Illdisciplined Gender

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Illdisciplined Gender: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters

   • Jacob Bull

   Pages 1-9

3. Interstitial Spaces: A Model for Transgressive Processes

   • Anita Hussénius, Kathryn Scantlebury, Kristina Andersson, Annica Gullberg

   Pages 11-30

4. Failed Encounters or the Challenges of Rendering Gender a Matter of Concern

   • Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer

   Pages 31-43

5. Images of Cows, Stories of Gender

   • Jacob Bull

   Pages 45-61

6. TechnoVisions of a Sámi Cyborg: Reclaiming Sámi Body-, Land-, and Waterscapes After a Century of Colonial Exploitations in Sábme

   • May-Britt Öhman

   Pages 63-98

7. Marking the Unmarked: Theorizing Intersectionality and Lived Embodiment Through Mammoth and Antichrist

   • Jenny Björklund, Ingvil Hellstrand, Lisa Folkmarson Käll

   Pages 99-113

8. When the Plant Kingdom Became Queer: On Hermaphrodites and the Linnaean Language of Nonnormative Sex

   • Maja Bondestam

   Pages 115-135

9. Unyoking Sexual Difference: Law, Universality, and the Excluded Other

   • Fredrik Palm

   Pages 137-156

10. GenNa: Nature/Culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters, Programme of Excellence in Gender Research 2007–2012

    • Margaretha Fahlgren

    Pages 157-159

This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes, discourse analysis or interviews, one rarely has to explain them to colleagues. They are the tools used. But when working in inter- or transdisciplinary settings, such tools require explanations. These conversations make evident that trans and interdisciplinary (gender) research is a not just a novelty requiring an adjectival prefix ‘trans-‘ or ‘inter-’, it is something done, performed, practiced. Moreover it is something done in particular spaces, a consequence of particular meetings – transgressive encounters. This collection is built on work conducted under the GenNa: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters Research Programme, funded by the Swedish research council. It brings together a range of scholars from the humanities, natural, physical, life, and social sciences by so doing it reflects on the challenges, risks and opportunities of doing trans- and interdisciplinary work. The result is a collection that uses a multitude of tools to examine issues such as sexual difference, hydro power exploitation, research seminars, dairy farming, the spaces between molecules, film and identity. They are witness to the diversity created through transgressive encounters and illustrations of doing inter- and transdisciplinary research.

• Disciplinary boundaries
• Embodiment
• Feminist research
• Feminist studies
• GenNa programme
• Gender research
• Gender studies
• Interdisciplinarity
• Interstitial spaces
• Multidisciplinarity
• Queer studies
• Sexual differences
• Transdisciplinarity
• Transgression
• Transgressive identities

• Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  Jacob Bull

• Department for Literature and Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  Margaretha Fahlgren

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