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

• Author: Alm, Erika.
• TeilnehmendeR: Berg, Linda.; Lundahl Hero, Mikela.; Johansson, Anna.; Laskar, Pia.; Martinsson, Lena.; Mulinari, Diana.; Wasshede, Cathrin.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)

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.