Maud Elisabeth Landby Eduards (born 28 February 1944) is a Swedish

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

scholar. She is professor emerita of political science at

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

. Eduards earned her PhD in 1985 with a dissertation on regional cooperation between

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and

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in the period 1962–1984. In 1996 she was appointed as professor of political science at Stockholm University. She was also professor of gender studies at the

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's Centre for Women's Studies/Centre for Women's and Gender Studies from 1999 to 2004. She is known for her research on women, peace and security policy. A ''

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'' in her honour titled ''Kön, makt, nation'' was published in 2011.''Kön, makt, nation: tillägnad Maud Eduards'', Stockholms universitet, 2011

Bibliography

* Maud Eduards: "Feminism som partipolitik: Feministiskt initiativ i Simrishamn 2010-2014", Leopard, 2016 * Paulina de los Reyes, Maud Eduards, Fia Sundevall (eds.): "Internationella relationer - könskritiska perspektiv", Liber, 2013 * Maud Eduards and Maria Wendt: "Fienden mitt ibland oss: kön och nation i pressbevakningen av Feministiskt initiativ". In: Maria Jansson, Maria Wendt and Cecilia Åse (eds.): ''Den nationella väven : feministiska analyser'', 2010 * Maud Eduards: ”Vad har ett badlakan med säkerhetspolitik att göra?”, in Lenita Freidenvall and Maria Jansson (eds.): ''Politik och kritik. En feministisk guide till statsvetenskap'', Studentlitteratur 2010. * Maud Eduards, Anna Wahl med flera: ''Motstånd och fantasi: historien om F''. Studentlitteratur, 2008 * Maud Eduards: ''Kroppspolitik. Om Moder Svea och andra kvinnor''. Bokförlaget Atlas, Stockholm, 2007 * Maud Eduards: "Våld utan gränser: om krig och hotad manlighet", in Yvonne Svanström and Kjell Östberg (eds.): ''Än män då? Kön och feminism i Sverige under 150 år'', Atlas Akademi 2004 * Maud Eduards: ''Förbjuden handling - om kvinnors organisering och feministisk teori''. Liber, 2002 * Maud Eduards, Gunnel Gustafsson and Malin Rönnblom (eds.): ''Towards a New Democratic Order? Women's Organizing in Sweden in the 1990's''. Publica, 1997

References

1944 births Swedish political scientists Academic staff of Stockholm University Gender studies academics Living people {{Sweden-scientist-stub