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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