From Female Shamans to Danish Housewives: Colonial Constructions of Gender in Greenland, 1721 to ca. 1970

Arnfred, Signe; Pedersen, Kirsten Bransholm

doi:10.1080/08038740.2015.1094128

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“…Victorian men and women were expected to perform to defined ideals that constructed specific social and cultural settings and behaviours (Porter, 2014 (1990)). Whereas masculinity was to be expressed in the arena of public or national interests, femininity should ideally be performed in the domestic or private arena of the family unit, a move that was also transposed onto the non-European cultures encountered in the Arctic (Arnfred and Bransholm Pedersen, 2015). However, the unfamiliar peoples and cultures encountered during expedition travel also gave rise to a rich and complex repertoire of biographical and fictional works that both invest in and subvert inherited European cultural discourses on gender and race (Mills, 1993).…”

Section: Gendering Exploration Memories: ‘The Remarkable Women Behind the World’s Most Daring Explorers’mentioning

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“…The concept of ‘coloniality of gender’ (Lugones, 2008) captures the intersection between gender, race and colonial legacies in particular. Coloniality, in this context, refers to the way in which Christian and European gender norms were superimposed onto Indigenous societies around the world during various colonization phases, as well as during the writing of subsequent historiographical and anthropological studies of colonized peoples (Arnfred and Bransholm Pedersen, 2015; Keskinen et al, 2009). A body of scholarly work has increasingly addressed the many resulting ‘blind spots’ when it comes to understanding the Arctic’s colonial past (Keskinen et al, 2009; Mattson, 2014; Öhman and Wyld, 2014; Priebe, 2017: 2; Vuorela, 2009), with new research on Nordic colonialisms (Höglund and Burnett, 2019) providing opportunities to connect Arctic research in North America and Northern Europe.…”

Section: Gendering Coloniality: Memory Assemblages In the Archivementioning

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Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary

Reeploeg

2021

Memory Studies

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The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This article investigates the intersections between personal archives and other forms of cultural expression in acts of collective memoralization and forgetting. Using the personal archives of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, the research introduces the concept of coloniality to studying Arctic memory cultures by examining the role of gender in the context of Arctic exploration. The article concludes that an understanding of the coloniality of knowledge and its connections to epistemic violence is crucial to the study of memory and historical legacy in the Arctic.

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Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary

Reeploeg

2021

Memory Studies

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“…What should be more strongly pursued is a comparison across the North (and further, between the circumpolar North and the Global South) of exactly how work and social support, consumption, and social hierarchies are experienced as gendered. An intersectional approach will be indispensable in the analysis of these experiences (Hoogensen Gjørv, 2017), to be coupled with greater attention to the malleability and ambiguity of gender norms (Arnfred & Bransholm Pedersen, 2015;Williamson, 2011) and to queer modes of (non-)identification with gender roles (for example, Driskill, Finley, Gilley, & Lauria Morgensen, 2011;Løvold, 2014). This line of inquiry should include new social arrangements that emerge in response to changing gender roles and environmental conditions.…”

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Introduction: feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences

Vladimirova

Habeck

2018

Polar Geography

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Notwithstanding the gradual intensification of contacts across the different parts of the circumpolar North, research on gender in the Arctic is still a fragmented fieldnot the least because of language barriers. The four cases presented here, all from the Far North of Russia, are intended to complement research on gender in North America and the Nordic countries. We also hope they will encourage wider use of feminist approaches in geography and social sciences. After a first overview of how gender emerged as a topic of study in the circumpolar North, the introduction will focus on gender-specific forms of mobility and immobility. Next, gender will be discussed in relation to identity and intersectionality under colonial and post-colonial conditions. Thereafter, Feminist Political Ecology and other theoretical directions are portrayed as theoretical approaches to studying gendered economies. Such contextualization of the study of gender in the Arctic prepares the ground for short summaries of the four papers in this special issue, to be concluded by a brief statement about future directions of research. Particularly the concept of intersectionality is favored as a useful basis for examining gender, indigeneity, and economic differences.

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Let’s Talk About Sex! Perspectives from People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Caregivers in Residential Institutions in Greenland

Nørtoft,

Rubin

2024

Sex Disabil

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This study explores how attitudes toward talking about sex and sexual matters influence practices regarding sexuality, sexual rights, and sexual abuse in residential institutions for people with disabilities in Greenland. 16 residents aged 17–62 and 29 managers and staff from 8 residential institutions have been interviewed about the ways sexual needs and rights are treated and discussed as well as how sexual harassment and violations are prevented or handled. The results of the study show that there are great variations between the residential institutions regarding meeting residents’ sexual needs, talking about sex, sex education, and knowledge of rules and policies in the area. While some managers and staff are quite comfortable talking to residents and each other about sex, boundaries, and the body, others find it extremely difficult and some even reject the thought of sex as a relevant topic for the residents. Regardless of the level of openness about sexual matters in the residential institutions, staff and managers express a need for more sex education with a focus on how they can best help, guide, and protect residents, but guidance about sex is much more available for residents when staff feel comfortable talking about sex. Sexual violations and illegal sexual contact might take place in residential institutions regardless of the local practices regarding sex and sex education. However, openness about sexual matters might help detect overstepped sexual boundaries and stop sexual harassment and violations earlier.

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From Female Shamans to Danish Housewives: Colonial Constructions of Gender in Greenland, 1721 to ca. 1970

Cited by 6 publications

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Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary

Gendering arctic memory: Understanding the legacy of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary

Introduction: feminist approaches and the study of gender in Arctic social sciences

Let’s Talk About Sex! Perspectives from People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Caregivers in Residential Institutions in Greenland

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