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Evelina Johansson Wilén

Position: Associate Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Social Sciences and Media Studies

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Room: F3235

Research subject

Gender Studies

Research environments

Centre for Feminist Social Studies (CFS)

About Evelina Johansson Wilén

I've been an associate professor of Gender studies since 2025 and an assistant professor of Gender studies since 2023.

I have a particular interest in feminist and anti-feminist movements, as well as feminist theory of science, feminist Marxism, and political theory. I have published my research in journals such as Acta Sociologica, Contemporary Sociology, Feminist Theory, Journal of Gender Studies, Labor History, NORA, Sociological Inquiry, Tidskrift för genusvetenskap & YOUNG.

I defended my dissertation titled "Mellan jaget och världen: Feminism och etik under nyliberala villkor" (Tankekraft förlag, 2019). The dissertation examines how the feminist slogan "the personal is political" is actualized in a neoliberal context and how this can be understood from theoretical perspectives on the relationship between politics and ethics.

I have extensive teaching experience at all levels, primarily in Gender Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.

Other assignments:

I'm on the editorial board of the Journal of Political Power, and have peer-reviewed articles for several journals and publishing houses, and am one of the editors for the anthology Samtids marxistisk teori (Daidalos 2025), Vad är en kvinna? Språk, materialitet, situation (Daidalos 2021) and Ideologikritik (Studentlitteratur 2021, in English at Brill in 2026). I'm writing a book on family abolition to be published by La Fabrique in 2026, and have published on the issue in both Swedish and English (in Röda rummet and Jacobin), with translations into Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, French, and Portuguese.

