K Roen
Biographic Data
| ID | 31807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Roen |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Roen |
| SIGNATURE | ROEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0421-2484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Social work with people with variations in sex characteristics: Where and what is it
Documented involvement of social work in relation to people with variations in sex characteristics is sparse. This commentary reflects what is known about the role of social workers according to current care guidelines and existing research. We foreground social justice advocacy as important for this community, and suggest how social workers (could better) work with people with variations in sex characteristics. We engage the concept of ‘intersex…
A relational approach to youth healthcare: Examining young people's, parents' and clinicians' experiences in the context of variations in sex characteristics
According to popular understandings, children grow from a state of dependence to eventually become independent adults. Interdependence helps to disrupt the in/dependence binary and is a useful concept for making sense of the experiences young people with variations in sex characteristics in relation to healthcare. This study used semi-structured interviews with 32 health professionals, 33 caregivers and 12 young people recruited in the UK and Swe…
Boundaries of Parental Consent: The Example of Hypospadias Surgery
Human rights organisations raise concerns about medical interventions on children with intersex variations, particularly when these interventions impinge on the child’s bodily autonomy and are without a sound biomedical basis. Psychosocial literature and legal literature have made very different contributions to thinking about the healthcare of people with intersex variations, but both literatures pay attention to the process of informing patient…
The Rights of Intersex Children in Aotearoa New Zealand: What Surgery is being Consented to, and Why
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has recommended that Aotearoa New Zealand ban unnecessary and unconsented surgery on intersex children. Yet, the overall number of surgeries being undertaken on the genital and reproductive organs of children remains largely unchanged. Neither is it clear how many surgeries were undertaken on intersex children and what information and explanations were given to children and their families as to why the …
Human Rights-Based Intersex Healthcare: Using Hospital Data to Quantify Genital and Reproductive Surgery on Children in Aotearoa New Zealand
Medical intervention in the context of variations in sex characteristics (intersex variations) has been addressed by many academic disciplines, including medical research, human rights law, and psychosocial research, but few studies bring these diverse disciplines into substantive dialogue. Recent years have seen an increase in human rights statements about the indefensibility of some surgical interventions carried out on children with variations…
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The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Decolonising and demedicalising intersex research
In this commentary, we examine the role of non-Indigenous psychology researchers in settler states such as Aotearoa / New Zealand. A key focus is on demedicalising and decolonising intersex. We describe approaches to knowledge production that are based on the decolonising thinking of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, and that open up opportunities for resistance and transformation. We then examine how decolonisation can be brought into d…
How young people talk about their variations in sex characteristics: Making the topic of intersex talkable via sex education
Classrooms are important spaces for young people with variations in sex characteristics and their classmates. Sex education can promote agency and well-being by helping young people make sense of their embodiment and form rewarding social relationships and by changing societal understandings about variations in sex characteristics. Realising this potential however may hinge on how sex education makes intersex (un)talkable. We draw on interviews w…
Does anyone else have this?’ The role of emotion in forum discussions about medical conditions affecting sex characteristics
When people experience rare medical conditions or variations, searching online may be the only way to find others with similar experiences. This study examines what happens when people do just that. The dataset for the research has been generated from online posts by people living with variations of sex characteristics, which some call intersex variations. Our analysis focuses on how emotion appears in online posts, how affect becomes embodied in…
Rethinking queer failure: Trans youth embodiments of distress
This article examines trans youth embodied distress in relation to the workings of normativity. I consider the normative cruelties that structure the embodied and gendered experiences of trans youth, and I locate trans youth embodied distress in relation to a notion of queer failure. Central to this analysis is the way emotion is implicated in normativity. I focus on the idea that happiness norms are implicated in keeping gendered subjects in lin…
Streams of fun and cringe: Talking about Snapchat as mediated affective practice
