Voices from Gender Studies

The book is aimed at providing an assertion of Gender Studies as a vital community in our time, united in a commitment to inquiry bringing forward an interdisciplinary set of early career researchers' accounts of their motives for engaging in Gender Studies.

Edyta Just is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Division of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Her latest publications include: Åkesson, E., Just, E., and Eriksson Barajas, K. (2022). Closer to and further away: emergency-remote teacher education, orientations, and student-bodies. Högre Utbildning, 12(1): 66-78 and Edyta Just (2021). Learning and Students' Experiences with Blended Education. International Journal of Higher Education, 10(6): 213-223. Maria Udén is a Professor in Gender and Technology at the Design research unit, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Since the early 1990s, she has taken interest in the implications of feminist theory of science. Her research revolves around gender equality and feminist concepts of alternative technology paradigms and explores interfaces between technology development and social and organizational movements. A recent publication is "NomaTrack and the LoRa-DTN protocol: DTN in innovation for reindeer husbandry" from 2021 (with Samo Grasic, Kerstin Kemlén, and Annelie Päiviö). Vera Weetzel is a hairdresser, a former PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Linköping University, and an activist. Vera has left the academic path, and is now working as a hairdresser at a salon called Ohyes in Stockholm. They're focusing on creating LGBTQIA+ welcoming spaces while developing the craft of doing hair. Academically, Vera is interested in and has explored a range of topics and areas, including posthumanism, ecofeminism, new materialism, queer, and trans studies. Cecilia Åsberg is Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Linköping University. Åsberg did the first Scandinavian PhD in Gender Studies, but has since been researching and teaching across the arts and sciences, traversing the "two cultures" and built bridge-building feminist communities with grants in Sweden and abroad, also beyond the confines of academia. Recently published works include "More-than-human care in creative AI-interactions" in Nordic HCI; "Science and gender" (KTH, 2022), "Toxic Embodiment" (in More Posthuman Glossary, 2022), and "Afterword" (in Eco Critique, 2023).

Introductory Chapter: Voices, Negotiations, and Continuous Conversations; Part 1: Voices on Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production; 1. Finding a Unicorn in the Woods: The Magic of Collaborative Care and Resistance; 2. Response Paper - An Embodied Reflection of/to/about Slow Scholarship (Or How to Practice Care and Resistance in Neoliberal Academia): Response to Emelie Larsson, Karin Larsson Hult, Lisa Ridzén, and Ida Sjöberg; 3. A Narrative of Writing My Doctoral Dissertation; 4. Response Paper - My Awakenings: Response to Sara Khalifeh Soltani; Part 2: Voices on Negotiating Epistemological Positions; 5. Drawn to the In-Between; 6. Response Paper - A Weave of Care, Railway Engineering, and Physics with Feminist Technoscience as the Weft: Response to Max Metzger; 7. How Does Trans Studies Fit the Knowledge Regime of Mode 2 Type of Research?; 8 Response Paper - Intervention: Response to france rose hartline; 9. Feminist Perspectives on Researching Prisons; 10. Response Paper - Feminist Perspectives on Researching Prisons: Response to Åsa Corneliusson; 11. Diffracting Dementia: Co-Creative Experiments with Agential Realism and Multisensoriality in a Residential Care Home in Northern Norway; Response Paper 12. - "Cultivating 'Knowing in Being'-Feminist 'Thinking-Doings'": Response to Dragana Luki- and Lilli Mittner; Part 3: Voices on Negotiating the Logics and Contents of Identity; 13. Invisible Womanhood: 4500 BC- 2022 AD; 14. Response Paper - Different Time Periods, Different Locations but the Same Problem: Response to Anastasia Kiourtzoglou; 15. (De)constructing Gender Related Stereotypes in Young Generations in Times of Populisms. A Case Study; 16. Response Paper - Travelling Together: Response to Lorenza Perini; 17. "Don't Get All Political on Me": On the Possibilities of Reading Bad Men After the #MeToo Movement and in the Face of Feminist and Queer Theory; 18. Response Paper - Undutiful Queer/Feminist Readings of "Bad Men" Fiction: Response to Nathalia Saliba Dias; 19. Towards a Paradigm for Parity and Socially Sustainable Mining in Ghana; 20. Response Paper - Researching Gender and Mining Operations in the Local Community: Response to Rufai Haruna Kilu