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Selberg, Rebecca
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Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M. & Mulinari, D. (2023). Introduction: Reproductive Justice and Transnational Feminism. In: Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M., Mulinari, D. (Ed.), Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism: (pp. 1-9). Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: Reproductive Justice and Transnational Feminism
2023 (English)In: Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism / [ed] Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M., Mulinari, D., Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 1-9Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This volume represents a cross-disciplinary effort to understand transnational feminist struggles for reproductive justice. We use the concept of transnational feminism to grasp the emergence of a historical subject-feminism-that despite its heterogeneity constitutes a central voice in gendering democracy and engendering citizenship. We use the concept of reproductive justice to underline an understanding of struggles for abortion rights that expand and challenge liberal feminist notions of women's choice. Finally, we explore the counter-movements and strategies to restrict access to abortion and suppress reproductive justice: specifically, the establishment of religious fundamentalist, right-wing and neofascist coalitions threatening women's and sexual minorities' rights worldwide. © The Author(s) 2023. All rights reserved.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Social Sciences, Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-126301 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-31260-1_1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85169518989 (Scopus ID)9783031312595 (ISBN)9783031312601 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved
Selberg, R. & Kolankiewicz, M. (2023). Rights Claims in Anti-abortion Campaigns in Poland and Sweden. In: Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M., Mulinari, D. (Ed.), Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism: (pp. 155-176). Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rights Claims in Anti-abortion Campaigns in Poland and Sweden
2023 (English)In: Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism / [ed] Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M., Mulinari, D., Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 155-176Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter presents two case analyses, one situated in Sweden and the other in Poland, where attempts have been made to intervene in the existing laws regulating access to abortion. The first case involves the lawsuits filed by midwives in Sweden who claimed to have been discriminated against on the grounds of their religion when they had been turned down for work due to their objection to performing abortion as part of the job description. The second is that of a Polish civic legislative initiative aimed at restricting the prevailing abortion legislation in Poland in cases of foetal anomalies. We explore the rights claims deployed in these anti-abortion campaigns with an aim to contribute to the growing feminist scholarship on rhetorical devices and mobilisation tactics employed in the struggles over access to abortion. The two cases illustrate how anti-abortion mobilisations have been using rights claims that traditionally had been employed by feminist movements fighting for access to abortion. While it can be observed that this trend is part of a broader development of what has been described as a transnational anti-gender movement's appeal to the law, our analyses illustrate different and context-sensitive ways in which rights claims are articulated.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Social Sciences, Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-126302 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-31260-1_7 (DOI)2-s2.0-85169529601 (Scopus ID)9783031312595 (ISBN)9783031312601 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved
Selberg, R., Kolankiewicz, M. & Mulinari, D. (Eds.). (2023). Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism. Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism
2023 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women's rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars with interests in reproductive justice, anti-gender politics, and religious fundamentalism.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 263
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Social Sciences, Gender Studies; Social Sciences, Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-126303 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-31260-1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85169530927 (Scopus ID)9783031312595 (ISBN)9783031312601 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved
Selberg, R. (2012). Femininity at Work: Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital. (Doctoral dissertation). Lund: Arkiv förlag & tidskrift
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Femininity at Work: Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
2012 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state.

The study shows how nursing has undergone dramatic changes in terms of work intensification and new forms of subordination and class boundaries. At the same time, the nursing profession has embraced nurses’ new role as adjunct managers in running clinics and taking on new responsibilities offered by New Public Management.

