Arja Turunen
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General description
I am university teacher in museology in the Open university of the University of Jyväskylä and at the department of music, arts and culture studies.
Active JYU affiliations
- Open University, University Teacher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Postdoctoral Researcher, Ended
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), University Teacher, Ended
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of History and Ethnology (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Research Fellow, Other affiliation
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), University teacher, Other affiliation
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Senior Research Fellow, Principal investigator, Other affiliation
Research interests
I have PhD in Ethnology (2011, University of Jyväskylä) and a Title of docent (2019, University of Turku). I am specialized in the study of Finnish gender history with methods and materials of oral history, media studies and archival research. I have studied history of the women's wearing of trousers, history of Finnish second-wave activism and history of Finnish women's magaizines.
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Gender history, ethnology, media studies, dress history, history of feminism, women's magazines
Projects as Principal investigator
- Naisten asialla. Yhteiskunnan muutos ja feminismi suomalaisissa naistenlehdissä 1960–1970-luvuilla
- Helsingin Sanomat Foundation
- For the Sake of Women, Men and Children! Association 9 and the Struggle for Gender Equality in the 1960s
- Kone Foundation
- How the Political Became Personal. Feminism in Practice in Finland.
- Research Council of Finland