Intersex or Diverse Sex Development: Critical Review of Psychosocial Health Care Research and Indications for Practice
Intersex or diverse sex development (dsd) can be conceptualized as an aspect of bodily diversity that has particular psychosocial implications. This is a review of psychosocial health care literature, published from 2007 to 2017, focusing on the well-being of people with a diagnosis relating to sex development. The analysis I offer here takes a critical psychological approach, questioning norms and taken-for-granted assumptions. This approach wor…
Moving intersex/DSD rights and care forward: Lay understandings of common dilemmas
When sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary models, dilemmas arise regarding how to understand the situation and what terminology to use to describe it. While current medical nomenclature suggests that it should be understood as a disorder of sex development (DSD) prompting medical responses, many describe intersex as a human variation in sexed embodiment that should be protected under discrimination laws. These opposin…
The role of psychologists in multi-disciplinary teams for intersex/diverse sex development: Interviews with British and Swedish clinical specialists
This is an interview study with 32 British and Swedish health professionals who worked in multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) that delivered care for children and adults with intersex variations, otherwise referenced in biomedicine as disorders of sex development (DSD). The present qualitative analysis focuses, first, on the health professionals’ talk about their team and, second, on their talk about contributions of the psychologist in the team. Alth…
Balancing in the margins of gender: Exploring psychologists’ meaning-making in their work with gender non-conforming youth seeking puberty suppression
The past 15 years have seen the growth of puberty suppression as the prevailing approach to supporting gender non-conforming children and youth. Puberty suppression is considered to provide time for weighing up the pros and cons of medical transition. Research based on binary understandings of gender has demonstrated that a carefully selected group of gender non-conforming youth benefit from physical treatment and gender transition, but the resea…
Making sense of ‘Intersex’ and ‘DSD’: How laypeople understand and use terminology
Various umbrella terms refer to sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of somatic sex. Key terms include Intersex, reclaimed by 1990s activists, and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) used in medicine since 2006. Professionals across diverse disciplines express strong preferences for specific terms, making assumptions about what those terms do. Here, we draw on 10 focus group-interviews (41 participants without particular know…
Affected and connected: Feminist and psychological perspectives on emotion in social media
This article works across psychology and feminist media studies to offer an empirically grounded investigation of affective expression in social media. To work empirically with understandings of affect, and to examine affective engagements via social media, we explore Instagram fans’ responses to the Norwegian TV series Skam (translation: “shame”). We draw on feminist theoretical perspectives on affectivity and emotion, and critical psychological…
Sexual Debut Ages in Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults in Norway
The Body as a Site of Gender-Related Distress: Ethical Considerations for Gender Variant Youth in Clinical Settings
The present article maps out understandings about embodied distress among gender-nonconforming youth. Feminist bioethics and queer-inflected clinical perspectives are used to inform thinking about ethical, nonpathologizing health care in the case of gender-related distress. Specific attention is directed at self-harming among gender variant and trans youth. This is contextualized in relation to the role that self-harm plays for some LGBT youth, w…
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Explaining Self-Harm: Youth Cybertalk and Marginalized Sexualities and Genders
This study investigates self-harm among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people. Using qualitative virtual methods, we examined online forums to explore young LGBT people's cybertalk about emotional distress and self-harming. We investigated how youth explained the relationship between self-harm and sexuality and gender. We found that LGBT youth may articulate contradictory, ambiguous, and multiple accounts of the relationship but t…
The Mediation Window: Regulation of Argumentation and Affect in Custody Mediation
Avhandlingen presenterer en kvalitativ undersøkelse av obligatorisk mekling for foreldre etter samlivsbrudd. Materialet for undersøkelsen består av lydopptak og utskrifter av et representativt utvalg på 154 saker der det ble utført alminnelig mekling, samlet inn i forbindelse med FORM-prosjektet, ledet av professor Odd Arne Tjersland. \n\nDe tre studiene som utgjør doktorgradsarbeidet bygger særlig på de 38 høykonfliktsakene i FORM-materialet. De…
Suicidal ideation and self‐harm among youths in N orway: Associations with verbal, physical and sexual abuse
Using data from a national survey ( n = 6979) of young people in their last year in N orwegian secondary schools in 2007 (aged 18–19), this paper explores the relationship between sexual abuse and experiences of violence among young people in N orway and their reporting of suicidal ideation and self‐harm. This investigation includes three types of abuse experienced by young people: non‐physical, physical and sexual. We investigate suicidal ideati…
