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Title Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden / edited by Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin and Katarina Giritli Nygren.

Publication Info. Bristol : Policy Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden / Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Giritli Nygren -- When feminism became gender equality and anti-racism turned into diversity management / Paulina de los Reyes -- Normalisation meets governmentality : gender equality reassembled / Katarina Giritli Nygren, Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johannson -- Emotionally charged : parental leave and gender equality, at the surface of the skin / Kajsa Widegren -- Rethinking gender equality and the Swedish welfare state : a view from outside / Gabriele Griffin -- How is the myth of Swedish gender equality upheld outside Sweden? A case study / Nina Lykke -- Gender equality under threat? Exploring the paradoxes of an ethno-nationalist political party / Diana Mulinari -- "What should we do instead?" : Gender equality projects and feminist critique / Angelika Sjöstedt Landén and Gunilla Olofsdotter -- Frictions and figurations : gender-equality norms meet activism / Lena Martinsson -- Afterword: Rethinking gender equality / Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Giritli Nygren.
Summary Sweden has the reputation of being one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, and it is often held up as a model for other societies but the reality is much more complicated, as this volume shows. The first book to provide a thorough analysis of the myth of Swedish gender equality, this volume shows how that dominant idea has become a form of nationalism that ultimately excludes those who fall outside the social norm.
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Sweden.
Women -- Employment.
Sweden.
Women -- Sweden -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Diversity in the workplace -- Sweden.
Gender mainstreaming.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Diversity in the workplace.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Gender mainstreaming.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Women -- Social conditions.
Femmes -- Droits -- Suede.
Égalite des sexes -- Suede.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Martinsson, Lena, editor.
Griffin, Gabriele, editor.
Nygren, Giritle, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden. Bristol : Policy Press, [2016] 1447325966 9781447325963 (OCoLC)920720810
ISBN 9781447325994 (electronic book)
1447325990 (electronic book)
9781447326007
1447326008
9781447325987
1447325982
1447325966
9781447325963
Standard No. 12881892