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Berg, L., Jönsson, M. & Lundgren, A. S. (2025). Inledning (1ed.). In: Linda Berg; Maria Jönsson; Anna Sofia Lundgren (Ed.), Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern (pp. 9-24). Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Inledning
2025 (Swedish)In: Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern / [ed] Linda Berg; Maria Jönsson; Anna Sofia Lundgren, Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2025, 1, p. 9-24Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2025 Edition: 1
National Category
Ethnology General Literature Studies Gender Studies
Research subject
Ethnology; gender studies; Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236305 (URN)9789170614989 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-03-10 Created: 2025-03-10 Last updated: 2025-05-15Bibliographically approved
Berg, L. (2025). Manopaus: om maskulinitet och hormoner i kroppslig kristid (1ed.). In: Linda Berg; Maria Jönsson; Anna Sofia Lundgren (Ed.), Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern (pp. 107-127). Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Manopaus: om maskulinitet och hormoner i kroppslig kristid
2025 (Swedish)In: Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern / [ed] Linda Berg; Maria Jönsson; Anna Sofia Lundgren, Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2025, 1, p. 107-127Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2025 Edition: 1
Keywords
klimakteriet, andropaus, manliga klimakteriet, maskulinitet, hormoner
National Category
Gender Studies Ethnology
Research subject
Ethnology; gender studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236306 (URN)9789170614989 (ISBN)
Projects
2020-01220/Vetenskapsrådet/Det är hormonerna. Kvinnor i transition genom berättelser om hormoner.
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-01220
Available from: 2025-03-10 Created: 2025-03-10 Last updated: 2025-05-15Bibliographically approved
Berg, L., Jönsson, M. & Lundgren, A. S. (Eds.). (2025). Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern (1ed.). Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vad vi talar om när vi talar om klimakteriet: humanistiska och genusvetenskapliga perspektiv på övergångsåldern
2025 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam Förlag, 2025. p. 231 Edition: 1
Keywords
Klimakteriet, övergångsåldern, menopaus, andropaus, hormoner, självhjälpskultur, åldrande
National Category
Gender Studies Ethnology General Literature Studies History of Science and Ideas
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236304 (URN)9789170614989 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-01220
Available from: 2025-03-10 Created: 2025-03-10 Last updated: 2025-05-15Bibliographically approved
Berg, L. (2025). What do the bloody spiritualists say?: exploring menstruation advocacy and feminist frictions in Sweden. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 32(1), 20-35
Open this publication in new window or tab >>What do the bloody spiritualists say?: exploring menstruation advocacy and feminist frictions in Sweden
2025 (English)In: The European Journal of Women's Studies, ISSN 1350-5068, E-ISSN 1461-7420, Vol. 32, no 1, p. 20-35Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