Active projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals

Johansson Wilén, E. (2026). Att föda eller inte föda: Reproduktion som politiskt och etiskt projekt. Fronesis (90-91), 42-60. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Jansson, M. (2026). Mothers Are on the Front Lines of the Nordic Care Crisis. Jacobin (15 february). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2026). To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth. Jacobin (18 January). [BibTeX]
Gunnarsson, L. , Johansson Wilén, E. & Wemrell, M. (2026). Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating. Sociological inquiry, 96 (3). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Wemrell, M. & Gunnarsson, L. (2025). Dating in the Age of the Algorithm. Jacobin. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Families Aren’t the Problem — Insecurity Is. Jacobin (27 September). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Incel Epistemology: On Marginality, Experience and Legitimization of Knowledge. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 33 (5), 459-475. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Wemrell, M. (2025). Love Can Still Liberate. Jacobin. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). The “Anti-Gender Movement,” Capitalism, and the Left. Contemporary Sociology, 54 (3), 200-203. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). The Limits of Family Abolition. Jacobin. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). What Incels Learned From Feminism. Jacobin (December 12). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate. Acta Sociologica, 67 (3), 317-329. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Maria, W. & Gunnarsson, L. (2024). Gender knowledge production and epistemology in the incelosphere. Journal of Gender Studies. [BibTeX]
Carlsson, V. & Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). “It is controlling, but you don’t really care.”: Researchers’ perceptions of legitimation of research policy. Science and Public Policy, 51 (4), 609-617. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Sex and Gender Perspectives as Quality? On the Controversy About Gender and Science in the Swedish Research Debate. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 32 (4), 334-347. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Gunnarsson, L. (2024). Who knows? On the epistemic status of experience in sugar-dating research. Feminist Theory, 25 (3), 359-375. [BibTeX]
Pálmadóttir, V. , Johansson Wilén, E. & Schmitz, E. (2023). Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women's strike and the Women's day off in Iceland. Labor history, 1-18. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2021). Ethics and political imagination in feminist theory. Feminist Theory, 22 (2), 268-283. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Carlsson, V. & Söderberg, J. (2021). Jämställdhetspolitik som ideologi eller vetenskap? En analys av debatten om jämställdhetsintegrering i akademin. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 42 (1), 13-34. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Palmqvist, L. & Sundhall, J. (2019). Snåriga sårbarheter i nyliberala tider: Om relationen mellan sårbarhet, agens och nyliberalism. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 40 (1), 49-69. [BibTeX]
Lilja, M. & Johansson Wilén, E. (2018). Feminism as Power and Resistance: An Inquiry into Different Forms of Swedish Feminist Resistance and Anti-Genderist Reactions. Social Inclusion, 6 (4), 82-94. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2018). Kritik under den nyliberala ordningen: politisk paralys eller potential? Kritiska subjekt och kritikens (a)politiska karaktär. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 39 (2-3), 69-89. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Wilén, C. (2018). Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism: A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New Materialism. Journal of Resistance studies, 4 (2), 54-83. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Lilja, M. (2013). Understanding Power and Performing Resistance: Swedish Feminists, Civil Society Voices, Biopolitics and “Angry” Men. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 21 (4), 264-279. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2009). Hélène Cixous och havet. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap (4), 72-76. [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Barnets och förälderns födelse. Röda rummet (3-4), 96-97. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Försvara demokratin där du står!: En recension av Angreppet. Så urholkar Tidöregeringen vår demokrati. Röda rummet (1), 48-49. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Incel-mannen är hatisk – och ensam. Nerikes Allehanda (28 januari). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Genusskräcken analyserad. Röda rummet (2-3), 56-58. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Utmanar europeisk patriarkal kunskapsproduktion. Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Johansson Wilén, E. , Schack, L. , Wilén, C. & Örestig Kling, J. (2025). Inledning: I krisernas tid - Kapitalism, nyliberalism och den samtida marxistiska teorin. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén; Lotte Schack; Carl Wilén; Johan Örestig Kling, Samtida marxistisk teori. Göteborg: Daidalos. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Nancy Fraser. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén; Lotte Schack; Carl Wilén; Johan Örestig Kling, Samtida marxistisk teori. Göteborg: Daidalos. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2021). Feminism, nyliberalism och ideologiska valfrändskaper. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén; Tomas Wedin; Carl Wilén, Ideologikritik (pp. 45-64). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Wilén, C. & Wedin, T. (2021). Ideologikritikens återkomst. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén; Tomas Wedin; Carl Wilén, Ideologikritik (pp. 17-44). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2021). Kvinnan, kapitalismen och den sociala reproduktionen. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén & Johanna Sjöstedt, Vad är en kvinna? Språk, materialitet, situation (pp. 71-88). Göteborg: Daidalos. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Wilén, C. & Wedin, T. (2021). Till ideologikritikens försvar. In: Evelina Johansson Wilén; Tomas Wedin; Carl Wilén, Ideologikritik (pp. 277-308). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2015). Etiska praktiker, queera positioner och heterotopiska rum: att utmana gränsen för det politiskt möjliga. In: Björk, Mårten; Wittrock, Jon, Människa, stat, utopi: en antologi om det möjligas konst (pp. 95-108). Hägersten: Tankekraft. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Johansson Wilén, E. (ed.) , Schack, L. (ed.) , Wilén, C. (ed.) & Örestig Kling, J. (ed.) (2025). Samtida marxistisk teori. Göteborg: Daidalos. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (ed.) , Wedin, T. (ed.) & Wilén, C. (ed.) (2021). Ideologikritik (1ed.). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (ed.) & Sjöstedt, J. (ed.) (2021). Vad är en kvinna? Språk, materialitet, situation. Göteborg: Daidalos. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Johansson Wilén, E. , Wemrell, M. & Gunnarsson, L. (2026). Love, Inequality, and the Politics of Intimacy: Thinking about Gendered Power in Heterosexual Relationships. Paper presented at Sociologidagarna, Växjö, Sweden, March 18-20, 2026. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2026). Samtida marxistisk teori (Daidalos, 2025): Authors Meet Critics. Paper presented at Sociologidagarna, Växjö, Sweden, March 18-20, 2026. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Bokrelease: Samtida marxistisk teori: Feministisk marxism. Paper presented at Marx25, Stockholm, 24-25 oktober 2025. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Book launch: Judith Butler and Marxism: Approaches to Abolition. Paper presented at Historical materialism (HM 2025), Twenty-second Annual Conference, London, UK, November 6-9, 2025. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Family abolitionism. A Critique: Capitalist kids and kids as capital. Paper presented at G25 Feministiska koalitioner för levbara världar: hur, var och för vem?, Östersund/Staare, 21-23 oktober 2025. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Wemrell, M. & Gunnarsson, L. (2025). Gender knowledge production and epistemology in the incelosphere. In: MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN TRANSITION Book of abstracts. Paper presented at MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN TRANSITION, The Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-13, 2025. (pp. 18-18). [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Rethinking Subjectivity in Family Abolitionist Thought. Paper presented at Historical materialism (HM 2025), Twenty-second Annual Conference, London, UK, November 6-9, 2025. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2025). Varför organiserar sig vissa män kring sin upplevelse av ensamhet?. Paper presented at Maskulinitet i förändring 2025: från utanförskap till extremism (Länsstyrelsen Örebro), 4 november 2025. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Invited speaker in dialogue: Antifeminism and Misogyny: The Restoration of Traditional Masculinities. Paper presented at International Conference: Men in Movement 6, Masculinities for Feminist Futures: Challenging Masculinism and Violence, Barcelona, Spain, December 9-10, 2024. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). On Feminist Family abolitionism: a critique. Paper presented at Historical Materialism, 21st Annual Conference, London, England, November 7-10, 2024. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2024). Paneldeltagare: Academic dialogue. Paper presented at Sociologidagarna, Göteborg, 13-15 mars, 2024. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Gunnarsson, L. (2024). The epistemic standards of the incel movement. Paper presented at Sociologidagarna, Göteborg, Sweden, 13-15 mars, 2024. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2023). Keynote: Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism. Paper presented at Feminist Encounters with Marxism, Turku University, Turku, Finland, October 20, 2023. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Sellbjer Werner, F. (2022). Equality equals quality? Tolkningar av kön- och genusperspektiv som indikator på vetenskaplig kvalitet i forskningsansökningar. In: Feminist policy analysis. Paper presented at g22 - nationell konferensen för genusforskning, Karlstads universitet, Karlstad, 26-28 oktober, 2022. [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2022). Gender perspectives equals quality? An analysis of the arguments for and against the integration of sex and/or gender as an assessment criterion in the Swedish research councils. In: Ideology or Science?. Paper presented at NORA Conference 2022, "Tensions and Potentials in Nordic Feminist and Gender Research", Oslo, Norway, June 20-22, 2022. [BibTeX]
Gunnarsson, L. , Johansson Wilén, E. & Wemrell, M. (2022). Inceldom and involuntary singlehood in times of precarious love. Paper presented at NORMEN 2022: Men, Masculinities, Intersectionalities: The Nordic Research Conference, Online conference, November 3-4, 2022. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, monographs

