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The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
(2006)
In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ...
The Thin End of the Wedge. Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
(2005)
The impetus for this study was an observation that many of the women who obtained the first chairs at European universities were foreigners. Our initial attempt to provide a statistical picture proved impossible, because ...
Virtual Servants: Stereotyping Female Front-Office Employees on the Internet
(2005)
This article focuses on the service providers of the future: virtual assistants on the Internet. Recent technological developments, supported by intensive
research on artificial intelligence, have enabled corporations to ...
Från insikt till ? Utvärdering av JämO/EU-projektet Women to the Top
(2005)
Projektet ”Women to the top” har syftat till att skapa en uthållig plattform för förändringsarbete som bidrar till att få fler kvinnor i företagens och organisationers högsta positioner. I Sverige har femton stora företag ...
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
(2004)
This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, ...
Negotiating Selves: Gender
(2006)
This paper suggests a way of framing gender production in workplaces as a negotiation with varying results. The basis for such a frame is a combination of the notions of ”positioning” (the discoursive production of selves, ...
Women in financial services: fiction and more fiction
(2004)
At the peak of the "new economy", the Swedish newspapers were reporting an interesting fact: women were entering financial services, joining not the old-fashioned occupational groups such as bank clerks, but the avant-garde: ...
Genus i utbildningen - ett förändringsprojekt på Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet
(2001)
Under läsåret 1998-1999 genomfördes Genus i utbildningen på Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet. Utbildningen som finansierats av Utbildningsdepartementet syftade till att medvetandegöra om könets betydelse i ...