Nina Lykke (gender researcher)

Nina Lykke (* 1949 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish cultural and gender scholar. Her research focuses on feminist theory , intersectionality, and cultural studies.

biography

Nina Lykke studied comparative literature . Since her first publications in 1974, she has been concerned with understanding gender, body, technology, nature and culture from a feminist perspective. She received her mag.art degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1981 . (comparable to a German doctorate) in comparative literature. In 1992 she received a Danish (higher) doctoral degree with a dissertation on feminism and psychoanalysis.

From 1984 to 1999 she was director of the Center for Women and Gender Studies at Syddansk Universitet , the first of its kind in Denmark, and in 1986 she was awarded the title of Associate Professor. In 1999 she was appointed Professor of Gender Studies at Linköping University in Sweden , where she also served as Director of the Gender Studies Program. She received the title of Distinguished Professor in 2008 .

She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Karlstad University in 2016 .

Fonts

• Little Red Riding Hood and Oedipus. On a feminist psychoanalysis , translated from Danish by Margit Sramek, Passagen Verlag , Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-85165-073-0
• Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs. Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace (with Rosi Braidotti), Zed Books, London 1996, ISBN 978-1-85649-382-6
• Cosmodolphins. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals and the Sacred (with Mette Bryld), Zed Books, London 2000, ISBN 978-1-85649-815-9
• Edited with Anneke Smelik: Bits of Life. Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology , University of Washington Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-295-98809-2 ( downloadable contents, Project Muse )
• Genusforskning. En guide till feministisk teori, metodologi och skrift , Liber, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-47-09374-8 ( Swedish )
  • In Danish: Kønsforskning. En guide til feministisk teori metodologi og skrift , Samfundslitteratur, Copenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-91-47-09374-8
• Feminist Studies. A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing , Routledge, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-51658-7 (partly available from Google Books ; Review )

Web links

• List of publications by Nina Lykke

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charlotte Gustavsson: Nina Lykke, Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences , Karlstad University, October 16, 2016
2. ↑ Nina Lykke ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Linköping University 
3. ^ Nina Lykke new honorary doctor at Karlstad University , Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, October 18, 2016