Gendered subjectivities are at the level of the work place produced and reproduced through notions of femininities that shape and are shaped by the labour process. The study is located within the emerging field of ethnographies of neoliberalism and offers an empirical analysis of change and continuity in the relationship between femininity and care work among nurses employed in a Swedish hospital. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Arkiv förlag & tidskrift, 2012. p. 363
Keywords
Care, Gender, Femininity, Nursing, Labour process, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Social Sciences, Work Life Studies; Social Sciences, Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-22588 (URN)9789179242497 (ISBN)
Public defence
2012-12-20, Wicksell, K-huset, Växjö, 13:15 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Available from: 2012-11-30 Created: 2012-11-23 Last updated: 2016-01-27Bibliographically approved
Selberg, R. (2007). Femininity and feminist consciousness among female Swedish healthcare workers.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Femininity and feminist consciousness among female Swedish healthcare workers
2007 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]

Femininity and feminist consciousness among Swedish healthcare workers

Focusing on the question of a “feminist consciousness” among female doctors, nurses, assistant nurses and physiotherapists, the aim of this paper is to explore patterns of class based practices and professional strategies within the context of care. The aim is to capture the complexity and tensions within discourses on gender equality in relation to different forms of (class based and racialised) femininity in the workplace, and among female professionals on different positions within healthcare. How do healthcare professionals on different positions within the hierarchy of the healthcare organization, who regard themselves as feminists, negotiate and sustain professional boundaries? Two examples can be deployed in order to highlight such tensions. First, in-depth interviews with female healthcare employees suggest that professionals higher up in the hierarchy distance themselves from what they see as traditional forms of femininity, represented by e.g. assistant nurses, especially women of colour. Another example is the Swedish nurses’ association (SSF, Svensk sjuksköterskeförening), who drew on a feminist discourse to protest against a government bill to allow assistant nurses to become nurses without having to go through full nurse training. According to the nurses’ association, the bill was “permeated with an old-fashioned view of women’s work and knowledge” because it did not value the theoretical aspects of the nursing profession.

Keywords
Femininity, class, healthcare, feminism, consciousness
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-3108 (URN)
Available from: 2008-01-07 Created: 2008-01-07 Last updated: 2010-03-09Bibliographically approved
Selberg, R. (2007). Poststrukturalistisk genusforskning och klass som kategori.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Poststrukturalistisk genusforskning och klass som kategori
2007 (Swedish)Conference paper, Published paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Svenska genusforskare som lägger tonvikt vid klass börjar ofta med det kritiska konstaterandet att klass och klassrelaterade frågor varit frånvarande från senaste årens genusvetenskapliga forskningsfront. Däremot kopplas sällan detta argument till det teoretiska skifte, från marxistiska till poststrukturalistiska utgångspunkter, som genusforskningen genomgått sedan 1980-talet, och som fått konsekvenser för hur och i vilka sammanhang klass analyseras. Syftet med denna artikel är att diskutera hur klass kan gestalta sig i nyare genusvetenskapliga produktioner som utforskar klass och identitet, och problematisera några av de former genom vilka klass teoretiserats inom ramen för den poststrukturalistiska traditionen. Utgångspunkten är att kritiskt granska det sätt på vilket denna specifika relation av ojämlikhet ”återinförts” i den svenska genusvetenskapliga och poststrukturalistiskt influerade forskningen.Problemställningen är aktuell inte minst i ljuset av diskussionen kring begreppet intersektionalitet, som kommit att engagera många forskare både i Sverige och internationellt. Det har beskrivits som ”det hittills viktigaste teoretiska bidraget från genusvetenskapen och de närliggande forskningsfälten” (McCall 2005:31). Frågorna man har ställt sig har handlat om hur man ska lokalisera skärningspunkten mellan olika typer av maktordningar, och hur dessa skärningspunkter ska konceptualiseras på individ- och på institutionell nivå. Artikeln ska ses som ett bidrag till den debatten, men argumentet som lyfts fram här handlar om vikten av att i diskussionen kring klass, som en av de relationer som med nödvändighet måste finnas med i ett analytiskt användbart intersektionalitetsbegrepp, relatera till frågor om arbetsprocessen som den ser ut inom det ekonomiska systemet.

Keywords
Klass, poststrukturalism, genus
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-3113 (URN)
Available from: 2008-01-07 Created: 2008-01-07 Last updated: 2010-03-09Bibliographically approved
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