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