Body politics from feminist perspectives

Introduction

Ahmed, Sara (2016) “An Affinity of Hammers.” TSQ vol. 3, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 22–34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3334151Links to an external site. (12 pages)

Foucault, Michel (2004) “Course Summary” in The Birth of Bio Politics. New York: Picador. Page 317-319. (3 pages)

Part 1: Biopower, medicalization and necropolitics

Clarke, Adele E., et al. (2003) “Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine.” American Sociological Review, vol. 68(2), pp. 161-194. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1519765?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsLinks to an external site. (34 pages)

Foucault, Michel (1982) “The Subject and Power.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 8(4), pp. 777–795. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343197?origin=JSTOR-pdf&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsLinks to an external site.(19 pages)

Mbembe, Achille (2003) “Necropolitics.” Public Culture, vol. 15(1), pp. 11–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-11Links to an external site. (30 pages)

Choose one of the following for the session on Biopower, medicalization and necropolitics: 

Mol, Annemarie, and John Law (2004) “Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: The Example of Hypoglycaemia.” Body & Society, vol. 10(2–3), pp. 43–62, doi:10.1177/1357034X04042932

Snorton, C. Riley, and Haritaworn, Jin (2013) “Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife” in The transgender studies reader 2 by Stryker, S. & Aizura, A.Z. (eds.). London: Routledge, pp. 66-75.

Tudor, Alyosxa (2018) “Cross-fadings of racialisation and migratisation: the postcolonial turn in Western European gender and migration studies.” Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 25(7), pp. 1057-1072, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1441141L

Part 2: Crisis, emergency and affekt

Agamben, Giorgio (1998) Homo Sacer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Page 9-
14, 75-79, 102-105. (15 pages)

Butler, Judith (2004). Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence. London: Verso. Page 141-151. (10 pages)

Butler, Judith (2022). What world is this?: a pandemic phenomenology. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 89-99. (10 pages)

Massumi, Brian (2009) “National enterprise emergency: Steps toward an ecology of powers”. Theory, culture & society, 26(6), 153-185. (32 pages)

Sedgwick, E. K. (2003) ”Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You”. In Touching feeling. Duke University Press: New York. Sida 123-152. (30 sidor)

Part 3: Power relations in the shaping of bodies and knowledge

Ahmed, Sara (2007) “A phenomenology of whiteness”, Feminist Theory, vol. 8, no 2, pp. 149–168. (19 pages)

Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2008) “The bare bones of race”, Social Studies of Science, vol. 38, no.5, pp. 657-694 (38 pages)

Young, Iris Marion (1980) “Throwing like a girl: A phenomenology of feminine body comportment motility and spatiality”, Human Studies, vol.3, no. 1, pp. 137-156. (20 pages)

Part 4: Masculinity, institutions and hegemony

Carrigan, T., Connell, B., & Lee, J. (1985). Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity. Theory and Society, 14(5). I urval, sida 551-554, 585-594. (14 sidor)

Ging, Debbie (2019) “Alphas, betas, and incels: Theorizing the masculinities of the manosphere”. Men and Masculinities, 22(4), 638-657. (19 pages)

Mumby, Dennis K. 1998. “Organizing Men: Power, Discourse, and the Social Construction of Masculinity(s) in the Workplace.” Communication Theory 8 (2): 164–183. (19 pages)

Reeser, T. W., & Gottzén, L. (2018) ”Masculinity and affect: New possibilities, new agendas”. Norma, 13(3-4), 145-157. (12 pages)

Young, Iris Marion (2003) The logic of masculinist protection: Reflections on the current security state. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 29(1), 1–25. (26 pages)

Part 5: Disability and crip theory/politics

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie (2011) “Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept.” Hypatia, vol. 26(3), pp. 591-609. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01206.x (19 pages)

Kafer, Alison (2013) “Introduction: Imagined Futures”, in: Feminist, Queer, Crip, Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 1-24. (24 pages)

Shildrick, Margrit (2005) ‘The Disabled Body, Genealogy, and Undecidability’. Cultural Studies 19 (6): 755–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380500365754

Baril, Alexandre (2015) “Transness as Debility: Rethinking Intersections between Trans and Disabled Embodiments.” Feminist Review, vol. 111(1), pp. 59–74, doi:10.1057/fr.2015.21 (16 pages)

Part 6: Relations in health care

Hamed, S., Thapar-Björkert, S., Bradby H. & Ahlberg, B.M. (2020) “Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond”, Qualitative Health Research, vol. 30, no. 11 pp. 1662–1673. (12 pages)

Linander, I., Alm, E., Goicolea I. & Harryson L. (2019) ‘”It was like I had to fit into a category”: Care-seekers’ experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific health care’, Health, vol 23, no. 1, pp. 21-38. (18 pages)

Malmquist, A., Jonsson L., Wikström, J. and Nieminen, K (2019) “Minority stress adds an additional layer to fear of childbirth in lesbian and bisexual women, and transgender people”, Midwifery, vol. 79, pp. 1-7. (8 pages)

Mulinari, Paula (2018) “To care and protect: Care workers confronting Sweden Democrats in their workplace”, NORA Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 84-98. (15 pages)

Selberg, Rebecca (2013) “Nursing in times of neoliberal change: An ethnografic study of nurses’ experiences of work intensification”, Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 9-35. (27 pages)