ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits state feminism by exploring its various origins and places of knowledge. It also leans on Philipp Sarasin’s argument that “knowledge is evolving, changing, ‘realizing’ through circulation between different social spheres”. The chapter also shows that academic institutions normally play a vital role. The Scandinavian gender debate continued in the 1960s, but with more emphasis on women’s liberation. Swedish Eva Moberg published a book of her own, simply titled Women and People, which once again illustrated the ideological source of modern feminism. In 1975, a female student at the University of Oslo said that a feminist conviction was seldom the reason why students like her decided to study theology. Simultaneously, she said, there “was no reason that it [i.e., the study of theology] cannot transform into feminism over time. During the 1970s, the composition of the boards of the Norwegian research councils changed more to the advantage of female scientists.
