Literature

The reading list will be updated every year, at the latest 5 weeks before the course starts.

Reading list

• Björklund, Jenny; Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, Now You See It, Now You Don´t: Queer Reading Strategies, Swedish Literature, and Historical (In)visibility, Part of: Scandinavian studies: the journal of the Society for the advancement of Scandinavian studies, vol. 92, no. 2, 2020, p. 196–228Compulsory* (p- 196–228 (32 p.))
• Boswell, Barbara, And wrote my story anyway: black south african women's novels as feminism, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2020Compulsory* (36 p.)
• Chantélle, Sims, From hostility to hope: Beauvoir's joyful turn to Hegel in The Ethics of Ambiguity, Part of: South African journal of philosophy: Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir wysbegeerte., vol. 31, no. 4, 2012Compulsory* (15 p.)
• Connell, Raewyn; Pearse, Rebecca, Gender: in world perspective, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Felski, Rita, Literature after feminism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003Compulsory* (p. 23–56 (33 p.))
• Feminist film theory: a reader, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, cop. 1999Compulsory*
• Hall, Stuart, Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies, Part of: Cultural studies, New York, Routledge, 1992, p. 277–294Compulsory*
• Hall, Stuart, Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices, London, Sage in association with the Open University, 1997Compulsory* (59 p.)
• Halpern Zisman, Laine, On the Edge: Straddling (Anti)normativity in Queer Performance, Part of: Contemporary theatre review., vol. 33, no. 1-2, 2023Compulsory* (p.14–30.)
• Hedenborg White, Manon, The eloquent blood: the goddess Babalon and the construction of femininities in western esotericism, Uppsala, Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, 2017Compulsory* (Chapter IV and IX)
• hooks, bell, "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators", Part of: Feminist film theory: a reader, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, cop. 1999Compulsory* (p. 307–20 (14 p.))
• Johnson, Jessica Marie, Wicked flesh: black women, intimacy, and freedom in the Atlantic world, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]Compulsory* (Introduction and chapter 5.)
• Johnson, Katherine M., "Single, Straight, Want Kids: Media Framing of Single, Heterosexual Fatherhood via Assisted Reproduction", Part of: Journal of gender studies, vol. 26, no. 4, 2017Compulsory* (15 p.)
• King, Samantha, Feminist Cultural Studies, Part of: The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018, p. 371–391Compulsory* (p. 375–391 (16 p.))
• Lee Gerdén, Mara, Journeys into the Night: Othering Figures, Figurations of Otherness, Part of: Lambda Nordica: tidskrift för homosexualitetsforskning, vol. 23, no. 1-2, 2018, p. 167–181Compulsory* (p. 167–181 (14 p.))
• Lykke, Nina, Feminist studies: a guide to intersectional theory, methodology and writing, New York, Routledge, 2010Compulsory*
• Lönn, Maria, Bruten vithet: om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga & temporala villkor, Stockholm, Leopard förlag, 2018Compulsory*
• Matlwa, Kopano, Period pain: a novel, Auckland Park, South Africa, Jacana, 2016 (160 p.)
• Mitchell, Sarah, "Representations of 'Progressive Fatherhood' in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Binaries, Ambivalences and Ambiguities", Part of: "Families, relationships and societies", vol. 10, no. 3, 2021Compulsory* (18 p.)
• Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", Part of: Feminist film theory: a reader, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, cop. 1999Compulsory* (p. 58–69 (11 p.))
• New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion [electronic resource]: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate / edited by Pamela Sue Anderson, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 2, 4, 16, 19)
• Parker, Emily Anne, Singularity in Beauvoir´s The Ethics of Ambiguity, Part of: The Southern journal of philosophy, vol. 53, no. 1, 2015Compulsory* (15 p.)
• Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta, Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing: a 21st-century global context / Dobrota Pucherová, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (80 p.)
• Radway, Janice, Women read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context [1983], Part of: Gender, race, and class in media: a text-reader, 2. ed., Thousand Oaks, Sage, cop. 2003, p. 67–78Compulsory*
• Schmidt, Y, Disability and Postdramatic Theater: Return of Storytelling, Part of: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018Compulsory* (p. 203–219.)
• Stamatiou, Evi, Pierre Bourdieu and Actor Training: Towards Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Pedagogies, Part of: Theatre, dance and performance training, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022Compulsory* (p. 96–114.)
• Thornham, Sue, " 'Unsettled Relations': Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Cultural Studies", Part of: Feminist theory and cultural studies: stories of unsettled relations, London, Arnold, 2000Compulsory* (p. 71–97 (26 p.))
• Thornham, Sue, Feminist theory and cultural studies: stories of unsettled relations, London, Arnold, 2000Compulsory*
• Tlali, Miriam, Footprints in the Quag: stories & dialogues from Soweto, Cape Town, David Philip, 1989Compulsory*
• Williams, Katherine Schaap, Demonstrable Disability, Part of: Early theatre, vol. 22, no. 2, 2019Compulsory* (p. 185–98.)

* Compulsory