Lise Widding Isaksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 84212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lise Widding Isaksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lise Widding |
| FAMILY NAME | Isaksen |
| SIGNATURE | ISAKSEN L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6717-2830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal care burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by the Finnish Literature Society, we analyse the transformation of informal elder care practices in Finland. We adopt a care mobility and care process perspective to analyse how informal elder care was transformed due t…
Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts
This introduction to the Special Issue Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts argues for the importance of analysing local organizations of care. This is a necessary addition to current scholarship which has focused on the globalization of care. Yet, in many parts of the world, such as the Northern and Eastern European countries, on which this issue focuses, care provision continues to be mainly local an…
Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway
This article explores the complexities and ambiguities in Norwegian families’ interaction with the public childcare system. Public childcare is a cornerstone in the ‘double dividend’, that is, social policies that equalize children’s life chances and support gender equality. The dual earner/dual carer family model interacts with full-time participation in the labour market, gender equality at home and universal access to childcare, and has made c…
Transnational Spaces of Care: Migrant Nurses in Norway
This article argues that international nurse recruitment from Latvia to Norway is not a win–win situation. The gains and losses of nurse migration are unevenly distributed between sender and receiver countries. On the basis of empirical research and interviews with Latvian nurses and families they left behind, this article argues that nurse migration transforms families and communities and that national health services now become global workplace…
Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons
More and more of the world's migrants are mothers who leave their families in the villages of the South to take up jobs caring for families in the North. Most current research on this trend focuses on the conditions of work that such migrant mothers face in the North or on the children she leaves in the South, understood as a rearrangement of roles in the family. Here, the authors call for a macro-analytic theory of the effect of such migration a…
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything: Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain
Masculine dignity and the dirty body
Cultural perceptions about what masculine dignity is seem to imply a gender-specific regulation of clean and dirty areas in care work. The significance this may have for the division of labour between the genders in the family and on the labour market is discussed. Care that involves stability, intimacy and actual contact with bodily waste seems to challenge masculine forms of dignity in several ways. This work is associated with low social statu…
Sjukvård som maskulinitetsprojekt
Caring work is culturally coded as feminine. Men constitute approximately five per cent of the nursing occupational group in Norway. Despite political ambitions, the proportion of male nurses is not increasing. Furthermore, the few men are clustered within some few niches, including leadership and management, psychiatric wards and acute medicine. The research question addressed in this artide is how to explain this clustering and to understand wh…
Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust: Images of Bodily Decay and the Social Organization of Care Work
Based on a reinterpretation of 105 relations between the elderly and their adult children, this article discusses incontinence as a social and cultural phenomenon. Social norms and cultural symbols that surround the intimate parts of the body affect the way care work is organized, gendered, culturally understood, and socially stratified. To lose bodily control over bodily fluids seems to put the individual's identity and human dignity at risk. Th…
Den ubehagelige kroppsligheten
This article raises some questions related to the ways we feel, react and think about the body and especially the bodily taboos. The body is a source for lust, desire and sexual pleasures as well as a source for experiences of shame, taboos and feelings of disgust and filthiness. But while it is relatively easy and uncomplicated to experience the bodily pleasures, it seems to be far more complicated and endangering to deal with body taboos. My st…
Kroppsnärheten förklarar omsorgsarbetets låga status
Skillnaden mellan natur och kultur är framträdande i västerländsk kultur. Det kroppsliga har blivit en närmast onämnbar del av ens person, och det finns en tydlig koppling mellan ett arbetes kroppsnärhet och dess sociala värde, fu mer kroppsnära, desto lägre status
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything: Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain
Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons
More and more of the world's migrants are mothers who leave their families in the villages of the South to take up jobs caring for families in the North. Most current research on this trend focuses on the conditions of work that such migrant mothers face in the North or on the children she leaves in the South, understood as a rearrangement of roles in the family. Here, the authors call for a macro-analytic theory of the effect of such migration a…
Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust: Images of Bodily Decay and the Social Organization of Care Work
Based on a reinterpretation of 105 relations between the elderly and their adult children, this article discusses incontinence as a social and cultural phenomenon. Social norms and cultural symbols that surround the intimate parts of the body affect the way care work is organized, gendered, culturally understood, and socially stratified. To lose bodily control over bodily fluids seems to put the individual's identity and human dignity at risk. Th…
Transnational Spaces of Care: Migrant Nurses in Norway
This article argues that international nurse recruitment from Latvia to Norway is not a win–win situation. The gains and losses of nurse migration are unevenly distributed between sender and receiver countries. On the basis of empirical research and interviews with Latvian nurses and families they left behind, this article argues that nurse migration transforms families and communities and that national health services now become global workplace…
Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts
This introduction to the Special Issue Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts argues for the importance of analysing local organizations of care. This is a necessary addition to current scholarship which has focused on the globalization of care. Yet, in many parts of the world, such as the Northern and Eastern European countries, on which this issue focuses, care provision continues to be mainly local an…
Masculine dignity and the dirty body
Cultural perceptions about what masculine dignity is seem to imply a gender-specific regulation of clean and dirty areas in care work. The significance this may have for the division of labour between the genders in the family and on the labour market is discussed. Care that involves stability, intimacy and actual contact with bodily waste seems to challenge masculine forms of dignity in several ways. This work is associated with low social statu…
Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway
This article explores the complexities and ambiguities in Norwegian families’ interaction with the public childcare system. Public childcare is a cornerstone in the ‘double dividend’, that is, social policies that equalize children’s life chances and support gender equality. The dual earner/dual carer family model interacts with full-time participation in the labour market, gender equality at home and universal access to childcare, and has made c…
Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal care burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by the Finnish Literature Society, we analyse the transformation of informal elder care practices in Finland. We adopt a care mobility and care process perspective to analyse how informal elder care was transformed due t…
Kroppsnärheten förklarar omsorgsarbetets låga status
Skillnaden mellan natur och kultur är framträdande i västerländsk kultur. Det kroppsliga har blivit en närmast onämnbar del av ens person, och det finns en tydlig koppling mellan ett arbetes kroppsnärhet och dess sociala värde, fu mer kroppsnära, desto lägre status
Den ubehagelige kroppsligheten
This article raises some questions related to the ways we feel, react and think about the body and especially the bodily taboos. The body is a source for lust, desire and sexual pleasures as well as a source for experiences of shame, taboos and feelings of disgust and filthiness. But while it is relatively easy and uncomplicated to experience the bodily pleasures, it seems to be far more complicated and endangering to deal with body taboos. My st…
Masculine dignity and the dirty body
Cultural perceptions about what masculine dignity is seem to imply a gender-specific regulation of clean and dirty areas in care work. The significance this may have for the division of labour between the genders in the family and on the labour market is discussed. Care that involves stability, intimacy and actual contact with bodily waste seems to challenge masculine forms of dignity in several ways. This work is associated with low social statu…
Sjukvård som maskulinitetsprojekt
Caring work is culturally coded as feminine. Men constitute approximately five per cent of the nursing occupational group in Norway. Despite political ambitions, the proportion of male nurses is not increasing. Furthermore, the few men are clustered within some few niches, including leadership and management, psychiatric wards and acute medicine. The research question addressed in this artide is how to explain this clustering and to understand wh…
Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust: Images of Bodily Decay and the Social Organization of Care Work
Based on a reinterpretation of 105 relations between the elderly and their adult children, this article discusses incontinence as a social and cultural phenomenon. Social norms and cultural symbols that surround the intimate parts of the body affect the way care work is organized, gendered, culturally understood, and socially stratified. To lose bodily control over bodily fluids seems to put the individual's identity and human dignity at risk. Th…
I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything: Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain
Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons
More and more of the world's migrants are mothers who leave their families in the villages of the South to take up jobs caring for families in the North. Most current research on this trend focuses on the conditions of work that such migrant mothers face in the North or on the children she leaves in the South, understood as a rearrangement of roles in the family. Here, the authors call for a macro-analytic theory of the effect of such migration a…
Transnational Spaces of Care: Migrant Nurses in Norway
This article argues that international nurse recruitment from Latvia to Norway is not a win–win situation. The gains and losses of nurse migration are unevenly distributed between sender and receiver countries. On the basis of empirical research and interviews with Latvian nurses and families they left behind, this article argues that nurse migration transforms families and communities and that national health services now become global workplace…
Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts
This introduction to the Special Issue Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts argues for the importance of analysing local organizations of care. This is a necessary addition to current scholarship which has focused on the globalization of care. Yet, in many parts of the world, such as the Northern and Eastern European countries, on which this issue focuses, care provision continues to be mainly local an…
Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway
This article explores the complexities and ambiguities in Norwegian families’ interaction with the public childcare system. Public childcare is a cornerstone in the ‘double dividend’, that is, social policies that equalize children’s life chances and support gender equality. The dual earner/dual carer family model interacts with full-time participation in the labour market, gender equality at home and universal access to childcare, and has made c…
Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal care burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of "caregiver pools". Using textual archive material collected by the Finnish Literature Society, we analyse the transformation of informal elder care practices in Finland. We adopt a care mobility and care process perspective to analyse how informal elder care was transformed due t…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Care work (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anger (3 works) · Disgust (3 works)