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Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir - Professor
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School of Social Sciences
Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
Gender Studies
Phone
525 - 5455
Email
gydap [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Political Science
Published Work
Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir - Curriculum Vitae
Consultation hours
Upon request
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7678-2008
Research portal – Gyða Margrét Pétursdóttir
Courses 2024 - 2025
KYN415G - Queer Studies
KYN212F - Queer Studies
KYN106G - Introduction to Gender Studies
KYN101F - General Gender Studies
STJ302F - Masters theses: Research plans and design
KYN314G - All that glitters is not gold: gender, equality and sustainability in Iceland
KYN107F - MA seminar in gender studies - first part
Collaboration
,
Education
2009
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Iceland
,
Gender Studies
2004
,
MA
,
University of Iceland
,
Sociology
2002
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
Sociology
Published works
2024
Feminist solidarity and hopeful imaginings in the MeToo movement in Iceland
European Journal of Women's Studies
“It’ll be All Right, Everybody Has Children”
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
2023
„Áfram í gegnum þennan brimskafl“: Greining á tilkynningum rektors Háskóla Íslands á tímum COVID 19
Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun
Í leit að samþykki
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
“We all have Regrets; it doesn’t Mean we are Failures”
Journal of Family Issues
Capturing Dis/Comfort and Navigating Transformation in the Gender Studies Classroom
Teaching Sociology
2022
"There is so little that I can leave to chance": Feminists in pursue of academic and societal change
„Draumastaður“ og önnur úrræði til að hverfa úr vændi
Cultivating critical minds
Feminist solidarity in the #Metoo movement in Iceland and steps taken to combat sexual violations at the University of Iceland
Markmið sænsku leiðarinnar og reynsla kvenna sem hafa verið í vændi af framkvæmd hennar
‘‘We are to weather this storm“: Analysis of announcements of the Rector of the University of Iceland during Covid-19
„Uppbyggingarverkfæri“: Tillögur brotaþola vændis að margþættum langtímaúrræðum til að hverfa úr vændi
Hvernig mætum við brotaþolum vændis?
„… við förum ekki til baka það er bara þannig“
Slaufunarmenning á Íslandi - hvert stefnir umræðan og hvaða ákall er um breytingar
Að mæta samfélaginu þar sem það er statt og toga í jafnréttisátt
2. fundur samráðsvettvangs um jafnréttismál - Jafnréttisráðs
Kynjafræðinni er ekkert óviðkomandi
Kennarinn og kynjafræði
Feminist solidarity and hopeful imaginings in the MeToo movement in Iceland
“For some reason she just wasn’t able to have an abortion”: Pronatalism, anti-abortion rhetoric and the taboo of regret
"You're crazy! There's something wrong with you:" Ambivalence and regret in motherhood
Femínískir aktívistar í akademíu taka þátt í leiknum og leitast við að breyta leikreglunum
„ÁFRAM Í GEGNUM ÞENNAN BRIMSKAFL“: GREINING Á TILKYNNINGUM REKTORS HÁSKÓLA ÍSLANDS Á TÍMUM COVID 19
„Draumastaður“ og önnur úrræði til útgöngu úr vændi
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Feminist academics strategically playing offense/defense in pursue of academic and societal change
“For some reason she just wasn’t able to have an abortion”: Pronatalism, anti-abortion rhetoric and the taboo of regret
Feminist academics in Iceland staying under the radar and causing a ripple effect
Feminist Academics Strategically Playing Offense/Defense in Pursue of Academic and Societal Change
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
2021
When Discourse is Hijacked: An Implicit and Performative Resistance Strategy to Gender Equality in Higher Education
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
When Discourse is Hijacked
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
‘When he turns his back to me, I give him the finger’
Journal of Gender Studies
Sisterly advice for feminists in academia when playing the game and working the cracks
Gender and Education
To protect and serve while protecting privileges and serving male interests
Policing and Society
2020
