dc.contributor.author | Lotherington, Ann Therese | |
dc.contributor.author | Obstfelder, Aud | |
dc.contributor.author | Ursin, Gøril | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-09T11:30:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-09T11:30:32Z | |
dc.date.created | 2018-07-18T10:56:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 2018, 26 (2), 129-141. | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 0803-8740 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2579909 | |
dc.description.abstract | In spite of feminist criticism of the welfare state, Norwegian society is frequently perceived as gender-equal. As a truism of public discourse, gender equality affirms a neoliberal understanding of individuals as able to act independently and to freely choose their course in life. This article disrupts that truism with an analysis of a transitional process that occurred to a seemingly free and gender-equal married woman whose everyday life took an unexpected turn at the age of 50 when her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Using an abductive method, we construct a narrative with this woman as the main character. We then use the narrative as an optical device for scrutinizing encounters between the notions “free and gender-equal woman” and “gendered next of kin”, analysing the situated becoming of gender and understanding the encounters’ potential for agency and resistance. The inquiry brings a pattern of gendered encounters into being, demonstrating how a seemingly free and gender-equal woman’s strength and independence become subordinating weaknesses in encounters with the welfare state. This paradox raises questions about the politics of everyday life in a presumably gender-equal society, brings new struggles onto the feminist agenda, and demands that the personal becomes political yet again. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | nb_NO |
dc.title | The personal is political yet again: Bringing struggles between gender equality and gendered next of kin onto the feminist agenda | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 129-141 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 26 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research | nb_NO |
dc.source.issue | 2 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1597740 | |
dc.description.localcode | Locked until 18.11.2019 due to copyright restrictions. This is an [Accepted Manuscript] of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research] on [18 May 2018], available at https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131 | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 194,65,70,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for helsevitenskap Gjøvik | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |