Reading list

Critical Studies on Gender Equality Policy and Diversity

Kritisk jämställdhets- och mångfaldsforskning

Course
GS2101
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2026 (2026-01-19)
Decision date
2025-11-25

Bacchi, Carol (2009 or any later edition). What’s the problem represented to be? Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson.

Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Botha M., Hens, K., O’Donoghue, S., Pearson A. & Stenning, A. (2023). “Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research”, Autism, 27 (5), pp. 1235 – 1244. (10 pages) DOI: 10.1177/13623613221132107

Brown, Wendy (2003).”Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy” in Theory and Event, 7 (1), pp1-19. Also in Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics, 2005, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 37 – 59. (23 pages)

Butler, Judith (2004). “Gender Regulations” in Undoing Gender, New York & London: Routledge, pp. 40-56. (17 pages)

Çağatay, Selin (2025). Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history. UCL Press.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089303

Collins, Patricia Hill and Bilge, Sirma (2020). Intersectionality. London: Polity Press

Crenshaw, Kimberlé (2008). "Mapping the Margins (2008): Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color," in The Feminist Philosophy Reader, Alison

Farahani, Fataneh (2018). Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora. London: Routledge.

Farris, S (2017). In the Name of Women’s Rights : The Rise of Femonationalism. Duke University Press. available as e-book via University Library . Read the introduction and an optional chapter.

Foucault, Michel (1998/1976).”Right of Death and Power over Life” in The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge, London: Penguin, pp. 135-159. (25 pages) You can choose to read this chapter in any of the editions of the book.

Kvinder & Kön forskning nr 1 2024 (the introduction and at least one optional article in this issue). https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/issue/view/11383/2480

Mahmood, Saba, 2015, Religious Difference in A Secular Age: A Minority Report. (Only the Introduction part, pages 1-28 (28 pages)

Manga, Edda (2022). “Child Marriage and Sexularism in Sweden: Constructing the Nation Racializing Migrants.” Critical Research on Religion 10 (2): 170–86. [https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075379. (17](https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075379. (17) pages)

Martinsson, Lena, Griffin, G and Girtili Nygren, K. (eds) (2016). Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden, Bristol: Policy Press. Read the introduction and one optional chapter.

Mutluer, Nil. (2019)“The intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and religion: novelties and continuities in Turkey during the AKP era” Vol. 19. No:1, 99-118 SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES

https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2019.1578049

Scott, Joan W. (2013). “Secularism and gender equality.” In Religion, The Secular, and The Politics of Sexual Difference, edited by Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden, 25-45. New York: Columbia University Press. (21 pages)


Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera (2019). Incarcarated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding. Cambridge University Press. pp 1 – 139 (139 pages)

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555470

Singer, Judy (1999). “‘Why can’t you be normal for once in your life?’ From a ‘problem with no name’ to the emergence of a new category of difference”. In M. Corker and S. French (eds) Disability Discourse, Buckingham: Open University Press, pp 59 – 67. (9 pages) Pdf on Canvas.

Spade, D. (2015). Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. Duke University Press.

Stenning A. & Bertilsdotter Rosqvist , H. (2021). “Neorodiversity studies: mapping out possibilities of a new critical paradigm”, Disability & Society, 36 (9), pp: 1532 -1537 (6 pages) DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1919503