Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet Bjerrum |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gender and Generation in China Today
Kunnskap for politikk og praksis? En analyseav Stoltenbergutvalgets kunnskapssyn
I februar i år kom Stoltenbergutvalget med sin innstilling om kjønnsforskjeller i skoleprestasjoner (NOU 2019:3). Ut fra en sammenfatning av tilgjengelig forskningskunnskap, la man frem en rekke forslag til tiltak som muligens kan redusere slike kjønnsforskjeller. Det kan riktignok diskuteres om gutters lavere karakterer og større frafall i skolen utgjør et stort problem. Så langt er det ikke noe som tyder på at de stiller dårligere enn jentene p…
Gender and Generation in Times of Change in China
The emergence of this special issue of NORA is indebted to many years of collaboration between Chinese and Nordic gender scholars. Since China opened up its borders to foreigners in the late 1970s
Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach
This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender n…
The Arrow of Time in the Space of the Present: Temporality as Methodological and Theoretical Dimension in Child Research
The concern of this article is that some prevailing theoretical dualisms in child research may be traced back to a split between time and space, and the argument is that securing a temporal as well as a spatial dimension in the research methodology may allow to transgress such dualisms. The article analyses how an insufficient account of the temporal dimension in different theoretical moments in childhood studies has led to theoretical dualisms b…
Young Women's Friendships across Three Generations: Insights from Norway
This essay explores the variation in young women's friendships from a temporal and generational perspective: when and why did different features of girls' friendship emerge, what form did they take in different social settings, and what socio-cultural and psychological challenges may they be seen as being a response to or the co-producer of? What significance has tensions between friendship and popularity, competition, and sexuality at different …
Conflicts in the Habitus: The Emotional Work of Becoming Modern
This article argues that Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and, in particular, the way habitus is transmitted intergenerationally, can be enhanced by considering conflictual conscious and unconscious processes that emerge in relationships. We suggest that Christopher Bollas's discussions of the 'unthought known' and of 'transformational objects' add relational depth to the concept of habitus and thus contribute to developing a more psycho-social und…
Tid og rum - børn og køn
Gender on Class Journeys
Over the last three generations, young women in Norway have gradually defined themselves more as individuals and less by gender. This individualisation certainly does not mean that they have ceased to understand themselves as gendered, but gender is seen as only one of many aspects of their individuality, rather than something that defines who they are or should be. The implications of what it means to be a man or a woman have also become less se…
Gender on Class Journeys
Situated Affect in Traveling Data: Tracing Processes of Meaning Making in Qualitative Research
This article brings psychosocial methods into conversation with methodological and ethical debates arising from the reuse of qualitative research material, and with issues of ethnographic practice. Our empirical grounding came from the psychosocial technique of reading research texts aloud in a group, listening in an affectively attuned way, and sharing our responses. The texts we revisited-infant observation notes of interactions between a young…
Chinks in Gender
This comment argues that differences between clinical and normal populations, between clinical data and sociological data, and differences in social class and cultural settings should be taken into account in order to understand the varying psychological dynamics behind self representations. Research from the Nordic countries indicates that young women's relationships with their mothers and fathers are becoming more similar. The daughters appreci…
Fun in Gender—Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation
Is the norm of love as a prerequisite for sexual relations becoming less prominent among girls today? The article looks into the changing cultural framing of young, heterosexual, female desire during the last three generations, and how class differentiation among women was established in new ways in these processes. The analysis draws on a study of young Norwegian women over three generations (born in the 1910s and 1920s, the 1940s and early 1950…
Bokomtaler
Potential Spaces - Subjectivities and Gender in a Generational Perspective
Most social and cultural researchers emphasize the way people use cultural concepts to organize their social world and to constitute themselves and others in meaningful ways. In this article, this is taken one step further through taking into account the way that such cultural constructions are animated and loaded with personal meaning and emotions that stem from specific psycho-biographies. Making use of object-relational theory in general, and …
Noisy Girls: New Subjectivities and Old Gender Discourses
