Doctoral students in the period 2007–2011
The Finnish Research School in Women’s and Gender Studies currently hosts six doctoral students funded by the Ministry of Education. In addition, 12 doctoral students working under other funding are writing their dissertation within the programme. Some of the students started their studies in the previous Gender System Graduate School with funding from the Ministry of Education, the University of Helsinki or another funder.
The following doctoral students are writing their dissertation in the research school in the period 2007–2011:
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
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
Venla Oikkonen (University of Helsinki)
Profligate Descent: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Evolutionary Narratives
Anne Soronen (University of Helsinki)
Representations of beautiful homes: Finnish decoration texts of the early 2000s as stages of middle-class heterosexual living
Maija Urponen (University of Helsinki)
Transnational Desires. The 1952 Summer Olympics, Miss Universe and (Trans)National History