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KAREN BARAD

Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

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aren Barad earned her Ph.D. in theoretical parti- cle physics. Her research topics include feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century conti- nental philosophy, epistemolo- gy, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, and feminist science studies. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway:

Quantum Physics and the En- tanglement of Matter and Meaning(2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory.

TINE DAMSHOLT Associate Professor of Ethnology, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen

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ine Damsholt’s primary areas of research lie within the field of cultural theory;

materialization, body, and subjectivity formation, and espe- cially within political culture.

Her Ph.D. thesis dealt with pa- triotic discourse in late 18th century Denmark. She is currently working on a compara- tive project on citizenship ce- remonies in Western countries as material-discursive phenomena.

WANG FENGXIAN Researcher, Institute of Sociolo- gy, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences

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ang Fengxian’s research areas include marriage, family, and domestic violence, community service and women’s non-governmental organizing in the People’s Re- public of China. She has published numerous articles in Chinese journals and several monographs. She has held po- sitions as committee member of the Women’s Health and Development Section of the Chinese Mental Health Associ- ation and as member of the Beijing Women’s Theory Asso- ciation.

MATZ HAMMARSTRÖM Doctoral student in Philosophy of Religion, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University

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atz Hammarström’s doctoral thesis has the working title A Relationalist Approach to Religious Experi- ence. The aim is to delineate a relationalist perspective and use this to contribute to the discussion concerning truth, reference, and the construction of reality, and an understand- ing of religious experience.

Recent articles are “Den rela- tionella människan” (“The re- lational human being”) in Människan sedd: genom olika vetenskapliga prismor, 2011, and ”On Getting the Referent of Religious Experience Right – Relationalism and Bohr’s

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KVINDER, KØN &FORSKNING NR. 1-2 2012

Concept of ’Phenomena’” in Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2011/4.

LIS HØJGAARD

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

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is Højgaard’s main research areas are feminist theory, research methodology, and cultural studies of gender focusing on gender and power in organisations. She has published a number of books on gender and leadership, wage- gap, work-life balance, and knowledge production. She has contributed to Feministiske Tænkere (Feminist Thinkers), 2007, and has published articles on analytics of materiality in feminist theory and methodology. Latest she has co-authored the article “Theorizing the complexities of discursive and material subjectivity:

Agential realism and poststruc- tural analyses”, in: Theory and Psychology2011/3.

MALOU JUELSKJÆR Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Aarhus

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alou Juelskjær is occu- pied with empirical analysis and ‘concept building’

in relation to the constitution of subjectivity with emphasis on intra-actions of time, space, architecture, interior design, technologies, social categories, and leadership within profes-

sionalized educational settings.

She published the article

“(Im)possibilities of doing

‘both/and’: Transitions of ca- tegory memberships, and the constitutive force of spatiality and temporality in the production of (im)possibilities” in Feminist Intersectionality Stu- dies in Time and Space: Diverse Consciousnesses and Resistances, 2010.

CECILIA MILWERTZ Senior researcher, Nordic Insti- tute of Asian Studies (NIAS), University of Copenhagen

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ecilia Milwertz’s current research is on non-governmental organizing in the People’s Republic of China.

She has written books on pop- ulation policy in China and on women’s organizing in Bei- jing. She is editor of the Gen- dering Asia Book Series and coordinator of both the Gen- dering Asia Network and the series of Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Studies Confer- ences.

RENÉ ROSFORT Postdoctoral Fellow, Depart- ment of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen

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ené Rosfort holds a PhD in the field of subjectivity and ethics. His research focus- es primarily on the question of naturalism and on various ap- proaches to emotions and the notion of personhood in psy-

chopathology and philosophy.

He has a book forthcoming (co-authored with Giovanni Stanghellini): Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability (planned publication Novem- ber 2012).

NETE SCHWENNESEN Steno Health Promotion Center, Patient Education Research Team, Gentofte, Denmark

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ete Schwennesen holds a PhD from the Center for Medical Science and Technol- ogy Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her work focus- es on the social implications of health care technologies. She is particular interested in the re- lationship between health care technologies and agency, the spatial dimensions of health care and the mobilisation of facts in evaluations of health care technologies. Her latest article “Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in first trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making” was published in Sociology of Health and Illness(2012/34/2) and identifies professional practices of care in the context of first trimester prenatal testing.

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DORTE MARIE SØNDERGAARD

Dr.philos and professor of Social Psychology, DPU, University of Aarhus

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orte Marie Søndergaard is director of the research program, Diversity and Learn- ing, and of an interdisciplinary research project eXbus: Ex- ploring Bullying in School.

Her writings have focused on gender and deconstruction, feminist studies, gendered leadership and positionings in academia and in the private sector. She is currently working with extreme marginaliza- tion and bullying among chil- dren. Her methodological publications have concentrated on poststructuralist, cultural psychologist, agential realist, and new materialist theories and analytics.

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DITORS OF THIS VOLUME

HILDA RØMER CHRISTENSEN

Head of the Coordination for Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen and Associated Professor, Department of Sociol- ogy

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ilda Rømer Christensen has published widely in the field of gender, welfare, health, religion, equality, com- parative, and transnational cultural analysis, feminist theory, and methodology, in total over 70 published scientific articles, reviews, comments etc. She has written and co-edited 13 books, thematic journal vol- umes, reports etc. Currently, she is involved in a transnational research project focused on (Re)making middle Class Fa- milies, China-Denmark.

BETTINA HAUGE Ph.D., researcher, Technical University of Denmark and Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

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ettina Hauge's current research is centered on the home, people's interaction with technologies and materiality, and how our senses intra- act with our environment. An article on the latter, based on empirical research on the sig- nificance of fresh air to people, is to be published in Journal of Material Cultureduring 2012.

Her latest book (co-authored with Peter Gundelach and Esther Nørregaard-Nielsen, forthcoming May 2012) takes up the challenges of climate changes and what young people think and do in response to these environmental changes.