Literature

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

• Russ, Joanna, Pornography by women for women, with love, Part of: The fan fiction studies reader /Compulsory*

Reading list

• Beauvoir, Simone de; O'Brian, Patrick, The coming of age, New York, Norton, 1996Compulsory*
• Boswell, Barbara, And wrote my story anyway: black south african women's novels as feminism, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2020Compulsory* (36 p.)
• Byrd, Jodi A., Beast of AmericaCompulsory*
• Coleman, James Joshua, Writing with impunity in a space of their own: on cultural appropriation, imaginative play, and a new ethics of slash in Harry Potter fan fiction, Part of: Jeunesse: young people, texts, culturesCompulsory*
• Connell, Raewyn; Pearse, Rebecca, Gender: in world perspective, 3. ed., Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Click, Melissa A.; Scott, Suzanne, The Routledge companion to media fandom, New York, NY, Routledge, 2018Compulsory* (Russo, Julie Levin. 2017. “The Queer Politics of Femslash.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, 155–164. Routledge. (10 pp.))
• Councilor, KC., Drawing the Body In: A Comic Essay on Trans Mobility and MaterialityCompulsory* (pp 441–453. (14 pp.))
• Dalby, Marie Storm et al., Dark Souls  of Desire: Video Games, Queer Theory, and Lacanian Feminism, Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2025Compulsory* (pp 18–30, 32–42, 69–85, 129–159 .)
• Duggan, Jennifer, Transformative readings: Harry Potter fan fiction, trans/queer reader response, and J. K. Rowling, Part of: Children's literature in education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9Compulsory*
• Federici, Silvia, Witches, witch-hunting, and women, Oakland, CA, PM Press, [2018]Compulsory*
• Thornham, Sue, 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. x, 788 s.Compulsory*
• 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., 2023(33):1-2Compulsory* (p.14–30.)
• Harrer, Sabine, Casual Empire: Video Games as Neocolonial PraxisCompulsory*
• hooks, bell, "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators", Part of: Feminist film theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, cop. 1999, p. vi, 361 s.Compulsory* (p. 307–20 (14 p.))
• Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Prlenda, Sandra, Women Narrating Their Lives and ActionsCompulsory* (Watson, Julia, and Sidonie Smith. 2013. “Lives in Outline: Women, Autobiography, and Recent Graphic Memoir.” In Women Narrating Their Lives and Actions, edited by Renata Jambrešić Kirin and Sandra Prlenda, 161–171. Centre for Women’s Studies & Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. (10 pp.).)
• Johnson, Katherine M., "Single, Straight, Want Kids: Media Framing of Single, Heterosexual Fatherhood via Assisted Reproduction", Part of: Journal of gender studies, 2017(26):4Compulsory* (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. XIII, 888 p. 4 illus. in color.Compulsory* (p. 375–391 (16 p.))
• Kobabe, Maia., Gender Queer: A Memoir, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Lykke, Nina, Feminist studies: a guide to intersectional theory, methodology and writing, New York, Routledge, 2010Compulsory*
• 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", 2021(10):3Compulsory* (18 p.)
• Mulvey, Laura, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", Part of: Feminist film theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, cop. 1999, p. vi, 361 s.Compulsory* (p. 58–69 (11 p.))
• Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi, Gender in African women's writing: identity, sexuality, and difference, Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1997Compulsory* (148–152 (Conclusion: African Women’s Writing as a Weapon). Indiana UP. (5 pp.))
• Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta, Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing: a 21st-century global context / Dobrota Pucherová, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (80 p.)
• Putuma, Koleka, Voices from within – poems for her, TEDx Talks, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5LRPY_lmmw Compulsory*
• Reinerth, Maike Sarah; Thon, Jan-Noël, Subjectivity Across Media: Interdisciplinarity and Transmedial PerspectivesCompulsory* (Horstkotte, Silke, and Nancy Pedri. 2017. “The Body at Work: Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir.” In Subjectivity Across Media: Interdisciplinarity and Transmedial Perspectives, edited by Maike Sarah Reinerth and Jan-Noël Thon, 77–91. Routledge. (14 pp.))
• Schmidt, Y, Disability and Postdramatic Theater: Return of Storytelling, Part of: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2018(12):2Compulsory* (p. 203–219.)
• Stamatiou, Evi, Pierre Bourdieu and Actor Training: Towards Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Pedagogies, Part of: Theatre, dance and performance training, 2022(13):1Compulsory* (p. 96–114.)
• Sturken, Marita; Cartwright, Lisa, Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture, 2. ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 2009Compulsory*
• Stoller, Silvia, Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy of age: gender, ethics, and time, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014Compulsory*
• Thornham, Sue, Feminist theory and cultural studies: stories of unsettled relations, London, Arnold, 2000Compulsory*
• Warhol, Robyn R., Narrative theory unbound: queer and feminist interventions, 2015Compulsory* (Chute, Hillary. 2015. “The Space of Graphic Narrative: Mapping Bodies, Feminism, and Form.” In Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser, 194–209. Ohio State University Press. (16 pp.))
• Williams, Katherine Schaap, Demonstrable Disability, Part of: Early theatre, 2019(22):2Compulsory* (p. 185–98.)
• Zwartjes, Arianne, Under the Skin: An Exploration of AutotheoryCompulsory*
• A companion to media fandom and fan studies / edited by Paul Booth, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Stanfill, Mel. 2018. “The Unbearable Whiteness of Fandom and Fan Studies.” In A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth, 305–317. John Wiley & Sons. (13 pp.))
• Surfacing: on being black and feminist in South Africa / edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon, uuuu-uuuu

* Compulsory