Norway: Uncovering Gender and Branding in the Nordics with Eirinn Larsen
Listen to a podcast on how gender is used as a tool in branding the Nordics.
The Nordic countries are usually seen as much more gender-equal than just about anywhere else in the world. In this podcast, Eirinn Larsen business and gender historian and editor of Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region explains how gender is used as a tool for branding the Nordics. She also talks with Nicola Witcombe, editor of nordics.info, about:
- Women’s role in business from around 1900 to today.
- Why we should question our love of ‘quick fix’ global indexes which often place the Nordics at the top.
- The fact that there are usually other reasons for gender-positive action that have nothing to do with equality.
This is the ninth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series ’The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’. Eirinn is Professor in History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo and project leader of Nordic Branding: The Politics of Exceptionalism. She spoke with Nicola over Zoom in May 2021.
Podcast
Go to this podcast on the podcast platform (Buzzsprout).
Further reading:
- Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée and Kristian Bjørkdahl, eds.,? Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press 2021).
- Eirinn Larsen, Sigrun M. Moss, and Inger Skjelsbæk, eds., Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region (Routledge, 2021).
- Haldor Byrkjeflot, Klaus Petersen, Mads Mordhorst & Lars Mjøset, eds, The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models (Routledge, 2021).
- Jytte Larsen, Også andre hensyn- Dansk ligestillingshistorie 1849-1915 [Also other concerns – History of Danish Equality 1849-1915] (Aarhus Universitets Forlag, 2010).
- Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford, eds., Limits of the Legal Complex: Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2021).
- Malcolm Langford, Marit Skivenes & Karl Harald Søvig, eds., Children’s Rights in Norway: An Implementation Paradox? (University of Oslo Press; 2019)
Links:
- Article on norgeshistorie.no: ’The road to women’s right to vote’ (In Norwegian) (Kvinnenes vei til stemmerett)
- Article from Danish School of Education: 'Mother takes responsibility' (In Danish) (Mor tager ansvar) by Eva Frydensberg Holm
- Article in Dansk Magisterforenings blad: 'Parental leave boosted Magnus' career' (In Danish) (Barsel boostede Magnus' karriere) by Martin Ejlertsen on 7th May 2021
- Film on danmarkshistorien.dk: ’The release of picture porn in Denmark in 1969’ (In Danish) (Frigivelsen af billedpornoen i Danmark i 1969)
- Project at the University of Oslo: Nordic Branding and the Politics of Exceptionalism
- The International Women Suffrage Alliance
- The Swedish Institute
