Ida Linander
Biographic Data
| ID | 158041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ida Linander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ida |
| FAMILY NAME | Linander |
| SIGNATURE | LINANDER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6401-889X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gendered time use among specializing medical doctors at Makerere University, Uganda: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Previous research shows that gendered differences in time use unfairly impact women's career advancement and influence workforce management. Despite a growing body of literature on gendered time use, the topic has not been well documented among specializing medical doctors in sub-Saharan African countries, including Uganda. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted among specialist medical doctors at Makerere University to: (i) analyze gen…
Between Suicide and Regret: Media Representations of Gender‐Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Prompted by intense public debate and policy shifts, this study examines news media representations of gender‐affirming care for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth in Sweden from 2019 to 2023. The analysis draws on Hall's theories of media representation and articulation, with a framework focussing on risk and temporality. Analysing media representations is crucial for understanding how societal discourses on gender dysphoria are shaped. …
Geographical inequities in cervical cancer screening coverage in Bolivia: A spatial nationwide ecological study
Objectives. To estimate cervical cancer screening (CCS) coverage rates and assess the spatial distribution and clustering between departments and municipalities in Bolivia. Methods. Standardized CCS coverage rates were calculated using the direct standardization method. The global Moran’s I test was used to investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation of CCS coverage, and the Getis-Ord Gi* was used to identify the spatial clustering of mu…
Negotiating Standardized Approaches to IPV Detection in Social Services? Previous Experiences, Degendering, and Mandatory Reporting
Through interviews with 16 social workers, drawing on the concept of “willful subjects”, the aim of this paper is to analyze how social workers working in Swedish municipal social services make sense of, adapt, and/or challenge routine questions about intimate partner violence, and how such routines affect their professional role and agency. We found that participants renegotiated standardized ways of asking by stressing the need to use such ques…
Provocative spatial exclusion and missed opportunities: Complaints of discrimination filed against gender separatist spaces in Sweden
Today, we see many different forms of separatists and what may be a safe place for some may be provocative for others. In this article, we focus on separatist spaces, by analysing complaints submitted to the Equality Ombudsman, a governmental agency that supervises compliance with the Discrimination Act in Sweden. Through these complaints, we explore expressions of resistance to separatist spaces and how exclusion from such spaces is understood a…
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
Young trans people's experiences of leisure and mental health: Belonging, creativity, and navigation
There is a lack of research on young trans people's everyday leisure. This article analyses how leisure, defined within a broad spatial context beyond sport and physical activity, is perceived and experienced by trans youth in relation to their mental health and wellbeing. We draw upon theoretical concepts of cisnormativity and spatiality to our analysis of sixteen interviews with young trans people (16-25 years old) in Sweden. Three themes emerg…
Daring to ask about violence? A critical examination of social services’ policies on asking about gender-based violence
This article critically analyses the assumptions and effects of the ‘daring to ask approach’ to gender based violence (GBV), as expressed in the policies that govern social services’ work in Sweden. We show how GBV is constituted as a sensitive issue connected with shame and as something that will not be brought up spontaneously; GBV is something that women who had experienced it carry with them as an ‘untouched truth’ waiting to be discovered by…
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women
Drawing on recent parliamentary debates and policy proposals, this article illustrates how penal policies and punitive agendas to combat gendered violence are on the rise in Sweden. While right-wing parties have long deployed a rhetoric of crime and punishment, today the Social Democrats and Left Party (labelling themselves feminist), as well as parts of the women's shelter movement, are deploying a similar discourse. This article shows how men's…
Hypogonadism. Diagnosis, masculinity, and capital in narratives about testosterone deficiency
For centuries, male hypogonadism has been defined as a clinical syndrome caused by the inability to produce physiological concentrations of testosterone and/or normal amount of sperm. In 2020, an information campaign started in Sweden with the ambition of increasing knowledge about hypogonadism and (lack of) testosterone, targeting both men and healthcare providers. In this study, we take a closer look at media discussions in Sweden on hypogonadi…
The patriarchy can't dance with us: Statement, separatism and safety
The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statement, with a focus on the desire for safety. Using psychoanalytical discourse theory, we analyse different media materials, focusing on emotive language and fantasmatic narratives. We argue that in t…
Representing a Fading Welfare System that Is Failing Young People in ‘Neet’ Situations: A WPR Analysis of Swedish Youth Policies
The situation of young people who are neither in employment, education nor training (referred to in political, scientific and public discourses as ‘NEETs’) has received widespread attention during the last decade. However, while policy responses to young people’s work- and school-related marginalisation have been analysed by international scholars in a variety of contexts, to the best of our knowledge, no study to date has scrutinised problem rep…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Mindre rum, nya gränser och kollektivets underminering. Det nazistiska hotet mot HBTQ-rörelsen