Intersex/DSD post-Chicago: New developments and challenges for psychologists
The title of this special issue reflects the significance of a landmark, if dilemmatic, development in research and practice relating to atypical sex development. The Consensus Statement on the Man
Psychological research and intersex/DSD: Recent developments and future directions
Clinical management of intersex/DSD has been evolving, since the early 1990s, towards a goal of holistic, patient-centred care offered by specialist multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). This evolution has been championed by service users and practitioners alike. With the Consensus Statement on the Management of Intersex Disorders came clarification of MDT functioning and further recognition of psychological/psychiatric services as a key part of clinic…
Either/Or' and 'Both/Neither: Discursive Tensions in Transgender Politics -- Test
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: Resilience, ambivalence and self-destructive behaviour
The research presented in this paper set out to explore the cultural context of youth suicide and more specifically any connections between sexual identity and self-destructive behaviour, in the light of international evidence about the disproportionate risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people. The empirical basis for the paper is qualitative research that was carried out in the …
Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics
Research Article| April 01 1998 Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics? Patricia Elliot; Patricia Elliot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katrina Roen Katrina Roen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 231–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4-2-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Elliot, Katrina Ro…
The non-display of authentic distress: Public-Private Dualism in Young People's Discursive Construction of Self-Harm
This article draws from focus groups and interviews investigating how young people talk about self-harm. Some of the research participants had personal experience of self-harm but this was not a prerequisite for their inclusion in the study. Thematic coding was used initially to organise and give an overview of the data, but the data were subsequently analysed using a discourse analytic approach. The article focuses on the young people's construc…
Making sense of suicide: A discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood
Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation
Queer theories have received criticism for their ethnocentrism and their lack of careful attention to the lived realities of transsexual and transgendered people. A forum is being established through the publication of transgender theorists' work, where transgender theorists may rework 'queer', but how well does this reworking address concerns about ethnocentrism? For some 'transpeople' it is important to maintain traditional cultural values by r…
Hard-to-Reach Youth Online: Methodological Advances in Self-Harm Research
Youth on the Virtual Edge: Researching Marginalized Sexualities and Genders Online
Research shows clear links between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and deliberate self-harm (DSH), but there is a lack of research investigating the social context of young LGBT people's lives and helping to explain the higher DSH risk. In this article, we report on a small-scale methodological study intended to test the feasibility of online qualitative interviews for investigating young people, sexual and gender identity, a…
Making sense of ‘Intersex’ and ‘DSD’: How laypeople understand and use terminology
Various umbrella terms refer to sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of somatic sex. Key terms include Intersex, reclaimed by 1990s activists, and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) used in medicine since 2006. Professionals across diverse disciplines express strong preferences for specific terms, making assumptions about what those terms do. Here, we draw on 10 focus group-interviews (41 participants without particular know…
Explaining Self-Harm: Youth Cybertalk and Marginalized Sexualities and Genders
This study investigates self-harm among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people. Using qualitative virtual methods, we examined online forums to explore young LGBT people's cybertalk about emotional distress and self-harming. We investigated how youth explained the relationship between self-harm and sexuality and gender. We found that LGBT youth may articulate contradictory, ambiguous, and multiple accounts of the relationship but t…
The discursive and clinical production of trans youth: Gender variant youth who seek puberty suppression
This article focuses on therapeutic interventions with gender variant youth and, in particular, pubertal suppression. The aim is to address the question of which kinds of subjects are enabled, and which are made invisible, through discursive and clinical practices. The analysis demonstrates the conceptual value of drawing on discursive and queer theoretical approaches. The published work of selected clinicians is used as a way in to the complexit…
