Embodying Modern Times

We argue that the way time is organized affects bodily habits and emotions. Drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative studies from my large-scale research project with Ulla-Britt Lilleaas, ‘The Sociality of Tiredness: The Handling of Tiredness in a Gender, Generation and Class Perspective’ (presented in Lilleaas and Widerberg, 2001), we focus on class and gender aspects of bodily habits and customs generated in work life and family life (and in the combination of the two). In this article, I illustrate variations in the type of time and body habits that different work organizations and professions generate. I also stress similarities in the use of time and body across professions and gender to illuminate the driving forces of modernity. It is argued that a ‘sped-up life’ and a ‘life of doing’ at work and at home generate a restless body, and irritation (the emotion of late modernity?) as its emotional expression. Finally, the question is raised whether this development is not only a threat to the body, but also to the very heart of democracy

Harriet Holter: A Pioneer in Gender Studies and Sociology

Harriet Holter was ahead of her time and influenced heavily all the research areas she ventured, such as sex roles, family, sexualized violence, resistance to knowledge and gender perspectives on research and politics. In this article, these contributions are presented, illustrated and discussed. It is further argued that the explanation for her particular voice and outstanding contribution to sociology and women¿s research can be found in her interdisciplinary background, her generation-gendered experiences, her siding with the oppressed and her ways of collaborating intellectually

Kunskapens kön - ett generationsperspektiv

The argument of this article is that feminist analysis of the gender of knowledge would profit by using a generational perspective. By making use of Sandra Harding's concepts of structural, symbolic and individual gender I suggest that it is possible to track down the structural dilemmas and the symbolic climate, specific to any one generation. This is done by positioning them in relation to their subjectivity and the epistomology they embrace. In an effort to illuminate the structural, symbolic and individual gender of four generations of feminists the article examines four groups in chronological order namely "exceptional women", "pioneers", "the next to equal" and "individualists". The article concludes by asking whether a radical epistemological critique will emanate from the new generation of researchers - the generation of the "individualists" - who unlike their predecessors are not positioned "as outsiders within" the academy

Tiredness in the Light of Institutional Ethnography

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