Tone Hellesund (born 1967) is a Norwegian ethnologist who specializes in gender studies. After working at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (1995–97), she undertook a four-year doctorate with funding from the Research Council of Norway. As of April 2022, she is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen.[1][2][3]
Biography
editBorn in Molde on 13 April 1967,[4] Tone Hellesund grew up in Åsane. She graduated with a master's degree in ethnology in 1995, after which she worked as an expert consultant at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. In 2002, she earned a Ph.D with a dissertation titled Den norske peppermø. Om kulturell konstituering av kjønn og organisering av enslighet 1870-1940. (The Norwegian Spinster. On the cultural constitution of gender and the organization of loneliness 1870-1940.)[1] Her writings also cover the first and second wave women's movement, homosexual identity, and those living outside normal families.[2] In 2003, she was awarded the Meltser Mediation Prise (Meltzers formidlingspris) for the insights she expressed in her dissertation.[5]
In a 2018, interview with Hellesund, Linda Marie Rustad examined how her views on single women had evolved since 2003, in particular in the light of women living alone with their children.[6] Together with authors from Portugal, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom, Hellesund contributed to The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm (2020) in which she examines how couples, frequently consisting of unconventional partnerships, are surprisingly common throughout Europe despite changes in legislation.[3][7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Ny doktorgrad: Den norske peppermø" (in Norwegian). Universitet i Berben. 2002. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ a b Hellesund, Tone (29 October 2022). "Better than Orgasm: Sex, Authenticity and Intimacy in the New Women's Movement in Norway". Gender & History. 33. Gender & History, Volume 33, Issue 1: 209–226. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12502. hdl:11250/2762511. S2CID 228976912.
- ^ a b Dietrichson, Susanne (24 November 2020). "Mange av de som ikke lever i parforhold opplever å bli stigmatiserte" (in Norwegian). forskning.no. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ Bergens Tidende, 13 April 2017, (from Wikidata)
- ^ "Fremragende formidling: Meltzerfondets pris for fremragende forskningsformidling" (in Norwegian). L. Meltzers Høyskolefond. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ Rustad, Linda Marie, Linda (30 May 2018). "Parnormen hviler tungt over kulturen" (in Norwegian). kjønnsforskning.no: Kildnen. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm. UCL Press. 5 November 2020. ISBN 9781787358898. Retrieved 13 April 2022.