Gender, Science and Nature

7.5 credits

Reading list, Master's level, 5GN034

Readings

  • Alaimo, Stacy, Exposed: environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times, 2016Compulsory (Chapter 5, 'Climate systems' and 6, 'Oceanic origins' (46 pages))
  • Alaimo, Stacy; Hekman, Susan, "Introduction", Part of: Material feminisms, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, cop. 2008, p. xi, 434 p.Compulsory (p. 1–21 (20 pp))
  • Latour, Bruno et al., Anthropologists are Talking: About Capitalism, Ecology and Apocalypse, Part of: Ethnos, 2018(83):3Compulsory (pp. 587–606 (19 pages))
  • Arendt, H., Ideology and terror: A novel form of government, The Review of Politics, 15(3), 1953Compulsory
  • Bailey, Kier, Interdependent ecological transsex: Notes on re/ production, 'transgender' fish and the management of populations, species, and resources, Part of: Women & performance, 2010(20):3Compulsory (pp. 299–319 (21 pages))
  • Barad, Karen, Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter, Part of: Signs, 2003(28):3, 801-831 (Optional)
  • Bergwik, Staffan, An Assemblage of Science and Home: he Gendered Lifestyle of Svante Arrhenius and Early Twentieth-Century Physical Chemistry, Part of: Isis, 2014(105):2, 265-291Compulsory
  • Bubandt, Nils, Haunted Geologies: spirits, stones and the necropolitics of the Anthropocene, Part of: Arts of living on a damaged planet, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, [2017], p. 375 pagesCompulsory (pp. 121–141 (20 pages))
  • Butler, Judith, Who's afraid of gender?, [London] UK, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024Compulsory
  • Wheaton, B. et al., Caster Semenya: The surveillance of sportswomen´s bodies, feminism and transdisciplinary research, Part of: Transdisciplinary feminist research, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020, p. xviii, 257 pagesCompulsory (pp. 116–123 (7 pages))
  • Clare, Eli, Brilliant imperfection: grappling with cure, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017Compulsory (Chapter 1 and 2, pp. 1–37 (37 pages))
  • Dolphijn, Rick; van der Tuin, Iris, "Sexual Differing", Part of: New materialism, Ann Arbor, Open Humanities Press, 2012, p. 195 s. (p. 137–157 (20 pp))
  • Leslie, S-J. et al., Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, Part of: Science, 2015(347):6219Compulsory (pp. 262–265 (3 pages))
  • Feng, J.; Pratt, J., Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition, Part of: Psychological science, 2007(18):10Compulsory (pp. 850–855 (5 pages))
  • Fine, Cordelia, Testosterone rex: unmaking the myths of our gendered minds / Cordelia Fine, uuuu-uuuu (Read 50 pages from your own choosing. Also available in Swedish.)
  • Franklin, Sarah, Dolly mixtures: the remaking of genealogy, Durham, Duke University Press, 2007Compulsory (Chapter 1. pp. 19–45 (26 pages))
  • Giraud, Eva Haifa, What comes after entanglement?: activism, anthropocentrism, and an ethics of exclusion, Durham, Duke University Press, 2019Compulsory
  • Grosz, Elizabeth, Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a possible Alliance In, Part of: Material feminisms, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, cop. 2008, p. xi, 434 p. (p. 23–50 (58 pp))
  • Haraway, Donna Jeanne; Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols, How like a leaf: an interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, New York, Routledge, 2000Compulsory (Chapter: A gene is not a thing. pp. 89–95 (6 pages))
  • Haraway, Donna Jeanne, Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective, Part of: Feminist studies, 14(1988):3, s. 575-599Compulsory (25 pp.)
  • Haraway, Donna, Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, Journal #75, 2016Compulsory (15 pages)
  • Hornborg, A., Artifacts have consequences, not agency: Toward a critical theory of global environmental history, European Journal of Social Theory 20, 2017Compulsory
  • Hornborg, Alf, Dithering while the planet burns: Antropologists' approaches to the Anthropocene, Part of: Reviews in anthropology, 2017(46):2-3, 61-77Compulsory
  • Hyde, Janet S.; Mertz, Janet E., Gender, culture, and mathematics performance, Part of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009(106):22Compulsory (pp. 8801–8807 (6 pages))
  • Keller, Evelyn Fox, A feeling for the organism: the life and work of Barbara McClintock, New York, Henry Holt and Company, cop. 2003Compulsory (Chapter 1: A historical overview (pp. 1–14) Chapter 9: Transposition (pp. 121–138) Chapter 10: A different laguage (pp. 139–151) Chapter 11: Molecular biology (pp. 153–170) Chapter 12: Transposition rediscovered (pp. 171–195))
  • Langston, Nancy, Toxic bodies: hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011Compulsory (Chapter 2, 3 and 4. (34 pages))
  • Malm, Andreas, Against Hybridism: Why We Need to Distinguish Between Nature and Society, Now More Than Ever, Historical Materialism, 27, 2019, https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/27/2/article-p156_5.xmlCompulsory
  • Eisenegger, C et al., Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour, Part of: Nature, 2010(463)Compulsory (p. 365–359 (+ methods) (6 p))
  • Richardson, Sarah S., Sexing the X: How the X Became the Female Chromosome, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37(4), 2012, doi:10.1086/664477Compulsory
  • Schiebinger, Londa, Why Mammals are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eightteenth Century Natural History, Part of: Feminism and science, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. viii, 289 sidorCompulsory (pp. 137–153 (18 pages))
  • Schuller, Kyla, The biopolitics of feeling: race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century, Durham, Duke University Press, [2018]Compulsory (Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Feeling: Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race Science. (32 pages))
  • Stengers, Isabelle; Muecke, Stephen, Another science is possible: a manifesto for slow science, Cambridge, Polity Press, [2018]Compulsory (Chapter 1–2 (47 pages))
  • TallBear, Kim, Genomic Articulations of Indigeneity, Part of: Social studies of science., 2013(43):4, 509-534Compulsory (25 pages)

* Compulsory