ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how gender configurations are produced and maintained by means of normation processes. It argues that the Nordic equality and diversity discourses have challenged traditional norms and configurations of masculinity, in this case the gendered police norms. The chapter discusses that gender performativity can be linked to the arena and the context in which the actions are performed, that is to doing the right masculinity or femininity in the right way in the specific context. The chapter concludes by linking this discussion to the way the Swedish police training programme and its associated gender connotations have been influenced by the discourses on diversity and equality. In the context of a Butlerian theoretical approach, the body as materiality is discursively shaped, since bodies as both actions and practices are constructed as masculine and feminine in discursive processes.