Johansson Wilén, E. (2019). Mellan jaget och världen: Feminism och etik under nyliberala villkor. (Doctoral dissertation). Hägersten: Tankekraft förlag. [BibTeX]

Other

Johansson Wilén, E. , Gunnarsson, L. & Wemrell, M. (2025). Vem har makten över kärleken?. Göteborg: Socialistiska partiet.(Röda rummet) [BibTeX]
Carlsson, V. & Johansson Wilén, E. (2023). Antifeminism i ett förändrat samhälle: Introduktion till avsnittets texter. Stockholm: Tidskriftsföreningen Fronesis.(Fronesis) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2023). En andra kritik av familjekritiken. Göteborg: Socialistisk Politik.(Röda rummet) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2023). Familjen måste vridas ur kapitalets grepp. Stockholm: Tidningsföreningen Norrskensflamman UPA.(Flamman) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2023). Vem vet? Situerad kunskap i incelrörelsen och i feministisk teori. Stockholm: Tidskriftsföreningen Fronesis.(Fronesis) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2022). En kritik av den feministiska familjekritiken. Göteborg: Socialistisk Politik.(Röda rummet) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Örestig, J. (2022). Mejlväxling om det existentiella och politiska. Göteborg: Socialistisk Politik.(Röda rummet) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Söderberg, J. & Carlsson, V. (2020). Att se studenten som kund hotar den akademiska friheten: Intervju med Joan W Scott. Stockholm: Tidskriften Respons.(Respons) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. & Pálmadóttir, V. (2020). Kvinnostrejkerna en frontalattack mot den nyliberala feminismen. Stockholm: Tidskriften Respons.(Respons) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2020). Statuspolitikens villkor under kapitalistiska egendomsförhållanden. Tidskriftföreningen Fronesis.(Fronesis) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. , Söderberg, J. & Carlsson, V. (2020). Värdeomdömet är oskiljaktigt från forskargärningen. Stockholm: Tidskriften Respons.(Respons) [BibTeX]
Johansson Wilén, E. (2019). Stålverk 80 - Att leva i resultatet av det som aldrig blev av. Göteborg: Ord & bild.(Ord & Bild) [BibTeX]

Reports

Johansson Wilén, E. & Lundsten, E. (2019). Hbtq-personers upplevelser av bemötande inom hbtq-diplomerade vårdverksamheter i Västra Götalandsregionen. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet/Västra Götalandsregionen. [BibTeX]