This list contains texts on gender written in English.
CONTENTS
– On gender theory
– About my own work on gender in Spain – Book: Making barrios, making persons. Grass roots politics and gendered change in urban Spain.
On gender theory
- force-scope Gender studies always need new analytical concepts. Here I present three suggestions: force, scope and hierarchy. The article was originally published in Swedish, with the title “Om styrka, räckvidd och hierarki samt andra genusteoretiska begrepp” in 1996.This is a reworked version, presented at the 4th European feminist conference in Bologna, 2000.
About my own work on gender in Spain
This is my book length report from a project on gender in middle class Madrid. On the basis of ethnography about how and where and with whom people talked about gender issues such as change, power, sexuality and work, conclusions are drawn about what was happening to gender at an interesting time and place in Spanish history.
- Introduction thesis 1 page. Abstract for the following item.
- Left-hand-left-behind: The changing Gender System of a Barrio in Valencia Spain. My PhD thesis, published in English in 1988. 329 pages. Read the abstract first! (A Spanish translation is found under the tab Castellano.)
- Opening doors
How does the experience of a woman´s first menstruation change when a lot of other aspects of a gender order change, including women´s ideas about their own bodies? The article presents the results from an interview study om this in Valencia, Spain, and was published in Women´s Studies International Forum, 1994.
- conquer bars, Tromsö paper Based on ethnography from Spain, this article dicusses the importance, for power relations, of access to spaces for cultural negotiation. It was presented at the world feminist conference in Tromsö, Norway, in 1999. The article was first published in Swedish (Att erövra barerna, 1998) and then in Catalan (2002). For those who can read Spanish, I recommend reading that version instead, or the Catalan one, since they are later. (Unfortunately I do not have the Catalan version in digital form.)
- out-of-the-house A discussion on why Spanish women who wish to do political work often prefer to do it in a so called neighborhood association, rather than in a political party or labor union, and about what they can do in such an association and what it means for themselves and for society. Published in 2000.
- women’s space learning The old conceptual dualism of home/street – approximately private/public – has been much discussed in feminist circles in Spain. And also in other contexts. Here is an example from a neighborhood association in Valencia. The paper was presented at the 9th International “Culture and Power” Conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, 2003
- Orderly_Borders An analysis of gendered circumstances within a well-to-do fragment of the middle class in Madrid. Presented at the 5th European Feminist Research Conference, Lund, 2003.
– Book: Making barrios, making persons. Grass roots politics and gendered change in urban Spain. This is the book length report from my study of women´s participation in the Spanish grass roots movement known as the neighbourhood movement (movimiento vecinal). In English. Since at least some of the chapters can be read independently from the whole, the book is not presented as just one big file; the reader can choose which parts to download. Contents and a short summary are found in the file “Summary women grass roots”. But read first the file called “Read this first!”
Read this first! women grass roots
Britt-Marie Thurén 