Is There A Nordic Feminism?

Drude von der Fehr University of Oslo, Anna Jonasdottir University of Ørebro, Bente Rosenbeck University of Copenhagen

• 1 Introduction: ambiguous times—contested spaces in the politics, organization and identities of gender Part I Politics in ambiguous times 2 Equal or different? that’s not the question. Women’s political strategies in historical perspective 3 Social Democratic women’s coup in the Swedish Parliament 4 “On their own premises”: the political project of the Icelandic Women’s Alliance 5 They had a different mother: the central configuration of Icelandic nationalist discourse 6 Make a line, so I can cross it: postmodernist space in Camille Paglia’s Sexual personae Part II Organization and contested spaces 7 Taste, manners and attitudes—the bel esprit and literary salon in Scandinavia c. 1800 8 The dream of reality: a study of a feminine dramatic tradition, the one-act play 9 Gender as the dynamo: when public organizations have to change 10 Sexual harassment and the genderization of work 11 Attraction and love at work 12 The gender relation and professionalism in the postmodern world: social brotherhood and beyond Part III Identity/subjectivity—between equality and difference 13 Understanding women in the psychological mode: the challenge from the experiences of Nordic women 14 Reflections on the rationality of emotions and feelings 15 Asta Nielsen: a modern woman before her time? 16 Oscillations: on subject and gender in late modernism 17 Rationality and identity in Norwegian feminism 18 Nordic women's studies and gender research