Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Students will learn to:• Understand and analyze the social construction of gender and sexuality, and its intersections with categories including race, ethnicity, class, ability, nationality, age, etc. • Demonstrate an understanding of the key concepts that animate the field of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, such as sex, gender, intersectionality, heteronormativity etc. • Critically analyze various institutions, structures and discourses through interdisciplinary methods and tools. Examine how these institutions and structures construct identities and shape our experiences, knowledges, and belief systems.• Engage with ideas of privilege and oppression and look at how they have been addressed in various movements of protest and solidarity in different parts of the world. • Understand the ways in which the diversity of experiences of women and other oppressed groups contributes to their standpoint, perspectives, and values.
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
Short lectures, PowerPoint presentations, group discussions, and short in-class writing exercises.
Inhalt/e
Adopting interdisciplinary and transnational lenses, the Introduction to Gender Studies course will provide students an overview to the major themes, concerns and debates that constitute the field of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Students will read both classic and contemporary texts, including from theacademic disciplines of critical race studies, queer studies, critical disability studies, decolonial theory, to explore the construction of gender and sexuality, and their interactions with categories of race, class, nationality, ability, age. The course will explore how the intersections of these categories work to produce systems of inequality and oppression that affect people’s lives across the globe. Students will learn about different sites that have constructed dominant understandings of gender and sexuality including those of family, media, law and social policy. Through different methods, we will work to critically examine the effects of these institutions as well as question the assumptions that inform these institutions. Students will also learn about the various modes of resistance to oppression that have formed part of the feminist movement. Part of the endeavor of the course will also be to critically examine modes of knowledge. While most of the texts will be located in the context of the Global North, the course will also widen its scope to introduce students to issues of gender and oppression in other parts of the world. Students will learn to interrogate how this engagement might shift their knowledge frameworks.The course will be comprise the following modules:1. Mapping the field of Gender Studies: why study gender?2. Feminist histories3. Structural Oppression and Intersectionality4. Social Construction of Sex and Gender5. Introduction to queer theory6. Unpacking Masculinity7. Disability and gender8. Sex, power, and intimacy9. Gender and sexual violence10. Reproductive Justice11. Rethinking the Family12. Women and Work13. Gender, Law, and Public Policy14. Decolonizing Feminism15. Feminist Futures
Curriculare Anmeldevoraussetzungen
keine / none
Literatur
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