Gunilla Carlstedt

Biographic Data

ID4142155
NAMEGunilla Carlstedt
GIVEN NAMESGunilla
FAMILY NAMECarlstedt
SIGNATURECARLSTEDT G
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX0

  • You Really Do Something Useful with Kids”: Mothering and Experienced Health and Illness in a Group of Elderly Swedish Women

    Annika S K Forssén, Annika Forssén et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2008

    This article is based on in-dept interviews with 20 elderly Swedish women, and deals with mother's child-caring work and related health and illness. Mothering included invisible work as well as physically heavy tasks, both aspects often neglected in research. The attitude of the children's father had a great impact on the work. Feelings of success or failure at bringing up their children affected the women's experience of health/ill health throug…

  • Health-Promoting Aspects of a Paid Job: Findings in a Qualitative Interview Study With Elderly Women in Sweden

    Annika S K Forssén, Annika Forssén et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2007

    This article is one aspect of a larger, qualitative interview study and deals with health-promoting aspects of gainful employment, as experienced by a group of elderly Swedish women. Through these interviews we demonstrate the central importance of outside employment for many of the women, although they belonged to a generation where outside work conflicted with societal norms. We will illustrate a wide variety of ways in which gainful employment…

  • Compulsive Sensitivity—A Consequence of Caring: A Qualitative Investigation Into Women Carer's Difficulties in Limiting Their Labours

    Annika S K Forssén, Annika Forssén et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2005

    Women are expected to care, both in public and private life, for the sick as well as the healthy. Some women have difficulties in limiting their caring, despite being deeply careworn. In this life-course study, based on in-depth interviews with elderly women in Sweden, the concept "compulsive sensitivity" presents a way toward understanding their difficulties. Compulsive sensitivity denotes the compulsion to see and respond to other people's need…

  • Att vilja integrering och drivas till separering

    Open AccessSylvia Benkert, Synnöve Clason et al.ARTICLETidskrift för genusvetenskap1989

    Vad har kvinnoforskningen tillfört den etablerade forskningen i olika discipliner'? Hur har den kvinnovetenskapliga kritiken mottagits ? Vad utmärker en aktiv kvinnoforskares situation i Sverige i dag? Kvinnoforskare från fem olika discipliner ger här en lägesrapport