Berit Brandth
Norwegian sociologist and professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Berit Brandth is a Norwegian sociologist and gender researcher. Biography Brandth is a graduate of Bates College in the US and the University of Trondheim , where she took a major in 1977. She is a professor of sociology at NTNU and a research advisor at the Norwegian Center for Rural Research. She has focused on both masculinity and femininity, with perspectives from work, technology, media and organization. One of Brandth's research themes is gender in agriculture, in relation to farm tourism and management in agricultural organizations. She has also researched the development and use of the maternity/paternity leave of absence, with particular emphasis on fathers' rights. In 2014, she was appointed as a member of the Working Time Committee, which looked at how we can best utilize the labor force in the future.
Berit Brandth's Published Works
Published Works
- Masculinity and Child Care: The Reconstruction of Fathering (1998) (281)
- Gender identity in European family farming: A literature review (2002) (281)
- Farm Diversification into Tourism--Implications for Social Identity?. (2011) (247)
- Rural masculinity in transition: Gender images in tractor advertisements (1995) (225)
- Reflexive Fathers: Negotiating Parental Leave and Working Life (2002) (182)
- Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers (2001) (162)
- Doing Rural Masculinity – From Logging to Outfield Tourism (2005) (134)
- FATHERS, WORK AND FAMILY LIFE (2007) (117)
- Gendered or Gender-Neutral Care Politics for Fathers? (2009) (106)
- From lumberjack to business manager: masculinity in the Norwegian forestry press (2000) (104)
- Doing Farm Tourism: The Intertwining Practices of Gender and Work (2010) (85)
- Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries (2012) (82)
- Breaking into a Masculine Discourse. Women and Farm Forestry (1998) (68)
- Resourcing Children in a Changing Rural Context: Fathering and Farm Succession in Two Generations of Farmers (2013) (68)
- Masculinity and Fathering Alone during Parental Leave (2016) (66)
- Agricultural body-building: Incorporations of gender, body and work (2006) (63)
- Gendered Work in Family Farm Tourism (2007) (61)
- Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries: has the forward march of gender equality halted? (2015) (59)
- The gender of agriculture (2001) (55)
- GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MODERN AGRICULTURE: (1994) (51)
- Text, Body, and Tools (2005) (45)
- On the relationship between feminism and farm women (2002) (40)
- Fathers and flexible parental leave (2016) (38)
- Workplace support of fathers’ parental leave use in Norway (2019) (38)
- Rural masculinities and fathering practices (2016) (36)
- Rural Women, Feminism and the Politics of Identity (1997) (35)
- Women in Forestry: Dilemmas of a Separate Women's Organization (2004) (32)
- Visitors to Farm Tourism Enterprises in Norway (2010) (28)
- Embodying the Rural Idyll in Farm Tourist Hosting (2014) (21)
- Fathers on Leave Alone in Norway: Changes and Continuities (2017) (17)
- Family and Gender in the Transformation of the Countryside (2007) (17)
- Norway: the making of the father's quota (2011) (17)
- Farm tourism and dilemmas of commercial activity in the home (2012) (16)
- Individualized, non-transferable parental leave for European fathers: migrant perspectives (2017) (16)
- Fathers’ sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave (2018) (15)
- "The Future can only be Imagined" - Innovation in Farm Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective (2010) (12)
- Gender Quotas for Agricultural Boards: Changing Constructions of Gender? (2015) (12)
- Parental leave and classed fathering practices in Norway (2014) (11)
- The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy: A view from the US (2017) (10)
- Farm, family, and myself: farm women dealing with family break-up (2015) (10)
- Family policies and the best interest of children (2012) (10)
- Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers’ participation (2019) (10)
- ‘Tough and tender’? Agricultural masculinities and fathering activities (2019) (9)
- When Farm Couples Break Up: Gendered Moralities, Gossip and the Fear of Stigmatisation in Rural Communities (2015) (8)
- Feminisms and Ruralities (2014) (8)
- Embodying family farm work. (2006) (8)
- Free Choice or Gentle Force? How Can Parental Leave Change Gender Practices? (2011) (8)
- Enabling or promoting gender equality though parental leave policies (2018) (8)
- The co-location of home and work in two generations of farmers: what effects on fathering practices? (2017) (7)
- 8 Emotional Dimensions of Fathering and Work-Life Boundaries (2012) (7)
- Farm Tourism: A Question of Gender and Competence? (2011) (7)
- Paradoxes of a Women's Organization in the Forestry Industry (2015) (7)
- Farmers framing fatherhood: everyday life and rural change (2018) (7)
- Care Politics for Fathers in a Flexible Time Culture (2006) (7)
- Gender Identities and Divorce among Farmers in Norway (2017) (6)
- Taming the Village Beast: Rural Entrepreneurship as the art of balance between economic growth and social sustainability (2013) (6)
- Designing parental leave for fathers – promoting gender equality in working life (2019) (5)
- Thinking About Gender, Bodies and Work (2017) (5)
- Free Choice or Gentle Force (2012) (5)
- The Gendered Embodiment of Agricultural Work: Nature, Machinery and Patriarchy (2017) (5)
- Integrating work and family : Changing institutions and competing logics (2017) (5)
- Editorial - Tourism in a Rural Setting: New Directions and Challenges (2010) (3)
- Visiting a farm based tourist enterprise – who are the visitors and what is the future potential? (2008) (3)
- Flexibility: some consequences for fathers’ caregiving (2019) (2)
- Gender equality: (2019) (2)
- Special Issue of Sociologia Ruralis on Women and Farming. (1998) (2)
- Fathers integrating work and childcare : Reconciling the logics? (2017) (2)
- Farm Fathers and Their Fathers: Flexible Work and Cultural Change (2017) (1)
- Embodied work in agriculture (2020) (1)
- Changing Fathers and Work–Life Boundary Setting (2020) (0)
- Rural Masculinity in Transition: Gender Images in Tractor Advertisements* (2018) (0)
- Fathers Experiencing Solo Leave: Changes and Continuities (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Referees 2010–2011 (2011) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Constructing Male Employees as Carers Through the Norwegian Fathers’ Quota (2017) (0)
- Masculinity and Childcare (2020) (0)
- Fathers’ quotas as gender equality policies (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews : Jon Sundbo, Annemarie Knigge, Susanne Dalsgaard Nielsen and David Bunnage: Arbejdsfravoer (Absence from Work), Teknisk Forlag, Köbenhavn 1982 (1983) (0)
- Conclusions: Change in Policies, Fathers’ Caregiving and the Ideal Worker Norm (2020) (0)
- Managers: Irreplaceable in Caregiving and Replaceable at Work (2020) (0)
- Decomposing Policy Design: An Outsider-Within Perspective on the Father’s Quota (2020) (0)
- List of reviewers (2014) (0)
- Designing Parental Leave Policy (2020) (0)
- Fathers Experiencing Solo Leave: Change and Continuities (2020) (0)
- Flexibility: some consequences for fathers’ caregiving1 (2019) (0)
- Farmers framing fatherhood: everyday life and rural change (2018) (0)
- Negotiating Parental Leave and Working Life (2020) (0)
- Farm couple breakup and rural local support (2012) (0)
- Home Alone on Leave or with the Mother Present (2020) (0)
- Immigrant Fathers Framing Parental Leave Use and Caregiving (2020) (0)
- Flexible Use of the Father’s Quota: Problems and Possibilities (2020) (0)
- Workplace Support of Fathers’ Parental Leave Use (2020) (0)
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