Biography
Dr. Teija Rantala is a postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies at the Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS). The title of her TIAS project (2021-2023) is Embodied reproductive politics, arts-based methods and former Conservative Laestadian women. Her research takes a feminist posthuman framework to study bodily self-re-determination of formerly religious women within wider focus upon reproductive justice and human-nature relations.
Her research interests include feminist studies on body politics, reproductive justice, posthuman philosophy and new materialist methodology. She has lectured and published extensively on feminist research methodology including a book Exploring Data Production in Motion. Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism published by Myers Education Press in 2019.
Publications
Rantala, T. (2020b). Reading Storylines of Religious Motherhood with Ethics of Joy. Special Issue: Feminist Genealogies: Specific Political Intersections. Genealogy 4(3), 89.https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4030089
Rantala, T. (2020a). Creating response-able futures? Discussing the Conservative Laestadian desire to mother within reproductive justice. Genealogy, 4(72), pp.1–12. DOI:10.3390/genealogy4030072.
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/72/pdf
Rantala, T. (2019). Exploring Data Production in Motion: Fluidity and Feminist Poststructuralism. Gorham, Maine: Myers Education Press. ISBN 978-1975501143
