increased mobilization of LGBTQ rights in the creation and maintenance of national(ist) identities. One example is how Sweden has been cast as exceptionally progressive with regard to gender equality and LGBTQ rights, in line with earlier notions of ‘Swedish exceptionalism’. Simultaneously, military institutions across a number of countries have attempted to mobilize issues around gender and sexuality in efforts to broaden recruiting and to re-define their societal relevance as security organizations. Since 2017, the Swedish Armed Forces have published a yearly Pride campaign, usually scheduled to coincide with Stockholm Pride, Sweden’s largest Pride festival. Drawing on a combined analysis of visual and textual campaign material, this article firstly looks at the ways in which LGBTQ rights are employed to ascribe meaning to the SAF as an organization and secondly at how this justifies the increasing rearmament and reterritorialization of Swedish defense in the face of growing anti-gender mobilization in Eastern parts of Europe and Russian aggression against Ukraine. By exploring boundary-making moves around LGBTQ rights in the SAF Pride campaigns, it thirdly reflects upon how sexual minorities are made intelligible within the context of these campaigns, and discusses the implications this may have for LGBTQ movements and their fights for LGBTQ rights.</p>Katharina Kehl
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.7207Judith Butler och det sörjande självets kapacitet till icke-våld – influenser från Sigmund Freud och Melanie Klein
https://publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/view/8698
<p>This article discusses how we can understand the self and its capacities for non-violence within the conceptualization of mourning in the work of the feminist philosopher Judith Butler. Though Butler is mainly read as a Foucauldian and a Hegelian, I highlight an often-neglected reading which shows the importance of psychoanalysis for Butler’s thinking. I claim that Sigmund Freud’s and Melanie Klein’s respective understandings of the intersubjective constitution of the self, as structured by mourning, are crucial for Butler’s understanding of the self as relational. Since ambivalence and aggression are important parts of the self’s relational constitution, Butler’s self, inspired by Freud and Klein, is confronted with the ethical task of handling its disposition to destruction with non-violence.</p> <p>While Butler admits the importance of Freud for their understanding of the self, the role of Klein is more ambivalent in their writing. I show how Klein provides Butler with an understanding of how the self is dependent on its other and at the same time that the self-other relation is the place where ego’s struggle between love and hate is played out. According to my reading, a Kleinian perspective further includes that the self is capable by its structure to handle the hate that dependency on the other awakens. However, I argue that a Kleinian perspective on love is still not yet sufficiently explored in Butler’s ethics. I contend that it is understandable that Butler is wary of Klein’s understanding of the self as intra-psychical and drive-structured, in contrast to their own understanding of the self as ontologically social. But, according to my reading, a Kleinian perspective on how to increase love to diminish hate could be more explored to balance Butler’s emphasis on the self’s aggression and to contribute to a fuller ethics of non-violence.</p>Anna Nyström
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.8698En studie i krigets mytologi. Fredstematik i Elin Wägners Den förödda vingården
https://publicera.kb.se/tgv/article/view/7261
<p>The dominance of militarism needs to be understood in relation to gender. This relation is complicated by the fact that peace is often defined as non-war – just as woman is traditionally represented as non-male – a lesser being or the exception that proves the rule. In other words, war and peace are gendered concepts. This is particularly evident in the reporting on armed conflicts where war is characterized through male notions and words. Elin Wägner (1882–1949), one of the most influential European voices for peace and women’s emancipation during the first half of the 20th century, was well aware of this. With her novel <em>Den förödda vingården, </em>published 1920, she moved from depicting World War I and its consequences from a distance, to placing the plot at its epicenter. Unlike media reporting from war zones, Wägner sheds light upon women’s and children’s situation in the aftermath of the war, while placing men’s stories in the background. In the novel the impact of who is telling the story of the war as well as what is being told, and how, is acknowledged and problematized. By exploring the performative elements of war, as well as its relationship to the mythological and ritual, <em>Den förödda vingården</em> makes war visible as a gendered mythology and punctures dichotomies such as “war/activity/development/rationality” and “peace/passivity/stagnation/irrationality”. This can in turn be read in relation to Wägner’s later attempts to contrast a patriarchal historiography with the mythology of matriarchy. In particular, the plot of the novel focuses on another mythology – one that overshadows matriarchy – the mythology of war. </p>Maria Mårsell
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.7261Feministiska dilemman i krigstid
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Riya RaphaelMarta Kolankiewicz
