Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 233310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Gunnarsson Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny Gunnarsson |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7764-6326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A massive field of action: Feminist anti-essentialism and political discourse theory
Since the publication of Laclau’s and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, issues related to gender and discourse have been a recurring yet not central theme in discourse theory (DT). Not only are the authors’ formulation of an anti-essentialist theory of hegemony explicitly influenced by feminist theoretical debates, but also much subsequent work has engaged with feminist theory. In Mouffe’s more recent work on left populism, however, refer…
Klass och (o)fria val i samtidens globala reproduktionslandskap: Litterära representationer av transnationellt surrogatmoderskap
The number of Swedish children conceived through commercial surrogacy abroad are increasing and the media debate on surrogacy is heated. In the wake of this, the Swedish public sphere is being filled with personal narratives of individuals travelling abroad with the purpose of having a child through surrogacy. This article analyses two books written by parents through surrogacy: Jaga storken (Hunt the stork) and Moscow baby, with a particular int…
The enemy’s enemy: Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberal Co-Optation and Anti-Gender Conservatism
Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal and corporate embracement of gender equality and sexual diversity, and (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization on the other. In anti-gender discourse, feminist and queer politics is commonly seen to be backed up and disseminated by global corporations. Thus, in a time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly…
The surrogacy question, unresolved: Surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights
Sweden is often described as a ‘moderate’ country when it comes to legislation and policy on assisted reproductive technologies, being relatively permissive with regards to their use, but only permitting them within a strictly regulated framework. The ‘surrogacy question’, however, remains a polarized issue in media debates and has become a key topic of public negotiation and contestation around the meaning of a range of rights. This article inve…
Autonomy in altruistic surrogacy, conflicting kinship grammars and intentional multilineal kinship
Conceptions of transgender parenthood in fertility care and family planning in Sweden: From Reproductive Rights to Concrete Practices
It is an oft-repeated trope that the recent medical advances in the field of assisted reproduction have radically transformed the ways in which we can achieve, practice and imagine parenthood. This development has enabled new forms of non-heterosexual family constellations, including same-sex nuclear families and solo-parents by choice, and as a result an increasing number of groups are mobilising politically for access to fertility treatments. S…
Reproducing politics: The politicisation of patients' identities and assisted reproduction in Poland and Sweden
This article examines how discourses on assisted reproductive technologies are locally appropriated, translated or contested in the specific cultural and political contexts of Poland and Sweden. The aim is to investigate how two national patients' organisations, namely the Polish association Nasz Bocian and the Swedish organisation Barnlängtan, articulate rights claims in the context of reproductive technologies. To this end, we investigate how t…
Grammars of Kinship: Biological Motherhood and Assisted Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics
In June 2012, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology issued a press release announcing that over 5 million children worldwide had been born with the help of in vitro fertilization. Although the sheer quantity is impressive in itself, an even more significant consequence of assisted reproductive technologies is that they have transformed a previously indisputable fact concerning biological kinship and motherhood. This fact is ca…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Lilian Munk Rösing og Tania Ørum (red.): Moderne litteraturteori 10: Feminisme. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2012. Inger Glavind Bo: Det sker ikke for mig. Unge kvinders fortællinger om kærestevold. Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 2013. Michal Rachel Nahman: Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism. Palgrave McMillan. A. B. Elsberg, C. Aa. Due, C. L. Dideriksen, C. D. Alexandersen, M. L. Melgaard og S. H. Inanloo (red.): Kvinde kend din krop –…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Marit Melhuus: Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnologies and Kinship. Berghahn Books, 2012. Sara Ahmed: On Being Included – Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2012. Signe Arnfred: Gender Politics in Mozambique: Rethinking Gender in Africa. James Currey, 2011. Hanne Marlene Dahl, Marja Keränen & Anne Kovalainen (red.): Europeanization, Care and Gender: Global Complexities. Palgrave Macm…
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Reproduction in transition: Cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market
Today, there should be little doubt that new reproductive technologies have ‘diversified, globalized, and denaturalized’ human reproduction (Inhorn and Birenbaum-Carmeli 2008). Not only have assisted reproductive technologies developed and spread throughout the world at a rapid pace, but this significant development has also given rise to a global market of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). This article seeks to investigate CBRC between Swed…
Europeanizing Reproduction: Reproductive Technologies in Europe and Scandinavia
It is estimated that today no fewer than 5 million babies have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) (ESRHE 2012). Although the sheer numbers are in themselves quite st
Transgendering Mother's Day: Blogging as Citizens' Media, Reproductive Rights and Intimate Citizenship
Citizenship is fast emerging as a central concern for transgender politics. This article approaches the topic of transgender citizenship by investigating empirically how the practice of blogging has served as a way of claiming, or practicing, intimate citizenship for transgendered people. Theorization of intimate citizenship helps us to further our understanding of the ways in which our most private decisions and practices are inextricably linked…
Blogging the Third Wave?: Citizens' Media, Intimate Citizenship, and Everyday Life
This essay seeks to address whether blogging can serve as a feminist tool, particularly as a form of practicing citizenship. More specifically, it asks whether feminist blogging contributes only to individualized forms of expression (based on the empowerment of single individuals) or whether blogging has a role in both the construction and endurance of collectivist forms of feminist politics. This essay begins by situating feminist blogging in a …
Diskursetnologiska utmaningar: Från politisk teori till empirinära kulturforskning – och vidare
What does discourse theory “do” to ethnology? And complementarily, what does ethnology “do” to discourse theory? In this article, these two questions are approached by investigating how Swedish ethnologists have hitherto described and applied discourse theory. The article identifies a couple of overarching tendencies within Swedish discourse theoretical ethnology, relating these tendencies both to other intra disciplinary trends and to parallel i…
Antecknat: Det mångfacetterade kulturbegreppet
In 1982, ethnologists Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren rhetorically asked whether the concept of culture could mean anything, and whether it would not be wiser to just stick to one definition of it. Some thirty years later, it has become quite clear that the concept of culture is still one of our most multi-faceted concepts. With Johan Fornäs’ recent book Kultur (Culture) as its starting point, this text discusses two different models that have recent…
Diskursetnologi
How have ethnologists applied discourse theory? This text introduces the special issue of Kulturella Perspektiv called “Discourse ethnology”, in which nine Swedish ethnologists present their work with applying discourse theory. The introductory text briefly outlines the ontology of discourse theory and discusses articulatory practice as a way of thinking the move from ontology to application
Moving images, transforming media: The mediating communitas of HallonTV and Dyke Hard
This article investigates the queer feminist Swedish media projects HallonTV and DYKE HARD in order to argue that media production is constitutive of political movements as such. Particular attention is paid to an integral dimension of the constitution of such a political collectivity, namely its affective features. It is concerned with how a sense of ‘community’ comes to be ‘experienced’ by those who are involved, first-hand, in the development …
The logics of Sisterhood: Intra-feminist debates in Swedish feminist zines
This article explores how during the period of 1997 to 2003 the signifier of Sisterhood came to serve as an empty signifier within and among a number of small Swedish feminist grassroots publications (i.e. zines). It begins by positioning the Swedish feminist zine community within the larger context of so-called ‘second and third wave feminisms’ but argues at the same time that it is important to break with traditional feminist chronologies, and …
Commentary and Criticism: Media Artists and Feminist Performance
In a 2007 article in the Washington Post, titled “Feminism and Art,” Blake Gopnik noted that Feminism can be thought of as the crucial movement of the recent past because it could act as an umbrell
Rumours from around the bloc: Gossip, rhizomatic media, and the Plotki Femzine
In the past two decades, an increasing number of young women have taken the tools of media production into their own hands; feminist zines have evolved into a medium for transnational dialogue, community building, and networking. In focusing on the Plotki Femzine (2006, 2007), a Central and Eastern European (CEE) feminist print and online zine project, we use the theoretical framework of “rhizomatic media” to problematize existing scholarship on …
Gendered states and gender nomads: The transgender phenomenon
