Exploring how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men during the 20th century, this book explores how experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers changes. It looks at how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to new social practices.
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway. She also holds an adjunct professorship at Aalborg University, Denmark and is the head of the National PhD School in Gender Studies in Norway.
1. Feelings and the social transformation of gender.- 2. Feelings of gender.- 3. Temporality in methods.- 4. Changing contexts.- 5. Born around WWI: refining gender complementarity.- 6. Born around WWII: struggling with gender equality.- 7. Born in the welfare society: individualising gender.- 8. Calibrating time and place.- 9. Psychosocial changes and continuities in gender.- 10. Gendering, degendering, regendering.
“Bjerrum Nielsen (Centre for Gender Research, Norway) uses in-depth, qualitative interviews with three generations of participants from Norway to understand their feelings and expressions of gender. … Of potential use to scholars and advanced graduate students, the book, overall, is a welcome addition to the literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/specialists.” (Y. Besen-Cassino, Choice, Vol. 55 (3), November, 2017)