Support for right-wing extremist organizations and ideologies has increased in Sweden and other European countries in recent years, expressed for instance in organized Nazi attacks against LGBTQ activists. Against this background, ten LGBTQ activists in Sweden have been interviewed about their experience of such attacks. By using feminist theories on violence and theories on social movements, our analysis shows that such actions are experienced a…
Power and subjectivity: Making sense of sexual consent among adults living in Sweden
While sexual consent has been a hot topic during recent years in the Swedish context, there is a lack of empirical studies on the issue. The aims of this study were to analyse how adults in Sweden experience and make sense of sexual (non)consent in sexual encounters, and to contribute to a conceptual discussion of ‘sexual consent’, especially in relation to a Foucauldian understanding of power and subjectivity. The analysis is based on 31 intervi…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
Sub-Saharan African immigrant women's experiences of (lack of) access to appropriate healthcare in the public health system in the Basque Country, Spain
For Sub-Saharan African immigrant women, accessing appropriate healthcare in the Basque Country was perceived to be subject to institutional barriers. At the legal level, barriers included lack of entitlement, difficulties in fulfilling legal access conditions and lack of documentation. The lack of communication with health centre staff and their attitudes, guided by a stereotyped social image of immigrants and black people, also hindered their p…
(Un)safe spaces, affective labour and perceived health among people with trans experiences living in Sweden
Lack of safe space has been connected to ill health among people with trans experiences. This study analyses trans people's experiences of being in public, semi-public and community spaces using the analytical concept of safety/unsafety in relation to perceived health. The analytic framework draws on the concepts of cisgenderism, orientation, lines and comfort. The material analysed consisted of 18 individual interviews with people with trans exp…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
Embodying pervasive discrimination: A decomposition of sexual orientation inequalities in health in a population-based cross-sectional study in Northern Sweden
Psychosocial experiences may be insufficient to explain and understand health inequalities by sexual orientation in a reputedly 'gay-friendly' setting. Less overt forms of structural discrimination may need to be considered to capture the pervasive material discrimination that seems to underpin the embodiment of sexual minority inequalities. This ought to be taken into consideration in research, policy-making and monitoring aiming to work towards…
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
Power and subjectivity: Making sense of sexual consent among adults living in Sweden
While sexual consent has been a hot topic during recent years in the Swedish context, there is a lack of empirical studies on the issue. The aims of this study were to analyse how adults in Sweden experience and make sense of sexual (non)consent in sexual encounters, and to contribute to a conceptual discussion of ‘sexual consent’, especially in relation to a Foucauldian understanding of power and subjectivity. The analysis is based on 31 intervi…
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women
Drawing on recent parliamentary debates and policy proposals, this article illustrates how penal policies and punitive agendas to combat gendered violence are on the rise in Sweden. While right-wing parties have long deployed a rhetoric of crime and punishment, today the Social Democrats and Left Party (labelling themselves feminist), as well as parts of the women's shelter movement, are deploying a similar discourse. This article shows how men's…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
Hypogonadism. Diagnosis, masculinity, and capital in narratives about testosterone deficiency
For centuries, male hypogonadism has been defined as a clinical syndrome caused by the inability to produce physiological concentrations of testosterone and/or normal amount of sperm. In 2020, an information campaign started in Sweden with the ambition of increasing knowledge about hypogonadism and (lack of) testosterone, targeting both men and healthcare providers. In this study, we take a closer look at media discussions in Sweden on hypogonadi…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Embodying pervasive discrimination: A decomposition of sexual orientation inequalities in health in a population-based cross-sectional study in Northern Sweden
Psychosocial experiences may be insufficient to explain and understand health inequalities by sexual orientation in a reputedly 'gay-friendly' setting. Less overt forms of structural discrimination may need to be considered to capture the pervasive material discrimination that seems to underpin the embodiment of sexual minority inequalities. This ought to be taken into consideration in research, policy-making and monitoring aiming to work towards…
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
Sub-Saharan African immigrant women's experiences of (lack of) access to appropriate healthcare in the public health system in the Basque Country, Spain
For Sub-Saharan African immigrant women, accessing appropriate healthcare in the Basque Country was perceived to be subject to institutional barriers. At the legal level, barriers included lack of entitlement, difficulties in fulfilling legal access conditions and lack of documentation. The lack of communication with health centre staff and their attitudes, guided by a stereotyped social image of immigrants and black people, also hindered their p…
(Un)safe spaces, affective labour and perceived health among people with trans experiences living in Sweden
Lack of safe space has been connected to ill health among people with trans experiences. This study analyses trans people's experiences of being in public, semi-public and community spaces using the analytical concept of safety/unsafety in relation to perceived health. The analytic framework draws on the concepts of cisgenderism, orientation, lines and comfort. The material analysed consisted of 18 individual interviews with people with trans exp…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
Mindre rum, nya gränser och kollektivets underminering. Det nazistiska hotet mot HBTQ-rörelsen
Support for right-wing extremist organizations and ideologies has increased in Sweden and other European countries in recent years, expressed for instance in organized Nazi attacks against LGBTQ activists. Against this background, ten LGBTQ activists in Sweden have been interviewed about their experience of such attacks. By using feminist theories on violence and theories on social movements, our analysis shows that such actions are experienced a…