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.18529”Han hade sin penis i henne” – Representationer av agerande kroppar i sexualbrottsdomar
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<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Sex crime judgments have repeatedly been criticized for reproduc- ing detailed descriptions of women’s bodies and sexualized violence as elaborate details are thought to increase the risk of secondary victimization. To gain a better understanding of the function of detailed descriptions of bodies and (sexualized) violence I examine how bodies and actions are represented in reconstructed party statements. </p> <p>Based on a view of touch and emotion as important meaning-making resources, I analyze discursive constructions of social actors and actions to show how the parties are positioned in the statements and what kind of discursive strategies are constructed by the positioning of the parties. The results show that positionings in women’s statements constitutes discursive strategies to construct assault through a structural representation of women’s reluctance and men’s willingness. By contrast, positionings in men’s statements constitutes discursive strategies to construct either voluntariness, misunderstandings, or non-events depending on the verdict and subject matter, through structural representations of women’s willingness.</p> <p>I show that detailed descriptions of bodies and (sexualized) violence pose a functional necessity in party statements and that the language used cannot be changed unless current discourses about rape and ideal victims change. In addition, it is argued that the risk of secondary victimization remains even if competing discourses would change the language used in party statements.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>Sofia Orrbén
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.10684Moderland utan kvinnor: kast, klass och patriarkat i Manish Jhas Matrubhoomi
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<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>This article offers a critical analysis of Manish Jha’s debut feature film Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003). The movie offers a dystopic vision of a near future when the systematic killing of new born females would leave villages and its surroundings with no women in it at all. Referring to this phenomenon as ‘bachelor villages’, scholars have identified this as an emerging social problem with wide far-reaching implications for gender relations and social life in general. Existing scholarship has highlighted how the shortage of women leads to increasing levels of violence embodied in practices such as polyandry, child marriage, rape, trafficking and kidnapping of women from neighbouring regions. Furthermore, the film articulates a central paradox: the symbolic deification of the ‘mother of the nation’ in national imaginary and her systematic elimination through sex-selective reproductive technologies.</p> <p>In our close reading, we draw on feminist political economy to understand the power dynamics shaped through the intersections of gender, class and caste and how this transforms the social fabric in a village which has systematically eliminated women and girl-children. We combine a thematic analysis with a reading of Matrubhoomi’s cinematic features.</p> <p>Furthermore, the violence in the film is analyzed through what we call ”economies of violence” which is related to the paradoxical development trajectory in India. While the Indian government has initiated several schemes for the empowerment of women, these progressive processes are often accompanied by escalating violence against women, which cannot be abstracted from cultural configurations of gendered practices of son preference and sex selective abortions. We highlight the pivotal theme of remasculinization as constructed in relation to patriarchy, caste, class and sexuality and how it functions as a vector for economies of violence. We suggest that the film illustrates how a seemingly feminist agenda can be formulated from the position of a patriarchal, heteronormative, homophobic and transphobic logic.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>Johanna GondouinSuruchi Thapar-Björkert
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.14860Från redaktionen
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Irina SchmittMaja Sager
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.18466Mona L. Siegel. Peace on our terms: The global battle for women’s rights after the first world war
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Lisa Gålmark
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.8707Kristin Järvstad. Under beredskap och krig: nation, kön, främlingskap och våld hos svenska kvinnliga 1940-talsförfattare
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Cecilia Åse
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.11356Nina Lykke. Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning
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Jamie Woodworth
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.14461ÄG krönika hösten 2023 – Genusvetenskapen i det samtida forskningslandskapet
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Ulf Mellström
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2023-12-082023-12-08432-310.55870/tgv.v43i2-3.18016Medverkande
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