'Women', Welfare, Textual Politics and Critique

ISBN-13: 9783845414904 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str.

Mona Livholts

Opis

What is the relationship between the social construction of different categories of women and the making of welfare states in specific moments of textual politics in a Nordic welfare state context? How is it possible to develop a methodology for critical (self)reflective thinking in the process of producing academic knowledge? In this dissertation the themes of women and welfare are analysed and interpreted within a textual context of Nordic welfare state thinking. How the meaning of welfare takes shape through the category of women is discussed and critiqued with attention to epistemological and methodological issues. Individual memory work is used as a way of developing crtical self-reflection on the way academisation operates through a female individual. Additionally, creative and reflective writing methodologies such as theatre, dialogue and letter writing is used to explore complex relationships of power in the process of producing knowledge. Livholts original, intellectually stimulating and accessible dissertation is an invitation to readers in social work, sociology, and gender studies, and more broadly of methodological interest for the critical study of welfare.

O autorze

Mona Livholts, Associate Professor of Social Work specializing in Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. She works with innovation in textual and visual methodologies connected to interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research themes, such as: Violence, Rape and the Media, The Gendering of Space, and Untimely Academic Novella Writing.