Carita Bengs

Research qualifications: Docent

Educational qualifications: Distinguished university teacher

Contact

carita.bengs@umu.se

+46 90 786 78 19

Works at

Professor at Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science Role: Head of department

Lärarutbildningshuset, Plan 4, Lärarutbildningshuset Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Restaurant professionals as curators of wine spaces: Norms and practices guiding wine quality and sustainability

Journal of Wine Research, Routledge 2024, Vol. 35 : 50-67

Carrillo Ocampo, Julia Cristina; Marshall, Matilda; Bengs, Carita

Balance, self-efficacy and collective individualism: young people's ideal eater types

Health Education Journal, Sage Publications 2023, Vol. 82, (7) : 752-765

Bohm, Ingela; Bengs, Carita

"Can we add a little sugar?": The contradictory discourses around sweet foods in Swedish home economics

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

Bohm, Ingela; Åbacka, Gun; Hörnell, Agneta; et al.

Leaving early or staying on?: Retirement preferences and motives among older health-care professionals

Ageing & Society, Cambridge University Press 2022, Vol. 42, (12) : 2805-2831

Stattin, Mikael; Bengs, Carita

Det är inne att äta ute - naturmåltider på Instagram

Måltiden som konstart: Gastronomisk kalender 2022, Stockholm: Carlssons 2021 : 81-102

Bengs, Carita; Sundqvist, Joachim

"It was as if I wasn't there": experiences of everyday racism in a Swedish medical school

Social Science and Medicine, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 270

Kristoffersson, Emelie; Rönnqvist, Hanna; Andersson, Jenny; et al.

The contextual understandings of eating: A practice theoretical approach to Swedish business travellers’ meals

International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 24

Sundqvist, Joachim; Bengs, Carita

Pensionspreferenser och motiv till arbete efter 65 bland personal inom hälso- och sjukvården: kvalitativa analyser av arbetsrelaterade faktorers påverkan på pensionspreferenser samt motiv till och erfarenheter av ett förlängt arbetsliv

Umeå: Umeå universitet 2018

Bengs, Carita; Stattin, Mikael

Absence, deviance and unattainable ideals: Discourses on vegetarianism in the Swedish school subject Home and Consumer Studies

Health Education Journal, Sage Publications 2016, Vol. 75, (6) : 676-688

Bohm, Ingela; Lindblom, Cecilia; Åbacka, Gun; et al.

Experiences of the gender climate in clinical training: a focus group study among Swedish medical students

BMC Medical Education, London: BioMed Central 2016, Vol. 16

Kristoffersson, Emelie; Andersson, Jenny; Bengs, Carita; et al.

Well, I'm healthy, but… - lay perspectives on health among people with musculoskeletal disorders

Disability and Rehabilitation, Taylor & Francis 2016, Vol. 38, (1) : 71-80

Wiitavaara, Birgitta; Bengs, Carita; Brulin, Christine

"Like a normal girl": Performance of body, functionality and femininity

Sociologisk forskning, Vol. 52, (4) : 395-397

Bengs, Carita

Kropp och hälsa

Feministiskt tänkande och sociologi: teorier, begrepp och tillämpningar, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2015 : 151-167

Bengs, Carita; Wiklund, Maria

"He just has to like ham": the centrality of meat in home and consumer studies

Appetite, Elsevier 2015, Vol. 95 : 101-112

Bohm, Ingela; Lindblom, Cecilia; Åbacka, Gun; et al.

”Jag skakar” tjejers uttryck för psykisk ohälsa

När livet känns fel: ungas upplevelser kring psykisk ohälsa, Stockholm: Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor 2015 : 174-196

Strömbäck, Maria; Wiklund, Maria; Bengs, Carita; et al.

Lekmannaperspektiv på hälsa bland personer med muskuloskeletala besvär

Best Practice: Smärta, (10) : 20-23

Wiitavaara, Birgitta; Bengs, Carita; Brulin, Christine

Dissonanser och möjligheter: i ljuset av genus, normativitet och samhällets individualisering

När livet känns fel: ungas upplevelser kring psykisk ohälsa, Stockholm: mucf.se 2015 : 153-173

Wiklund, Maria; Danielsson, Ulla; Strömbäck, Maria; et al.