Gendered states and gender nomads: The transgender phenomenon : [Recension av:] Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon
Reproduction in transition: Cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market
Today, there should be little doubt that new reproductive technologies have ‘diversified, globalized, and denaturalized’ human reproduction (Inhorn and Birenbaum-Carmeli 2008). Not only have assisted reproductive technologies developed and spread throughout the world at a rapid pace, but this significant development has also given rise to a global market of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). This article seeks to investigate CBRC between Swed…
The enemy’s enemy: Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberal Co-Optation and Anti-Gender Conservatism
Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal and corporate embracement of gender equality and sexual diversity, and (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization on the other. In anti-gender discourse, feminist and queer politics is commonly seen to be backed up and disseminated by global corporations. Thus, in a time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly…
Reproducing politics: The politicisation of patients' identities and assisted reproduction in Poland and Sweden
This article examines how discourses on assisted reproductive technologies are locally appropriated, translated or contested in the specific cultural and political contexts of Poland and Sweden. The aim is to investigate how two national patients' organisations, namely the Polish association Nasz Bocian and the Swedish organisation Barnlängtan, articulate rights claims in the context of reproductive technologies. To this end, we investigate how t…
Grammars of Kinship: Biological Motherhood and Assisted Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics
In June 2012, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology issued a press release announcing that over 5 million children worldwide had been born with the help of in vitro fertilization. Although the sheer quantity is impressive in itself, an even more significant consequence of assisted reproductive technologies is that they have transformed a previously indisputable fact concerning biological kinship and motherhood. This fact is ca…
Autonomy in altruistic surrogacy, conflicting kinship grammars and intentional multilineal kinship
The logics of Sisterhood: Intra-feminist debates in Swedish feminist zines
This article explores how during the period of 1997 to 2003 the signifier of Sisterhood came to serve as an empty signifier within and among a number of small Swedish feminist grassroots publications (i.e. zines). It begins by positioning the Swedish feminist zine community within the larger context of so-called ‘second and third wave feminisms’ but argues at the same time that it is important to break with traditional feminist chronologies, and …
Conceptions of transgender parenthood in fertility care and family planning in Sweden: From Reproductive Rights to Concrete Practices
It is an oft-repeated trope that the recent medical advances in the field of assisted reproduction have radically transformed the ways in which we can achieve, practice and imagine parenthood. This development has enabled new forms of non-heterosexual family constellations, including same-sex nuclear families and solo-parents by choice, and as a result an increasing number of groups are mobilising politically for access to fertility treatments. S…
The surrogacy question, unresolved: Surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights
Sweden is often described as a ‘moderate’ country when it comes to legislation and policy on assisted reproductive technologies, being relatively permissive with regards to their use, but only permitting them within a strictly regulated framework. The ‘surrogacy question’, however, remains a polarized issue in media debates and has become a key topic of public negotiation and contestation around the meaning of a range of rights. This article inve…
Transgendering Mother's Day: Blogging as Citizens' Media, Reproductive Rights and Intimate Citizenship
Citizenship is fast emerging as a central concern for transgender politics. This article approaches the topic of transgender citizenship by investigating empirically how the practice of blogging has served as a way of claiming, or practicing, intimate citizenship for transgendered people. Theorization of intimate citizenship helps us to further our understanding of the ways in which our most private decisions and practices are inextricably linked…
A massive field of action: Feminist anti-essentialism and political discourse theory
Since the publication of Laclau’s and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, issues related to gender and discourse have been a recurring yet not central theme in discourse theory (DT). Not only are the authors’ formulation of an anti-essentialist theory of hegemony explicitly influenced by feminist theoretical debates, but also much subsequent work has engaged with feminist theory. In Mouffe’s more recent work on left populism, however, refer…
Europeanizing Reproduction: Reproductive Technologies in Europe and Scandinavia
