Debates in Nordic Gender Studies
Celebrating more than two decades of feminist theory and gender research, this book provides an essential overview of current theoretical positions, hot topics and state-of-the-art perspectives in the field of Nordic Gender Studies: an area currently facing the challenges of internationalization and destabilized welfare states, intersectionality, materiality, and academic transformation.
Forming an overview, the introductory texts collected here are intended for Nordic and international students and teachers specializing in gender studies or related areas of interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. With vibrant contributions from Nordic and international key scholars, think pieces and position papers culled from NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, are in fact essential reading for anyone in need of accessible yet condensed guidance on key discussion points, such as post- constructionism and new materialism, neo-liberal academia and interdisciplinarity, and the role of critical gender theory and posthumanism. The volume also looks at the differences within Nordic Gender Studies of today.
This book is made up of material that was previously published in various issues of NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Cecilia sberg, is Associate Professor and Head of Gender Studies (Tema Genus) at Linkping University, Sweden. She is one of the Co-Directors of the permanent three-university centre for gender excellence, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. First to defend a dissertation in Gender Studies in Sweden, she has since published in the areas of feminist cultural studies, gender and science studies and environmental humanities. During 20102012 she was the editor, together with Malin Rnnblom, of the scholarly peer-review forum NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. She is the Founding Director of The Posthumanities Hub at Linkping University, Sweden.
Malin Rnnblom is Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Ume University, Sweden and Karlstads University, Sweden. Her research mainly focuses on critical policy analysis, urban studies and feminist methodologies. Her research mainly concerns critical policy analysis, urban studies and feminist methodologies with a special focus on critical studies of gender equality in a Swedish, Nordic and European context. During 20102012 she was the editor, together with Cecilia sberg, of the scholarly peer-review forum NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Debates in Nordic Gender Studies
Differences Within
Edited by
Cecilia sberg and Malin Rnnblom
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Acknowledgements
The editors were blessed with an exceptionally skilled editorial secretary during the three years of editing NORA, and we would like to extend our warmest thanks to Redi Koobak. We are grateful to Victoria Babbitt and Ashlie Jackman at Taylor & Francis for their avid and generous support in the process of bringing this book to fruition. We are indebted to our families for indulging absences and interruptions occasioned by our work for NORA and this volume. Most importantly, we would like to thank our friends, colleagues, and other feminist and gender scholars for producing the work collected between these pages.
Contents
Cecilia sberg & Malin Rnnblom
Timing Social Constructionism in Gender Studies
Elisabeth Grosz
Nina Lykke
Harriet Silius
Merete Lie
Politics of Representation After the Welfare State
Charlotte Halm Krolkke & Saumya Pant
Tobias Hbinette & Catrin Lundstrm
Hanne Marlene Dahl
Anna Lundberg
Debating New Materialisms, Feminist Others and Possible Posthumanities
Lynda Birke
Cecilia sberg, Redi Koobak & Ericka Johnson
Stacy Alaimo
Iris van der Tuin
Reflecting on the Feminist Scholarship
Astrida Neimanis
Ulrika Dahl
Kristn Loftsdttir
Chris Beasley
Sasha Roseneil
The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 2
The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory
Elisabeth Grosz
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 18, issue 1 (March 2010) pp. 4851
Chapter 3
The Timeliness of Post-Constructionism
Nina Lykke
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2010) pp. 131136
Chapter 4
The Timeliness of a Social Turn in Feminist Studies
Harriet Silius
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 18, issue 4 (December 2010) pp. 279283
Chapter 5
Brainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology
Merete Lie
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 19, issue 1 (March 2011) pp. 5358
Chapter 6
I only need her uterus: Neo-liberal Discourses on Transnational Surrogacy
Charlotte Halm Krolkke & Saumya Pant
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 20, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 233248
Chapter 7
Sweden after the Recent Election: The Double-Binding Power of Swedish Whiteness through the Mourning of the Loss of Old Sweden and the Passing of Good Sweden