Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in ScandinaviaSummer Course

Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in Scandinavia, summer elective course at DIS Stockholm Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in Scandinavia, summer elective course at DIS Stockholm Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in Scandinavia, summer elective course at DIS Stockholm Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in Scandinavia, summer elective course at DIS Stockholm
Summer Study Tour
Berlin
Major Discipline(s)
Anthropology, Gender Studies, Sociology
Location
Location: Stockholm
Available
Session 2
Credit(s)
3

Sweden is the most gender equal country in the world with, paid parental leave for all parents, a high number of women in leadership positions, progressive sex education, and equal rights for homosexuals, the Nordic prostitution model in which selling sex is legalized but purchasing it is illegal are among the hallmarks of all Scandinavian societies. However, Sweden also has a very gender-divided workplace and gender equal policies do not automatically lead to gender equal behaviors. With a comparative look to neighboring countries in Europe, this course explores how concepts of gender, body, sexuality, and race intersect in current debates about changing family structures, children’s rights, and new ethical dilemmas in a changing Scandinavia.

Faculty

Iwo Nord

DIS Summer Faculty

Iwo Nord is a trans researcher and educator interested in transgender and queer lives and culture, nuances of agency and power, intersections of the transnational and the local, and questions concerning mobility (travel and migration). The past years he has been committed to building and strengthening Transgender Studies in both the Nordic region and in the former Yugoslav space. Devoted to social change for trans people, he is involved in trans academic and activist alliances, resulting in the forthcoming collaborative volume In Transition: Trans Lives, Activisms, and Culture in the Post-Yugoslav Space. He was one of the founding members of Trans Fest Stockholm, an activist collective that strives to create inclusive and empowering cultural and community events in the Swedish capital. Iwo is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Södertörn University, and is affiliated with the Center for Baltic and East European Studies. His doctoral project ethnographically explores Belgrade as a transnational destination for gender-affirming surgery. He holds an MA from the University of Oslo, Norway, and has formerly taught at the Institute of Scandinavian and Finnish Studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland. With DIS Since 2020.