Beatrice Halsaa

Professor Emerita

Academic Interests

  • Citizenship
  • Women’s movements
  • Gender equality policy
  • Ethnicity
  • Multiculturalism

Background

  • Professor (2003-) Director (2002-2005), Associate professor (2001-2002), Researcher (1998-2001) at Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, UiO
  • Scientific director of FEMCIT: "Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements.”  2007- 2010.
  • Senior researcher at the interdisciplinary research group CULCOM (Cultural Complexity in the new Norway) at  UiO 2004-2010
  • Programme supervisor for BA-programme ”Gender, feminism and equality.” 2005-2007
  • Professor II (shared professorship) at Centre for women’s research at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, 1999-2002
  • Researcher at Lillehammer University College, Department of Policy Studies and Public Administration, since 1988. (In this period initiator of the one year basic level course Gender and Politics, and researcher at Project Alternative Future 1986-1990).

Assignments

  • Editor of NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2016-2018
  • Board member of Network for Gender Research, Stavanger University

Research project

The research project Gendered citizenship in multicultural Europe: The impact of contemporary women’s movements FEMCIT, was funded by the European Commission. FEMCIT was a large scale, multi-disciplinary, cross-national feminist research project, Beatrice was Scientific Director of the project, and led a large international, collaborative team of researchers. Beatrice is one of the editors of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Citizenship, Gender and Diversity.

As a part of the project Beatrice edited Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity (with Sasha Roseneil and Sevil Sümer; Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and she published:

Tags: Social Science, Citizenship, Feminist theory, Women’s movements, Gender, Equality, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism

Publications

Halsaa, B. (2023). Akademisk feminisme: kvinnerett, aktivisme og institusjonalisering. I I. Ikdahl, K. Sandberg, J. Stewart, V. Blaker, & T. L. Wærstad (Eds.), Hellums metode. Festskrift til Anne Hellum 70 år. (pp. 127-141). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.

Halsaa, Beatrice (2020). "The (Trans)National Mobilisation of Sámi Women in Norway". Moving the social. Journal of social history and the history of social movements.  ISSN 2197-0386.  63, s 119- 145 . doi: https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.63.2020.119-145

Halsaa, Beatrice; Stoltz, Pauline & Stormhøj, Christel (2019). "Generational conflict and the politics of inclusion in two feminist events", In Elizabeth Evans & Éléonore Lépinard (ed.), Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements Confronting Privileges. Routledge. s 271-288

Halsaa, Nyhagen Predelli and Thun 2008: Women’s Movements: Constructions of Sisterhood, Dispute and Resonance: The case of Norway, Workingpaper No.4, WP4 http://www.femcit.org/publications.xpl

Christensen, Hilda Rømer, Beatrice Halsaa, Aino Saarinen (eds.) 2004:Crossing Borders. Re-Mapping Women's Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. 370 pages

Halsaa, Beatrice 2001: ‘Histories of Women's Movements and of Feminism in Europe: Norway’. In: Advanced Textbook on European Women's Studies, edited by Gabriele Griffin and Rosi Braidotti, London: Zed Books

Haavio-Mannila, Elina, Drude Dahlerup, Maud Landby Eduards, E. Gudmundsdottir, Beatrice Halsaa, Helga M. Hernes, E. Hänninen-Salmelin, B. Sigmundsdottir, S. Sinkkonen, and Torild Skard 1985: Unfinished Democracy. Women in Nordic Politics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 206 pages

  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2023). Akademisk feminisme: kvinnerett, aktivisme og institusjonalisering. In Ikdahl, Ingunn; Sandberg, Kirsten; Stewart, Julie; Strand, Vibeke Blaker & Wærstad, Tone Linn (Ed.), Hellums metode. Festskrift til Anne Hellum 70 år. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205582859. p. 127–141.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2020). The (Trans)National Mobilisation of Sámi Women in Norway . Moving the social. Journal of social history and the history of social movements. ISSN 2197-0386. 63, p. 119 –145. doi: 10.13154/mts.63.2020.119-145.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice; Stoltz, Pauline & Stormhøj, Christel (2019). Generational conflict and the politics of inclusion in two feminist events. In Evans, Elizabeth & Lépinard, Éléonore (Ed.), Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements Confronting Privileges. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-367-25785-9. p. 271–288. doi: https:/doi.org/10.4324/9780429289859.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2019). Kampanjer for kvinner i kommunepolitikken. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 43(3), p. 158–176. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2019-03-03. Full text in Research Archive
  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2017). Changes and Challenges: Norwegian Feminisms . Labrys, estudos feministas. ISSN 1676-9651.
  • Sümer, Sevil ; Halsaa, Beatrice & Roseneil, Sasha (2014). Gendered Citizenship in a Multidimensional Perspective: The Challenges Facing Norway within the Nordic Model. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 22(4), p. 283–298. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2014.964769.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2013). Mobilisering av svart og samisk feminisme. In Thun, Cecilie & Bråten, Beret (Ed.), Krysningspunkter. Likestillingspolitikk i et flerkulturelt Norge. Akademika forlag. ISSN 978-82-321-0117-7. p. 209–253.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice (2013). Muligheter for mobilisering: stat og kvinnebevegelse. In Thun, Cecilie & Bråten, Beret (Ed.), Krysningspunkter. Likestillingspolitikk i et flerkulturelt Norge. Akademika forlag. ISSN 978-82-321-0117-7. p. 51–85.
  • Nyhagen Predelli, Line; Halsaa, Beatrice & Thun, Cecilie (2012). 'Citizenship Is Not a Word I Use': How Women's Movement Activists Understand Citizenship. In Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha & Sümer, Sevil (Ed.), Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-0-230-27628-4. p. 188–212. doi: 10.1057/9781137272157_9.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha & Sümer, Sevil (2012). Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe. In Halsaa, Beatrice; Roseneil, Sasha & Sümer, Sevil (Ed.), Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-0-230-27628-4. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1057/9781137272157.0005.
  • Halsaa, Beatrice & Hellum, Anne (2010). Rettferdighet - en dyd av nødvendighet. In Halsaa, Beatrice & Hellum, Anne (Ed.), Rettferdighet. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215015569. p. 9–49.

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