Can gender studies contribute to a better understanding of the lack of political prioritization of women’s health
Associate Professor and Head of the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, Kari Jegerstedt, delivered an inspiring seminar on this topic at the Center for Research on Heart Disease in Women on 19 February 2024.
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Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt is Head of the Center for Women’s and Gender Research at the University of Bergen. The Center holds a cross-faculty responsibility for advancing gender research at UiB and coordinates, among other initiatives, the interdisciplinary research group “Foundational Problems in Gender and Sexuality Research.” She has a background in literary studies and is particularly concerned with linguistic representations and interpretations of the meanings of body, gender, and sexuality—both in Scandinavian and postcolonial (especially South African) literature, as well as more broadly. In recent years, her work has focused particularly on transfemininity and psychoanalysis, queer theory, and diversity work at UiB. Foundational questions and the understanding of gender and sexuality are central to all her activities, both as a researcher and as an educator. Photo: UiB
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, Kari Jegerstedt, gave an engaging and inspiring seminar on the topic. How should we understand gender and its empirical and analytical categories? What is “woman”? When the Research Council of Norway and the EU use the term gender mainstreaming, no one truly takes responsibility for highlighting the significance of gender.
