Feeling Gender
A Generational and Psychosocial Approach
Authors: Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum
Free Preview- Explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes
- Draws on both generational and longitudinal research
- Looks at how gender is lived and has been lived in decades of rapid societal change
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices.
Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational and longitudinal research, the book works with temporality as a theoretical as well as a methodological dimension. Theoretically it combines Raymond Williams' idea of "a structure of feeling" with the work of Eric Fromm, Hans Loewald, Nancy Chodorow and Jessica Benjamin.
- About the authors
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Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway. She also holds an adjunct professorship at Aalborg University, Denmark and is the head of the National PhD School in Gender Studies in Norway.
- Reviews
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“Bjerrum Nielsen (Centre for Gender Research, Norway) uses in-depth, qualitative interviews with three generations of participants from Norway to understand their feelings and expressions of gender. … Of potential use to scholars and advanced graduate students, the book, overall, is a welcome addition to the literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/specialists.” (Y. Besen-Cassino, Choice, Vol. 55 (3), November, 2017)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Feelings and the Social Transformation of Gender
Pages 1-22
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Feelings of Gender
Pages 23-40
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Temporality in Methods
Pages 41-64
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Changing Contexts
Pages 65-90
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Born around The First World War: Refining Gender Complementarity
Pages 91-129
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Feeling Gender
- Book Subtitle
- A Generational and Psychosocial Approach
- Authors
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- Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
- Series Title
- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-95082-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-349-95082-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95081-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95722-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 336
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