Gender Theory

Readling List Gender Theory

The reading list will be updated every year, at the latest 5 weeks before the course starts. From fall 2020 this list will be all in English.

Required reading

Additional recommended readings will be added

• Ahmed, Sara, Living a feminist life, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017
• Ahmed, Sara, A Phenomenology of Whiteness, Part of: Feminist theory., vol. 8, no. 2, 2007, p. 149–168
• Ahmed, Sara, On Collective Feelings, or the Impressions Left by Others, Part of: Theory, culture & society., vol. 20, no. 1, 2004, p. 25–42
• Alarcon, Norma, The Theoretical Subjects of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo- American Feminism, Part of: Making face, making soul: Haciendo caras: creative and critical perspectives by feminists of color, 1. ed., San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books, cop. 1990, p. 356–366
• Arruzza, Cinzia; Bhattacharya, Tithi; Fraser, Nancy, Feminism for the 99 percent: a manifesto, London, Verso, 2019 (p. 1–59)
• Cixous, Hélène, The Laugh of the Medusa, Part of: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, vol. 1, no. 4, 1976, p. 875–893
• Frye, Marilyn, The politics of reality: essays in feminist theory, Trumansburg, N.Y., Crossing P., cop 1983 (p. 17–40 (23 pp) Available online. See course reading list.)
• Hayward, Eva, Spider city sex, Part of: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, p. 225–251
• Hemmings, Claire, Affective solidarity: feminist reflexivity and political transformation, Part of: Feminist theory., no. 13, 2012, p. 147–161
• hooks, bell, Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom, London, Routledge, 1994
• Jasbir, Puar K., Prognosis time: Towards a geopolitics of affect, debility and capacity, Part of: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 19, no. 2, 2009, p. 161–172
• Lugones, Maria, Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception, Part of: Hypatia, vol. 2, no. 2, 1987, p. 3–19
• Paternotte, David; Kuhar, Roman, 'Gender ideology' in movement: Introduction, Part of: Anti-gender campaigns in Europe: mobilizing against equality, London, Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2017], p. 1–22 (p. 1–22)
• Serano, Julia., Whipping girl: a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity, Seattle, Wash., Seal, 2007 (Chap. 8 (33 pp))
• hooks, bell, Feminist theory: from margin to center, 2. ed., London, Pluto Press, cop. 2000 (Preface and chap. 1 (17 pp) Chap. 2 (14 pp) Available online. See course reading list.)
• Franklin, Sarah, Sexism as a Means of Reproduction:: Some Reflections on the Politics of Academic Practice, Part of: New formations, vol. 86, no. 1, 2015 (p. 14–33)
• McClintock, Anne, Family feuds: gender, nationalism and the family, Part of: Feminist review., 44, 1993, s. 61-80 (p. 61–80 (19 pp))
• Freeman, Elizabeth, Queer belongings: Kinship theory and queer theory, Part of: A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007, p. 295–314 (p. 295–314 (19 pp))
• Fraser, Nancy, Contradictions of capital and care, Part of: New left review, 2016, 100, s. 99-117 (p. 99–117 (18 pp))
• Hartman, Saidya, The Belly of the World:: A Note on Black Women's Labors, Part of: Souls: a critical journal of Black politics, culture, and society., vol. 18, no. 1, 2016 (p. 166–173 (8 pp))
• On Being White:: Thinking Towards a Feminist Understanding of Race and Race Supremacy, Part of: The politics of reality: essays in feminist theory, Trumansburg, N.Y., Crossing P., cop 1983 (19 pp)
• Bilge, Jennifer, Intersectionality Undone:: Saving Intersectionality from Feminist Intersectionality Studies, Part of: Du Bois Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 2013 (p. 405–424 (19 pp))
• Nash, Jennifer C., Feminist originalism: intersectionality and the politics of reading, Part of: Feminist theory, 2016(17):1, s. 3–20 (p. 3–20 (17 pp))
• de los Reyes, Paulina, Hegemonic Feminism Revisited:: On the Promises of Intersectionality in Times of the Precarisation of Life, Part of: NORA: Nordic journal of feminist and gender research, 2020
• Haraway, Donna Jeanne, The promises of monsters: a regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others, Part of: Cultural studies, New York, Routledge, 1992 (p. 295–337 (42 pp))
• Styrker, Susan, My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix:: Performing transgender rage, Part of: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, vol. 1, no. 3, 1994 (p. 234–254 (14 pp))
• Cvetkovich, Ann, Depression is ordinary: public feelings and Saidiya Hartman’s Lose your mother, Part of: Feminist theory, 2012(13):2, s. 131–146 (p. 131–146 (15 pp))
• Amin, Kadji, Haunted by the 1990s:: Queer Theory's Affective Histories', Part of: Women's studies quarterly., vol. 44, no. 3/4, 2016 (p. 173–189)
• Ahmed, Sarah, Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects), Part of: S & F online, vol. 8, no. 3, 2010
• Hemmings, Clare, Telling feminist stories, Part of: Feminist theory, 2005(6):2, s. 115-139 (p. 115–139)