Young women have taken up new subject positions in a historical period when the subject of modernity has been declared dead. Subject positions have been far from selfevident either in the cultural context, or in the young women themselves, a fact that may, paradoxically, have helped them produce modern reflexive subjectivities with greater ease. It has been more necessary for contemporary girls than for boys to ask who they are and who they want …
European Gender Lessons: Girls and Boys at Scout Camps in Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia
The article investigates the tensions between and within models of gender equality and gender complementarity by studying children who are in the midst of learning to apply these gender models in practice. Children (aged 11-15 years) were observed and interviewed while they participated in scout camps in Denmark, Portugal, Slovakia and Russia. Through structural and symbolic gender splits in spaces, positions, activities and competences, children…
Samtaler om ligestilling - indenfor, udenfor, udenom, og ind i diskursen
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings: Interviews with young girls in three generations
People use cultural concepts to organize and construct their social worlds. The question asked in this paper is how such constructions are infused with personal meaning and emotions from specific psychobiographies, and how this may facilitate or impede cultural and social changes, for instance in the form of what one could call a certain inner psychological readiness for some discourses and not for others, for some structural changes and not for …
VI. Chasing the Place Where the Psychological Meets the Cultural
VI. Chasing the Place Where the Psychological Meets the Cultural
Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations: The Way Out and Up
The paths to adulthood for the last three generations of young Norwegian women have been accompanied by significant geographical and social changes. How has this process of modernization been experienced from ‘below’: from the perspective of everyday life and through the eyes of the young women themselves? This article presents results from a three-generational study consisting of interviews with a sample of 18-year-old Norwegian girls, their mot…
Inn i klasserommet
Equality versus difference between girls and boys has been a returning issue in Scandinavian educational debates en this century. Until the turn of the century gendered differentiation was an explicit goal of education. While this lost favour in the period after the Second World War, when the political ideologiy of child centered development and learning gained dominance, many of the assumptions and practices constitutive of gendered difference r…
The magic writing-pad- On gender and identity work
Gender recipes among young girls
Situated Affect in Traveling Data: Tracing Processes of Meaning Making in Qualitative Research
This article brings psychosocial methods into conversation with methodological and ethical debates arising from the reuse of qualitative research material, and with issues of ethnographic practice. Our empirical grounding came from the psychosocial technique of reading research texts aloud in a group, listening in an affectively attuned way, and sharing our responses. The texts we revisited-infant observation notes of interactions between a young…
Conflicts in the Habitus: The Emotional Work of Becoming Modern
This article argues that Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and, in particular, the way habitus is transmitted intergenerationally, can be enhanced by considering conflictual conscious and unconscious processes that emerge in relationships. We suggest that Christopher Bollas's discussions of the 'unthought known' and of 'transformational objects' add relational depth to the concept of habitus and thus contribute to developing a more psycho-social und…
Fun in Gender—Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation
Is the norm of love as a prerequisite for sexual relations becoming less prominent among girls today? The article looks into the changing cultural framing of young, heterosexual, female desire during the last three generations, and how class differentiation among women was established in new ways in these processes. The analysis draws on a study of young Norwegian women over three generations (born in the 1910s and 1920s, the 1940s and early 1950…
Noisy Girls: New Subjectivities and Old Gender Discourses
Young women have taken up new subject positions in a historical period when the subject of modernity has been declared dead. Subject positions have been far from selfevident either in the cultural context, or in the young women themselves, a fact that may, paradoxically, have helped them produce modern reflexive subjectivities with greater ease. It has been more necessary for contemporary girls than for boys to ask who they are and who they want …
Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations: The Way Out and Up
The paths to adulthood for the last three generations of young Norwegian women have been accompanied by significant geographical and social changes. How has this process of modernization been experienced from ‘below’: from the perspective of everyday life and through the eyes of the young women themselves? This article presents results from a three-generational study consisting of interviews with a sample of 18-year-old Norwegian girls, their mot…
Seductive Texts With Serious Intentions
