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GENA: database for Swedish dissertations in gender research

https://doi.org/10.5878/s9zr-s031
The GENA database was initiated in 2001 by KvinnSam, Gothenburg University Library, on behalf of the National Secretariat for Gender Research. The database was finalized in 2022 and covers the period from 1960 to 2022. The database includes doctoral theses in women's, men's, and gender studies from Swedish academic institutions. This encompasses research that problematizes how gender is made, constructed, and created at different levels in culture and society. Women's, men's, and gender studies include gender equality research (investigating injustices in society related to gender and proposing measures to address them), women's studies (women and femininity), feminist research (emancipatory research with a focus on power), men's studies/masculinity research (men and masculinity), and queer research (critique of heteronormativity). The database is available as an Excel file with multiple sheets (.xlsx), as semicolon separated values (.csv), and as a PostgreSQL dump file that may be used to reconstruct the original database configuration (.sql).
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Citation and access

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Data contains personal data:

Yes

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Population:

Dissertations in women's studies, men's studies, and gender research

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Description of sampling:

The selection has taken place by monitoring the publishing of Swedish doctoral theses, for example, through searches in the Libris database and legal deposits to the Gothenburg University Library. The theses chosen to be included in the GENA database encompass women's studies, men's studies, and gender research from Swedish academic institutions. This refers to research that problematizes how gender is done, constructed, and formed at various levels in culture and society. Gender research includes studies on gender equality (research on injustices in society related to gender and proposals for addressing them), women's studies (women and femininity), feminist research (emancipatory research with a focus on power), men's studies/masculinity research (men and masculinity), and queer research (critique of heteronormativity).

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1896

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Content coding

Description of the mode of collection:

The selection has taken place by monitoring the publishing of Swedish doctoral theses, for example, through searches in the Libris database and legal deposits to the Gothenburg University Library.

Time period(s) for data collection:

2001 - 2022

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  • Communications: Public
  • Communications

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KvinnSam, Gothenburg University Library

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  • Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research

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