Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices.​​​

Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational and longitudinal research, the book works with temporality as a theoretical as well as a methodological dimension. Theoretically it combines Raymond Williams' idea of "a structure of feeling" with the work of Eric Fromm, Hans Loewald, Nancy Chodorow and Jessica Benjamin.

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Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices.​​​

Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational and longitudinal research, the book works with temporality as a theoretical as well as a methodological dimension. Theoretically it combines Raymond Williams' idea of "a structure of feeling" with the work of Eric Fromm, Hans Loewald, Nancy Chodorow and Jessica Benjamin.

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Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

by Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach

by Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices.​​​

Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational and longitudinal research, the book works with temporality as a theoretical as well as a methodological dimension. Theoretically it combines Raymond Williams' idea of "a structure of feeling" with the work of Eric Fromm, Hans Loewald, Nancy Chodorow and Jessica Benjamin.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349950829
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 02/15/2017
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 689 KB

About the Author

Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway. She also holds an adjunct professorship at Aalborg University, Denmark and is the head of the National PhD School in Gender Studies in Norway.

Table of Contents

1. Feelings and the social transformation of gender.- 2. Feelings of gender.- 3. Temporality in methods.- 4. Changing contexts.- 5. Born around WWI: refining gender complementarity.- 6. Born around WWII: struggling with gender equality.- 7. Born in the welfare society: individualising gender.- 8. Calibrating time and place.- 9. Psychosocial changes and continuities in gender.- 10. Gendering, degendering, regendering.

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