Eva Magnusson
Biographic Data
| ID | 180905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Magnusson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Magnusson |
| SIGNATURE | MAGNUSSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research
For many students, the experience of learning about and using qualitative methods can be bewildering. This book is an accessible step-by-step guide to conducting interview-based qualitative research projects. The authors discuss the 'hows' and 'whys' of qualitative research, showing readers the practices as well as the principles behind them. The book first describes how to formulate research questions suited to qualitative inquiry. It then discu…
Breast Cancer Survivorship—Intersecting Gendered Discourses in a 5-Year Follow-Up Study
In this article the authors present a follow-up study of women's interview narratives about life 5 to 7 years after a breast cancer operation. The women had taken part in a study during the 6-month postoperation period. Art therapy contributed to well-being, including strengthening personal boundaries. In the new study, interview analysis informed by critical discursive psychology indicated three problematic discourses that the women still strugg…
What makes feminist knowledge legitimate for therapists? A study of Swedish child psychotherapists
This study investigated what it is like to be a feminist clinical psychologist in a country with a long commitment to gender equality. We studied how two Swedish clinical child psychologists committed to promoting gender equality talked about issues of gender and inequality in their clinical work. We identified three interpretative repertoires that formed the basis of these clinicians' talk about gender and gender equality: a repertoire built on …
Because nobody likes Chinese girls
How do emotions enter into children's negotiated understandings and situated uses of categories of identity? This question guided a revisit to an ethnographic study of a multi-cultural context in Oakland, California. A focus group discussion among four Chinese American girls just graduating from elementary school and an interviewer, also Chinese American, was chosen for closer study. This secondary analysis focuses on how the girls engaged in sch…
Neutrality, gender stereotypes, and analytical voids
This article reports a study of the meanings of gender that are active in Swedish child psychologists’ narratives about their practice. The analysis is informed by constructionist and discourse-psychological approaches. We identify and describe four different interpretative repertoires: a repertoire of neutrality and equal treatment, based on a liberal political vision of equality in combination with a neutral knowledge ideal; an individualizing …
The Rhetoric of Inequality
This article analyses anti‐equality talk in heterosexual couples who participated in a Nordic study of daily life in families with children. A substantial proportion of the interviewees—women as well as men—argued against “more equality” in their relationship and in society in general. Their arguments show several similarities to sexist attitudes expressed in all‐male conversations. Using the analytical tools of feminist discursive psychology, th…
Feminism and Psychology in the Context of Nordic Welfare Ideologies and Policies
This special issue of Feminism & Psychology has its origins in the Nordic countries. The scholars who have written the articles as well as we who have edited the issue, are all affiliated with universities and research institutes in Denmark, Norway or Sweden.1 The articles report on studies that the researchers have carried out in a Nordic context. Why a ‘Nordic’ special issue? Is there anything special enough about feminism and psychology in the…
Critical Studies of Nordic Discourses on Gender and Gender Equality
Gendering or Equality in the Lives of Nordic Heterosexual Couples with Children
This article presents a Nordic comparative study of the joint accounts cohabiting women and men with children give about their everyday organization of house‐work and child‐care. The study was part of a Nordic study of political gender equality discourses at different societal levels. The article focuses on how heterosexual couples in Denmark, Finland and Sweden give meaning to house‐work sharing, and the consequences of these meanings. For insta…
Party-political rhetoric on gender equality in Sweden
Political documents on gender equality in the Nordic countries contain interesting systematic variations in justification strategies and discursive commitments at different political-rhetorical levels. This is particularly apparent when political texts move from general gender equality to arguing about specific issues. This article looks at the variety of "versions" of gender equality that appear when the discourses of gender and the conceptualis…
Psychology and Social Theory on Ideology
The articles in the present issue of Theory & Psychology, from different theoretical positions and with somewhat varying goals in view, consider the means and consequences of cross-fertilization between psychology and Marxist theory. In this commentary the modes of communicating these issues across disciplinary boundaries are focused on, and some cross-fertilization is wished for. Of the topics in the articles, the discussions on false consciousn…
Talking about gender equality
Housework is a useful arena for a study of the manufacturing of everyday femininity and masculinity. This article focuses on discourses and practices concerning housework and its equal or unequal distribution between husband and wife. It analyses how gender equality ideologies are met with or assimilated into everyday speech and understandings among Swedish women. Interview accounts from two women of different ages and class positions are analyse…
Jag har faktiskt aldrig lidit av att vara kvinna
Where g e n d e r and equality at work are concerned, one cannot always trust one's senses or one's speech as a female worker. It is o lien very unclear whether events are "actually" discrimination or just accidents, or perhaps due to personal shortcomings in oneself. Discursive domination niay make an u n d e r s t a n d i n g of events in terms of subordination processes less likely to prevail for a woman, in spite of r e p e a t e d occurrence…