While globally menstruators are increasingly receiving support through solidarity campaigns, the menstruating body remains an ambivalent subject in Swedish politics and feminist scholarship. Menstruation activists emphasise that periods are both a local and global political issue, urging menstruators to become more aware of how their bodily cycles impact them. This article aims to explore a selection of narratives on menstruation as a political and spiritual phenomenon and investigate the still residual ambivalence in the relationship between feminism and menstrual advocacy in a Swedish context. The study is empirically anchored in a campaign for menstruation awareness combined with interviews with feminist women about menstruation as an experience and as a cultural phenomenon. The campaign, here called PeriodPride, addressed different topics, such as body literacy and menstrual solidarity. Drawing on an ethnographic study combined with a narrative approach, three narratives have been identified: (1) the menstruating body as a ‘woman’s issue’, (2) menstruators in need, remembering period poverty, and (3) the forceful cycle, reclaim the value of bodies. These narratives elucidate the discursive complexity of menstruation advocacy, underscoring its entanglement with multiple frameworks of meaning and revealing some of the productive tensions inherent within Swedish feminist traditions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Sage Publications, 2025
Keywords
Feminism, menstruation advocacy, secularity, solidarity, Sweden
National Category
Ethnology Gender Studies
Research subject
gender studies; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-234099 (URN)10.1177/13505068241312296 (DOI)001396743000001 ()2-s2.0-105001805940 (Scopus ID)
Projects
2020-01220/Vetenskapsrådet/Det är hormonerna. Kvinnor i transition genom berättelser om hormoner.
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-01220
Available from: 2025-01-15 Created: 2025-01-15 Last updated: 2025-05-28Bibliographically approved
Lauri, J. & Berg, L. (2024). Finansiell feminism?: Jämställdhet & ekonomi i självhjälpsformat. Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, 33, Article ID 14582.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Finansiell feminism?: Jämställdhet & ekonomi i självhjälpsformat
2024 (Swedish)In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. 33, article id 14582Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In a contemporary popular cultural Swedish context, gender equality and economic equality seem to be increasingly formulated in financial terms, through narratives centered around succeeding on the stock market, owning assets or practicing venture capitalism. In this context, self-help books in financial speculation targeting women are marketed with a gender equality narrative. In this article, we focus on how values of feminism, gender equality and economy are shaped and maintained by such books. By effectively hiding power relationships and presenting financial freedom as an attainable goal for everyone and through a condensed narrative of happiness and balance in the future, we read the fantasy of financial freedom as cruel optimism through Lauren Berlant's perspective. The fantasy of financial freedom also produces a feminist subject who, with her investments, both can and should maintain control over her own life and her family as well as navigate around the vulnerabilities of life. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv, 2024
National Category
Gender Studies Ethnology
Research subject
gender studies; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-214216 (URN)10.54807/kp.v33.14582 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-02-29 Created: 2024-02-29 Last updated: 2025-02-27Bibliographically approved
Bäckström, H. & Berg, L. (2024). Plats att mötas och växa: en kvalitativ studie av öppna mötesplatser i Umeå kommun. Umeå: Umeå University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Plats att mötas och växa: en kvalitativ studie av öppna mötesplatser i Umeå kommun
2024 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

I Umeå kommun finns ett flertal öppna mötesplatser; träffpunkter där människor kan umgås, hålla möten, skapa och uppleva kultur, idrotta, lära sig saker etcetera. I denna rapport presenteras tre av dessa verksamheter: Ersboda Folkets Hus, Kulturhuset Klossen och Mötesplats Stöcke, som alla drivs av civilsamhällesorganisationer. Följande studie baseras primärt på intervjuer med verksamma från mötesplatserna, med syfte att undersöka betydelser för användare, närområdet och för Umeå kommun, vilken roll organisationerna förväntas spela samt vilka förutsättningar de har för att verka. 

Mötesplatserna beskrivs som mycket viktiga ur flera perspektiv. De bidrar till att främja lokal sammanhållning och en positiv bild av stadsdelen och de ger människor tillgång till samlingslokaler som annars skulle sakna det. Medan kärnverksamheterna kan sägas handla om kultur, nöje, bildning och fysisk aktivitet, så fyller mötesplatserna också viktiga sociala funktioner för många målgrupper. De bidrar till att motverka ensamhet och psykisk ohälsa för den enskilde, och de utgör centrala forum för individuell utveckling och lärande, inte minst för barn och unga. Som lokalt förankrade öppna verksamheter beskrivs mötesplatserna ha en unik potential att främja social hållbarhet i både närområdet och Umeå i stort. 

Deltagarna lyfter också ett antal utmaningar. Mötesplatserna måste finna en balans mellan öppenhet och trygghet, så att alla besökare känner sig välkomna och trygga i miljön. Det inkluderar en balansgång mellan planering och spontanitet. Deltagarna lyfter att vissa målgrupper behöver mycket låga trösklar, medan andra behöver förväntningar och att aktivt få delta i utformandet av verksamheten. Långsiktig ekonomisk hållbarhet beskrivs vidare som en utmaning för alla organisationer. De erhåller alla olika typer av ekonomiskt stöd från offentliga aktörer, men detta stöd är oftast villkorat och tidsbegränsat och räcker sällan till för vad organisationerna skulle vilja och behöver göra på sikt. Alternativa inkomstkällor är främst viss kommersiell verksamhet respektive sponsring från företag eller privatpersoner. För att fortsätta vara just öppna mötesplatser, till nytta för närområdet, är det dock viktigt att denna typ av finansiering inte gör huset mindre tillgängligt för vissa grupper. 

