UiA's feminist book club
Are you interested in feminist perspectives, social issues and literature that challenges established truths? If so, UiA’s feminist book club is just the thing for you.
Everyone is welcome! The only thing we ask is that everyone treats one another with respect and openness.
- You don’t need to identify as a feminist to take part.
- You don’t need to have read the whole book to take part.
We meet once a month to discuss texts based on a broad and intersectional view of feminism. We often read texts that explore various forms of inequality, discrimination and marginalisation, and how these are interlinked.
To make the reading group as inclusive as possible, we mainly read texts that are available in English. Discussions take place in English, unless all participants are fluent in Norwegian.
The reading group was established in 2024 and is organised by UiA – Centre for Gender and Equality.
Do you have any questions, are you curious about the group, or do you need help getting hold of the books?
Reading list for autumn 2026
‘Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You’ – Sofie Hagen
- Thursday 27 August
- 2.15–3.15 pm
- Venue: Zeta
- This event is part of the programme for Skeive Sørlandsdager
‘Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe’ – Dagmar Herzog
- Wednesday 23 September
- 14.15–15.15
- Venue: Beta
‘The Invention of Women’ – Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
- Thursday 22 October
- 14.15–15.15
- Venue: Beta
‘Pink Pilled: Women and the Far Right’ – Louis Shering
- Wednesday 25 November
- 14.15–15.15
- Venue: Beta
‘The New Age of Sexism’ – Laura Bates
- Friday 11 December
- 14.15–15.15
- Venue: Beta
Previous reading list
Spring 2026:
- “Deficit” – Emma Holten
- “Caliban and the Witch” – Silvia Federici
- “A Feminist Reading of Debt” – Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago
- “The Managed Heart” – Arlie Russell Hochschild
- “Feminist City” – Leslie Kern
Autumn 2025:
- ‘Towards a Decolonial Feminism’ – Maria Lugones
- ‘The Return of the Housewife’ – Emma Casey
- ‘The Culture of Self-Esteem’ – Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill
- ‘Before We Were Trans’ – Kit Heyam
- ‘Bitch: On the Female of the Species’ – Lucy Cooke
Spring 2025:
- “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” – Audre Lorde
- “Women and Power” – Mary Beard
- “Backlash” – Susan Faludi
- “The Norwegian Men’s Movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s: Retrospection from Men Involved” – Jan-Kåre Breivik
- “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” – Judith Butler
Autumn 2024:
- “Night Vision” – Marianna Alessandri
- “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good” – Adrienne Marie Brown
Spring 2024:
• “The Feminist Killjoy Handbook” – Sara Ahmed