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Amanda Lock Swarr

· Chair and Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and faculty in African Studies

University of Washington · Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Active 2004–2025

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Citations875
Papers3311 last 5y
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Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Criminology
  • Geography
  • Computational biology
  • Gender studies
  • Law
  • Biology

Selected publications

  • Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

    State University of New York Press eBooks · 2010-01-01 · 393 citations

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  • Paradoxes of Butchness: Lesbian Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Africa

    Signs · 2012-06-01 · 121 citations

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    In the past decade, violence targeting South African lesbians has increased exponentially. This article explores the multifaceted causes of this violence and its theoretical implications. Unstable parameters of masculinities and men’s exclusive claims to them are revealed in the ways that lesbian butchness threatens what it means to be a man, a question heightened in contemporary South Africa. The paradoxes of butchness and the possibilities offered by South African activists combating correctiv…

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  • Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa

    State University of New York Press eBooks · 2012-01-01 · 88 citations

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  • The Intersex Issue

    TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly · 2022 · 48 citations

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  • Creating Intersex Justice

    TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly · 2022 · 27 citations

    Senior authorCorresponding

    On April 22, 2021, the editors of this special issue interviewed activists Sean Saifa Wall and Pidgeon Pagonis. Sean Saifa Wall is a Black intersex and transgender activist known as the cofounder of Intersex Justice Project. Over the past decade, Pidgeon Pagonis rose to visibility as an activist on behalf of intersex people. They created viral content, two films, cocreated the Intersex Justice Project, and currently are wrapping up a memoir. Today, they're embarking on the journey of a lifetime:…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Richa Nagar

    10 shared

  • Cheryl Cooky

    Purdue University West Lafayette

    3 shared

  • Shari L. Dworkin

    University of Washington Bothell

    3 shared

  • Kay Anderson

    2 shared

  • Kevin R. Cox

    Eindhoven University of Technology

    2 shared

  • Annette Watson

    College of Charleston

    2 shared

  • Michelle Wolff

    2 shared

  • Sam Bullington

    2 shared

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Awards & honors

  • UW Distinguished Teaching Award
  • Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Award
  • Mellon Fellow
  • MacArthur Scholar
  • Sylvia Rivera Prize in Transgender Studies

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