Selling your self? The psychological impact of street sex work and factors affecting support seeking: The psychological impact of street sex work
Previous research investigating the risks of female street sex work has tended to focus on the most tangible risks to physical health and safety. This is reflected in the provision of support services for sex workers, where these aspects are prioritised. There is little research focusing solely on the psychological risks of sex work. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceived psychological impact of street sex work and factors that aff…
Sexual Debut Ages in Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults in Norway
The Body as a Site of Gender-Related Distress: Ethical Considerations for Gender Variant Youth in Clinical Settings
The present article maps out understandings about embodied distress among gender-nonconforming youth. Feminist bioethics and queer-inflected clinical perspectives are used to inform thinking about ethical, nonpathologizing health care in the case of gender-related distress. Specific attention is directed at self-harming among gender variant and trans youth. This is contextualized in relation to the role that self-harm plays for some LGBT youth, w…
Surgery and Embodiment: Carving Out Subjects
This is an introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Surgery and Embodiment: Carving out Subjects’. The collection of articles in the special issue demonstrates how surgery, as a set of discourses and practices, has become central to the mediation between body and psyche in cultural understandings and individual experiences of embodied subjectivity. This is achieved by examining, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, a range of historical and co…
Psychological research and intersex/DSD: Recent developments and future directions
Clinical management of intersex/DSD has been evolving, since the early 1990s, towards a goal of holistic, patient-centred care offered by specialist multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). This evolution has been championed by service users and practitioners alike. With the Consensus Statement on the Management of Intersex Disorders came clarification of MDT functioning and further recognition of psychological/psychiatric services as a key part of clinic…
Human Rights-Based Intersex Healthcare: Using Hospital Data to Quantify Genital and Reproductive Surgery on Children in Aotearoa New Zealand
Medical intervention in the context of variations in sex characteristics (intersex variations) has been addressed by many academic disciplines, including medical research, human rights law, and psychosocial research, but few studies bring these diverse disciplines into substantive dialogue. Recent years have seen an increase in human rights statements about the indefensibility of some surgical interventions carried out on children with variations…
Intersex/DSD post-Chicago: New developments and challenges for psychologists
The title of this special issue reflects the significance of a landmark, if dilemmatic, development in research and practice relating to atypical sex development. The Consensus Statement on the Man
Decolonising and demedicalising intersex research
In this commentary, we examine the role of non-Indigenous psychology researchers in settler states such as Aotearoa / New Zealand. A key focus is on demedicalising and decolonising intersex. We describe approaches to knowledge production that are based on the decolonising thinking of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, and that open up opportunities for resistance and transformation. We then examine how decolonisation can be brought into d…
Moving intersex/DSD rights and care forward: Lay understandings of common dilemmas
When sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary models, dilemmas arise regarding how to understand the situation and what terminology to use to describe it. While current medical nomenclature suggests that it should be understood as a disorder of sex development (DSD) prompting medical responses, many describe intersex as a human variation in sexed embodiment that should be protected under discrimination laws. These opposin…
Balancing in the margins of gender: Exploring psychologists’ meaning-making in their work with gender non-conforming youth seeking puberty suppression
The past 15 years have seen the growth of puberty suppression as the prevailing approach to supporting gender non-conforming children and youth. Puberty suppression is considered to provide time for weighing up the pros and cons of medical transition. Research based on binary understandings of gender has demonstrated that a carefully selected group of gender non-conforming youth benefit from physical treatment and gender transition, but the resea…
Affected and connected: Feminist and psychological perspectives on emotion in social media
This article works across psychology and feminist media studies to offer an empirically grounded investigation of affective expression in social media. To work empirically with understandings of affect, and to examine affective engagements via social media, we explore Instagram fans’ responses to the Norwegian TV series Skam (translation: “shame”). We draw on feminist theoretical perspectives on affectivity and emotion, and critical psychological…
Suicidal ideation and self‐harm among youths in N orway: Associations with verbal, physical and sexual abuse