It is estimated that today no fewer than 5 million babies have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) (ESRHE 2012). Although the sheer numbers are in themselves quite st
Gendered states and gender nomads: The transgender phenomenon
Gendered states and gender nomads: The transgender phenomenon : [Recension av:] Richard Ekins, Dave King, The transgender phenomenon
Rumours from around the bloc: Gossip, rhizomatic media, and the Plotki Femzine
In the past two decades, an increasing number of young women have taken the tools of media production into their own hands; feminist zines have evolved into a medium for transnational dialogue, community building, and networking. In focusing on the Plotki Femzine (2006, 2007), a Central and Eastern European (CEE) feminist print and online zine project, we use the theoretical framework of “rhizomatic media” to problematize existing scholarship on …
Commentary and Criticism: Media Artists and Feminist Performance
In a 2007 article in the Washington Post, titled “Feminism and Art,” Blake Gopnik noted that Feminism can be thought of as the crucial movement of the recent past because it could act as an umbrell
Blogging the Third Wave?: Citizens' Media, Intimate Citizenship, and Everyday Life
This essay seeks to address whether blogging can serve as a feminist tool, particularly as a form of practicing citizenship. More specifically, it asks whether feminist blogging contributes only to individualized forms of expression (based on the empowerment of single individuals) or whether blogging has a role in both the construction and endurance of collectivist forms of feminist politics. This essay begins by situating feminist blogging in a …
Diskursetnologiska utmaningar: Från politisk teori till empirinära kulturforskning – och vidare
What does discourse theory “do” to ethnology? And complementarily, what does ethnology “do” to discourse theory? In this article, these two questions are approached by investigating how Swedish ethnologists have hitherto described and applied discourse theory. The article identifies a couple of overarching tendencies within Swedish discourse theoretical ethnology, relating these tendencies both to other intra disciplinary trends and to parallel i…
Antecknat: Det mångfacetterade kulturbegreppet
In 1982, ethnologists Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren rhetorically asked whether the concept of culture could mean anything, and whether it would not be wiser to just stick to one definition of it. Some thirty years later, it has become quite clear that the concept of culture is still one of our most multi-faceted concepts. With Johan Fornäs’ recent book Kultur (Culture) as its starting point, this text discusses two different models that have recent…
Diskursetnologi
How have ethnologists applied discourse theory? This text introduces the special issue of Kulturella Perspektiv called “Discourse ethnology”, in which nine Swedish ethnologists present their work with applying discourse theory. The introductory text briefly outlines the ontology of discourse theory and discusses articulatory practice as a way of thinking the move from ontology to application
Moving images, transforming media: The mediating communitas of HallonTV and Dyke Hard
This article investigates the queer feminist Swedish media projects HallonTV and DYKE HARD in order to argue that media production is constitutive of political movements as such. Particular attention is paid to an integral dimension of the constitution of such a political collectivity, namely its affective features. It is concerned with how a sense of ‘community’ comes to be ‘experienced’ by those who are involved, first-hand, in the development …
The logics of Sisterhood: Intra-feminist debates in Swedish feminist zines
This article explores how during the period of 1997 to 2003 the signifier of Sisterhood came to serve as an empty signifier within and among a number of small Swedish feminist grassroots publications (i.e. zines). It begins by positioning the Swedish feminist zine community within the larger context of so-called ‘second and third wave feminisms’ but argues at the same time that it is important to break with traditional feminist chronologies, and …
Anmälningar och notiser
Reproduction in transition: Cross-border egg donation, biodesirability and new reproductive subjectivities on the European fertility market
Today, there should be little doubt that new reproductive technologies have ‘diversified, globalized, and denaturalized’ human reproduction (Inhorn and Birenbaum-Carmeli 2008). Not only have assisted reproductive technologies developed and spread throughout the world at a rapid pace, but this significant development has also given rise to a global market of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). This article seeks to investigate CBRC between Swed…
Europeanizing Reproduction: Reproductive Technologies in Europe and Scandinavia
It is estimated that today no fewer than 5 million babies have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) (ESRHE 2012). Although the sheer numbers are in themselves quite st
Transgendering Mother's Day: Blogging as Citizens' Media, Reproductive Rights and Intimate Citizenship
