English issues of NIKK magasin

No 2/2011: Gender and climate change: Solutions 

How can a gender perspective counteract climate change? This issue is a follow-up to the 2009 issue on gender and climate change. 

No 2/2009: Gender and climate change
Men drive cars and fly more than women, who tend to use public transport. Poor women in developing countries are those hardest hit by climate change. The focus in encountering climate change has often been on technical development and research within the sciences. This is undoubtedly necessary, but yet not enough. More research and focus are also needed on both how people are affected by climate change and how they can contribute to stopping it. NIKK magasin 2.2009 puts focus on gender equality and climate change. 

No 1/2009: Prostitution and Leadership
Berit Ås from Norway is best known for her theory on the five master suppression techniques. She developed the theory in order to be able to explain to other women why they are so often rendered invisible and not taken seriously by men in positions of power. Master suppression techniques are part of the body language and can only be countered by being pointed out. In management issues master suppression techniques are constantly topical – not least when it comes to women in leading positions. This issue of NIKK magasin highlights the difference between the situation within politics and in business.

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No 2/2007: Gender and Parenthood
Fathers must take a greater responsibility for their children and homes. This seems to be the agenda for the gender equality politics of all the Nordic governments. The aim, however, varies, as do the methods. Should incentives or punishment be used? In this issue of NIKK magasin we present the Norwegian government’s work on the world’s first proposition concerning men and gender equality. Furthermore researchers at the Swedish National Defence College write about their work on mainstreaming a gender perspective into the Nordic Battlegroup, and four articles in this issue direct a critical gaze at how gender is expressed in religious texts and practices. 

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No 3/2006: New Perceptions of Gender and Reproduction
Cultural perceptions of nature, culture and reproduction are implicitly also stories of gender related to biological bodies. This annual English issue of NIKK magasin presents a mini theme on Gender and Biology. That new ways to conception also make us rethink what we previously might have considered as pure nature, is discussed in three articles from Norwegian and Swedish research.

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No 3/2005: Ibsen's Nora Revisited
The annual English edition of NIKK magasin focuses on gender analyses of the plays of Henrik Ibsen as the 100th anniversary of the death of the Norwegian playwright is celebrated all over the world.

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No. 3/2004: Sexualization of Public Space
The main topic of this issue of NIKK magasin is the phenomenon of sexualisation of public space. The leading article explores the background and commission of the research project "Youth, Gender and Pornography in the Nordic countries" and is written by the project's managers. Another contributor to the project,turns the perspective of sexualisation and representation around in the article "Mirrored masculinity". Several articles in this issue address the theme of masculinity; investigating both the law's handling of father's violence and problematisation of masculinity in literature. Also, we take a closer look at the crucial role of internationality in women's movements, as well as examining why gender mainstreaming has become a part on UN’s agenda on peace.

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No 3/2003: The Power of Gender
This issue presents the first comparative analyses of several gender and power studies done in Norway and Denmark. The studies form part of the government-initiated power and democracy studies concluded in both countries this autumn. The radical changes in the Norwegian parental leave system is the subject of another article which presents a newly concluded gender study focusing on the fathers' quota. The interview is with Jill Lewis, the creator of the NIKK project Living for Tomorrow on HIV/AIDS prevention, youth and gender. 

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No 3/2002: Quotas and Controversies
One issue taken up in NIKK magasin 3/2003 is the question of gender quotas and how this has been used as a mean to achieve gender equality in the Nordic countries. Two arguments exist for the implementation of gender quotas in this region: one is related to the principle of gender balance, the other to the principle of utility.

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No 1/2002: Bodies across borders
A contribution to the Nordic-Baltic information campaign on trafficking of women. After almost two years of investigative journalisma Danish report team mangaged to expose the networks of criminals and the people behind the sale of young girls as merchandise across international borders. A research report has looked at what kind of motives young Baltic girls have for traveling to West-Europe, how they are being recruited and the attitude of the public towards this. 

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No 3/2001: Heterosexual couples talking about and "doing"gender
This issue features articles from four of the previous editions of NIKK magasin as well as articles written especially for an international audience. The main article deals with how heterosexual couples talk about and "practice" gender. Focus is also placed upon the discrimination of women in Academia, what support these women can expect and what kind of stategies they use to survive in the academic world.