Using data from a national survey ( n = 6979) of young people in their last year in N orwegian secondary schools in 2007 (aged 18–19), this paper explores the relationship between sexual abuse and experiences of violence among young people in N orway and their reporting of suicidal ideation and self‐harm. This investigation includes three types of abuse experienced by young people: non‐physical, physical and sexual. We investigate suicidal ideati…
Intersex Practice, Theory, and Activism
The present article seeks to bring together ideas from legal, medical, social science, artistic, and activist perspectives, through dialogue among the four authors. Sarah Creighton is a gynecologist working with women who have atypical genital development or intersex conditions. Julie Greenberg is a professor of law whose work on gender and sexual identity has been influential both within the United States and internationally. Del LaGrace Volcano…
Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics
Research Article| April 01 1998 Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics? Patricia Elliot; Patricia Elliot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katrina Roen Katrina Roen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 231–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4-2-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Elliot, Katrina Ro…
Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation
Queer theories have received criticism for their ethnocentrism and their lack of careful attention to the lived realities of transsexual and transgendered people. A forum is being established through the publication of transgender theorists' work, where transgender theorists may rework 'queer', but how well does this reworking address concerns about ethnocentrism? For some 'transpeople' it is important to maintain traditional cultural values by r…
'When you smell smoke…': 'Risk factors' and fire safety in action
A neglected way of talking about risk is to focus on one of its correlates, 'safety'. This study examines how fire-safety knowledge is put into action. We are concerned with how knowledge of household fire 'risk factors' may, or may not, gain a concrete existence in the interactions between firefighters and householders. Using a 'translation' model loosely derived from Actor-Network-Theory, we show the complexity of the social interactions that c…
Either/Or' and 'Both/Neither: Discursive Tensions in Transgender Politics -- Test
Extending systematic reviews to include evidence on implementation: Methodological work on a review of community-based initiatives to prevent injuries
Avoiding shame: Young LGBT people, homophobia and self‐destructive behaviours
This paper reports on findings from qualitative research conducted in the UK that sought to explore the connections between sexual identities and self-destructive behaviours in young people. International evidence demonstrates that there are elevated rates of suicide and alcohol abuse amongst lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. Rarely included in this body of research are investigations into young LGBT people's views and experien…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: Resilience, ambivalence and self-destructive behaviour
The research presented in this paper set out to explore the cultural context of youth suicide and more specifically any connections between sexual identity and self-destructive behaviour, in the light of international evidence about the disproportionate risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people. The empirical basis for the paper is qualitative research that was carried out in the …
Surgery and Embodiment: Carving Out Subjects
This is an introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Surgery and Embodiment: Carving out Subjects’. The collection of articles in the special issue demonstrates how surgery, as a set of discourses and practices, has become central to the mediation between body and psyche in cultural understandings and individual experiences of embodied subjectivity. This is achieved by examining, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, a range of historical and co…
Making sense of suicide: A discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood
Intersex Practice, Theory, and Activism
The present article seeks to bring together ideas from legal, medical, social science, artistic, and activist perspectives, through dialogue among the four authors. Sarah Creighton is a gynecologist working with women who have atypical genital development or intersex conditions. Julie Greenberg is a professor of law whose work on gender and sexual identity has been influential both within the United States and internationally. Del LaGrace Volcano…
Selling your self? The psychological impact of street sex work and factors affecting support seeking: The psychological impact of street sex work
Previous research investigating the risks of female street sex work has tended to focus on the most tangible risks to physical health and safety. This is reflected in the provision of support services for sex workers, where these aspects are prioritised. There is little research focusing solely on the psychological risks of sex work. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceived psychological impact of street sex work and factors that aff…
The discursive and clinical production of trans youth: Gender variant youth who seek puberty suppression
