Zara Saeidzadeh
Zara Saeidzadeh Position: Researcher School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: emFyYS5zYWVpZHphZGVoO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303386
Room: F3258
About Zara Saeidzadeh
Zara Saeidzadeh works as a researcher in the Centre for Feminist Social Studies and Gender Studies Descipling at Örebro University. She is an affiliate assistant professor at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia Unviersity in Montreal, Canada.
Zara completed her postdoctoral project (2022-2024) on “Violence against Trans* Women within Family and Workplace in Sweden: A Qualitative Analysis of Socio-Legal Status” funded by the Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Healthcare and Welfare (FORTE). She wrote her PhD thesis (2015-2020) on “Trans and Sex Change in Iran: A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices” in Gender Studies Descipline at Örebro University where she has since workd as a researcher and lecturer.
Research
Zara's research falls within the are of law and gender,specifically the fields of social studies of gender, sociology of law, feminist violence studies and trans* studies. In her current work, she focuses on the epistemic injustices and violence against trans* people in intimate relations, family and employment, drawing on the politics of status recognition and trans* citizenship.
Recent projects
In this project, Zara conducted qualitiave interview based research to examine how trans* women are recognized in Swedish law and society by focusing on the status and needs of trans* women citizens.
The Politics, Expressions and Prevalence of Violence against Trans* People in the EU(2021-2022). In collaboration with Dr Sofia Strid, associate professor in gender studies, she worked on theorization of violence against trans people at the EU level, looking at policies, activism and academia within the EU.
LAWGEM: New Quality in Education for Gender Equality (2020-2023) In this project Zara was involved in drafting the syllabi and writing textbooks for a master’s programme on law and gender. Moreover, she has been working on forming a legal clinic with Susanne Strand, Professor in criminology.
Teaching
Apart from being a guest lecturer in disciplines such as anthropology, women’s studies and medicine, Zara Saeidzadeh has been involved in teaching the following courses in gender studies and sociology: Gender Equality and The Nordic Welfare States (undergraduate level); Gender, Power and Politics (undergraduate level); Men’s Violence against Women (undergraduate level), Gender Perspective in Medicine (postgraduate level), Redading course on Feminist Studies on Violence against Women (undergraduate advanced level). Qualitative Methods (undergaraduate level). Zara has superviosed and examined BA theses and Internship Projects in sociology (post-graduate level).
Research projects
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2025). Trans* Women's Experiences of Epistemic Misrecognition in Swedish Law and Society. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. [BibTeX]
- Kjaran, J. I. & Saeidzadeh, Z. (2024). Trans* Activism in Indonesia and Iran: Working Against Misrecognition and Enhancing the Intelligibility of Trans* Subjectivities. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25 (1), 49-61. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. , Cuckovic, B. & Vujadinovic, D. (2023). Clinical Legal Education for Gender Justice in Europe. International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 30 (1), 125-142. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2023). Trans women’s status in contemporary Iran: Misrecognition and the cultural politics of aberu. Sexualities. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2020). "Are trans men the manliest of men?": Gender practices, trans masculinity and mardanegi in contemporary Iran. Journal of Gender Studies, 29 (3), 295-309. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2020). Trans* en Iran: jurisprudence médicale et pratiques sociales en matière de changement de sexe. Droit et Cultures, 2 (80). [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. & Strid, S. (2020). Trans* Politics and the Feminist Project: Revisiting the Politics of Recognition to Resolve Impasses. Politics and Governance, 8 (3), 312-320. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2019). Understanding Socio-Legal Complexities of Sex Change in Postrevolutionary Iran. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 6 (1), 80-102. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2016). Transsexuality in Contemporary Iran: Legal and Social Misrecognition. Feminist Legal Studies, 24 (3), 249-272. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2023). Book review: Vujadinović, Dragica, Antonio Álvarez del Cuvillo, and Susanne Strand. 2022. Feminist Approaches to Law: Theoretical and Historical Insights. Springer International Publishing AG.. Annals Belgrade Law Review, 71 (2), 373-385. [BibTeX]
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2016). Möte med Susan Stryker: Om trans, trans* och framtidens forskning. Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 37 (4), 92-99. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2025). Trans* citizenship: A feminist socio-legal analysis of theories and practices. In: Nicola Lacey; Miodrag A. Jovanović; Bojan Spaic; Ana Zdravković, Reassesing Feminist Legal Theories (pp. 161-180). Switzerland: Springer Nature. [BibTeX]
- Bermúdez Figueroa, E. , Dabetić, V. , Pastor Yuste, R. & Saeidzadeh, Z. (2023). Gender and Structural Inequalities from a Socio-Legal Perspective. In: Dragica Vujadinović; Mareike Fröhlich; Thomas Giegerich, Gender-Competent Legal Education (pp. 95-142). . Springer. [BibTeX]
- Barać, I. , Blandino, A. , Coppo, L. , Frezza, G. , Novaković, U. , Rabadán, F. & Saeidzadeh, Z. (2023). Gender Competent Family Law. In: Dragica Vujadinović; Mareike Fröhlich; Thomas Giegerich, Gender-Competent Legal Education (pp. 541-581). . Springer. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2023). Gender Research and Feminist Methodologies. In: Dragica Vujadinović; Mareike Fröhlich; Thomas Giegerich, Gender-Competent Legal Education (pp. 183-213). . Springer. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2020). Transnational Feminist Knowledge Production. In: Sofia Strid, Dag Balkmar, Jeff Hearn and Louise Morley, Does Knowledge Have a Gender? A Festschrift for Liisa Husu on Gender, Science and Academia (pp. 146-147). Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]
- Banakar, R. & Saeidzadeh, Z. (2015). Culture: Reflections on Individualism and Community. Law and society on the roads of Islamic republic. In: Reza Banakar, Driving culture in Iran: law and society on the roads of the islamic republic (pp. 149-177). London: I.B. Tauris. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Saeidzadeh, Z. & Strid, S. (2019). Intersectionality of trans and feminism: The politics of recognition. Paper presented at European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG 2019), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 4-6, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2018). Socio-Legal Policies and Practices of Sex Change in Iran. In: . Paper presented at XIX International Sociological Association World Congress, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2016). Legal and Social Misrecognition of Transsexuality in Iran. Paper presented at Trans*studies: An International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, September 7-10, 2016. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Saeidzadeh, Z. (2020). Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran: A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]