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Doctoral students in the period 2007–2011

The Finnish Research School in Women’s and Gender Studies currently hosts six five-year positions funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The positions were originally filled for four years and later on separately for the year 2011. In addition, 8 doctoral students working under other funding are writing their dissertation within the programme.

Funding by the Ministry of Education and Culture

Four-year funding

Johanna Ahonen (University of Turku)
The womanhood and the embodiment in Hindu-based religious movements in Finland

Riikka Homanen (University of Tampere)
Pregnant agency in the work practices of Finnish maternity health care

Kirsi Kinnarinen (University of Helsinki)
Freedom, Brotherhood, and Honour. Gender building in motorcycle culture

Sanna Rikala (University of Tampere)
Depression, Gender and Power – A Study of Gender Orders in Working life

Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen (University of Lapland)
The Political Agency of Arctic Indigenous Women in the International Forums

Eeva Urrio (University of Helsinki)
The Concepts of Difference, Desire and the Body in Deleuzian Feminist Theory

12-month funding (2011)

Johanna Hiitola (University of Tampere)
Parenthood in front of the law

Liu Xin (Åbo Akademi)
Embodied Linguistic Practices in Multicultural Finland

Mona Mannevuo (University of Turku)
The Finnish university and academic freedom in the 21st Century

Salla Peltonen (Åbo Akademi)
Gender, Language and Ethics in Feminist Theory

Soili Petäjäniemi-Brown (University of Helsinki):
Judith Butler’s Critical Encounter with Phenomenology

Maria Vihlman (University of Tampere)
Gender and sexuality in Finnish marriage practices

Associate members:

Ilana Aalto (University of Turku)
Constructing Male Parenthood: Family Relations in Men’s Autobiographical Accounts of Fatherhood

Anna Elomäki (University of Helsinki)
Rethinking political community in the intersection of democratic theory and feminist theory

Kirsi Eräranta (University of Helsinki)
Work-life balance and the new politics of welfare

Saara Jäntti (University of Jyväskylä)
Homes of the Madwomen. The Meanings of Home in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water, Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary.

Eva-Mikaela Kinnari (Åbo Akademi)
Challenging Secularism and Re/negotiating Heteronormativity in the Finnish Parliamentary Debate on Assisted Reproduction

Marjo Kolehmainen (University of Tampere)
Politics as confections? Humour, politics and gender in Itse valtiaat

Paula Kuosmanen (University of Helsinki)
Everyday Spaces of Finnish Lesbian Mothers

Anne Soronen (University of Helsinki)
From Ordinary to Elegant? Gender and Taste in Home Makeover Shows