Kathy Davis - Articles - feminist scholarship on women's bodies and health

ARTICLES

2023

Tango Lessons: What Research on Tango Dancing Can Teach Us, In The Cambridge Companion to Tango, edited by Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 189-203.
Intersectionality as Travelling Theory – Possibilities for Dialogues (with Helma Lutz), In The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 3-13
Intersectionality as Critical Method: Asking the Other Question (with Helma Lutz), In The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 222-234.

2022

The Shamefulness of Boredom: Are Good Researchers Allowed to be Bored? In Silences, Neglected Feelings, and Blind-Spots in Research Practice, edited by Kathy Davis and Janice Irvine, London: Routledge, 91-104.
‘Look at me!’ Post-mastectomy transformative politics, European Journal of Women’s Studies 29, 4: 506-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068221100053
Preface to Intersezionalità./come teoria critica della società by Patricia Hill Collins (trans. Pietro Maturi). Milano: UTET, ix-xi.
Review of Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body. The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, European Journal of Women’s Studies 29, 1:190-202.

2021

Interview with Christa Binswanger: Transitioning to Gender Equality with Regard to Sexuality (2021). In: Christa Binswanger and Andrea Zimmermann (eds.) Transitioning to Gender Equality. MDPI Books.
[ https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03897-867-1 ]

Seeking Rights from the Left. Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide

European Journal of Women’s Studies

https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506821990560

Link to PDF

2020

“Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel” European Journal of Women's Studies 27, 2: 113-127
[ https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506819892659 ].

2019

Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive by Clare Hemmings. European Journal of Women’s Studies 26, 1:99-101 (book review).
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal. European Journal of Women’s Studies 26, 4:475-477 (book review).
Feminist Interrogations of women’s head hair: Crown of glory and shame by Sigal Barak-Brandes and Amit Kama (eds.) Feminism & Psychology 29, 4:559-562 (book review).

2018

Sex, class and gender in Victorian Society: the Case of Arthur Munby, In: Gender, Identity and Social Change, Adams Matthew Digital
Online version
Facing uneasiness in Feminist Research: the case of female genital cutting. In: Gabriele Griffin and Malin Jordal (eds.) Body, Migration, Re/Constructive Surgeries. Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 243-255

2017

Auto/Biography – Bringing in the ‘I’, In: Helma Lutz, Martina Schiebel, and Elisabeth Tuider (eds.) Handbuch Biographieforschung. 633-646. Wiesbaden: Springer.
From Transnational Biographies to Transnational Cultural Space,‘ In: Helma Lutz, Martina Schiebel, and Elisabeth Tuider (eds.) Handbuch Biographieforschung. 659-668. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Editorial: Swan Song, European Journal of Women’s Studies 24(2):109-113.
Passion, In Jennifer C. Nash (ed.) Gender: Love. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. 81-91. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.

2016

Writing for undergraduates, European Journal of Women’s Studies 23, 1: 3–5.
Bared breasts and body politics, European Journal of Women’s Studies 23, 3:233-236.

2015

Should a Feminist Dance Tango? The experience and politics of passion, Feminist Theory 16, 1:3-21.
Dying, Self-determination, and the (Im)possibilities of a ‘Good Death’, Feminism & Psychology 25, 1:143-147.
The politics of the ‘turn,’ European Journal of Women’s Studies 22, 2 (2015):125-128.

2014

Intersectionality as Critical Methodology, In Writing Academic Texts Differently:Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, edited by In Nina Lykke. New York: Routledge. Link to Chapter.
Making Theories Work, In Writing Academic Texts Differently:Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, edited by In Nina Lykke. New York: Routledge. Link to Chapter.
Publish or Perish: How to Get Published in an International Journal, In Writing Academic Texts Differently:Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, edited by In Nina Lykke. New York: Routledge.

2013

Giving gender studies its due, European Journal of Women’s Studies 20, 4:331-333. (PDF).
Complicit Sex, or What’s Feminism Got to do with it? European Journal of Women’s Studies 20, 2:119-121. (PDF).

2012

(with Christa Binswanger) Sexy Stories and Postfeminist Empowerment: From Häutungen to Wetlands, Feminist Theory 13, 3:245-263.
Feminist (his)stories, European Journal of Women's Studies 19, 3:279-281. (PDF).