The development of linguistic awareness in language-disordered children
This paper concerns the development of linguistic awareness in language-disordered children, and the role of linguistic and cognitive factors in this development. A longitudinal study was conducted with 39 language-disordered and a matched group of 39 normally-speaking children. Phonological awareness and other abilities were tested from preschool to Grade 4. Various comparisons were made of the abilities of the two groups. The findings indicate …
Carsten Elbro
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On the development of reading in good and poor readers
Data from a longitudinal study with language‐disordered and matched linguistically normal children are used to assess good and poor reading development from grade 1 to grade 4. Reading level is defined as comprehension, not as decoding ability, and the development of the subjects’comprehension, reading accuracy, and reading rate indicates that decoding is not necessarily the prerequisite of comprehension. By means of a linguistically based model …
Att vara kvinna och forskare idag
I fyra artiklar som baseras på empiriska undersökningar och egna erfarenheter beskrivs och diskuteras situationen för de kvinnliga forskarna och forskarstuderandena vid universiteten. Karen Davies kartlägger kvinnornas successiva bortfall i en 'smalnande pyramid' inom utbildningssystemet. Rigmor Sylvén tar upp några konkreta orsaker till bortfallet: problemen med ekonomi och oförstående handledare drabbar kvinnorna hårdast. Genom djupintervjuer h…
Critical Studies of Nordic Discourses on Gender and Gender Equality
The Rhetoric of Inequality
This article analyses anti‐equality talk in heterosexual couples who participated in a Nordic study of daily life in families with children. A substantial proportion of the interviewees—women as well as men—argued against “more equality” in their relationship and in society in general. Their arguments show several similarities to sexist attitudes expressed in all‐male conversations. Using the analytical tools of feminist discursive psychology, th…
Party-political rhetoric on gender equality in Sweden
Political documents on gender equality in the Nordic countries contain interesting systematic variations in justification strategies and discursive commitments at different political-rhetorical levels. This is particularly apparent when political texts move from general gender equality to arguing about specific issues. This article looks at the variety of "versions" of gender equality that appear when the discourses of gender and the conceptualis…
Gendering or Equality in the Lives of Nordic Heterosexual Couples with Children
This article presents a Nordic comparative study of the joint accounts cohabiting women and men with children give about their everyday organization of house‐work and child‐care. The study was part of a Nordic study of political gender equality discourses at different societal levels. The article focuses on how heterosexual couples in Denmark, Finland and Sweden give meaning to house‐work sharing, and the consequences of these meanings. For insta…
Because nobody likes Chinese girls
How do emotions enter into children's negotiated understandings and situated uses of categories of identity? This question guided a revisit to an ethnographic study of a multi-cultural context in Oakland, California. A focus group discussion among four Chinese American girls just graduating from elementary school and an interviewer, also Chinese American, was chosen for closer study. This secondary analysis focuses on how the girls engaged in sch…
Talking about gender equality
Housework is a useful arena for a study of the manufacturing of everyday femininity and masculinity. This article focuses on discourses and practices concerning housework and its equal or unequal distribution between husband and wife. It analyses how gender equality ideologies are met with or assimilated into everyday speech and understandings among Swedish women. Interview accounts from two women of different ages and class positions are analyse…
Jag har faktiskt aldrig lidit av att vara kvinna
Where g e n d e r and equality at work are concerned, one cannot always trust one's senses or one's speech as a female worker. It is o lien very unclear whether events are "actually" discrimination or just accidents, or perhaps due to personal shortcomings in oneself. Discursive domination niay make an u n d e r s t a n d i n g of events in terms of subordination processes less likely to prevail for a woman, in spite of r e p e a t e d occurrence…
Att vara kvinna och forskare idag
I fyra artiklar som baseras på empiriska undersökningar och egna erfarenheter beskrivs och diskuteras situationen för de kvinnliga forskarna och forskarstuderandena vid universiteten. Karen Davies kartlägger kvinnornas successiva bortfall i en 'smalnande pyramid' inom utbildningssystemet. Rigmor Sylvén tar upp några konkreta orsaker till bortfallet: problemen med ekonomi och oförstående handledare drabbar kvinnorna hårdast. Genom djupintervjuer h…
On the development of reading in good and poor readers
Data from a longitudinal study with language‐disordered and matched linguistically normal children are used to assess good and poor reading development from grade 1 to grade 4. Reading level is defined as comprehension, not as decoding ability, and the development of the subjects’comprehension, reading accuracy, and reading rate indicates that decoding is not necessarily the prerequisite of comprehension. By means of a linguistically based model …
Carsten Elbro
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The development of linguistic awareness in language-disordered children
This paper concerns the development of linguistic awareness in language-disordered children, and the role of linguistic and cognitive factors in this development. A longitudinal study was conducted with 39 language-disordered and a matched group of 39 normally-speaking children. Phonological awareness and other abilities were tested from preschool to Grade 4. Various comparisons were made of the abilities of the two groups. The findings indicate …
