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Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality : Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alm, Erika.
Other Authors: Berg, Linda., Lundahl Hero, Mikela., Johansson, Anna., Laskar, Pia., Martinsson, Lena., Mulinari, Diana., Wasshede, Cathrin.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors
  • About the Editors
  • Editors and Contributors
  • 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 To Follow and to Be Interrupted
  • References
  • 2: Public Intimacy and 'White Feminism': On the Vain Trust in Scandinavian Equality
  • 2.1 What Happened in Sweden?
  • 2.2 Feminist Challenges of the Future
  • 2.3 Delicate Intimacy
  • 2.4 Appropriate and Inappropriate Clothing
  • 2.5 The Dangerous Separation
  • 2.6 Handshake Gate
  • 2.7 Futures of Feminisms
  • 2.8 The White Burden Revisited
  • References
  • Internet and Other Sources
  • Public Swimming Pools
  • 3: We Were Here, and We Still Are: Negotiations of Political Space Through Unsanctioned Art
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Street Art
  • 3.3 A Thousand Times No
  • 3.4 We Are Here, You Are Not
  • 3.5 Space as Objective and Methodology
  • 3.6 Fantasising Revolution Through Iconic Imageries
  • 3.7 Conclusion: Symbolising Protest, Making Space for Mobilisation
  • References
  • 4: 1 May: Muslim Women Talk Back-A Political Transformation of Secular Modernity on International Workers' Day
  • 4.1 Introduction1
  • 4.2 The Verdict
  • 4.3 The Demonstration
  • 4.4 About the Assemblies in the March: Five Pictures
  • 4.5 'Siblings, Friends, Comrades, Allies, Look What Happens when We Come Together'4
  • 4.6 The Last Shall Be First, and the First Last
  • 4.7 'Taking Back One's Dignity'
  • 4.8 The Interpellation to the Steering Party: An Intervention
  • 4.9 Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: Fat, Black and Unapologetic: Body Positive Activism Beyond White, Neoliberal Rights Discourses
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Politics of (in)Visibility
  • 5.3 Body Positivity: Contesting the Ideal of the Perfect Body
  • 5.4 The Privilege of Whiteness.
  • 5.5 Fatshion Blogs as Arenas for Community Building and Performance of Identities
  • 5.6 Making Visible Black and Fat Bodies: Shaming, Disgust and Dehumanisation
  • 5.7 Not the Perfect Hijabi
  • 5.8 From Self-Hatred and Shame to Self-Acceptance and Self-Love
  • 5.9 Doing Beauty and Self-Love Through Exposure
  • 5.10 Refusing 'Sexiness': Claiming Fierceness
  • 5.11 Being Unapologetic
  • 5.12 Concluding Remarks: Body Positivity as a Challenge to White Supremacy?
  • References
  • 6: Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019
  • 6.1 Reclaim Pride
  • 6.2 My Visit to Reclaim Pride 2019
  • 6.3 Öckerö Pride
  • 6.4 My Visit to Öckerö Pride 2019
  • 6.5 Sweden Now: A Kind of Epilogue
  • References
  • Internet and Other References
  • 7: Pink Porn Economy: Genealogies of Transnational LGBTQ Organising
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Risky but Profitable Politics: A Backdrop
  • 7.3 Discretion or Openness, Homophiles or Gay Liberation, Rural or Urban? An Ex-course
  • 7.4 The Machinic Desire of Pink Porn Economy and Politics
  • 7.5 Transnational Political Organising: IHWO and the Pink Porn Economy
  • 7.6 Politics Connected to the Pink Porn Economy
  • 7.7 IHWO Transnational Congresses: Bridging Decades of Politics and Organising
  • 7.8 The Lesbians: A Monkey Wrench in the Machinic Desire's Rhizomatic Processes
  • 7.9 I(L)GA's Credibility and the Troublesome Genealogies of Pink Porn Economy Networks
  • 7.10 Conclusions
  • References
  • Internet and Other Sources
  • Magazines
  • Web Resources
  • 8: A State Affair?: Notions of the State in Discourses on Trans Rights in Sweden
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Interpellating the State: The Dilemma of State Recognition
  • 8.3 The State on Gender Variance: In the Gutters of the Welfare State
  • 8.4 Negligence as State Violence.
  • 8.5 Holding the State Accountable
  • 8.6 Fighting State Repression
  • 8.7 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 9: 'Pain Is Hard to Put on Paper': Exploring the Silences of Migrant Scholars
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Swedish Racial Regime: Migrant Mothers, as Problems, Burden and Threat
  • 9.3 Social Suffering and Racist Practices
  • 9.4 Methodological Reflections
  • 9.5 What (We Think) Hurts the Most: The Political Economy of Social Suffering-Always Wrong, Always Out of Place (Mothers)
  • 9.6 Good Workers: Sacrifices, Bodies and Racism
  • 9.7 Social Suffering and (Racist) Respectability
  • 9.8 Concluding Reflections
  • References
  • 10: Contesting Secularism: Religious and Secular Binary Through Memory Work
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Memory Work: Crafting Methodologies Through Feminists' Dialogues
  • 10.3 A Room of her Own
  • 10.4 Communities of Belonging and Disbelonging
  • 10.5 The Religious Maternal Body
  • 10.6 Nation, Eurocentric Modernity and the Secular (Gendered) Self
  • 10.7 Politics, Religion and Gender Subjectivity
  • 10.8 Concluding Reflections
  • References
  • 11: An Epilogue
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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