Papers by Birgitta Meurling
Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift
Utbildning & Demokrati – tidskrift för didaktik och utbildningspolitk
BOUNDARY CROSSING OR BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE? MENTORING PROJECTS AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN UNIVERSI... more BOUNDARY CROSSING OR BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE? MENTORING PROJECTS AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN UNIVERSITIES. In our universities, boundaries are constantly being drawn, for example between men and women. This article discusses a specific type of integrative and boundary-crossing activity, namely mentoring projects and leadership training aimed at female scholars. Such initiatives are needed as one of several means of promoting gender equality, but the question is whether an exclusive focus on women is fruitful. Advocates tend to say that gender-conscious programmes are fruitful, while opponents argue that they are just another way of teaching women to be and act like men. Here I discuss such initiatives in my own faculty, in terms of Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and doxa. To understand the distribution of power and the gender division of labour within academe, gender aspects have to be combined with aspects such as class and ethnicity. There are several axes of power that sometimes reinforce, sometimes oppose each other, leading to different types of boundaries in universities.
Kulturella Perspektiv Svensk Etnologisk Tidskrift, 2006
2002
Meurling, Birgitta 2002: Sisters of Christ. The Gender Constitution of Swedish Clergywomen. -Ethn... more Meurling, Birgitta 2002: Sisters of Christ. The Gender Constitution of Swedish Clergywomen. -Ethnologia Europaea 32:1: 25-34.
Natverket Kulturforskning I Uppsala, 1995
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2002
Ethnologia Scandinavica a Journal For Nordic Ethnology, 1999
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2009
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2010
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2007
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2008
Rig Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift, 2007
Locus Tidskrift For Forskning Om Barn Och Ungdomar, 2004
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Papers by Birgitta Meurling