Living close to the edge: embodied dimensions of distress during emerging adulthood

SAGE Open, SAGE Open 2014, Vol. 2, (4) : 1-17

Wiklund, Maria; Öhman, Ann; Bengs, Carita; et al.

Embodied dimensions of distress: young Swedish women's mental health in a context of gendered neoliberalisation

BSA Medical Sociology Group 45th Annual Conference 2013, York University, York, UK

Wiklund, Maria; Bengs, Carita

En ribba att nå: Unga kvinnors förkroppsligade stress i en neoliberal och könad kontext

Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Linköping: Tema Genus, Linköpings universitet 2013, (2-3) : 57-85

Wiklund, Maria; Strömbäck, Maria; Bengs, Carita

Modernità, stress e ricerca dell'autogestione emotiva

Salute e Società. La medicina delle emozioni e delle cognizioni, Italien: Edizioni Franco Angeli 2012, (2) : 74-89

Schnabel, Annette; Bengs, Carita; Wiklund, Maria

Working Hard to Create a Visible Self: Social Constructions of (In)Visibility in Relation to Girls' Stress

Invisible Girl: "Ceci n'est pas une fille", Umeå: Umeå University 2012 : 21-31

Wiklund, Maria; Bengs, Carita

"My greatest dream is to be normal": the impact of gender on depression narratives of young Swedish women and men

Qualitative Health Research, Sage Publications 2011, Vol. 21, (5) : 612-624

Danielsson, Ulla EB; Bengs, Carita; Samuelsson, Eva; et al.

"The Western gaze": An analysis of medical research publications concerning the expressions of depression, focusing on ethnicity and gender

Health Care for Women International, Vol. 31, (2) : 100-112

Lehti, Arja; Johansson, Eva E; Bengs, Carita; et al.

Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth

Social Science and Medicine, Elsevier Ltd 2010, Vol. 71, (9) : 1567-1575

Wiklund, Maria; Bengs, Carita; Malmgren-Olsson, Eva-Britt; et al.

"He messed me up": Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of gender-related partner violence and its consequences over time

Violence against Women, Sage 2010, Vol. 16, (2) : 207-232

Wiklund, Maria; Malmgren-Olsson, Eva-Britt; Bengs, Carita; et al.

Struck by lightning or slowly suffocating: gendered trajectories into depression

BMC Family Practice, London: 2009, Vol. 10, (1) : 56-

Danielsson, Ulla EB; Bengs, Carita; Lehti, Arja; et al.

Public Health, Elsevier 2009, Vol. 123, (10) : 689-693

Hammarström, Anne; Lehti, Arja; Danielsson, Ulla; et al.

Gaps between patients, media and academic medicine in discourses on gender and depression: a metasynthesis

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 19, (5) : 633-644

Johansson, Eva E; Bengs, Carita; Danielsson, Ulla EB; et al.

Gendered portraits of depression in Swedish newspapers

Qualitative Health Research, Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications 2008, Vol. 18, (7) : 962-973

Bengs, Carita; Johansson, Eva; Danielsson, Ulla EB; et al.

Ungdomar, kropp och funktionshinder

Funktionshinder, kultur och samhälle, Studentlitteratur 2007 : -

Bengs, Carita

Konstruktioner av genus i medietexter

Medicinsk genusforskning - teori och begreppsutveckling, Vetenskapsrådet 2004 : 165-171

Bengs, Carita

Könskonstruktioner av sjuklighet - exemplet depression

Kropp och genus i medicinen, Studentlitteratur 2004 : 267-274

Bengs, Carita; Hammarström, Anne

Looking good: a study of gendered body ideals among young people

Doctoral theses at the Depatment of Sociology, 21

Bengs, Carita

“You’re a sugar addict!”: Sweetness and Health in Home and Consumer Studies

Bohm, Ingela; Hörnell, Agneta; Gun, Åbacka; et al.

"The others": a qualitative analysis of explanations of depression in research publications focusing on ehtnicity and gender

Lehti, Arja; Johansson, Eva E.; Bengs, Carita; et al.

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Research groups

Group member

Umeå Center for Disability Research

Research projects

1 July 2018 until 1 July 2021

EndoSisters: Information work and peer-support in a digitally embodied patient movement

1 July 2007 until 30 June 2012

Welfare and Work in an Ageing Society