This article focuses on therapeutic interventions with gender variant youth and, in particular, pubertal suppression. The aim is to address the question of which kinds of subjects are enabled, and which are made invisible, through discursive and clinical practices. The analysis demonstrates the conceptual value of drawing on discursive and queer theoretical approaches. The published work of selected clinicians is used as a way in to the complexit…
Reply to Peggy Cohen-Kettenis
I am grateful for Peggy Cohen-Kettenis' comments on my article. I am not a clinical psychologist, and the point of my article was not to criticise or make recommendations about clinical work. The p
The non-display of authentic distress: Public-Private Dualism in Young People's Discursive Construction of Self-Harm
This article draws from focus groups and interviews investigating how young people talk about self-harm. Some of the research participants had personal experience of self-harm but this was not a prerequisite for their inclusion in the study. Thematic coding was used initially to organise and give an overview of the data, but the data were subsequently analysed using a discourse analytic approach. The article focuses on the young people's construc…
Youth on the Virtual Edge: Researching Marginalized Sexualities and Genders Online
Research shows clear links between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and deliberate self-harm (DSH), but there is a lack of research investigating the social context of young LGBT people's lives and helping to explain the higher DSH risk. In this article, we report on a small-scale methodological study intended to test the feasibility of online qualitative interviews for investigating young people, sexual and gender identity, a…
Intersex/DSD post-Chicago: New developments and challenges for psychologists
The title of this special issue reflects the significance of a landmark, if dilemmatic, development in research and practice relating to atypical sex development. The Consensus Statement on the Man
Psychological research and intersex/DSD: Recent developments and future directions
Clinical management of intersex/DSD has been evolving, since the early 1990s, towards a goal of holistic, patient-centred care offered by specialist multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). This evolution has been championed by service users and practitioners alike. With the Consensus Statement on the Management of Intersex Disorders came clarification of MDT functioning and further recognition of psychological/psychiatric services as a key part of clinic…
Hard-to-Reach Youth Online: Methodological Advances in Self-Harm Research
The Mediation Window: Regulation of Argumentation and Affect in Custody Mediation
Avhandlingen presenterer en kvalitativ undersøkelse av obligatorisk mekling for foreldre etter samlivsbrudd. Materialet for undersøkelsen består av lydopptak og utskrifter av et representativt utvalg på 154 saker der det ble utført alminnelig mekling, samlet inn i forbindelse med FORM-prosjektet, ledet av professor Odd Arne Tjersland. \n\nDe tre studiene som utgjør doktorgradsarbeidet bygger særlig på de 38 høykonfliktsakene i FORM-materialet. De…
Suicidal ideation and self‐harm among youths in N orway: Associations with verbal, physical and sexual abuse
Using data from a national survey ( n = 6979) of young people in their last year in N orwegian secondary schools in 2007 (aged 18–19), this paper explores the relationship between sexual abuse and experiences of violence among young people in N orway and their reporting of suicidal ideation and self‐harm. This investigation includes three types of abuse experienced by young people: non‐physical, physical and sexual. We investigate suicidal ideati…
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Explaining Self-Harm: Youth Cybertalk and Marginalized Sexualities and Genders
This study investigates self-harm among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people. Using qualitative virtual methods, we examined online forums to explore young LGBT people's cybertalk about emotional distress and self-harming. We investigated how youth explained the relationship between self-harm and sexuality and gender. We found that LGBT youth may articulate contradictory, ambiguous, and multiple accounts of the relationship but t…
Sexual Debut Ages in Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults in Norway
The Body as a Site of Gender-Related Distress: Ethical Considerations for Gender Variant Youth in Clinical Settings
The present article maps out understandings about embodied distress among gender-nonconforming youth. Feminist bioethics and queer-inflected clinical perspectives are used to inform thinking about ethical, nonpathologizing health care in the case of gender-related distress. Specific attention is directed at self-harming among gender variant and trans youth. This is contextualized in relation to the role that self-harm plays for some LGBT youth, w…
Making sense of ‘Intersex’ and ‘DSD’: How laypeople understand and use terminology
Various umbrella terms refer to sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of somatic sex. Key terms include Intersex, reclaimed by 1990s activists, and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) used in medicine since 2006. Professionals across diverse disciplines express strong preferences for specific terms, making assumptions about what those terms do. Here, we draw on 10 focus group-interviews (41 participants without particular know…
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