2011

(with Lorraine Nencel) Border Skirmishes and the Question of Belonging: an autoethnographic account of everyday exclusion in multicultural society, Ethnicities 11, 4:467-488.
Accounting for Disappointment: Biographical Choices Re-Visited, In Different Perspectives on Biographies, edited by Tzauko Kobayashi. Tokyo: Hitotsubashi University.
'I'm just a girl who can't say no': Some reflections on responsibility and resistance, European Journal of Women's Studies 18, 2:115-117.
Eine fragwürdige Gleichstellung: Männer, Frauen und Kosmetische Chirurgie, In Körperregime und Geschlecht, edited by Maria Katharina Wiedlack and Katrin Lasthofer. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag.
Intersectionality as Buzzword: A Sociology of Science Perspective on What Makes a Feminist Theory Successful, In Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies, edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, and Linda Supik. Farnham: Ashgate.

2010

On the Shoulders of Giants: Some Reflections on Feminist Historiography, European Journal of Women's Studies, 17, 1: 3-6.
On Generosity and Critique, European Journal of Women's Studies, 17, 3:187-192. (PDF).
Avoiding the 'R-Word': racism in feminist collectives, In Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections, edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood and Rosalind Gill. London: Routledge.
Intersektionalität als "Buzzword": Eine wissenschaftssoziologische Perspektive auf die Frage: "Was macht eine feministische Theorie erfolgreich?" In KonzeptesFokus Intersektionalität: Bewegungen und Verortungen eines vielschichtigen, edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, and Linda Supik. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
(with Willem de Haan) Vechtverhalen. Geweld in de (re)constructie van mannelijkheid, In Zoeklicht op geweld, edited by Martina Althoff and Jan Nijboer. Den Haag: Boom.

2009

Die Rhetorik der Schönheitschirurgie - Luxus oder Grundversorgung? In Enhancement. Die ethische Debatte, edited by Bettina Schöne-Seifert and Dvainia Talbot. Paderborn: Mentis.
Globale Lokalisierung feministischen Wissens: Die Übersetzungen von Our Bodies, Ourselves, In Gender Mobil? Geschlecht und Migration in transnationalen Räumen, edited by Helma Lutz. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
(with Helma Lutz) Biographische Grenzüberschreitungen und feministische Imagination: Avtar Brah, Seyla Benhabib und Rosi Braidotti, In Gender Mobil? Geschlecht und Migration in transnationalen Räumen, edited by Helma Lutz. M&uum;nster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
(with Lorraine Nencel) Border Skirmishes and the Question of Belonging: an autoethnographical account of everyday exclusions in the Netherlands, In Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography. Ethnographical and Biographical Perspectives, edited by Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner. Münster: LIT Verlag.

2008

Intersectionality in Transnational Perspective, In ÜberKreuzungen. Fremdheit, Ungleichheit, Differenzen, edited by Cornelia Klinger and Gudrun-Axeli Knapp. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
Intersectionality as Buzzword. A sociology of science perspective on what makes a feminist theory successful, Feminist Theory 9, 1:67-85. [PDF File]

2007

Reclaiming Women's Bodies: Colonialist Trope or Critical Epistemology? The Sociological Review 55, s1: 50-64.
Rethinking "Normal," Hastings Center Report, May-June: 44-47.

2006

Feminist Politics of Location, In Handbook for Gender and Women's Studies, edited by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans and Judith Lorber. London: Sage.
The Global Localization of Feminist Knowledge: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves, In The Gender Question in Globalization, edited by Tine Davids and Francien Van Driel. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2005

Implicaciones politicas al traducer Our Bodies, Ourselves, Historia Antropología y Fuentes Orales 32, 3: 61-68.
(with Helma Lutz) Geschlechterforschung und Biographieforschung: Intersektionalität als biographische Ressource am Beispiel einer außergewöhnlichen Frau, In Biographieforschung im Diskurs, edited by Bettina Völter, Bettina Dausien, Helma Lutz, and Gabriele Rosenthal. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods: Medical Stories, Masculine Stories, In Gender, Bodies and Work , edited by David Morgan, Berit Brandth, and Elin Kvande. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2004

Between moral outrage and cultural relativism, Feminist Theory 5, 3: 305-311.
The Passions and Perils of Sisterhood, Feminism & Psychology 14, 3: 453-457.
Biografía como metodología crítica, Historia Antropologia y Fuentes Orales 30:153-160.

