Borderlands in European Gender Studies

Teresa Kulawik is Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University. Her current research examines the intersections between body/bio politics, biomedicine, feminism, citizenship, and public knowledge regimes. Her monograph Bodies, Nations, and Knowledge: Political Epistemologies in Germany, Poland, and Sweden in Historical Perspective is forthcoming. Zhanna Kravchenko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Her research has been focused on welfare policy, specifically, on family policies, housing policies, and urban planning, as well as on transition to adulthood and development of civil society in Russia.

Introduction: European Borderlands and Topographies of Transnational Feminism; Part One. Bringing in the Second Other; 1. Necessary and Impossible: Rethinking Experience and Universalism; 2. Not Just Another Country Case: Engaging with the Semi-peripheral Perspective in the Deconstruction of Serbian Masculinity; 3. Theorizing Frontiers. Postcolonial # European Borderlands; 4. A Decolonial Perspective: Writing the ‘Other’ Women into Soviet History; Part Two. Conceiving Scattered Bodies; 5. Reproductive Technologies, Feminist Internationalism and Social Critique; 6. Making Babies and Citizens: Reproductive Technologies and Citizenship in Poland; 7. Determined Disidentifications: Reframing the Limits of the Field Imaginary of Feminist Studies; Part Three. Citizenship Intersected; 8. Liminal Europeanness: Whiteness, East–West Mobility, and European Citizenship; 9. The Invention of the Ideal Citizen: The Masculinist Security State and Educational Reform in Russia; 10. Gender, Ethnicity and Political Inclusion—Intersectionalising Representation; Epilogue.