Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden / / ed. by Lena Martinsson, Gabriele Griffin, Katarina Giritli Nygren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Fahlgren, Siv,; Griffin, Gabriele,; Johansson, Anders,; Landén, Angelika Sjöstedt,; Lykke, Nina,; Martinsson, Lena,; Mulinari, Diana,; Nygren, Katarina Giritli,; Olofsdotter, Gunilla,; Widegren, Kajsa,; de los Reyes, Paulina,
• HerausgeberIn: Giritli Nygren, Katarina,; Griffin, Gabriele,; Martinsson, Lena,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 3 Black and White

Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how e...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
• When feminism became gender equality and anti-racism turned into diversity management
• Normalisation meets governmentality: gender equality reassembled
• Emotionally charged: parental leave and gender equality, at the surface of the skin
• Rethinking gender equality and the Swedish welfare state: a view from outside
• How is the myth of Swedish gender equality upheld outside Sweden? A case study
• Gender equality under threat? Exploring the paradoxes of an ethnonationalist political party
• ‘What should we do instead?’ Gender-equality projects and feminist critique
• Frictions and figurations: gender-equality norms meet activism
• Afterword: rethinking gender equality
• Index