Jag har faktiskt aldrig lidit av att vara kvinna
Where g e n d e r and equality at work are concerned, one cannot always trust one's senses or one's speech as a female worker. It is o lien very unclear whether events are "actually" discrimination or just accidents, or perhaps due to personal shortcomings in oneself. Discursive domination niay make an u n d e r s t a n d i n g of events in terms of subordination processes less likely to prevail for a woman, in spite of r e p e a t e d occurrence…
Talking about gender equality
Housework is a useful arena for a study of the manufacturing of everyday femininity and masculinity. This article focuses on discourses and practices concerning housework and its equal or unequal distribution between husband and wife. It analyses how gender equality ideologies are met with or assimilated into everyday speech and understandings among Swedish women. Interview accounts from two women of different ages and class positions are analyse…
Psychology and Social Theory on Ideology
The articles in the present issue of Theory & Psychology, from different theoretical positions and with somewhat varying goals in view, consider the means and consequences of cross-fertilization between psychology and Marxist theory. In this commentary the modes of communicating these issues across disciplinary boundaries are focused on, and some cross-fertilization is wished for. Of the topics in the articles, the discussions on false consciousn…
Party-political rhetoric on gender equality in Sweden
Political documents on gender equality in the Nordic countries contain interesting systematic variations in justification strategies and discursive commitments at different political-rhetorical levels. This is particularly apparent when political texts move from general gender equality to arguing about specific issues. This article looks at the variety of "versions" of gender equality that appear when the discourses of gender and the conceptualis…
Feminism and Psychology in the Context of Nordic Welfare Ideologies and Policies
This special issue of Feminism & Psychology has its origins in the Nordic countries. The scholars who have written the articles as well as we who have edited the issue, are all affiliated with universities and research institutes in Denmark, Norway or Sweden.1 The articles report on studies that the researchers have carried out in a Nordic context. Why a ‘Nordic’ special issue? Is there anything special enough about feminism and psychology in the…
Critical Studies of Nordic Discourses on Gender and Gender Equality
Gendering or Equality in the Lives of Nordic Heterosexual Couples with Children
This article presents a Nordic comparative study of the joint accounts cohabiting women and men with children give about their everyday organization of house‐work and child‐care. The study was part of a Nordic study of political gender equality discourses at different societal levels. The article focuses on how heterosexual couples in Denmark, Finland and Sweden give meaning to house‐work sharing, and the consequences of these meanings. For insta…
The Rhetoric of Inequality
This article analyses anti‐equality talk in heterosexual couples who participated in a Nordic study of daily life in families with children. A substantial proportion of the interviewees—women as well as men—argued against “more equality” in their relationship and in society in general. Their arguments show several similarities to sexist attitudes expressed in all‐male conversations. Using the analytical tools of feminist discursive psychology, th…
Neutrality, gender stereotypes, and analytical voids
This article reports a study of the meanings of gender that are active in Swedish child psychologists’ narratives about their practice. The analysis is informed by constructionist and discourse-psychological approaches. We identify and describe four different interpretative repertoires: a repertoire of neutrality and equal treatment, based on a liberal political vision of equality in combination with a neutral knowledge ideal; an individualizing …
Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research
For many students, the experience of learning about and using qualitative methods can be bewildering. This book is an accessible step-by-step guide to conducting interview-based qualitative research projects. The authors discuss the 'hows' and 'whys' of qualitative research, showing readers the practices as well as the principles behind them. The book first describes how to formulate research questions suited to qualitative inquiry. It then discu…
Breast Cancer Survivorship—Intersecting Gendered Discourses in a 5-Year Follow-Up Study
In this article the authors present a follow-up study of women's interview narratives about life 5 to 7 years after a breast cancer operation. The women had taken part in a study during the 6-month postoperation period. Art therapy contributed to well-being, including strengthening personal boundaries. In the new study, interview analysis informed by critical discursive psychology indicated three problematic discourses that the women still strugg…
What makes feminist knowledge legitimate for therapists? A study of Swedish child psychotherapists
This study investigated what it is like to be a feminist clinical psychologist in a country with a long commitment to gender equality. We studied how two Swedish clinical child psychologists committed to promoting gender equality talked about issues of gender and inequality in their clinical work. We identified three interpretative repertoires that formed the basis of these clinicians' talk about gender and gender equality: a repertoire built on …
Because nobody likes Chinese girls
How do emotions enter into children's negotiated understandings and situated uses of categories of identity? This question guided a revisit to an ethnographic study of a multi-cultural context in Oakland, California. A focus group discussion among four Chinese American girls just graduating from elementary school and an interviewer, also Chinese American, was chosen for closer study. This secondary analysis focuses on how the girls engaged in sch…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender equality (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)