Debates in Nordic Gender Studies: Differences Within

ISBN-13: 9780367738969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Cecilia ?sberg; Malin R?nnblom

Opis

Celebrating more than two decades of feminist theory and gender research, this book provides an essential overview of current theoretical positions, hot topics and state-of-the-art perspectives in the field of Nordic Gender Studies. This book is made up of material that was previously published in various issues of NORA: Nordic Journal of Femini

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Timing Social Constructionism in Gender Studies  2. The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory  3. The Timeliness of Post-Constructionism  4. The Timeliness of a Social Turn in Feminist Studies  5. Bainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology  Politics of Representation After the Welfare State  6. ´I only need her uterus ´: Neo-liberal Discourses on Transnational Surrogacy  7. Sweden after the Recent Election: The Double-Binding Power of Swedish Whiteness through the Mourning of the Loss of "Old Sweden" and the Passing of "Good Sweden"  8. Neo-Liberalism meets the Nordic Wellfare State – Gaps and Silences  9. Grossly Inadequate: Feminist figurations, neo-liberal gouvernmentality, and Comic Culture  Debating New Materialisms, Feminist Others and Possible Posthumanities  10. Unnamed Others: How can Thinking about "Animals" Matter to Feminist Theorizing  11. Beyond the Humanist Imagination 12. New Materialisms, Old Humanisms, or, Following the Submersible  13. The New Materialist ‘Always Already’: On an A-Human Humanities  Reflecting on the Feminist Scholarship 14. On Collaboration 15. Turning like a femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies  16. Feminist theory and that Critical Egde  17. The Elephant in the Room: Heterosexuality in Critical Gender/Sexuality Studies  8. Criticality, not Paranoia: A Generative register for feminist social research

O autorze

Cecilia Åsberg, is Associate Professor in Gender Studies (Tema Genus) at Linköping University, Sweden. She is one of the Co-Directors of the permanent three-university centre for gender excellence, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. First to defend a dissertation in Gender Studies in Sweden, she has since published widely in the areas of feminist cultural studies, gender and science studies and environmental humanities. During 2010-2012 she was the editor, together with Malin Rönnblom, of the scholarly peer-review forum NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. She is the Founding Director of The Posthumanities Hub at Linköping University, Sweden.

Malin Rönnblom is Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Umeå University, Sweden and Karlstads University, Sweden. Her research mainly focuses on critical policy analysis, urban studies and feminist methodologies.