Gendered inequalities in competitive grant funding: an overlooked dimension of gendered power relations in academia
Higher Education Research and Development
Gendered inequalities in competitive grant funding
Higher Education Research and Development
Expanding gendered sites of resistance in the neoliberal academy
European Journal of Higher Education
Expanding gendered sites of resistance in the neoliberal academy
European Journal of Higher Education
Gendered inequalities in competitive grant funding: an overlooked dimension of gendered power relations in academia
Higher Education Research and Development
2019
Kynferðisleg áreitni á vinnustað
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
New managerialism in the academy
Gender, Work and Organization
Gender budgeting to expose inequalities in a precarious academia - and redistribute resources to effect change
Meðbyr og ágjöf
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
Varla brot og vondir menn
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
Ábyrgar konur og sjúkir karlar
Ritið
New managerialism in the academy: Gender bias and precarity
Gender, Work and Organization
New managerialism in the academy: Gender bias and precarity
Gender, Work and Organization
2018
Kynferðiseinelti og mótun kvenleikans í íslenskri skólamenningu
Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun
Preserving masculine dominance in the police force with gendered bullying and sexual harassment
Policing (Oxford)
Reynsla kvenna af kynferðisofbeldi í nánu sambandi á unglingsárum
Netla
2017
Testing the concept of academic housework in a European setting: Part of academic career-making or gendered barrier to the top?
European Educational Research Journal
How do you take time? Work–life balance policies versus neoliberal, social and cultural incentive mechanisms in Icelandic higher education
European Educational Research Journal
How do you take time? Work–life balance policies versus neoliberal, social and cultural incentive mechanisms in Icelandic higher education
European Educational Research Journal
Well-earned respectability or legitimation of masculinities? Powerful and publicly celebrated men in pre- and post-collapse Iceland
Women's Studies International Forum
Fire-raising feminists
European Journal of Women's Studies
Testing the concept of academic housework in a European setting
European Educational Research Journal
„Menn eiga að vera svolítið svona harðir“: Áhrif karlmennskuhugmynda í lögreglunni á rými til tilfinningaúrvinnslu og einelti
The Icelandic Society
Well-earned respectability or legitimation of masculinities? Powerful and publicly celebrated men in pre- and post-collapse Iceland
Women's Studies International Forum
2016
Money Talks
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
2015
„Ég fékk svona KABÚMM“
2014
Kynjaðar væntingar til kvenna og karla í tveimur leikskólum
Netla
Gendering in one Icelandic Preschool
Nordisk Barnehageforskning/Nordic Early Childhood Education Research Journal
,,Maður sér bara að þau fá kynjagleraugun og það breytist allt sem þau gera“
Það er svo óþolandi að maður þurfi að sætta sig við það að maður þurfi í raun að gera ráð fyrir að þetta geti gerst!
Staða leikskólakennara í tveimur sveitarfélögum í kjölfar hruns
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
2013
„Það gekk auðveldlega. Við vorum tvö... ég átti ekki börnin ein!“
Konur í tónlist
A feminist theory of corruption
Politics and Gender
2012
Will you still need me, will you still feed me?
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Styðjandi og mengandi kvenleiki innan áru kynjajafnréttis
Íslenska þjóðfélagið.
„Og er það ekki líka svona öfga oft“
Mengandi myndugleiki og óhlýðni
2011
Sköpun alþjóðlegrar viðskiptakarlmennsku
Öðlingurinn 2011 : bergmál kynjakerfis eða persónulegur ávinningur jafnréttis?
2010
Siðafár og samfélagslegar breytingar
Homo economicus meets Homo holismus.
2009
Within the aura of gender equality
Preserving the ‘right’ pay balance within the aura of gender equality
Iceland
2008
Within the socially desirable aura of gender equality
2007
„Going global“
2005
„Að vera eða vera ekki“
2004
"Þetta liggur einhvern veginn betur fyrir henni"
1991
Prevalence of hypertension in two separate but genetically comparable adult populations
Arctic medical research
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