
Feminist Sociology
Short description
Feminist sociology constitutes both a perspective and a research field. This network addresses everyone with an interest in feminist theory, methodology, activism, or empirical research. The purpose of the network is to provide opportunities to meet and, in collaborative forms, develop new insights, ideas and perspectives within the field. Areas of expertise and research represented in the network are, for instance, gender and occupational status; queer activism; gender and violence; and equality in work life, parenting, environmental movements, and Covid-19 policy responses.
Since a feminist perspective can be applied on all kinds of research topics, many of us are simultaneously also affiliated with other research groups. The network engages researchers in ongoing projects with a clear gender or feminist perspective as well as researchers that are not currently involved in such projects, teachers, and others from the academic community. The network welcomes participants from all departments at the university (however, the list of affiliated researchers – below - only includes employees at the Department of Sociology and Work Science).
Our ambition is to provide a creative academic environment, a feminist space, where academic culture and tradition can be challenged. A second ambition is to offer regular activities that do not require much preparation and where academic prestige and outcome is peripheral. Hence, we both strive to vary the format we work in, and to give much time for collaborative processes and practical exploration. Besides more traditional research presentations and paper discussions, the seminar also offers various workshops; discussions on topical phenomena; reading circles; movie screenings; and more informal lunch seminars. We draw upon academic texts, as well as lived experiences and observations of contemporary events.
Anyone is welcome to present a text draft for review and discussion. This holds both for texts with a feminist perspective already at place, and for texts where you as a writer are still uncertain on how – and to what extent – feminist perspectives can be theoretically, methodologically or empirically useful.
The feminist seminar meets once a month. Time and day of the week varies, but all dates are set by the beginning of each semester.
Research project within Feminist Sociology
- Artistic career choices and family formation
- Explaining very low fertility in postindustrial societies: an unconventional ap…
- From Rector Magnificus to management strategist. Academic leadership ideal in t…
- GenderTime - Transferring, Implementing, Monitoring Equality
- Ideals and practices of gender equality among parents in blue- and white-collar…
- Job descriptions for guidance - a question about the individual's free choice o…
- LGBTQ people's organizational and social work environment - a systematic review
- The futures of genders and sexualities - Cultural products, transnational space…
- The importance of ethical values for men's and women's leadership.
- Gender safe work environment - A study of a gender safety climate which prevent…
- Ideals and practices of gender equality among parents in blue- and white-collar…
- Rape or consent? Effects of the new rape legislation on legal reasoning and pra…
- Differences in assessment, handling and prevention of serious occupational diso…
- Dissertation project: Alienation in Love: A Theory of the Social Materiality of… (External link)
- Dissertation project: The real rape - the application of Swedish rape laws 1965…
- Dissertation project: The role of preschool teachers in the implementation of t…
Dissertation project: Menstrual mess - about menstruation, dirt, and cleanliness
The importance of ethical values for men's and women's leadership.
Explaining very low fertility in postindustrial societies: an unconventional approach
From Rector Magnificus to management strategist. Academic leadership ideal in transformation
GenderTime - Transferring, Implementing, Monitoring Equality
Other research in the area
ACCTING: Advancing behavioural change through an inclusive green deal
RESISTIRÉ: Responding to Outbreaks through Co-creative Inclusive Equality Strategies (2021-2023).
Between Romance and Sexual Commerce: Sugar Dating and the renegotiation of the boundaries between economy and intimacy (2019-2022)
Visualising and measuring the role of Industrial Relations in Addressing Gender Equality (VIRAGE) (2020-2022). Funded by European Commission, (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). Led by CEPS (Brussels). Project leader at University of Gothenburg, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson,