Helena Wahlström Henriksson
Professor at Centre for Gender Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 72 98, +46 72 999 92 55
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 92 55
- E-mail:
- Helena.Henriksson@gender.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 6A
752 36 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 Uppsala
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Publications
Recent publications
Writing the Lone Mother’s Lifetime: Peter Handberg’s Den vita fläcken
Part of European journal of life writing, p. 179-201, 2024
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Genusläsning: Att tolka text ur feministiska kulturstudieperspektiv
Part of Att analysera genus och kultur, Makadam Förlag, 2024
Enförälderfamiljer: Om ensamstående föräldrar, singelföräldrar och soloföräldrar
Makadam Förlag, 2023
40+ och full fart framåt! En inledning: 40+ and still going strong! An Introduction
Part of 40 år av genusforskning!, p. 7-15, Uppsala universitet, 2023
40 år av genusforskning!: Festskrift till Centrum för genusvetenskap
Uppsala universitet, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Writing the Lone Mother’s Lifetime: Peter Handberg’s Den vita fläcken
Part of European journal of life writing, p. 179-201, 2024
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Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish Daily News
Part of Feminist Media Studies, p. 1559-1574, 2023
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Barns berättelser: kamratkulturer skapas kring förskolans fotodokumentation
Part of Barn, p. 43-58, 2022
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Hardworking Women: Representations of Lone Mothers in the Swedish Daily Press
Part of Feminist Media Studies, p. 132-146, 2021
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Bodies get in the way: Breastfeeding and gender equality in Swedish handbooks for new parents
Part of NORA, p. 330-342, 2021
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Breastfeeding as a balancing act: pregnant Swedish women’s voices on breastfeeding
Part of International Breastfeeding Journal, 2020
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Moms, Memories, Materialities: Sons Write Their Mothers’ Bodies
Part of a/b, 2020
Från gästredaktionen: Abort och reproduktiva val
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 3-10, 2019
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 5-27, 2018
Bilda familj: Om föräldralösa barn, släktskap och nationsskapande i samtida amerikanska romaner
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 13-32, 2015
”Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska ’post-9/11-romaner’”
Part of Kvinder, Køn og Forskning, p. 57-69, 2014
Reproduction, Politics, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules: Women's Rights or Fetal Rights?
Part of Culture Unbound, p. 251-271, 2013
Manifestations of Manhood: Constructing Masculinity in Gloria Naylor's The Men of Brewster Place
Part of American Studies in Scandinavia, p. 61-82, 2009
Undervisning om män och maskuliniteter
Part of Socialt perspektiv, p. 83-93, 2004
Mannen som utopi?: Om fantasimän i kvinnors texter
Part of Häften för Kritiska Studier, p. 46-53, 2001
Books
Making Home: Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels
Manchester University Press, 2021
In Relation to What?: Masculinities and Relationalities in Gender Studies
Springer, 2016
Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship, and Cultural Memory in contemporary American Novels
Manchester University Press, 2014
New Fathers?: Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity, and Kinship
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010
Chapters in book
Genusläsning: Att tolka text ur feministiska kulturstudieperspektiv
Part of Att analysera genus och kultur, Makadam Förlag, 2024
40+ och full fart framåt! En inledning: 40+ and still going strong! An Introduction
Part of 40 år av genusforskning!, p. 7-15, Uppsala universitet, 2023
Att (inte) få bli ensamstående mamma: Amanda Kernells Charter
Part of Ensamförälderfamiljer, p. 87-101, Makadam Förlag, 2023
Skriva andras liv – och sitt eget: Om söner, mödrar och en litteraturforskare i genusvetenskapen
Part of 40 år av genusforskning!: Festskrift till Centrum för genusvetenskap, p. 167-177, Uppsala universitet, 2023
Om enförälderfamiljer i Sverige: Levda erfarenheter och mediala skildringar
Part of Enförälderfamiljer, p. 7-13, Makadam Förlag, 2023
Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all
Part of Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, p. 1-15, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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Part of Single Parents, p. 215-234, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
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Exploring fatherhood in critical gender research
Part of Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies, p. 320-330, Routledge, 2020
Normalspannet?: Ett samtal om vanmakt, allmakt och att orka vara (o)tillräcklig
Part of Mamma hursomhelst, p. 143-157, Gidlunds förlag, 2018
Introduction: Masculinity/Masculinities and Relationality
Part of In Relation to What?, p. 1-7, Springer, 2016
Part of Mothers and Sons, p. 109-125, Demeter Press, 2016
Exploring the Relationality of Fatherhood: John Irving’s The Cider House Rules
Part of In Relation to What?, p. 8-20, Springer, 2016
Pappahandbooks: Guidebooks for Dads in Twenty-First Century Sweden
Part of Pops in Pop Culture, p. 31-50, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Nytt faderskap?: Om fäder i samtida amerikansk litteratur och film
Part of Fält i förvandling, p. 224-233, Gidlunds förlag, 2013
Part of Fält i förvandling, p. 321-323, Gidlunds förlag, 2013
Part of Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs, and Gentlemen, p. 196-215, Macfarland Press, 2009
Parenthood in the African Diaspora: Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River
Part of Seeking the Self - Encountering the Other, p. 291-310, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
Parental and Sexual Identities in Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World
Part of I görningen, p. 56-71, Uppsala universitet, 2006
A Little Liberation or Just Transportation?: Female Picaresque and Anne Roiphe’s Long Division
Part of Limitationand Liberation, p. 105-119, Uppsala universitet, 2005
A Community of Fathers?: Representations of Paternity in Paul Auster’s Smoke
Part of Cultures in Contact, p. 29-37, Universitetstryckeriet Uppsala, 2004
Phallic Lovers, Nonphallic Lovers: Stereotyped Masculinities in Women’s Novels of the 1970s
Part of Moulding Masculinities , p. 288-311, Ashgate, 2003
Collections (editor)
Enförälderfamiljer: Om ensamstående föräldrar, singelföräldrar och soloföräldrar
Makadam Förlag, 2023
40 år av genusforskning!: Festskrift till Centrum för genusvetenskap
Uppsala universitet, 2023
Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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Conference papers
Men In/And/Or Feminism: On Masculinity Studies and Feminist Criticism
Part of På nye eventyr, p. 115-119, 2002
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Part of Norma, p. 209-212, 2014
Att teckna faderskapets historia: Jorgen Lorentzen, Fra farskapets historie i Norge 1850-2012
Part of Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, p. 153-157, 2013