About Erika Alm
Born 1975. Erika Alm is a researcher.
Erika Alm is an associate professor in gender studies and associate dean at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Gothenburg.
Since 2020, she has been co-editor of the journal Lambda Nordica on LGBTQ studies.
Career Alm wrote her dissertation in history of ideas in 2006, on the thesis "A packaging for guts and emotions": Conceptions of the body in government investigations from the 1960s and 1970s. Between 2009 and 2011 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Umeå Center for Gender Studies at Umeå University. From 2011 she was lecturer in gender studies at the University of Gothenburg.
In her research, based on feminist, political and cultural theory, she has investigated norms around body, gender and desire, especially as they appear in medical expertise and legislation, for example issues concerning abortion, sterilization and gender correction.
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Who is Erika Alm?
Swedish gender studies scholar
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Erika Alm was born on 28 October 1975.
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Erika Alm is a researcher.
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