Summer School Reading List May 6, 2018

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 Summer School Reading List May 6, 2018

Suggested readings

Monday, 14 May 2018

Ana Cristina Santos, “Embodied epistemologies and monstrous citizenship”

Ahmed, Sara (2017), Lesbian Feminism. Living a Feminist Life. Duke University Press, pp.
213-234.

Puar, Jaspir (2011) ‘I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess’ Intersectionality, Assemblage,
and Affective Politics. Available at http://eipcp.net/transversal/0811/puar/en (retrieved
02/02/2018).

Shildrick, Margrit (2014), “Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?”: Embodiment, Boundaries,
and Somatechnics. Hypatia vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 13-29.

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 


Bruno Sena Martins, “Disabling matters and the carnality of resistance”

Thomson, Rosemarie (1997), "Politicizing bodily differences,"  Extraordinary Bodies: figuring

physical disability in american culture and literature. Nova Iorque: Columbia University Press.

Hughes, Bill (2009), "Wounded / monstrous / abject: a critique of the disabled body in the
sociological imaginary", Disability & Society, 24(4), 399-410.

Elisa AG Arfini, “D.I.Y. monsters. Autoethnographic reflections on trans, queer, and disability
frame resonances and dissonances”

"Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies", TSQ:

Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Numbers 1–2

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Zowie Davy, “Monstrous archetypes are becoming”

Davy, Zowie (2018 Online first). Genderqueer(ing): ‘On this side of the world against which it
protests’. Sexualities.

Sharpe, A. N. (2007). Structured Like a Monster: Understanding Human Difference through a

Legal Category. Law and Critique, 18(2), 207-228.

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Lucas Platero, “The intersections of queer and crip theories”

Moscoso, Melania, and R. Lucas Platero (2017), "Cripwashing: the abortion debates at the
crossroads of gender and disability in the Spanish media". Continuum. 31 (3): 470-481.

Guzmán, Paco, and R. Lucas Platero (2014), The critical intersections of disability and non-
normative sexualities in Spain. Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 11, 357-388.

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Gaia Giuliani, “Monstrosity and the colonial archive: intersectional perspectives on the
construction of otherness”

Giuliani, Gaia (2016), "Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror", Capitalism
Nature Socialism, 27, 4, 96-114

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "Fears of Disaster and (Post-)Human Raciologies in European Popular
Culture (2001-2013)", Culture Unbound, Volume 7, Theme 3, 363-385

Joacine Katar Moreira, “Black queer bodies and identities in Portugal: intersectional lives
and experiences”

Kilomba, Grada (2010), ”The Mask", in Plantation memories: episodes of everyday

racism, Munster: Unras.

Muholi, Zanele, "Mapping Our Histories: A Visual History of Black Lesbians in Post-Apartheid

South Africa", 2009. Link here.

Friday, 18 May 2018

Ulrika Dahl, “Monstrous kinship? Queer winning practices beyond the laws of reproduction
and recognition”

Haraway, Donna (1992) ”The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d
Others”. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler, eds., Cultural Studies. New York;
Routledge. pp. 295-337.

MacCormack, Patricia (2014), “Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality and Becoming-Monster”,

thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture 3(2).

Stryker, Susan (1994), My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix.
Reading Transgender Rage,  GLQ, 1, pp. 237-254.

Weaver, Harlan (2013), Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage, Somatechnics,  (3)2,
287–306.
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