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

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

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 n ...

scholar. She is professor emerita of political science at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, 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, social ...

, and also worked at the

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. Eduards is known for her research women, peace and security policy. A festschrift was published in Eduard's honour in 2011.

Life

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

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

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and

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

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

's Centre for Women's Studies/Centre for Women's and Gender Studies from 1999 to 2004. She is professor emerita of political science at

. Eduards is known for her research on women, peace and security policy. Her research has covered women's organization, women and politics, power relationships, violence against women, and resistance to change within organisations and structures. She has also investigated how gender relates to armed conflicts, Swedish security policy and militarization. Eduards has argued that the use of the phrase "women and children" in relation to armed conflicts increases women's vulnerability, and reduces their agency, and that by treating women and children as one group it hides the different types of violence that women and children are subjected to. A ''

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

'' in her honour titled ''Kön, makt, nation'' was published by Stockholm University 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

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