Power and subjectivity: Making sense of sexual consent among adults living in Sweden
While sexual consent has been a hot topic during recent years in the Swedish context, there is a lack of empirical studies on the issue. The aims of this study were to analyse how adults in Sweden experience and make sense of sexual (non)consent in sexual encounters, and to contribute to a conceptual discussion of ‘sexual consent’, especially in relation to a Foucauldian understanding of power and subjectivity. The analysis is based on 31 intervi…
Representing a Fading Welfare System that Is Failing Young People in ‘Neet’ Situations: A WPR Analysis of Swedish Youth Policies
The situation of young people who are neither in employment, education nor training (referred to in political, scientific and public discourses as ‘NEETs’) has received widespread attention during the last decade. However, while policy responses to young people’s work- and school-related marginalisation have been analysed by international scholars in a variety of contexts, to the best of our knowledge, no study to date has scrutinised problem rep…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Young trans people's experiences of leisure and mental health: Belonging, creativity, and navigation
There is a lack of research on young trans people's everyday leisure. This article analyses how leisure, defined within a broad spatial context beyond sport and physical activity, is perceived and experienced by trans youth in relation to their mental health and wellbeing. We draw upon theoretical concepts of cisnormativity and spatiality to our analysis of sixteen interviews with young trans people (16-25 years old) in Sweden. Three themes emerg…
Daring to ask about violence? A critical examination of social services’ policies on asking about gender-based violence
This article critically analyses the assumptions and effects of the ‘daring to ask approach’ to gender based violence (GBV), as expressed in the policies that govern social services’ work in Sweden. We show how GBV is constituted as a sensitive issue connected with shame and as something that will not be brought up spontaneously; GBV is something that women who had experienced it carry with them as an ‘untouched truth’ waiting to be discovered by…
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women
Drawing on recent parliamentary debates and policy proposals, this article illustrates how penal policies and punitive agendas to combat gendered violence are on the rise in Sweden. While right-wing parties have long deployed a rhetoric of crime and punishment, today the Social Democrats and Left Party (labelling themselves feminist), as well as parts of the women's shelter movement, are deploying a similar discourse. This article shows how men's…
Hypogonadism. Diagnosis, masculinity, and capital in narratives about testosterone deficiency
For centuries, male hypogonadism has been defined as a clinical syndrome caused by the inability to produce physiological concentrations of testosterone and/or normal amount of sperm. In 2020, an information campaign started in Sweden with the ambition of increasing knowledge about hypogonadism and (lack of) testosterone, targeting both men and healthcare providers. In this study, we take a closer look at media discussions in Sweden on hypogonadi…
The patriarchy can't dance with us: Statement, separatism and safety
The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statement, with a focus on the desire for safety. Using psychoanalytical discourse theory, we analyse different media materials, focusing on emotive language and fantasmatic narratives. We argue that in t…
Provocative spatial exclusion and missed opportunities: Complaints of discrimination filed against gender separatist spaces in Sweden
Today, we see many different forms of separatists and what may be a safe place for some may be provocative for others. In this article, we focus on separatist spaces, by analysing complaints submitted to the Equality Ombudsman, a governmental agency that supervises compliance with the Discrimination Act in Sweden. Through these complaints, we explore expressions of resistance to separatist spaces and how exclusion from such spaces is understood a…
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
Geographical inequities in cervical cancer screening coverage in Bolivia: A spatial nationwide ecological study
Objectives. To estimate cervical cancer screening (CCS) coverage rates and assess the spatial distribution and clustering between departments and municipalities in Bolivia. Methods. Standardized CCS coverage rates were calculated using the direct standardization method. The global Moran’s I test was used to investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation of CCS coverage, and the Getis-Ord Gi* was used to identify the spatial clustering of mu…
Negotiating Standardized Approaches to IPV Detection in Social Services? Previous Experiences, Degendering, and Mandatory Reporting
Through interviews with 16 social workers, drawing on the concept of “willful subjects”, the aim of this paper is to analyze how social workers working in Swedish municipal social services make sense of, adapt, and/or challenge routine questions about intimate partner violence, and how such routines affect their professional role and agency. We found that participants renegotiated standardized ways of asking by stressing the need to use such ques…
Gendered time use among specializing medical doctors at Makerere University, Uganda: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Previous research shows that gendered differences in time use unfairly impact women's career advancement and influence workforce management. Despite a growing body of literature on gendered time use, the topic has not been well documented among specializing medical doctors in sub-Saharan African countries, including Uganda. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted among specialist medical doctors at Makerere University to: (i) analyze gen…
Between Suicide and Regret: Media Representations of Gender‐Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Prompted by intense public debate and policy shifts, this study examines news media representations of gender‐affirming care for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth in Sweden from 2019 to 2023. The analysis draws on Hall's theories of media representation and articulation, with a framework focussing on risk and temporality. Analysing media representations is crucial for understanding how societal discourses on gender dysphoria are shaped. …
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)