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dc.contributor.authorLotherington, Ann Therese
dc.contributor.authorObstfelder, Aud
dc.contributor.authorUrsin, Gøril
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-18T10:32:55Z
dc.date.available2019-02-18T10:32:55Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-18
dc.description.abstractIn spite of feminist criticism of the welfare state, Norwegian society is frequently perceived as gender-equal. As a truism of public discourse, gender equality affirms a neoliberal understanding of individuals as able to act independently and to freely choose their course in life. This article disrupts that truism with an analysis of a transitional process that occurred to a seemingly free and gender-equal married woman whose everyday life took an unexpected turn at the age of 50 when her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Using an abductive method, we construct a narrative with this woman as the main character. We then use the narrative as an optical device for scrutinizing encounters between the notions “free and gender-equal woman” and “gendered next of kin”, analysing the situated becoming of gender and understanding the encounters’ potential for agency and resistance. The inquiry brings a pattern of gendered encounters into being, demonstrating how a seemingly free and gender-equal woman’s strength and independence become subordinating weaknesses in encounters with the welfare state. This paradox raises questions about the politics of everyday life in a presumably gender-equal society, brings new struggles onto the feminist agenda, and demands that the personal becomes political yet again.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research</i> on 18 May 2018, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLotherington, A.T., Obstfelder, A. & Ursin, G. (2018). The personal is political yet again: Bringing struggles between gender equality and gendered next of kin onto the feminist agenda. <i>NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 26</i>(2), 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1597740
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08038740.2018.1461131
dc.identifier.issn0803-8740
dc.identifier.issn1502-394X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14702
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.relation.journalNORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Women's and gender studies: 370en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Kvinne- og kjønnsstudier: 370en_US
dc.subjectFeminist politicsen_US
dc.subjectstrugglesen_US
dc.subjectgender equalityen_US
dc.subjectnext of kinen_US
dc.subjectAlzheimer’s diseaseen_US
dc.titleThe personal is political yet again: Bringing struggles between gender equality and gendered next of kin onto the feminist agendaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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