Vi vill avslutningsvis betona betydelsen av mötesplatsernas medborgardrivna karaktär. Företrädare från alla verksamheter menar att de skulle kunna bedriva ännu mer social verksamhet, särskilt för barn och unga, om de hade ekonomiska förutsättningar. I det fall mötesplatsernas sociala dimensioner ska utvecklas, vill vi dock framhålla vikten av inte betrakta dem som renodlade serviceproducenter som ska leverera något till de boende. Det är viktigt att värna om mötesplatsernas mervärde och särskilda förtroende, som framstår som nära knutet till deras gräsrotsbaserade verksamhet. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå University, 2024. p. 57
Keywords
Öppna mötesplatser, Umeå kommun, Civilsamhälle, Medborgardriven
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
gender studies; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-221703 (URN)978-91-8070-328-4 (ISBN)978-91-8070-329-1 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2021-010601
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Available from: 2024-03-11 Created: 2024-03-11 Last updated: 2024-07-02Bibliographically approved
Berg, L. & Helander, D. (2024). Testinaming: Strategic molecularizations through endocrine and genetic testing. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 32(3), 195-208
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Testinaming: Strategic molecularizations through endocrine and genetic testing
2024 (English)In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 195-208Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

What do tests performed on human bodies tell us? Hormones and genetics have become increasingly central to contemporary understandings of identities and kinship. In this article, narratives around hormone and genetic testing are examined through two examples: the use of DNA testing in migration control and hormone testing in sports. In the name of “fair sport” and “fair migration”, people are being tested because of regulations by the federation or by the state. Testing is said to produce better knowledge, where knowledge without testing is unreliable and defined as a problem which constitutes a risk to fair participation or belonging. In the narratives examined in this article, there is a simultaneous stabilization and destabilization of identity, gender and race. We argue for a slightly different articulation of molecularization, compared to how it has previously been conceptualized in canonized scholarly work. When considered as strategic and entangled with gender, race, and sexuality, molecularization appears as not only a development within or from biopolitics but also as a part of necropolitics. The relation between politics and molecularization is here centred on control by knowing the individual through biological tests, a form of control which we call testinaming.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
Keywords
Molecularization, hormone, DNA, biological tests, identities
National Category
Gender Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Ethnology Cultural Studies Other Medical Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
gender studies; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-228981 (URN)10.1080/08038740.2024.2378998 (DOI)001303479700001 ()2-s2.0-85202763027 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Det är hormonerna. Dnr 2020-01220 (Vetenskapsrådet)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, Dn2020-01220
Available from: 2024-08-30 Created: 2024-08-30 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
Bäckström, H. & Berg, L. (2024). The value of community centers: an analysis of the situated meaning of community development. In: Social work as emancipatory practice: creating pathways towards social justice: book of abstracts. Paper presented at Social Work as Emancipatory Practice: Creating Pathways towards Social Justice, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 17-19, 2024 (pp. 85-85).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The value of community centers: an analysis of the situated meaning of community development
2024 (English)In: Social work as emancipatory practice: creating pathways towards social justice: book of abstracts, 2024, p. 85-85Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

There are many approaches to community development, which has been described as an inherently ambiguous concept (Shaw 2007). In this presentation, we explore how community development is differently perceived, represented, and put into practice by actors from three community centres, all located in a city in northern Sweden. The community centres are all run by non-governmental organisations and share many features and challenges. They are, however, located in three demographically different neighbourhoods and rooted in three different strands of civic engagement in Sweden: the rural development movement, the tradition of popular education, and the so-called People’s Houses (Folkets Hus); community centres with roots in the 20th century workers movement. These affiliations, together with the centres’ geographical locations and varying demography, provide a broad range of discourses on community development, that the interview participants variously build upon, contest, and reinvent. Based on in-depth interviews and an ethnographic approach, the aim of the paper is to analyse how representatives and users of the community centres approach the issue of community development and civic engagement. Based on which operational frameworks (Kenny 2002) do the centers make sense of and work towards community development? How are the concepts community and development interpreted and put into practice? We have found three overarching frameworks, that to varying degrees – closely linked to the neighbourhoods’ place identities and socioeconomic status – imbue the participants’ narratives: the framework of community organising and community work, the pragmatic planning frame, and the framework of entrepreneurship. 