Citizenship is fast emerging as a central concern for transgender politics. This article approaches the topic of transgender citizenship by investigating empirically how the practice of blogging has served as a way of claiming, or practicing, intimate citizenship for transgendered people. Theorization of intimate citizenship helps us to further our understanding of the ways in which our most private decisions and practices are inextricably linked…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Lilian Munk Rösing og Tania Ørum (red.): Moderne litteraturteori 10: Feminisme. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2012. Inger Glavind Bo: Det sker ikke for mig. Unge kvinders fortællinger om kærestevold. Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 2013. Michal Rachel Nahman: Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism. Palgrave McMillan. A. B. Elsberg, C. Aa. Due, C. L. Dideriksen, C. D. Alexandersen, M. L. Melgaard og S. H. Inanloo (red.): Kvinde kend din krop –…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Marit Melhuus: Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnologies and Kinship. Berghahn Books, 2012. Sara Ahmed: On Being Included – Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2012. Signe Arnfred: Gender Politics in Mozambique: Rethinking Gender in Africa. James Currey, 2011. Hanne Marlene Dahl, Marja Keränen & Anne Kovalainen (red.): Europeanization, Care and Gender: Global Complexities. Palgrave Macm…
Reproducing politics: The politicisation of patients' identities and assisted reproduction in Poland and Sweden
This article examines how discourses on assisted reproductive technologies are locally appropriated, translated or contested in the specific cultural and political contexts of Poland and Sweden. The aim is to investigate how two national patients' organisations, namely the Polish association Nasz Bocian and the Swedish organisation Barnlängtan, articulate rights claims in the context of reproductive technologies. To this end, we investigate how t…
Grammars of Kinship: Biological Motherhood and Assisted Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics
In June 2012, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology issued a press release announcing that over 5 million children worldwide had been born with the help of in vitro fertilization. Although the sheer quantity is impressive in itself, an even more significant consequence of assisted reproductive technologies is that they have transformed a previously indisputable fact concerning biological kinship and motherhood. This fact is ca…
Autonomy in altruistic surrogacy, conflicting kinship grammars and intentional multilineal kinship
Conceptions of transgender parenthood in fertility care and family planning in Sweden: From Reproductive Rights to Concrete Practices
It is an oft-repeated trope that the recent medical advances in the field of assisted reproduction have radically transformed the ways in which we can achieve, practice and imagine parenthood. This development has enabled new forms of non-heterosexual family constellations, including same-sex nuclear families and solo-parents by choice, and as a result an increasing number of groups are mobilising politically for access to fertility treatments. S…
The surrogacy question, unresolved: Surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights
Sweden is often described as a ‘moderate’ country when it comes to legislation and policy on assisted reproductive technologies, being relatively permissive with regards to their use, but only permitting them within a strictly regulated framework. The ‘surrogacy question’, however, remains a polarized issue in media debates and has become a key topic of public negotiation and contestation around the meaning of a range of rights. This article inve…
Klass och (o)fria val i samtidens globala reproduktionslandskap: Litterära representationer av transnationellt surrogatmoderskap
The number of Swedish children conceived through commercial surrogacy abroad are increasing and the media debate on surrogacy is heated. In the wake of this, the Swedish public sphere is being filled with personal narratives of individuals travelling abroad with the purpose of having a child through surrogacy. This article analyses two books written by parents through surrogacy: Jaga storken (Hunt the stork) and Moscow baby, with a particular int…
The enemy’s enemy: Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberal Co-Optation and Anti-Gender Conservatism
Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal and corporate embracement of gender equality and sexual diversity, and (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization on the other. In anti-gender discourse, feminist and queer politics is commonly seen to be backed up and disseminated by global corporations. Thus, in a time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly…
A massive field of action: Feminist anti-essentialism and political discourse theory
Since the publication of Laclau’s and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, issues related to gender and discourse have been a recurring yet not central theme in discourse theory (DT). Not only are the authors’ formulation of an anti-essentialist theory of hegemony explicitly influenced by feminist theoretical debates, but also much subsequent work has engaged with feminist theory. In Mouffe’s more recent work on left populism, however, refer…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works)