Reading list

Global Gender Studies: Introduction to contemporary gender studies

Globala genusstudier: Introduktion till samtida genusstudier

Course
GS1117
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2025 (2025-09-01)
Decision date
2025-06-16

Böcker

hooks, bell. 2000. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. South End Press.

McCann, Carole R., Kim Seung-kyung & Emek Ergun (red.) (2020). Feminist theory reader: local and global perspectives. (Fifth edition.) New York, NY: Routledge.

Bokkapitel

Archer Mann, Susan & Ashly Suzanne Patterson, 2016, Reading feminist theory: From modernity to postmodernity. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2 Liberal Feminisms, p. 42-87

Borren, Marieke, 2024, Feminism and Gender. In The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology. Pp. 360–371

Goetz, Judith & Stefanie Mayer, 2023, Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism. Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Chapters INTRODUCTION Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism (pp.1-23); and CONCLUDING REMARKS. Global Articulations of Anti-Feminism (pp. 245-260).

Graff, Agnieszka & Elżbieta Korolczuk, 2021, Anti-gender politics in the populist moment. New York: Routledge. INTRODUCTION: the demonization of “gender” and the crisis of democracy (pp. 1-14); CHAPTER 1: Gender, anti- gender and right- wing populism: Recasting the debate (pp. 15-37); and CONCLUSION: Gender in the populist moment (pp. 164-170).

Zeisler, Andi, 2016, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement. New York: PublicAffairs. Chapter 6 “Killer waves” (pp. 141-167), Chapter 7 “Empowering down” (pp. 169-192) and Epilogue “The end of feel-good feminism” (pp. 249-258).

Artiklar

DiMuccio, Sarah H & Eric D Knowles, The political significance of fragile masculinity, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 34, August 2020, Pages 25-28

Gaard, Greta, 2015, From ‘cli-fi’ to critical ecofeminism. Narratives of climate change and climate justice. In Contemporary perspectives on ecofeminism, M. Phillips, M. & N.Rumens (Eds.). London: Routledge. Pp. 169-193.

Gain, Klaire, 2025, Decolonial ecofeminism: a paradigmatic contribution to critical research of gender, ecology and coloniality. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–12. Available: https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1080/09589236.2025.2489582

Gergorić, Maja, Ghosh, Kusumika &Anya Kuteleva, 2025, The Global Rise of Anti-Gender Movements and Feminist Resistance Strategies: A Critical Analysis. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 59 (1:2-9). Available: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.12025.0.

Guillaumin, Colette, 1981a, The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature. Part I The Appropriation of Women. Feminist Issues, vol 1, nr 2: 3-28

Guillaumin, Colette, 1981b, The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature. Part II The Naturalist Discourse. Feminist Issues, vol 1, nr 3: 87-109.

Korolczuk, Elżbieta, Graff, A., & Kantola, J. (2025). Gender danger. Mapping a decade of research on anti-gender politics. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-20

Lugones, Maria. (2010) ‘Toward a Decolonial Feminism’, Hypatia, 25(4), pp. 742–759. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01137.x

McNay, Lois. “Agency and experience: gender as a lived relation”, The Sociological Review, 52: 173-190.

Möser, Cornelia, 2025, Ecofeminism as a Traveling Theory. French and German Perspectives. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Nr.3- jxaf013. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaf013

Paternotte, David, 2023, Anti-gender Movements. In* The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements*, D. A. Snow, D., della Porta, D. McAdam & B. Klandermans (Eds.). Pp. 1-2.

Pinelli, Luca, 2024, The body as a living political archive in Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul B. Preciado. Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue 102, pp. 22-24.

Velez, Emma D. 2019. Decolonial Feminism at the Intersection: A Critical Reflection on the Relationship Between Decolonial Feminism and Intersectionality. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; 33 (3): 390–406. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.33.3.0390

Wiegman, Robyn and Elizabeth A. Wilson. 2015. Introduction: Antinormativity’s Queer Conventions. Differences; 26 (1): 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2880582

Yuval-Davis, Nira. 2006. Intersectionality and feminist politics. European journal of women's studies, 13(3), pp.193-209.