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The Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University was established in 2003 to serve the whole university. It was given the assignment by the university board to develop research on both social constructions of gender and biological aspects. In 2003 this was controversial among gender scholars in Sweden who feared that it would bring back essentialism, taking gender studies back to an earlier stage. Time has shown the opposite; the bridging of scientific divides has characterized the development of gender studies in later years. In Sweden the GenNa programme has played a crucial role in creating new research groups, bringing together researchers from natural and medical sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences.
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Fahlgren, M. (2016). GenNa: Nature/Culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters, Programme of Excellence in Gender Research 2007–2012. In: Bull, J., Fahlgren, M. (eds) Illdisciplined Gender. Crossroads of Knowledge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15272-1_9
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