Lisa Raeder

Lisa Raeder is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from Stockholm University. Her research intersects the disciplinary fields of critical theory, gender studies and medical humanities, and her PhD project investigates the role of hormonal contraceptives in the production of gender and sexuality, and conceptions of health and the self. Since 2020. she has also been a guest PhD at the Department of Gender Studies at Stockholm University.  Her research interests include:

• Gender Theory
• Critical Theory
• Biomedicine
• Biotechnologies
• Medical Humanities
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Science and Technology Studies
• Qualitative Methods
• Contraception

Her recent outputs include:

• Raeder, L. (2019). Choosing among few options: young women’s experiences of risk and responsibility in contraceptive consultations. Tidsskrift för Genusvetenskap. 40:78-99.
• “Un-fixing hormones: searching for the multiple in hormonal selves”. Platypus the CASTAC blog. Oct 6, 2020. [Online]. Available from: http://blog.castac.org/2020/10/un-fixing-hormones-searching-for-the-multiple-in-hormonal-selves/