Gendered Bodies: Theories and Challenges
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5GN022
Literature
The reading list will be updated every year, at the latest 5 weeks before the course starts.
Reading list
- Adeyemi, Kemi, The Practice of Slowness:: Black Queer Women and the Right to the City, Part of: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, vol. 25, no. 4, 2019, p. p. 545–567 (22 pp) (p. 545–567 (22 pp))
- Ahmed, Sara, Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the "New Materialism", Part of: The European journal of women's studies., vol. 15, no. 1, 2008, p. 23–39 (16 p.)
- Ahmed, Sara, Strange encounters: embodied others in post-coloniality, London, Routledge, 2000 (Chapter 1. pp 21–37 (16 p.))
- 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, no. 3, 2003, p. 801–831 (30 p.)
- Berthold, Dana, Tidy Whiteness:: A Genealogy of Race, Purity, and Hygiene, Part of: Ethics & the environment, vol. 15, no. 1, 2010, p. 1–26 (25 pp) (p. 1–26 (25 pp))
- Bond, Emma, Writing Migration through the Body, 1st ed. 2018., Cham, Springer International Publishing AG, 2018 (Chapter 1–4, pp 1–148 (148 p.))
- Brah, Avtar, Cartographies of diaspora: contesting identities, London, Routledge, 1996
- Butler, Judith, Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of "sex", New York, Routledge, 1993 (pp. 1–16 (16 p.))
- Classen, Constance, Foundations for an Anthropology of the Senses, Part of: International social science journal., no. 153, 1997 (p. 401–412 (11 pp))
- Dame, Joke, Sexual difference and the castrato, Part of: Queering the pitch: the new gay and lesbian musicology, 2., [rev. and expanded] ed., New York, Routledge, 2006 (p. 139–153 (15 pp))
- Dolezal, Luna, The body and shame: phenomenology, feminism, and the socially shaped body, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, [2015]
- Folkmarson Käll, Lisa, A being of two leaves: on the founding significance of the lived body, Part of: Body claims, Uppsala, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, 2009
- Grosz, Elizabeth, Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, cop. 1994 (Chapter 1, pp. 3–26 (23 p.))
- hooks, bell, Eating the Other, Part of: Feminist approaches to theory and methodology: an interdisciplinary reader, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999, p. 179–194 (15 p.)
- Kier, Bailey, Interdependent ecological transsex: Notes on re/production, "transgender" fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources, Part of: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, p. 299–319 (21 p.)
- King, Jason, Which way is down? Improvisations on black mobility, Part of: Women & performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 14, no. 1, 2004 (p. 25–45 (20 pp))
- Kunst, Bojana, Subversion and the Dancing Body Autonomy on Display, Part of: Performance research, vol. 8, no. 2, 2003 (p. 61–68 (7 pp))
- Langston, Nancy, Toxic bodies: hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011 (Chapters 1,3,4,6,8 (totally 87 p.))
- Lorde, Audre, Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference, Part of: Sister outsider: essays and speeches, Berkeley, Calif., Crossing Press, c2007., p. 114–124 (10 p.)
- Lönn, Maria, Fractured whiteness:: On the sensory and temporal conditions of Russian femininity, Part of: Bruten vithet: om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga & temporala villkor, Stockholm, Leopard förlag, 2018 (handout) (10 pages)
- Marks, Laura, Thinking Multisensory Culture, Part of: Paragraph: the journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group, vol. 31, no. 2, 2008 (p. 123–137 (14 pp))
- Murray, Samantha, Normative imperatives vs pathological bodies: constructing the "fat" woman, Part of: Australian feminist studies, 2008(23), 56, s. 213-224 (p. 213–224 (23 pp))
- Phelan, Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, London, Routledge, 1993 (pp. 1–110 and 146–166 (129 p.) NB: is also available 2003 ed.)
- Robertson, Jennifer, Gendering Humanoid Robots:: Robo-Sexism in Japan, Part of: Body & society., vol. 25, no. 4, 2010, p. p. 545–567 (22 pages)
- Smith, Mark M., How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, University of North Carolina Press, 2006 (p. 1–47 (46 pp))
- Sobchack, Vivian, Choreography for One, Two, and Three Legs (A phenomenological meditation in movements), Part of: International journal of performance arts and digital media, vol. 13, no. 2, 2017 (p. 183–198 (15 pp))
- Sundén, Jenny, Steampunk Practices:: Time, Tactility, and a Racial Politics of Touch, Part of: Ada: a journal of gender, new media, and technology, no. 5, 2014, p. ca 15 (Approx. 15 pages)
- Thomson, Rosemarie Garland, Staring: how we look, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009 (p. 3–32 (29 pp))
- Tuana, Nancy, Viscous porosity: witnessing Katrina, Part of: Material feminisms, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008, p. 85–120 (26 p.)
- Weiss, G., The natural, the normal, and the normative:: A Merleau-Pontian legacy to feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability studies, Part of: Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 48, no. 1, 2015, p. 77–93 (16 pp)
- Wilson, Elizabeth, Gut Feminism, Part of: Differences b a journal of feminist cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2004, p. 66–94
- Young, Iris Marion, Throwing like a girl: a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility and spatiality, Part of: Human studies: a journal for philosophy and the social sciences, 3(1980):2, s. 137-156 (20 p.)