Malin Noem Ravn

My research interests include:

Cultural perceptions of the body, pregnancy, reproduction and gender

Biotechnology, cultural constructions of genes

kinship studies

gender equality as a cultural category

Projects:

• Reproductive relations. Production of gendered meanings in the field of reproduction. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council (Gender research programme)
• The social meaning of children. Reproductive choice, gender, and social class. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council (FRISAM- programme).
• Perceptions of gender, genes and reproduction. Financed by the Norwegian Research Council (ELSA-research). (project is concluded)

Publications:

Lie, Ravn and Spilker, 2011 (forthcoming), 'Reproductive imaginations: Stories of egg and sperm'. NORA

Ravn, 2009, 'Substances of the Body: Blood, Genes and Personhood'. In Contested Categories. Life Sciences in Society, edited by Susanne Bauer and Ayo Wahlberg. ASHGATE

Ravn, 2008 'Gravid & sexy. Diskresjonens tid er forbi.' FETT nr.4 2008 [Pregnant & sexy. The time of discretion has passed]

Ravn, 2008 'Natur, biologi og kjønn' i RATATOSK. Natur. RATATOSK 3-4 2007 + 1-4 2008. [Nature, biology and gender].

Ravn, 2007 'Karrierekvinne og mor', cronicle in Bergens Tidende co-authored  with Siri Øyslebø Sørensen. 24.11.2007 [Career-woman and mother].

Ravn, 2005 'A Matter of Free Choice? Some Structural and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Have or Not to Have Children in Norway'. In: Barren States. The Population 'Implosion' in Europe, edited by Carrie B. Douglass. Berg Publishers. Read Kilden's report here.

Ravn, 2004 En kropp: To liv. Svangerskapet, fosteret og den gravide kroppen - en antropologisk analyse. Doktorgradsavhandling ved NTNU 2004:72. (Dr.Polit dissertation). [One body: Two lives. Pregnancy, the foetus and the pregnant body - an anthropological analysis].

Ravn, 2002 'Når fosteret blir et barn lenge før fødselen. Et antropologisk blikk på graviditet og ufødte barn'. NPF-posten (Kontaktorgan for Norsk Perinatalmedisinsk Forening)  Vol 12 Nr 1. [When the foetus becomes a child long before birth. An anthropological glance at pregnancy and unborn children].

Ravn, 2000 'Gravide idealer i den norske samtiden'. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 2000 11:20-37 [Pregnant ideals in contemporary Norway]

Lectures Autumn 2011:

KULT 3305 Feminist theory I (master's level, course responsibility)

KULT 2207/2208 Paradoxes of Equality: Gender and Norwegian Culture (international bachelor's course)