Keywords
Community work, community development, community centers
National Category
Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Gender Studies Social Work
Research subject
Ethnology; gender studies; Public health
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232694 (URN)
Conference
Social Work as Emancipatory Practice: Creating Pathways towards Social Justice, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 17-19, 2024
Projects
Risk för ökad segregation? Civilsamhällets och det offentligas svar på växande klyftor i en "ännu inte" delad stad
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2021-01061
Available from: 2024-12-06 Created: 2024-12-06 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
Berg, L. (Ed.). (2023). Feminist ethnographies: methodological reflections in gender research. Umeå: Umeå University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Feminist ethnographies: methodological reflections in gender research
2023 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Can there really be a feminist ethnography?

The question was asked decades ago, and we need to return to it. Feminist ethnographic ideals about trust, collaboration and exchange of knowledge are important but not necessarily easy. 

The following book is the result of discussions about reflexivity, ethics, and subject positions in ethnographic work within interdisciplinary gender studies. What do positionality and ethical considerations mean in our ethnographic work today? In this anthology nine researchers, from six disciplines, explore this area anchored in their ongoing research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå University, 2023. p. 143
Keywords
Feminist ethnography, Methodological Reflexivity, Research Ethics, Ethnography, Graduate Studies, Gender Studies, Feministisk etnografi, Metodologisk reflexivitet, Forskningsetik, Avhandlingsprojekt, Etnografi
National Category
Other Humanities Gender Studies
Research subject
gender studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-211462 (URN)978-91-8070-116-7 (ISBN)978-91-8070-117-4 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2023-09-19 Created: 2023-09-19 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Berg, L. & Linander, I. (2023). Hypogonadism: Diagnosis, Masculinity, and Capital in Narratives about Testosterone deficiency. Norma, 18(1), 5-20
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hypogonadism: Diagnosis, Masculinity, and Capital in Narratives about Testosterone deficiency
2023 (English)In: Norma, ISSN 1890-2138, E-ISSN 1890-2146, Vol. 18, no 1, p. 5-20Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

For centuries, male hypogonadism has been defined as a clinical syndrome caused by the inability to produce physiological concentrations of testosterone and/or normal amount of sperm. In 2020, an information campaign started in Sweden with the ambition of increasing knowledge about hypogonadism and (lack of) testosterone, targeting both men and healthcare providers. In this study, we take a closer look at media discussions in Sweden on hypogonadism over the period 2018–2021. Through feminist thinking on biomedicalisation, we analyse the media material about the phenomena and issues being raised regarding masculinity, age and health in contemporary neoliberal and biocapital times. For some people, hypogonadism is a severe condition, but we can also see that the diagnosis becomes a response to a wide range of symptoms, expanding the realm for diagnostic practices and tying into normative ideas about age, time and lacking or fading masculinity. The media narratives about hypogonadism not only reflect cultural norms regarding masculinity and the plasticity of diagnoses but also create desires, needs and markets.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
Hypogonadism, testosterone, masculinity, biomedicalisation, biocapital
National Category
Gender Studies Ethnology Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
Research subject
gender studies; Public health; Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-199409 (URN)10.1080/18902138.2022.2121534 (DOI)000854778700001 ()2-s2.0-85138176480 (Scopus ID)
Projects
2020-01220/Vetenskapsrådet/Det är hormonerna. Kvinnor i transition genom berättelser om hormoner.
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2020-01220Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2019:00355
Available from: 2022-09-15 Created: 2022-09-15 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-1032-8515

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