Reading list

Global Gender Studies: Perspectives on Sex and Gender

Globala genusstudier: perspektiv på kön och genus

Course
GS1115
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2024 (2024-09-02)
Decision date
2024-06-19

Books

Hooks, Bell (2015) Feminist theory: from margin to center. New York: Routledge. (179pages). ISBN: 9781138821651 (hardback) & ISBN: 9781138821668 (pbk.)

Mann, Susan and Patterson, Ashly (eds.) 2016. Reading feminist theory: From modernity to postmodernity. Oxford University Press.

Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann & Lena Gunnarsson (eds.) 2020. Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader. Routledge: London.

Articles and Book Chapters

de Gouge, Olympe (1791), Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Woman-Citizen. (10 pages) https://www.academia.edu/3100911/Olympe_de_Gouges._1791._Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Woman_and_of_the_Woman-Citizen

Dutta, Aniruddha (2013), Legible identities and legitimate citizens, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 15 (4), 494-514. (20 pages)

Fattali, Hoda and Wahlström Smith, Åsa (2023). ’Learning from the outsider-within: wearing the niqab in Swedish teacher profession and training’, Race Ethnicity and Education, pp 1-15.

Foster, Johanna E. (2015), “Women of a certain age: ‘Second wave’ feminists reflect back on 50 years of struggle in the United States”, Women’s Studies International Forum 50:68–79 (11pages). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2015.03.005

Goodman,Truth Robin (2019). ‘Introduction’, In: Goodman, Truth, Robin (ed.) The Bloomsbury handbook of 21st-century feminist theory. London: Bloomsbury.

Gordon, Linda (2016), “‘Intersectionality’, Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by a Second-Wave Socialist Feminist”, Gender & History, 28(2), 340–357.

Hinchy, Jessica (2019). ‘Introduction’ In Hinchy, Jessica (Ed.) Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900. Pp. 1-24. Cambridge University Press.

Haritaworn, Jin (2012), “Women’s rights, gay rights and anti-Muslim racism in Europe”, European journal of women’s studies, 19 (1), 73-78. (5 pages)

Lettow, Susan (2017). ‘Feminism and the Enlightenment’, In: Garry, Ann., Khader, Serene, HJ. and Stone, Alison. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. London & New York: Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group (pp. 94 – 106).

Lewis, Holly (2016), “Rise of Queer Politics” pp.203-212 and “Marxist Critiques of Queer Theory” pp.212-230 in The Politics of everybody Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection. London: Zed Books Ltd. (27 pages). ISBN 978-17860-288-9 hb; ISBN 978-17860-287-2 pb.

Karpur, Ratna. (2006), “Human Rights in the 21st Century: Take a Walk on the Dark Side.” Sydney Law Review 28 (4): 665-687. (23 pages)

Maxwell, Angie and Shields, Todd (2018). “Introduction: Toward a New Understanding of Second-Wave Feminism” in, The Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics. Plamgrave and Macmillan. (18pages) ISBN 978-3-319-62116-6 ISBN 978-3-319-62117-3 (eBook) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-62117-3.pdf

Mohanty, Chandra T. (1984), “Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” in Boundary 2, 12(3) p. 333-358 (25 pages).

Moses, Claire Goldberg (2012). ‘’What’s in Name’ On Writing the History of Feminism’, Feminist Studies; 38(3):757; ProQuest

Purvis, June (2005). “The Suffragette and Women’s History”, Women’s History Review 14:3&4, pp. 357- 364 (17pages)

Roy, Jeff. (2016). ‘Translating Hijra into Transgender,’ Transgender studies quarterly, 3(3-4), pp. 412–432

Truth, Sojourner (28-29 May 1851), “Ain’t I a Woman?” Women’s Convention, Akron, Ohio. (1 page) https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/sojourner-truth.htm

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1792, 2010) Jonathan Bennet (ed.) A Vindication of the Rights of Women with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (105 pages) http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/wollstonecraft1792.pdf

Woodward, Kath and Woodward, Sophie (2015). ‘Gender studies and interdisciplinarity’. Palgrave Commun 1, 15018

Young, R.J.C. (2009) “What is the postcolonial?,” Ariel, 40(1), pp. 13–25. (13 pages).

Other 

The Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution (Cornell Law School: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv ) (1 page)