Ulrika Dahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 669601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrika Dahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrika |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahl |
| SIGNATURE | DAHL U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8774-0586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
We are exhausted: On burnout, rest, and resistance
Configuring Race, Racialization and Reproduction in the Nordic Context
Matching Colours and “Genetic Countries of Origin”: On Race, Nation and Biopolitics in Scandinavian Queer Donor Conception
This article explores how the practice of “matching” sperm donors and recipients is interpreted and negotiated among fertility clinic staff and queer parents in Scandinavia. Drawing on qualitative research, we frame donor conception in Scandinavia as a technology of race that requires and relies on careful documentation of colours and origin whereby parents and donors are assigned national, racial and familial belonging. Furthermore, we show how …
Sprouting sideways: Queer Temporalities and Kinship in Donor Conception
Temporal constructs are central to reproduction and kinship, as epitomised by the pervasive concept of the biological clock within public imaginaries. While queer scholarship has problematised linear models of kinship and reproductive temporality, the specific temporalities associated with donor-conceived families have received less scholarly attention, despite the increasing prevalence of these family structures. In this article, we explore the …
Egg donation beyond the standard model: Fertility practitioners' clinical reasoning in single, combined and shared treatment options in Sweden
Donors we choose: Race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia
Creative writing as feminist freedom
Where is the T* in European Journal of Women’s Studies
Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable
Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic
Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics
This chapter explores how different forms of reproductive labour create different precarities within LGBTQ parenting and kin-making in contemporary Sweden. It especially considers the precarization ...
(Anti) Gender Studies and Populist movements in Europe
Becoming fertile in the land of organic milk: Lesbian and queer reproductions of femininity and motherhood in Sweden
This article draws on popular culture, ethnographic materials and mainstream commercials to discuss contemporary understandings of the relationship between fertility, pregnancy and parenthood among lesbians and other queer persons with uteruses. It argues that, on the one hand, same-sex lesbian motherhood is increasingly celebrated as evidence of Swedish gender and sexual exceptionalism and, on the other, queers who wish to challenge heteronormat…
(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference
This article considers the figure of the monster and monstrosity as a phenomenon as an entangled effect of kinship and reproduction, and thus as conveying specific understandings of gender, sexuality and race. While non-heterosexual reproduction and family-making has long been viewed as monstrous, increasing LGBTQ rights and recognition has instead insisted on its normality. Engaging with feminist and queer monster theory, and building on ethnogr…
Femininity revisited – A round table
One of our motivations
Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye
This article discusses the importance of geopolitical specificity in discussions about waves in feminism and investigates the (proto-)queer potential of Marilyn Frye's second-wave work on sexism and white supremacy. It argues that Frye's understanding of sexism relies on the figure of the genderqueer individual and that Frye's critique of reproductive heterosexuality has implications for analyses of both sexism and racism. Finally, it asks what w…
Femmebodiment: Notes on queer feminine shapes of vulnerability
In a time when worlds, communities and subjects are increasingly presented as ‘vulnerable’, much remains to be said about the distinctly feminine shapes of ‘vulnerability’; weakness, softness, permeability, a sense of being affected, imprinted upon, or entered and shattered. While this presumed vulnerability of the feminine body has often been the basis of feminist sexual politics, feminist goals of autonomy often presume an internal and external…
Sexism: A Femme-Inist Perspective
This experimental essay offers an auto-ethnography of sexism. Six stories are woven around considering sexism as an ontology, a theory of reality and being for feminists. Based on experiences of feminist training in the US and working in gender studies in Sweden, it discusses how (academic) sexism can become a career, a heritage and an expectation, but also how it gets below the surface and becomes sensational, often through (sexual) shame. Engag…
Skamgrepp: Femme-Inistiska Essäer
White gloves, feminist fists: Race, nation and the feeling of ‘vintage’ in femme movements
