Jorun Solheim (born 18 November 1944) is a Norwegian social anthropologist and

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

academic, whose work is centered on gender, culture and modernity. She was lecturer in social anthropology at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

from 1971 to 1983, Researcher at the

Work Research Institute The Work Research Institute (WRI) ( no, Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, AFI), formerly known as the Institute of Work Psychology, is a Norwegian government-owned social science research institute in Oslo. Its purpose is to "produce systematic knowled ...

from 1981 to 2001 and Professor at the Centre for Women's Studies at the

from 1994 to 1999. She is currently Senior Researcher at the

Norwegian Institute of Social Research The Norwegian Institute for Social Research ( no, Institutt for samfunnsforskning, ISF) is a private social science research institute based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded in 1950 by Vilhelm Aubert, Arne Næss, Eirik Rinde, and Stein Rokkan. It ...

. In 2007, she became editor-in-chief of Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. She has a mag.art. (i.e. PhD) degree in social anthropology from 1970.

Works

*''Kjønn og modernitet'', 2007 *''Den usynlige hånd?'', 2002 *''Den åpne kroppen'', 1998

References

Social anthropologists Feminist studies scholars Academic staff of the University of Oslo 1944 births Living people Norwegian anthropologists Norwegian feminists Norwegian women anthropologists Postmodern feminists Work Research Institute people {{Anthropologist-stub