Intendierte Lernergebnisse
general understanding of different feminist theoretical approaches to power and resistancesome specialist knowledge of relevant feminist literature;greater understanding of feminist research methodologies and their potentialities;Experience and experiment with less, academically speaking, conventional ways of doing research and writingUse information critically and analytically;Work independently and in co-operation with others;Communicated ideas in a variety of written and oral formats
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
Lectures, and seminars during which we will experiment with feminist methodologies such as collective memory work, letter writing, storytelling, automatic writing, among others in order to explore the thematic of the week in an experiential and embodied way.
Inhalt/e
The course aims to familiarise students with different feminist approaches to power and resistance on a theoretical, political and everyday/experiential level. Conceptually, we will start explaining what heteronormativiy is and how it got established through the modern bio-political control of sexuality and the criminalisation of certain bodies and sexual identifications.From there we will move to feminist discussions about gender power relations in terms of subordination and domination, so we can later deconstruct the binary logic and expose its conceptual and legal/institutional limitations. Legal examples of gender equality paradoxes and failures will be utilised in order to exemplify the problematics of binarism. Intersectionality and decolonial feminism will serve to scrutinise further the binary gender power structures by introducing and analysing in more detail, both theoretically and politically, concepts like femonationalism, homonormativity, homonationalism, pink washing and the gender colonial matrix of power. The course concludes with two final sessions: one that tackles the complex relationship between feminism and silence, and one discussing different examples of transnational feminist collectives both inside and beyond the academy and the power of collective intersectional resistance.
Literatur
Haug, F. (1999). Female sexualization: A collective work of memory (Vol. 25). Verso.Stephenson, N., & Kippax, S. (2008). Memory work. The Sage handbook of qualitative research in psychology, 127-146. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292740997_Memory_workAltınay, A. G., & Pető, A. (Eds.). (2016). Gendered wars, gendered memories: feminist conversations on war, genocide and political violence. Routledge.