This article raises the question of how the cultural politics of race and nation manifest within contemporary queer femme movements, performances and aesthetic practices. Focussing on the feeling of ‘vintage’, I specifically examine symbols, icons and aesthetics used in projects to queer femininity that invoke ‘the 1950s’. Grounded in femme-inist multi-sited ethnographic research in a movement to which I also belong, I draw on interviews and part…
Sårbarhetens politik. Femmefigurativa fragment till en nation av feminister
Jag hade tilldelats ett ärevördigt uppdrag: att tala på den nationella genuskonferensen i Göteborg i november 2012, i den delen av programmet som var öppet för allmänheten. Förberedelserna präglades alls inte av den känsla av stolthet och betydelse som en kanske tänker sig att en sådan inbjudan bör generera. Den växande oron över det omöjliga i uppdraget att tala till ”alla” och kring den gamla knäckfrågan ”aktivism och akademi” innehöll alls ing…
Turning like a Femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies
A deceptively simple question has preoccupied me through my coming of (middle) age years in (Nordic) gender/feminist/women's studies: why, when we embrace (or at least engage with) critical masculi
Ytspänningar - Feminister, feminismer, femmefigurationer
Departing from contemporary femme movements, this essay discusses some ”surface tensions” within feminist and queer theory concerning the subject of femininity and in particular its relationship to superficiality and surfaces. Invoking the term ”surface tension”, drawn from chemistry, it suggests that it is the tension between inside/depth and outside/impression that produces the image of a surface and that this metaphor can be used to understand…
Rapport från vithetshavet
Productivity and Advancement of Women Archeologists
Turning like a Femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies
A deceptively simple question has preoccupied me through my coming of (middle) age years in (Nordic) gender/feminist/women's studies: why, when we embrace (or at least engage with) critical masculi
White gloves, feminist fists: Race, nation and the feeling of ‘vintage’ in femme movements
This article raises the question of how the cultural politics of race and nation manifest within contemporary queer femme movements, performances and aesthetic practices. Focussing on the feeling of ‘vintage’, I specifically examine symbols, icons and aesthetics used in projects to queer femininity that invoke ‘the 1950s’. Grounded in femme-inist multi-sited ethnographic research in a movement to which I also belong, I draw on interviews and part…
Femmebodiment: Notes on queer feminine shapes of vulnerability
In a time when worlds, communities and subjects are increasingly presented as ‘vulnerable’, much remains to be said about the distinctly feminine shapes of ‘vulnerability’; weakness, softness, permeability, a sense of being affected, imprinted upon, or entered and shattered. While this presumed vulnerability of the feminine body has often been the basis of feminist sexual politics, feminist goals of autonomy often presume an internal and external…
(Anti) Gender Studies and Populist movements in Europe
Femininity revisited – A round table
One of our motivations
(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference
This article considers the figure of the monster and monstrosity as a phenomenon as an entangled effect of kinship and reproduction, and thus as conveying specific understandings of gender, sexuality and race. While non-heterosexual reproduction and family-making has long been viewed as monstrous, increasing LGBTQ rights and recognition has instead insisted on its normality. Engaging with feminist and queer monster theory, and building on ethnogr…
Where is the T* in European Journal of Women’s Studies
Gender Differences in Careers
Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic
Ytspänningar - Feminister, feminismer, femmefigurationer
Departing from contemporary femme movements, this essay discusses some ”surface tensions” within feminist and queer theory concerning the subject of femininity and in particular its relationship to superficiality and surfaces. Invoking the term ”surface tension”, drawn from chemistry, it suggests that it is the tension between inside/depth and outside/impression that produces the image of a surface and that this metaphor can be used to understand…
Gender Differences in Careers
Productivity and Advancement of Women Archeologists
Rapport från vithetshavet
Ytspänningar - Feminister, feminismer, femmefigurationer
Departing from contemporary femme movements, this essay discusses some ”surface tensions” within feminist and queer theory concerning the subject of femininity and in particular its relationship to superficiality and surfaces. Invoking the term ”surface tension”, drawn from chemistry, it suggests that it is the tension between inside/depth and outside/impression that produces the image of a surface and that this metaphor can be used to understand…
Turning like a Femme: Figuring Critical Femininity Studies
A deceptively simple question has preoccupied me through my coming of (middle) age years in (Nordic) gender/feminist/women's studies: why, when we embrace (or at least engage with) critical masculi
White gloves, feminist fists: Race, nation and the feeling of ‘vintage’ in femme movements