2003

Surgical Passing: Or why Michael Jackson's nose makes 'us' uneasy, Feminist Theory 4, 1:73-92. [PDF File]
"A Dubious Equality": Men, women, and cosmetic surgery, Body & Society 8, 1: 49-65.
Feminist Body/politics as World Traveller: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves, European Journal of Women's Studies 9, 3: 223-247. [PDF file]

2002

(with Helma Lutz) Traveling theorists. On biographical border crossing and feminist imagination, In Levensverhalen, edited by Kathy Davis, Christien Brinkgreve, Bart van Heerikhuizen, and Bernard Kruithof. Amsterdam Sociologisch Tijdschrift: 38-58.
Embodying Theory: Beyond Modernist and Postmodernist Readings of the Body. In Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, 2nd edition, edited by Judith Lorber. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Critical Sociology and Gender Relations. In Power: A Reader, edited by Mark Haugaard. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2001

Pygmalions in Plastic Surgery: Medical Stories, Masculine Stories. In: Wild Science. Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media, edited by Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk. London: Routledge.
(met Helma Lutz) Life in Theory: Three Feminist Thinkers on Transition(s), European Journal of Women's Studies 7, 3:367-378.

1999

Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice: The Case of Madame Noël, Women's Studies International Forum 22, 5: 473-488.
The Rise of the Surgical Fix, In Health, Illness, and Healing, edited by K. Charmaz and D.A. Paterniti. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.
Bedroom Secrets and Troublesome Politics: The Problem of Integrating Life and Work in the Biographies of Famous Feminists, The European Journal of Women's Studies 6, 3: 373-377.

1998

Pygmalions in Plastic Surgery. Medical Stories, Masculine Stories, Health 2, 1: 23-40.
(with Ine Gremmen) In Search of Heroines. Some Reflections on Normativity in Feminist Research, Feminism & Psychology 8, 2: 133-153.
Luxury or Welfare? The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery, In Enhancing Human Capacities: Conceptual Complexities and Ethical Implications, edited by Erik Parens. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press.
Facing the Dilemma, In Sex/Machine. Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, edited by Patrick D. Hopkins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Founding Mothers and Rebellious Daughters. The Problem of the Generation Gap in Feminist historiography, The European Journal of Women's Studies 5, 2: 74-279.

1997

'My Body is My Art': Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia? The European Journal of Women's Studies 4, 1: 23-38
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? The Ambivalences of Professional Feminism, In Knowing Feminisms. On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes, edited by Liz Stanley. London: Sage.
'Was will der Mann? Some Reflections on Theorizing Masculinity, ' Theory & Psychology 7, 4: 579-588.
'All that glitters is not gold': Cultural studies of the Body, The European Journal of Women's Studies 4, 2: 240-242.

1996

From Objectified Body to Embodied Subject: A Biographical Approach to Cosmetic Surgery, In Feminist Social Psychologies, edited by Sue Wilkinson. Oxford: Open University Press.
Feminist Freudian Tales, The European Journal of Women's Studies 3, 1: 89-90.

1995

Auto/Biography and Feminist Sociology, the European Journal of Women's Studies 2, 1: 131-133.

1994

What's in a Voice? Methods and Metaphors, Feminism & Psychology 4, 3:353-361.

1993

Nice Doctors and Invisible Patients: The Problem of Power in Feminist Common Sense, In The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication, 2nd edition, edited by Sue Fisher and Alexandra Dundas Todd. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

1992

Toward a Feminist Rhetoric: The Gilligan-Debate Revisited, Women's Studies International Forum 15, 2: 219-231.

1991

Re-Making the She-Devil. A Critical Look at Feminist Approaches to Beauty, Hypatia 6, 2: 21-43.

1988

Paternalism under the Microscope, In Gender and Discourse. The Power of Talk, edited by Alexandra Dundas Todd and Sue Fisher. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

1986

The Process of Problem (Re)formulation in Psychotherapy, Sociology of Health & Illness 8, 1: 44-74.

1984

Women as Patients. A Problem for Sex-Differences Research? Women's Studies International Forum 7, 4: 211-217.