Bøe, Marianne, PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate, Centre for Women and Gender Research, University of Bergen

Cand Philol, History of Religion, University of Bergen

Selected Publications

• 2009. "The Bergen - Sudan Connection" in Connecting South and North: Sudan Studies from Bergen in Honour of Mahmoud Salih. H. Hafsaas-Tsakos and A. Tsakos (eds.). BRIC. Bergen.
• 2007. Shi’a islam – særegenheter og kvinners stilling i Religion og livssyn 02/07.
• 2005. Iranske kvinneaktivister: forsvarere av kvinners rettigheter og nye bidragsytere til debatten om islamsk lov i Chaos, Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. Nr. 43. p. 81-88.
• 2002. Muslimske feminister: aktører i islamsk lov? i Replikk, Tidsskrift for human- og samfunnsvitenskap. Nr. 15. Årgang 7.
  
  

  Papers and presentations

• "Neither East nor West: the quest for defining a new model of the Islamic woman in Iran", paper presented at Re-Imagining the Shari'a: Theory, Practice And Muslim Pluralism At Pla, Venice, September 13. - 16. 2009.
• "Redefining Myths: Women’s Agency and Islamic Family Law in Iran", paper presented at Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion, NTNU, Trondheim, September 4. - 6. 2009.
  
• "New Expressions of Women's Legal Agency", paper presented at 30 Years on: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution, SOAS, London, 5-6 June 2009
• "Debating Family Law in Contemporary Iran", Research report presented at The third workshop of the Network of British Researchers and Practioners of islamic Law: Diversity and Change: Developments in Shi'ite Jurisprudence", University of Exeter, June 5-6 2009
  
• "Notions of women's rights in contemporary Iran", paper presentert på The Seventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies. ”The Middle East: Diversity - Variation – Interpretation”, 21-23 September 2007, Helsinki.
• "The Iranian women’s movements: between Globalization and
  Islamization", paper presentert på konferansen Gender 2007: East Meets West, University of York, 3. - 5. juli 2007.
• "Iranske kvinneaktivister: forhandlinger og fortolkninger", paper presentert på seminar i regi av Chaos, Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, Universitetet i Bergen, 12. april 2004.

  
  Translation

• Assal, Munzoul A. M. 2005. Somaliere og sudanesere i Norge og spørsmålet om religiøs autentisitet. (Oversatt til norsk av Marianne Bøe) i Islamer i Norge. Redigert av Hege Markussen og Richard Johan Natvig. Swedish Science Press. Uppsala.
  
  
  Master thesis (hovedfagsoppgave)
  
• Bøe, Marianne. 2003. Show us the real Islam! I am a Muslim and you are a Muslim too, but tell me: what is Islam? En studie av iransk kvinneaktivisme. Hovedfagsoppgave i religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen
  
  
  

  Feature articles

• Symbolsk makt (25.06.09, Aftenposten)
• Kvinnelige presidentkandidater i Iran (26.05.09, Ny Tid
• Et positivt tegn i tiden (11.10.07, Stavanger Aftenblad)
• Kvinnekamp i den islamske republikk (29.02.04, VG)
• Ebadi er ikke alene (Bergens Tidende 9.12.03, Stavanger Aftenblad 15.12.03, Adresseavisen 30.10.03)

  
  
  

Contact information:
Marianne Bøe

Centre for Women and Gender Research
Allegaten 34
5020 Bergen
Norway
Tel: +47-5558 9423
marianne.boe@skok.uib.no