Gender Research B

Readling List Gender Theory

The reading list will be updated every year, at the latest 5 weeks before the course starts. The list for Fall 2021 has been updated on August 9 2021.

Required reading

Additional recommended and background readings are added in the reading list on the course page.

• Ahmed, Sara, "Orientations: Towards a Queer Phenomenology", Part of: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, vol. 12, no. 4, 2007Compulsory* (p. 543–574 (25 pp))
• Ahmed, Sara, A Phenomenology of Whiteness, Part of: Feminist theory., vol. 8, no. 2, 2007, p. 149–168Compulsory* (25 pp)
• Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands: the new mestiza = La frontera, 2. ed., San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books, cop. 1999Compulsory*
• Barad, Karen, Nature´s Queer Performativity, Part of: Kvinder, køn og forskning., vol. 26, no. 1-2, 2012Compulsory* (p. 25–53 (28 pp))
• Beauvoir, Simone de, The second sex, New York, Vintage books, 1989Compulsory* ("introduction", p. ix-xxxvi (27 pp.))
• Braidotti, Rosi., Nomadic subjects: embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory, 2. ed., New York, Columbia University Press, cop. 2011Compulsory* ("Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project" (25 pp.))
• Butler, Judith, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, Part of: Theatre journal, vol. 40, no. 4, 1988Compulsory*
• Butler, Judith, Undoing gender, New York, Routledge, 2004Compulsory* ("The End of Sexual Difference?", p. 174–203 (29 pp))
• Connell, R.W., A Very Straight Gay: Masculinity, Homosexual Experience, and the Dynamics of Gender, Part of: American sociological review, vol. 57, 1992Compulsory* (p. 735 - 751 (16 pp))
• Dahl, Ulrika, Sexism: A femme-inist perspective, Part of: New formations: a journal of culture, theory, politics, vol. 86, 2015, p. 54–73Compulsory* (9 pp)
• Deleuze, Gilles, Lecture Transcripts on Spinoza´s Concept of Affect, EMILIE AND JULIEN DELEUZE, 1978, Lecture Transcript´s on Spinoza´s Concept of AffectCompulsory* (27 pp)
• Duggan, Lisa; McHugh, Kathleen, A fem(me)inist manifesto, Part of: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 8, no. 2, 1996Compulsory* (p. 153–159 (6 pp))
• Frye, Marilyn, The politics of reality: essays in feminist theory, Trumansburg, N.Y., Crossing P., cop 1983Compulsory* ("Oppression" p. 1 - 16 (16 pp))
• Grosz, E. A., Time travels: feminism, nature, power, Durham, Duke University Press, 2005Compulsory* ("The Force of Sexual Difference", p. 171–183 (12 pp))
• Grosz, Elizabeth, Space, time, and perversion: essays on the politics of bodies, New York, Routledge, 1995Compulsory* ("Refiguring Lesbian Desire", p. 173–185 (12 pp))
• Hemmings, Clare, Invoking Affect: Cultural Theory and the Ontological Turn, Part of: Cultural studies., vol. 19, no. 5, 2005Compulsory* (p. 548 - 567 (18 pp))
• Hoodfar, Homa, The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: The Persistence of Colonial Images of Muslim Women, Part of: RFR/DRF: Resources for feminist research: Documentation sur la recherche féministe, vol. 22, no. 3/4, 1993Compulsory* (p. 5–22 (14 pp))
• hooks, bell, Feminist theory: from margin to center, 2. ed., London, Pluto Press, cop. 2000Compulsory* ("Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression", p. 17–31 (14 pp))
• hooks, bell, Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics, Boston, Mass., South End Press, cop. 1990Compulsory* ("Postmodern blackness", p. 23–31 (7 pp))
• Irigaray, Luce, This sex which is not one, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1985Compulsory* (pp. 23–33 and 205–218 (25 pp))
• Lorde, Audre, Sister outsider: essays and speeches, Trumansburg, N.Y., Crossing Press, cop. 1984Compulsory* ("The Master´s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master´s House" (2 pp.) och "Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface" (3 pp.))
• Martin, Biddy, Sexualities Without Genders and Other Utopias, Part of: Diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism, vol. 24, no. 2-3, 1994Compulsory* (p. 104–121 (17 pp))
• Hekman, Susan J.; Alaimo, Stacy, Material feminisms, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008Compulsory* ("Trans-corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature" p. 237–264 (27 pp))
• McRuer, Robert, Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence, Part of: The disability studies reader, 4th ed., New York, NY, Routledge, 2013Compulsory* (p. 88–99 (11 pp))
• Munoz, Jose Esteban, Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho´s 'The Sweetest Hangover (And Other STDs)', Part of: Theatre journal, vol. 52, no. 1, 2000Compulsory* (p. 67–79 (12 pp))
• Muñoz, José Esteban, Cruising utopia: the then and there of queer futurity, New York, New York University Press, cop. 2009Compulsory* ("Queerness as Horizon", p. 19–32 (13 pp))
• Narayan, Uma, Dislocating cultures: identities, traditions, and Third-World feminists, London, Routledge, 1997Compulsory* ("Contesting Cultures", p. 2–39 (37 pp.))
• 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. 1–22Compulsory* (22 pp)
• Weinstein, Jami; Colebrook, Claire, Posthumous life: theorizing beyond the posthuman, New York, Columbia University Press, [2017]Compulsory* ("Preface: Postscript on the Posthuman", ix-xxi (11 pp))
• Preciado, Beatriz, Testo Junkie: sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era, New York, The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2013Compulsory* ("Testogel", p. 55–67 (12 pp))
• Puar, Jasbir K., Bodies with new organs: becoming trans, becoming disabled, Part of: Right to maim: debility, capacity, disability, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017Compulsory* (29 pp)
• Serano, Julia., Whipping girl: a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity, Seattle, Wash., Seal, 2007Compulsory* (Chap. 8 (33 pp))
• Somerville, Siobhan, Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body, Part of: Journal of the history of sexuality, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994Compulsory* (p. 243–266 (23 pp))
• Spade, Dean, Mutilating Gender, Part of: The transgender studies reader, London, Routledge, 2006Compulsory* (p. 315–332 (17 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, 1994Compulsory* (p. 234–254 (14 pp))

* Compulsory