Every text aims to seduce its reader. If the text at the same time lays claim to having scientific value, we readers must ask whether seduction stands in the way of truth. As a concept, seduction lies halfway between an assault and conversation. As opposed to assault, seduction conveys a dimension of voluntarily being swept off one's feet. As opposed to conversation, seduction implies that one loses one's senses for a moment. Who, then, is really…
Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings: Interviews with young girls in three generations
People use cultural concepts to organize and construct their social worlds. The question asked in this paper is how such constructions are infused with personal meaning and emotions from specific psychobiographies, and how this may facilitate or impede cultural and social changes, for instance in the form of what one could call a certain inner psychological readiness for some discourses and not for others, for some structural changes and not for …
Potential Spaces - Subjectivities and Gender in a Generational Perspective
Most social and cultural researchers emphasize the way people use cultural concepts to organize their social world and to constitute themselves and others in meaningful ways. In this article, this is taken one step further through taking into account the way that such cultural constructions are animated and loaded with personal meaning and emotions that stem from specific psycho-biographies. Making use of object-relational theory in general, and …
The magic writing-pad- On gender and identity work
Gender recipes among young girls
Gender recipes among young girls
Gender and Generation in Times of Change in China
The emergence of this special issue of NORA is indebted to many years of collaboration between Chinese and Nordic gender scholars. Since China opened up its borders to foreigners in the late 1970s
European Gender Lessons: Girls and Boys at Scout Camps in Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia
The article investigates the tensions between and within models of gender equality and gender complementarity by studying children who are in the midst of learning to apply these gender models in practice. Children (aged 11-15 years) were observed and interviewed while they participated in scout camps in Denmark, Portugal, Slovakia and Russia. Through structural and symbolic gender splits in spaces, positions, activities and competences, children…
Young Women's Friendships across Three Generations: Insights from Norway
This essay explores the variation in young women's friendships from a temporal and generational perspective: when and why did different features of girls' friendship emerge, what form did they take in different social settings, and what socio-cultural and psychological challenges may they be seen as being a response to or the co-producer of? What significance has tensions between friendship and popularity, competition, and sexuality at different …
Gender, body and beauty in adolescence: Three psychological portraits
Hur flickor blir flickor och pojkar blir pojkar
Kvinnors behov av närhet och mäns be/iov av autonomi grundläggs redan tidigt i barndomen. Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen odi Monica Rådberg visar genom ett utvecklingspsykologiskt perspektiv hur detta påverkar könssocialiseringen odi inlka konsekvenser det får, inte minstför jämställdhetsarbetet i skolan
Kön, modernitet och postmodernitet
Den samhälleliga moderniseringsprocessen påverkar också individens psykiska struktur. Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen och Monica Rudberg analyserar med utgångspunkt i Marshall Bermans tolkning av Goethes drama Faust, hur moderniteten påverkar båda könen, från 1800-talets polarisering mellan manligt och kvinnligt, till våra dagars könskamp
Gender, body and beauty in adolescence: Three psychological portraits
Gender recipes among young girls
Gender recipes among young girls
Seductive Texts With Serious Intentions
Every text aims to seduce its reader. If the text at the same time lays claim to having scientific value, we readers must ask whether seduction stands in the way of truth. As a concept, seduction lies halfway between an assault and conversation. As opposed to assault, seduction conveys a dimension of voluntarily being swept off one's feet. As opposed to conversation, seduction implies that one loses one's senses for a moment. Who, then, is really…
The magic writing-pad- On gender and identity work
Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations: The Way Out and Up
The paths to adulthood for the last three generations of young Norwegian women have been accompanied by significant geographical and social changes. How has this process of modernization been experienced from ‘below’: from the perspective of everyday life and through the eyes of the young women themselves? This article presents results from a three-generational study consisting of interviews with a sample of 18-year-old Norwegian girls, their mot…
Inn i klasserommet
Equality versus difference between girls and boys has been a returning issue in Scandinavian educational debates en this century. Until the turn of the century gendered differentiation was an explicit goal of education. While this lost favour in the period after the Second World War, when the political ideologiy of child centered development and learning gained dominance, many of the assumptions and practices constitutive of gendered difference r…
VI. Chasing the Place Where the Psychological Meets the Cultural
VI. Chasing the Place Where the Psychological Meets the Cultural
