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"Gender is a much contested concept, as slippery as it is indispensable, but a site of unease rather than agreement." (David Glover and Cora Kaplan, Genders ix)
Gender Studies are a field of research that developed out of Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies in the 1990s. One of its key aims, simply put, is to show why and how gender matters in our day-to-day existence and why a binary gender order is not only limiting but can also be discriminatory. This course will provide a historical overview of how our perceptions of sex and gender have changed over centuries, and how they have shaped our constructions of identity. There will be a particular focus on intersectionality, that is, how gender interacts with other identity categories such as race, class, or ability. We are going to discuss selected texts of gender studies and related academic fields, such as queer studies, trans* studies, masculinity studies, critical race and critical whiteness studies, critical disability studies, and posthumanism, and discuss how these theoretical approaches apply to every-day life issues and how they are negotiated in popular culture.
Texts:
A course reader will be made available to you on Moodle at the beginning of the semester. You are expected to prepare a reading/viewing for each session. |
