Syllabus for Gender Theory

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Syllabus

  • 7.5 credits
  • Course code: 5GN010
  • Education cycle: Second cycle
  • Main field(s) of study and in-depth level: Gender Research A1N

    Explanation of codes

    The code indicates the education cycle and in-depth level of the course in relation to other courses within the same main field of study according to the requirements for general degrees:

    First cycle

    • G1N: has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
    • G1F: has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G1E: contains specially designed degree project for Higher Education Diploma
    • G2F: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G2E: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
    • GXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

    Second cycle

    • A1N: has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1F: has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
    • A2E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (120 credits)
    • AXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

  • Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
  • Established: 2007-02-27
  • Established by:
  • Revised: 2018-06-14
  • Revised by: The Faculty Board of Arts
  • Applies from: Spring 2019
  • Entry requirements:

    A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university.

  • Responsible department: Centre for Gender Research

Syllabus Revisions

Reading list

Reading list

Applies from: Autumn 2019

Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.

  • Connell, Raewyn; Pearse, Rebecca Om genus

    3., [omarb. och uppdaterade] uppl.: Göteborg: Daidalos, 2015

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  • Price, Janet; Shildrick, Margrit Feminist theory and the body : a reader

    New York: Routledge, c1999.

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  • Lykke, Nina Genusforskning : en guide till feministisk teori, metodologi och skrift

    1. uppl.: Stockholm: Liber, 2009

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  • Tollin, Katharina; Törnqvist, Maria Feminism i rörliga bilder

    2., utök. uppl.: Stockholm: Liber, 2014

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Reading list

  • Ahmed, Sara Åsard, Maria Att leva feministiskt

    Hägersten: Tankekraft Förlag, 2017

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    Mandatory

  • Ahmed, Sara Living a feminist life

    Durham: Duke University Press, 2017

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    Mandatory

  • Ahmed, Sara A Phenomenology of Whiteness

    Part of:

    Feminist theory.

    vol. 8 (2007) nr. 2 s. 149-168

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  • Ahmed, Sara On Collective Feelings, or the Impressions Left by Others

    Part of:

    Theory, culture & society.

    vol. 20 (2004) nr. 1 s. 25-42

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  • 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

    (1990) s. 356-366

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  • Arruzza, Cinzia; Bhattacharya, Tithi; Fraser, Nancy Feminism for the 99 percent : a manifesto

    London: Verso, 2019

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  • Bilge, Sirma Whitening Intersectionality: Evanescence of Race in Intersectionality Scholarship

    Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2015

  • Braidotti, Rosi Difference, Diversity and Nomadic subjectivity

    Translatum.gr,

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  • Butler, Judith Is kinship always already heterosexual?

    Part of:

    Differences : a journal of feminist cultural studies

    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989-

    vol. 15 (2002) nr. 1 s. 14-44

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  • Carby, Hazel V. White Woman Listen!: Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood

    Part of:

    Black British feminism : a reader

    London: Routledge, 1997

    (1997) s. 45-53

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  • Cixous, Hélène The Laugh of the Medusa

    Part of:

    Signs : journal of women in culture and society

    Chicago, Ill.: Chicago U. P., 1975-

    vol. 1 (1976) nr. 4 s. 875-893

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  • Combahee River Collective, The A black feminist statement

    S. 521-526

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  • Cuesta, Marta; Mulinari, Diana The bodies of others in Swedish feminism

    Part of:

    Gender, place and culture : a journal of feminist geography

    Abingdon: Carfax Publ. Co., 1994-

    vol. 25 (2018) nr. 7 s. 978-993

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  • Freeman, Elizabeth ’Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations

    Part of:

    New literary history

    Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 1969-

    vol. 31 (2000) nr. 4 s. 727-744

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  • Frye, Marilyn The politics of reality : essays in feminist theory

    Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing P., cop 1983

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  • Haraway, Donna Jeanne Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature

    New York: Routledge, 1991

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  • Haraway, Donna Jeanne Situated knowledges : the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective

    Part of:

    Feminist studies

    New York: 1972-

    14(1988):3, s. 575-599

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  • Hayward, Eva Spider city sex

    Part of:

    Women & performance : a journal of feminist theory

    New York, N.Y.: Women & Performance Project at the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 1983-

    vol. 20 (2010) nr. 3 s. 225-251

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  • Hemmings, Claire Affective solidarity : feminist reflexivity and political transformation

    Part of:

    Feminist theory.

    (2012) nr. 13 s. 147-161

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  • Hemmings, Clare Telling feminist stories

    Part of:

    Feminist theory

    Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000-

    2005(6):2, s. 115-139

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  • Hill Collins, Patricia; Bilge, Sirma Intersectionality

    Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016

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  • Hobson, Janell The “Batty” Politic : Toward an Asthetic of the Black Female Body

    Part of:

    Hypatia

    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,

    vol. 18 (2003) nr. 4 s. 87-104

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  • hooks, bell Feminist theory : from margin to center

    2. ed.: London: Pluto Press, cop. 2000

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  • hooks, bell Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom

    London: Routledge, 1994

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  • Jasbir, Puar K. Prognosis time : Towards a geopolitics of affect, debility and capacity

    Part of:

    Women & performance : a journal of feminist theory

    New York, N.Y.: Women & Performance Project at the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 1983-

    vol. 19 (2009) nr. 2 s. 161-172

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  • Lahiri, Madhumita Crimes and Corrections : Bride Burners, Corrective Rapists, and Ohter Black Misogynists

    Part of:

    Feminist Africa

    Rondebosch: African Gender Institute, c2002-

    (2011) nr. 15 s. 121-134

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  • Lugones, Maria Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception

    Part of:

    Hypatia

    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,

    vol. 2 (1987) nr. 2 s. 3-19

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  • Mulinari, Diana "Race"/ethnicity in a "Nordic" context : a reflection from the Swedish borderlands

    Part of:

    Svensk genusforskning i världen : globala perspektiv i svensk genusforskning och svensk genusforskning i ett globalt perspektiv : [konferensrapport, Örebro 30.11-1.12 2000]

    Göteborg: Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, 2001

    S. 6-24

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  • Munoz, Jose Esteban Feeling brown : Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's "The Sweetest Hangover (And Other STDs)"

    Part of:

    Theatre journal

    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996-

    vol. 52 (2000) nr. 1 s. 67-79

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  • 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]

    s. 1-22

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  • Rodriguez, Juana Maria Gestures and Utterances : Fragments from a butch-femme archive

    Part of:

    A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies

    Oxford: Blackwell, 2007

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  • Rubin, Gayle The traffic in women: Notes on the political economy of sex

    Part of:

    Women, class, and the feminist imagination : a socialist-feminist reader

    Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1990

    ([1975]) s. 74-113

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  • Serano, Julia. Whipping girl : a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity

    Seattle, Wash.: Seal, 2007.

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  • Spillers, Hortense J. Mama's baby, Papa's maybe: An American Grammar Book

    Part of:

    Diacritics : a review of contemporary criticism

    Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, Dept. of Romance Studies, 1971-

    vol. 17 (1987) nr. 2 s. 64-81

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  • Stryker, Susan More Words about "My Words to Victor Frankenstein"

    Part of:

    GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studies

    vol. 25 (2019) nr. 1 s. 39-44

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  • Stryker, 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 (1994) nr. 3 s. 237-254

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  • Tate, Shirley-Ann Not all the women want to be white : Decolonizing Beauty Studies

    Part of:

    Decolonizing European Sociology : Transdisciplinary Approaches

    s. 195-210

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  • Ahmed, Sara Introduction: Sexism - a problem with a name

    Part of:

    New formations : a journal of culture, theory, politics

    London: Methuen, 1987-

    vol. 86 (2015) s. 5-13

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  • Ahmed, Sara Orientations : Towards a Queer Phenomenology

    Part of:

    GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studies

    vol. 12 (2007) nr. 4 s. 543-574

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  • Barad, Karen Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter

    Part of:

    Signs : journal of women in culture and society

    vol. 28 (2003) nr. 3 s. 801-831

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  • Beasley, Chris ’Caution! Hazards ahead: Considering the potential gap between feminist thinking and men/masculinities theory and practice’

    Part of:

    Journal of sociology.

    Brisbane: Longman, 1998-

    vol. 51 nr. 3 s. 566-581

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  • Brah, Avtar; Phoenix, Ann Ain't I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality

    Part of:

    Journal of International Women's Studies

    2007-

    vol. 5 (2004) nr. 3 s. 75-86

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  • Budgeon, Shelley Identity as embodied event

    Part of:

    Body & society.

    Sage, 1995-

    vol. 9 (2003) nr. 1 s. 35-55

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  • Butler, Judith Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex"

    New York: Routledge, 1993

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  • Butler, Judith Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity

    New York: Routledge, 2006

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  • Chambers, Samuel A. "Sex" and the problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's theory of sex/gender

    Part of:

    Body & society.

    Sage, 1995-

    vol. 13 (2007) nr. 4 s. 47-75

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  • Crenshaw, Kimberle Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

    Part of:

    Stanford law review.

    [Stanford, Calif.: School of Law, Stanford University,

    vol. 43 (1991) nr. 6 s. 1241-1299

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  • Dahl, Ulrika Femmebodiment: Notes on the queer feminine shapes of vulnerability

    Part of:

    Feminist theory.

    vol. 18 (2017) nr. 1 s. 35-53

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  • Dahl, Ulrika Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marily Frye

    Part of:

    Paragraph : the journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group

    Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983-

    vol. 41 (2018) nr. 3 s. 333-348

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  • Dahl, Ulrika Sexism: A femme-inist perspective

    Part of:

    New formations : a journal of culture, theory, politics

    London: Methuen, 1987-

    vol. 86 (2015) s. 54-73

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  • Dahl, Ulrika Skamgrepp : femme-inistiska essäer

    Stockholm: Leopard, 2014

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  • Livholts, Mona Emergent writing methodologies in feminist studies

    London: Routledge, 2012

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  • Freeman, Elizabeth Queer belongings: Kinship theory and queer theory

    Part of:

    A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies

    Oxford: Blackwell, 2007

    (2007) s. 295-314

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  • Hill Collins, Patricia It's All in the Family : Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation

    Part of:

    Hypatia

    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,

    vol. 13 (1998) nr. 3 s. 68-82

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  • Lewis, Gail unsafe Travel: Experiencing Intersectionality and Feminist Displacements

    Part of:

    Signs : journal of women in culture and society

    Chicago, Ill.: Chicago U. P., 1975-

    vol. 38 (2013) nr. 4 s. 869-892

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  • Lorde, Audre Sexism : An American Disease in Blackface

    Part of:

    Sister outsider : essays and speeches

    Berkeley, Calif.: Crossing Press, c2007.,

    s. 60-65

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  • Lykke, Nina Feminist studies : a guide to intersectional theory, methodology and writing

    New York: Routledge, 2010

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  • McCall, Leslie The complexity of intersectionality

    Part of:

    Signs : journal of women in culture and society

    vol. 30 (2005) nr. 3 s. 1771-1800

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  • McClintock, Anne Family feuds : gender, nationalism and the family

    Part of:

    Feminist review.

    44, 1993, s. 61-80

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  • Lykke, Nina Writing academic texts differently : intersectional feminist methodologies and the playful art of writing

    London: Routledge, 2014

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