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"Performativity, the subject and the political" 

• Butler, Judith (2011/1993). Bodies that Matter. On the Discursive Limits of ”Sex”. New York: Routledge. Read ”Preface” and ”Introduction”, viii - xxx. (23 pages)
• Mouffe, Chantal (2022). Towards a Green Democratic Revolution. Verso. (96 pages)

Postcolonial Feminist Approaches

• McClintocck , Anne (1995). Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising, 207-232. 

• Stoler , Ann L. (2009). “Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th-century Colonial Cultures” American Ethnologist 16(4):634 - 660. 

• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (1988) “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” Feminist Review, 30 (1), 61-88. 

Denaturalizing fixed sex/gender: from lesbian to trans feminisms.

• Wittig, Monique. 1980. ‘One Is Not Born a Woman’. Feminist Issues 1 (1): 447-54. Download from GU library here (Chapter 25): https://research-ebsco-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/c/dsdbhl/search/details/axb535ygd5?db=nlebk&modal=details-ebook-download

• Stone, Sandy. 1991. ‘The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto’. In Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, 280–304. New York: Routledge. https://sandystone.com/empire-strikes-back.pdf Links to an external site.

• Amin, Kadji. 2022. ‘We Are All Nonbinary: A Brief History of Accidents’. Representations 158 (1): 106–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2022.158.11.106 Links to an external site.. 

• Enke, Finn. 2013. ‘The Education of Little Cis: Binary Gender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies’. In The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura, 2: 234–47. New York: Routledge.Available here: Enke_Education of little cis.pdf

The Child Figuration and the Age Order

• Breslow, Jacob (2022) They would have transitioned me: third conditional TERF grammar of trans childhood. Feminist Theory 23 (4), 575-593, DOI: 10.1177/14647001211046442 

• Brock, Maria, Sundhall, Jeanette & Martinsson, Lena (2025) The adult in the room: mobilizing the figure of the child in Sweden and Germany. Frontiers in Political Sciences 7:1623683. Doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1623683 

• Hall, Seventy. F (2021) Panoptical Time, Cissexism, and Heterosexism: How Discourses of Adultism Discipline Queer and Trans Youth. Feminist Formations. 33 (2) pp 283-312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2021.0035

Critical Gaze Theories

• Gill, Rosalind 2007. Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (2), p. 147–166 

• hooks, bell 1992. The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators. Black Looks: Race and Representation, 115- 131: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/femlit/bell_hooks.pdf

• Mulvey, Laura 1975. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen, 16 (3), p. 6–18 

Queer security

• Edenborg, Emil (2021). ”Queer theories of peace and security” in Confortini, C, Feron, E., Parashar, S. & Väyrynen, T. (eds.). The Routledge handbook of Feminist Peace Research. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429024160-6/queer-theories-peace-security-emil-edenborg (6 pages) 

• Wilkinson, Cai (2021). “Queer Our Vision of Security.” In Feminist Solutions for Ending War, 1st ed., edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv23hcfk8.12. (15 pages) 

• Shevtsova, Maryna (2024), Untold Stories: Experiences of Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Refugees in the Context of Russia’s Military Invasion (pp. 155 - 174) in Shevtsova, Maryna (edt.). *Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine*: Hear Our Voices. Lexington Books. 

• Shmatko, Ivan & Rachok, Dafna (2024). Parallel Identities: LGBTQ+ Soldiers and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (pp. 63 - 84), in Shevtsova, Maryna (edt.). *Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine*: Hear Our Voices. Lexington Books.