Family and Kinship Research Group
Few questions raise more heated debate than those pertaining to family and kinship. Indeed, few areas demonstrate more clearly the interconnectedness of the private and the public. The Family and Kinship group offers a forum for networking and critique across disciplines and areas of interest. Participants come from a range of disciplines; from literature, philosophy and anthropology, to law, political science, public health, and reproductive health. Areas of interest include, for example, reproductive technologies (ARTs) and rights, friendship and intimacy, parenthood, queer families, violence, and practical and conceptual borders between kin and non-kin.

Research in the group focuses on various geographical/geopolitical contexts. The group runs a seminar series for presentations by individual junior and senior scholars, as well as workshop sessions on funding applications and ideas for future projects and events.
Members:
- Jenny Björklund
- Maja Bodin
- Ulrika Dahl
- Alexandra D'Ubaldo-Gauffin
- Evangelia Elenis
- Madeleine Eriksson
- Margaretha Fahlgren
- Klara Goedecke
- Gabriele Griffin
- Malin Jordal
- Doris Leibetseder
- Matilda Lindgren
- Patricia Lorenzoni
- Elina Nilsson
- Nicole Ovesen
- Christine Rubertsson
- Helena Wahlström Henriksson
- Anna Williams
Projects:
There are a number of large research projects within the group funded by, for example, the Swedish Research Council and the EU. There are also some doctoral projects conducted within the group. For more information about the projects, click on the links below.
- Scandinavian Border Crossings: Race and Nation in Queer Assisted Reproduction (Ulrika Dahl, Rikke Andreassen)
- Single Parents in Swedish Media (Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Disa Bergnehr)
- Mamma hursomhelst (Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Margaretha Fahlgren, Anna Williams)
- Crossing borders, carrying merit: Experiences of surrogate mothers in Thailand (Elina Nilsson)
- Intimate partner violence and help-seeking behavior in queer communities (Nicole Ovesen)
- Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature (Jenny Björklund)
- Regretting parenthood (Maja Bodin)
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Donor offspring narratives (Gabriele Griffin)
Contact

For more information about the research group's activities, contact Helena Wahlström Henriksson.
National network

The work in the research group is linked to the Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies
Publications from FamKin members
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Psychological interventions for symptoms of depression among informal caregivers of older adult populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2023
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Hyperandrogenic Symptoms Are a Persistent Suffering in Midlife Women with PCOS; a Prospective Cohort Study in Sweden
2023
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Anna-Karin Jonasson, Gränskronotopen och upplösningen av formens värld. En studie av gränstematiken i Kerstin Ekmans trilogi Vargskinnet (1999–2003)
2023
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Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
2023
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Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti
2023
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Moderslinjen
2023
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Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all
2023
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Creative writing as feminist freedom
2023
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AI and Swedish Heritage Organisations: challenges and opportunities
2023
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Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region and Beyond
2023
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Queer Kinship in Swedish Numbers: Reproducing National Whiteness
2023
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Where is the T* in European Journal of Women’s Studies?
2023
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Yours in Struggle: Baltic Dialogues
2023
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Introduction
2023
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På egen hand: Mellankrigstidens litterära ensammammor
2023
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Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness
2023
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Previous negative experiences of healthcare reported by Swedish pregnant women with fear of birth-A mixed method study
2023
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Perceived social support in solo women seeking treatment with donor gametes and in women in heterosexual couples seeking IVF-treatment with own gametes
2023
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Tvillingpappa genom surrogatmödraskap
2023
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Layers of Shame: The Impact of Shame in Lesbian and Queer Victim-Survivors' Accounts of Violence and Help-seeking
2023
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Postpartum bonding and association with depressive symptoms and prenatal attachment in women with fear of birth
2022
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Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable
2022
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Surgical Healthcare Interventions after Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Review of the Evidence
2022
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Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy: Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets
2022
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Depressive symptoms during pregnancy and after birth in women living in Sweden who received treatments for fear of birth
2022
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Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic
2022
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Single parenthood, the non-residential parent and co-parenting in Swedish Daily News
2022
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En skev historia: Från uppslag till begreppsutveckling
2022
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“Can I take responsibility for bringing a person to this world who will be part of the apocalypse!?”: Ideological dilemmas and concerns for future well-being when bringing the climate crisis into reproductive decision-making
2022
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Diktarhjärtat: Lotten von Kræmers litteraturliv
2022
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Regretting parenthood in a family friendly, ‘gender equal’ society: accounts from Swedish online forums
2022
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Hon som inte släpper sitt grepp: Helene Rådbergs Mammajournalerna
2022
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Self-compassion and professional quality of life among midwives and nurse assistants: A cross-sectional study
2022
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Barns berättelser: kamratkulturer skapas kring förskolans fotodokumentation
2022
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Happy ever after?: Reproduction and Futurity under Swedish Queer Liberalism
2022
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Anna-Karin Jonasson, Gränskronotopen och upplösningen av formens värld. En studie av gränstematiken i Kerstin Ekmans trilogi Vargskinnet (1999–2003). Åbo Akademis förlag. Åbo 2022.
2022
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"Damaged genitals"-Cut women's perceptions of the effect of female genital cutting on sexual function. A qualitative study from Sweden
2022
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Ett dubbelt liv Dagmar Lange alias Maria Lang
2022
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Asylen som redaktionellt arbete: Efterord
2022
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Narkopentekostalism: Reflektioner över det religiösa våldets Brasilien
2022
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Cross-cultural interviewing
2022
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Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation: Living the Contradiction
2022
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‘Making’ and ‘Doing’ Context: Sharing in an all-female co-working hub
2022
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Morphing together: Motherhood, old grievances, and corporeal materiality in Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk
2022
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Research and innovation in the academy: A precarious business
2022
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The 'Work-Work Balance' in higher education: between over-work, falling short and the pleasures of multiplicity
2022
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The role of women’s emotional profiles in birth outcome and birth experience
2022
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Implementation of e–Mental Health Interventions for Informal Caregivers of Adults With Chronic Diseases: Mixed Methods Systematic Review With a Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Thematic Synthesis
2022
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Nordic Academic Feminism and Whiteness as Epistemic Habit
2021
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Hardworking Women: Representations of Lone Mothers in the Swedish Daily Press
2021