This article raises the question of how the cultural politics of race and nation manifest within contemporary queer femme movements, performances and aesthetic practices. Focussing on the feeling of ‘vintage’, I specifically examine symbols, icons and aesthetics used in projects to queer femininity that invoke ‘the 1950s’. Grounded in femme-inist multi-sited ethnographic research in a movement to which I also belong, I draw on interviews and part…
Sårbarhetens politik. Femmefigurativa fragment till en nation av feminister
Jag hade tilldelats ett ärevördigt uppdrag: att tala på den nationella genuskonferensen i Göteborg i november 2012, i den delen av programmet som var öppet för allmänheten. Förberedelserna präglades alls inte av den känsla av stolthet och betydelse som en kanske tänker sig att en sådan inbjudan bör generera. Den växande oron över det omöjliga i uppdraget att tala till ”alla” och kring den gamla knäckfrågan ”aktivism och akademi” innehöll alls ing…
Skamgrepp: Femme-Inistiska Essäer
Sexism: A Femme-Inist Perspective
This experimental essay offers an auto-ethnography of sexism. Six stories are woven around considering sexism as an ontology, a theory of reality and being for feminists. Based on experiences of feminist training in the US and working in gender studies in Sweden, it discusses how (academic) sexism can become a career, a heritage and an expectation, but also how it gets below the surface and becomes sensational, often through (sexual) shame. Engag…
Femmebodiment: Notes on queer feminine shapes of vulnerability
In a time when worlds, communities and subjects are increasingly presented as ‘vulnerable’, much remains to be said about the distinctly feminine shapes of ‘vulnerability’; weakness, softness, permeability, a sense of being affected, imprinted upon, or entered and shattered. While this presumed vulnerability of the feminine body has often been the basis of feminist sexual politics, feminist goals of autonomy often presume an internal and external…
Becoming fertile in the land of organic milk: Lesbian and queer reproductions of femininity and motherhood in Sweden
This article draws on popular culture, ethnographic materials and mainstream commercials to discuss contemporary understandings of the relationship between fertility, pregnancy and parenthood among lesbians and other queer persons with uteruses. It argues that, on the one hand, same-sex lesbian motherhood is increasingly celebrated as evidence of Swedish gender and sexual exceptionalism and, on the other, queers who wish to challenge heteronormat…
(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference
This article considers the figure of the monster and monstrosity as a phenomenon as an entangled effect of kinship and reproduction, and thus as conveying specific understandings of gender, sexuality and race. While non-heterosexual reproduction and family-making has long been viewed as monstrous, increasing LGBTQ rights and recognition has instead insisted on its normality. Engaging with feminist and queer monster theory, and building on ethnogr…
Femininity revisited – A round table
One of our motivations
Queering Sexism and Whiteness with Marilyn Frye
This article discusses the importance of geopolitical specificity in discussions about waves in feminism and investigates the (proto-)queer potential of Marilyn Frye's second-wave work on sexism and white supremacy. It argues that Frye's understanding of sexism relies on the figure of the genderqueer individual and that Frye's critique of reproductive heterosexuality has implications for analyses of both sexism and racism. Finally, it asks what w…
Precarious labourers of love: Queer kinship, reproductive labour and biopolitics
This chapter explores how different forms of reproductive labour create different precarities within LGBTQ parenting and kin-making in contemporary Sweden. It especially considers the precarization ...
(Anti) Gender Studies and Populist movements in Europe
Open Forum: Remembering bell hooks – A Roundtable
Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic
Donors we choose: Race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia
Creative writing as feminist freedom
Where is the T* in European Journal of Women’s Studies
Sprouting sideways: Queer Temporalities and Kinship in Donor Conception
Temporal constructs are central to reproduction and kinship, as epitomised by the pervasive concept of the biological clock within public imaginaries. While queer scholarship has problematised linear models of kinship and reproductive temporality, the specific temporalities associated with donor-conceived families have received less scholarly attention, despite the increasing prevalence of these family structures. In this article, we explore the …
Egg donation beyond the standard model: Fertility practitioners' clinical reasoning in single, combined and shared treatment options in Sweden
We are exhausted: On burnout, rest, and resistance
Configuring Race, Racialization and Reproduction in the Nordic Context
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Femininity (8 works) · Queer (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works)