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Conscription 2.0: Compulsory Military Service and the Rise of Women in the Swedish Armed Forces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a deeper understanding of gender integration in the Swedish Armed Forces, often portrayed as a “North Star” of gender equality, by studying (1) numeric data on the presence of women in the SAF from 2001 to 2023, (2) how official SAF personnel documents describe and explain these data, and (3) how gender integration ...
Elin Berg, Ralph Sundberg
wiley   +1 more source

#Akademiuppropet : Social media as a tool for shaping a counter-public space in Swedish academia

, 2021
Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe, with some countries and societies more impacted than others ...
Salmonsson, Lisa,
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From the Whisper Network to #MeToo—Framing Gender, Gossip and Sexual Harassment

European Journal of American Studies, 2020
There is a long-standing connection between gender and gossip in Western culture as the communication amongst women has been stigmatized as gossip. Long before #MeToo, women who had become victims of sexual abuse and who spoke out against sexual violence
Maria Verena Peters
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Gender Washing? Examining the Effectiveness of Corporate Gender Equality Initiatives

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing political backlash and the rollback of DEI initiatives in the US and abroad, we explore whether voluntary gender equality programs produce measurable reductions in workplace gender discrimination, and how the political context mediates these effects.
Yvonne Ehrstein, Stefano Maiani, Geoffrey Wood   +2 more
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Entangling and Coalescing on Social Media: A Study of Issue Boundary Spanning in Movement of Movements

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how issues across boundaries influence contention dynamics in a movement of movements on social media. Participants utilize social media to support or oppose goals and actions related to their visions regarding societal changes. As the boundaries of movements are fluid on social media, we investigate the actors' identities,
Carol Lee, Pratyush Bharati, Emmanuelle Vaast   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Representation in Two American News Outlets Before and After #MeToo: A Corpus-Based Study

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
This study investigates the linguistic representation of gender in two ideologically distinct American news outlets, HuffPost and the Washington Examiner, before and after the #MeToo movement gained prominence in late 2017.
Md Nazmus Saqueb Kathon
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Brave women sound the alarm – representations of men and women in the Swedish media coverage of #MeToo

Journalistica, 2020
In autumn 2017 in Sweden, the #MeToo movement and sexual assault became a focus of broad debate. Swedish media coverage of the movement was centred around the many petitions made by anonymous groups of women to illuminate the extent of the problem
Lisa Lindqvist, Hillevi Ganetz
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From Christian Confession to “Speaking Your Truth”: A Genealogy of Lived Experience as Truth‐Telling

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a sociological genealogy of “lived experience” as a mode of truth‐telling. It asks how narrated life came to function as knowledge and why such speech now circulates as evidence in activism, academia, and social policy. Using a Foucauldian genealogy, the analysis traces the shifting conditions under which speech became ...
Jody Moore
wiley   +1 more source

#Metoo: Not My Movement [PDF]

, 2018
September 2017 marked the rebirth of the #Metoo movement where women who have experienced sexual harassment and/or assault were asked to unite and become visible through the use of ”#Metoo.” #Metoo exists at the intersection of gender exploitation and ...
Damico, Brooke
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Provocation as a Genre: Rhetorical Definitions of MeToo Discourse

Respectus Philologicus, 2020
Modern media has led to changes in the scope, intensity and effectiveness of communication. The Internet medium, which offers almost unlimited dialogue and polylogue possibilities, has become an attractive place for provocation to be born and function ...
Eglė Gabrėnaitė, Monika Triaušytė
doaj   +1 more source