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Most studies of women working in foreign-owned industries in Southeast Asia have directed their attention to the transnational corporations (TNCs). Here, rather small Norwegian-owned companies are the focus of study, concentrating on one case in Southern Johor. Asking whether the nationality of the company makes any difference to the workers and whether we can trace a Scandinavian tradition of industrial relations, we found that it is rather the rural location and the local adaptation of the company that makes it different from the TNCs. Focus is on the relation between a foreign company and a rural community, thus on the interplay between different development strategies.

International audience ; The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the debate sets established perceptions of gender in motion. In Norway, gender equality is a valid and important premise within the general political debate. It is, however, contested as a valid argument in the context of egg donation, which therefore becomes a field of negotiations about the limits of equal opportunities. The article analyses the egg donation debate as a process of cultural co-production and asks how the Norwegian emphasis on gender equality influences the debate on egg donation and, vice versa, how debates of assisted reproductive technology (ART) reopen debates on gender in relation to reproduction and parenthood.

The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the debate sets established perceptions of gender in motion. In Norway, gender equality is a valid and important premise within the general political debate. It is, however, contested as a valid argument in the context of egg donation, which therefore becomes a field of negotiations about the limits of equal opportunities. The article analyses the egg donation debate as a process of cultural co-production and asks how the Norwegian emphasis on gender equality influences the debate on egg donation and, vice versa, how debates of assisted reproductive technology (ART) reopen debates on gender in relation to reproduction and parenthood.

The special situation of women workers as compared to men is most often explained by women's role in the family. Another and often neglected explanation of their work behavior is that most women have working conditions different from those of men. The article gives a detailed analysis of how working conditions in typical female industrial work limit women's possibilities for influence within the organization. The results of a study of three Norwegian industrial plants are presented.

This article explores possibilities for establishing dialogues between feminism and constructivism in the field of technology studies. Based on an overview of Norwegian feminist debates about technology, it indicates several points where feminism and constructivism meet and can mutually benefit from each other. The article critically examines feminist studies questioning the problems of technological determinism, social deternacnism, and essentialism. It criticizes constructivism for a lack of concern for gender and politics but holds that it is still possible to use theoretical tools from constructivism in feminist analyses. Fruitful dialogues require the application of the principle of symmetry to the dcalogues and sharing some common ground and mutual recognation of each other's strengths and weaknesses

1. The social meaning of children and fertility change / Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie -- 2. The politics of parenting : the meaning of children, the meaning of work / Marie-Therese Letablier -- 3. Economic risk, fertility and the welfare state : understanding individual rationales / Anne Lise Ellingsaeter and Eirin Pedersen -- 4. Flexible work : implications for the social meaning of children / Karin Jurczyk -- 5. Patterns of partnership and parenthood : experiences, approaches and readiness towards commitment and creating a family / Mai Heide Ottosen and Sofie Skovdal Mouritzen -- 6. The cultural ideal of the joint decision : illuminating values of individuality and relationality of the child choice / Malin Noem Ravn and Merete Lie -- 7. The non-modern child? : ambivalence about parenthood among young adults / Disa Bergnehr and Eva Bernhardt -- 8. Rising fertility, fewer fathers : crossroads of networks, gender and class / An-Magritt Jensen -- 9. Changing fertility behaviour across two generations : the role of gender and class / Trude Lappegard, Turid Noack and Marit Rønsen -- 10. From mothers to daughters : intergenerational transmission of fertility norms / Laura Bernardi -- 11. The social meaning of children embedded in institutions and personal relations / Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie.