Gender Equality on a Grand Tour: Politics and Institutions - The Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia Hardcover - 2017

Eva Blomberg, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor in History at the Sdertrn University, Sweden. She has published several articles and monographs on gender history, such as 'Gender Relations in Iron Mining Communities in Sweden 1900-1940' in Mining Women. Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2005 by Jaclyn J. Gier & Laurie Mercier (Eds.) (Palgrave, 2006).

Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Sdertrn University, Sweden. She has a Ph.D. in History (Sdertrn University, 2007). Together with Sara Sanders she recently edited a volume Institutionalizing Gender Equality. Historical and Global Perspective (Lexington, 2015).

Ylva Waldemarson Ph.D. (2000) is Professor in History at Sdertrn University, Sweden. She has published several monographs and articles on modern political history, including 'Openness and Elite Oral History: The Case of Sweden' in The Paradox of Openness. Transparency and Participation in Nordic Cultures of Consensus by Norbert Gtz and Carl Marklund (Eds.) (Brill, 2014).

Alina Zvinkliene, Ph.D. (1988) and a post-doctoral habilitation procedure in Social Sciences (2006) is a principal researcher at the Institute of Sociology of Lithuanian Centre for Social Research. Her main research fields are democratisation and social development in post-communist countries, human rights, identities and citizenship in multicultural societies from a gender perspective. She has published four books (as both co-editor and co-author) and more than 50 articles and chapters in books in English and Lithuanian, which have also appeared in Russian, French and Japanese, since 1987.