Reading list

Methodologies of Gender Studies

Genusvetenskaplig metodologi

Course
GS2401
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2026 (2026-08-31)
Decision date
2026-06-26

ALLEA (2023) The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrityhttps://allea.org/code-of-conduct/

Bacchi, C.G. & Goodwin, S. (2016). Poststructural Policy Analysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. (149 pages)


Back, Les (2015) “Why everyday life matters: Class, community and making life livable”. Sociology 49(5): 820–836. (17 pages)


Butler, Judith (2001) "What is critique? An essay on Foucault’s virtue." Transversal texts. (Digital) (10 pages)


Collins, Patricia Hill (1989) “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought”. Signs, 14(4), pp. 745-773. (29 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174683


Hammersley, M., & Atkinson, P. (2007). Ethnography: principles in practice. Routledge. In selection, read pp 41–62. (22 pages)


Haraway, Donna(1988) “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”. Feminist Studies, 14 (3), s. 575-599. (25 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066?origin=crossref&seq=1


Jackson, Alecia Y. och Mazzei Lisa A. (2012). Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing data across multiple perspectives, Oxon: Routledge.

Read ”Introduction” and ”Chapter 1. (23 pages)

https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.4324/9780203148037


Jørgensen, M. W., & Phillips, L. (2002). Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. SAGE Publications. In selection, page 1–95. (95 pages)

Marks, Laura U. 1998. Video Haptics and Erotics. Screen Vol. 39 (4) Winter, p. 331–348


Muñoz, José Esteban 1999. Introduction: Performing Disdentifications. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics,p. 1–34



Nagar, Richa (2002). ”Footloose Researchers, 'Traveling' Theories, and the Politics of Transnational Feminist Praxis”. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(2): 179–186. (8 pages)

https://doi.org/10.1080/09663960220139699


Pillow, Wanda (2003) ”Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research”. International journal of qualitative studies in education, 16 (2):175–196 (22 pages)

https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1080/0951839032000060635


Pink, Sarah & Morgan, Jennie (2013). "Short‐term ethnography: Intense routes to knowing." Symbolic interaction 36(3): 351–361. (11 pages)

Rose, Gillian 2001. Chapter 4: Semiology – Laying Bare the Prejudices Beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful. Visual Methodologies., p. 69–99




Scott, Joan W. (1991) ”The Evidence of Experience”. Critical Inquiry, 17(4): 773-797. (25 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343743?seq=1&cid=pdfreference#references_tab_contents


Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (2003) “Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You're so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you”.Touching feeling: Affect, pedagogy, performativity. Duham: Duke University Press: 123–151 (29 pages)


Stacey, J. (1988). “Can there be a feminist ethnography?”. Women's studies international forum 11(1):21–27. (7 pages)


Tracy, S. J. (2010). “Qualitative quality: Eight ‘big-tent’ criteria for excellent qualitative research”. Qualitative inquiry, 16(10): 837–851. (15 pages)

Tracy, S.J (2025). Qualitative research methods: collecting evidence, crafting analysis, communicating impact, Wiley - Blackwell




Van Maanen, John (2011) Tales of the field: on writing ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (173 pages)


Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) (2024) Good Research Practice 2024https://www.vr.se/english/analysis/reports/our-reports/2025-07-03-good-research-practice-2024.html


Zavos, A., & Biglia, B. (2009). “Embodying feminist research: Learning from action research, political practices, diffractions, and collective knowledge”. Qualitative research in psychology, 6(1-2): 153–172. (20 pages)