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• What does it mean to be a feminist MP? A comparative analysis of the Swedish and Danish parliaments

  2020. Drude Dahlerup, David Karlsson, Helena Olofsdotter Stensota. Party Politics

  Article

  The issue of whether political interests are gendered, and if so, how, has been a recurrent theme in research. While there have been several attempts recently to address gendered political interests theoretically, the central concept of feminism has not been explored in any depth in this context. This article uses unique data pertaining to self-identification as a feminist MP, and explores how it relates to gender, party and certain policy issues previously connected to women in Sweden and Denmark. The two neighboring countries both have a high representation of women, but while the Swedish government called itself feminist, this was unthinkable in the Danish case. Our main finding is that in both countries male feminist MPs deviate from their female counterparts by not supporting acting for women which indicates a separate and gendered understanding of what being a male feminist implies. However, no strong association addressing intrinsic feminists male concerns such as parental leave, was found. Another possibility could be that male feminists refrain from taking agency from females, what the acting for option could imply. We conclude that the concept of acting for women needs to be abducted from its central stance in feminism as a category of representation to mirror the multifaceted contemporary landscape.

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• Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region

  2019. .

  Book (ed)

  While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of state-society relations and to the discussions between Islamist and secular trends. Theoretically framed and based on new empirical data, this edited volume explores women’s activism and political representation as well as discursive changes, with a particular focus on secular and Islamic feminism, and changes in popular opinions on women’s position in society. While the contributors express optimistic as well as more pessimistic views for the future, they agree that this is a period of uncertainty for women in the region, and that support by ruling elites towards women’s rights remains ambiguous and double-edged.

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• Er ligestilling allerede opnået?

  2019. Drude Dahlerup. Politologisk årbog 2018-2019, 82-84

  Chapter

  A short version of the author's survey in the Danish parliament 2015 on attitudes towards gender equality and gender equality policies. Originally published as an aticle in Scandinavian Political Studies, vol 41, no.2, 2018. It shows that one third, including all male MPs from the right-wing parties believe that gender equaity is already obtained or has gone too far.

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