Samtaler om ligestilling - indenfor, udenfor, udenom, og ind i diskursen
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings: Interviews with young girls in three generations
People use cultural concepts to organize and construct their social worlds. The question asked in this paper is how such constructions are infused with personal meaning and emotions from specific psychobiographies, and how this may facilitate or impede cultural and social changes, for instance in the form of what one could call a certain inner psychological readiness for some discourses and not for others, for some structural changes and not for …
Noisy Girls: New Subjectivities and Old Gender Discourses
Young women have taken up new subject positions in a historical period when the subject of modernity has been declared dead. Subject positions have been far from selfevident either in the cultural context, or in the young women themselves, a fact that may, paradoxically, have helped them produce modern reflexive subjectivities with greater ease. It has been more necessary for contemporary girls than for boys to ask who they are and who they want …
European Gender Lessons: Girls and Boys at Scout Camps in Denmark, Portugal, Russia and Slovakia
The article investigates the tensions between and within models of gender equality and gender complementarity by studying children who are in the midst of learning to apply these gender models in practice. Children (aged 11-15 years) were observed and interviewed while they participated in scout camps in Denmark, Portugal, Slovakia and Russia. Through structural and symbolic gender splits in spaces, positions, activities and competences, children…
Potential Spaces - Subjectivities and Gender in a Generational Perspective
Most social and cultural researchers emphasize the way people use cultural concepts to organize their social world and to constitute themselves and others in meaningful ways. In this article, this is taken one step further through taking into account the way that such cultural constructions are animated and loaded with personal meaning and emotions that stem from specific psycho-biographies. Making use of object-relational theory in general, and …
Bokomtaler
Fun in Gender—Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation
Is the norm of love as a prerequisite for sexual relations becoming less prominent among girls today? The article looks into the changing cultural framing of young, heterosexual, female desire during the last three generations, and how class differentiation among women was established in new ways in these processes. The analysis draws on a study of young Norwegian women over three generations (born in the 1910s and 1920s, the 1940s and early 1950…
Chinks in Gender
This comment argues that differences between clinical and normal populations, between clinical data and sociological data, and differences in social class and cultural settings should be taken into account in order to understand the varying psychological dynamics behind self representations. Research from the Nordic countries indicates that young women's relationships with their mothers and fathers are becoming more similar. The daughters appreci…
Situated Affect in Traveling Data: Tracing Processes of Meaning Making in Qualitative Research
This article brings psychosocial methods into conversation with methodological and ethical debates arising from the reuse of qualitative research material, and with issues of ethnographic practice. Our empirical grounding came from the psychosocial technique of reading research texts aloud in a group, listening in an affectively attuned way, and sharing our responses. The texts we revisited-infant observation notes of interactions between a young…
Gender on Class Journeys
Over the last three generations, young women in Norway have gradually defined themselves more as individuals and less by gender. This individualisation certainly does not mean that they have ceased to understand themselves as gendered, but gender is seen as only one of many aspects of their individuality, rather than something that defines who they are or should be. The implications of what it means to be a man or a woman have also become less se…
Gender on Class Journeys
Tid og rum - børn og køn
The Arrow of Time in the Space of the Present: Temporality as Methodological and Theoretical Dimension in Child Research
The concern of this article is that some prevailing theoretical dualisms in child research may be traced back to a split between time and space, and the argument is that securing a temporal as well as a spatial dimension in the research methodology may allow to transgress such dualisms. The article analyses how an insufficient account of the temporal dimension in different theoretical moments in childhood studies has led to theoretical dualisms b…
Young Women's Friendships across Three Generations: Insights from Norway
This essay explores the variation in young women's friendships from a temporal and generational perspective: when and why did different features of girls' friendship emerge, what form did they take in different social settings, and what socio-cultural and psychological challenges may they be seen as being a response to or the co-producer of? What significance has tensions between friendship and popularity, competition, and sexuality at different …
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (8 works) · Social and Educational Sciences (8 works)