Debates in Nordic Gender Studies

Cecilia Åsberg, is Associate Professor in Gender Studies (Tema Genus) at Linköping 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 widely in the areas of feminist cultural studies, gender and science studies and environmental humanities. During 2010-2012 she was the editor, together with Malin Rönnblom, of the scholarly peer-review forum NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. She is the Founding Director of The Posthumanities Hub at Linköping University, Sweden.Malin Rönnblom is Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Umeå University, Sweden and Karlstads University, Sweden. Her research mainly focuses on critical policy analysis, urban studies and feminist methodologies.

• 1. Introduction Timing Social Constructionism in Gender Studies 2. The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory 3. The Timeliness of Post-Constructionism 4. The Timeliness of a Social Turn in Feminist Studies 5. Bainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology Politics of Representation After the Welfare State 6. ´I only need her uterus ´: Neo-liberal Discourses on Transnational Surrogacy 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" 8. Neo-Liberalism meets the Nordic Wellfare State – Gaps and Silences 9. Grossly Inadequate: Feminist figurations, neo-liberal gouvernmentality, and Comic Culture Debating New Materialisms, Feminist Others and Possible Posthumanities 10. Unnamed Others: How can Thinking about "Animals" Matter to Feminist Theorizing 11. Beyond the Humanist Imagination 12. New Materialisms, Old Humanisms, or, Following the Submersible 13. The New Materialist ‘Always Already’: On an A-Human Humanities Reflecting on the Feminist Scholarship 14. On Collaboration 15. Turning like a femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies 16. Feminist theory and that Critical Egde 17. The Elephant in the Room: Heterosexuality in Critical Gender/Sexuality Studies 8. Criticality, not Paranoia: A Generative register for feminist social research