Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Knowledge of theories and concepts of interdisciplinary gender studiesAbility to differentiate between different approachesKnowledge of feminist epistemologies, methodologies and (in part) their methodical implementationAbility to reflect critically on scientific knowledge production, truth and the own standpoint
Lehrmethodik
Lectures, group work, discussion in groups and small groupsImplementation of creative methods, usage of (social) media toolsAfter each unit a group of students (six groups that we will form in the first unit) will prepare a presentation for the beginning of the next unit. In this presentation the group will shortly summarise what we have discussed and learned; furthermore they will get to present an aspect of their choice related to the topic of the last unit. During the term, the six groups will additionally get the assignment to conduct an(online) interview with someone who can give us insights regarding the discussed topics. These interviews shall ideally confirm with feminist methodologies/epistemology. Instead of a term paper the student-groups will submit creative methods in which they reflect on the course contents (e.g. podcast/video-podcast).
Inhalt/e
In this course we will get to know key theories, concepts and methods of Gender Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In six units we will learn about and answer questions like:Herstory, Women’s history: What role did women play during the centuries? What do witch-trials have to do with modern medicine? How did the bicycle contribute to the first women’s movement? Who were pioneers and important women(’s right activists) in history? Why is your grandma’s story as important as Margret Thatcher’s?Women, Work, Equality: What is care work? Why are there still less female CEO’s? What’s the glass ceiling and the academic black box? What do we mean by token-position? What is a double bind situation and what does it have to do with the ice-queen effect? What is the effect of wage labour on LGBTQ people?Sociological and Cultural Gender Theories: What are gender roles and how do we perceive, reconstruct and reify them and why? What are power hierarchies and how do some groups oppress others? And what are then intersectional axes of oppression? What is toxic and what is fragile masculinity? And how is culture determining subjectivity? And overall: what is nature and what is culture?Queer Theory & Trans Studies: What is normal and why? Which concepts can we name and how can we rename what we know? What are normalisation and pathologisation processes? What is performativity, heteronormativity and the heterosexual matrix? How do notions of social gender and biological sex interact? And how do we do and undo gender?Feminist Epistemology: How do we know what we know? Who gets to decide truth contents? What is science and scientific? May a poem be scientific knowledge production? Is there a private and a political? And how objective is objectivity?Post- & Decolonial Studies: What are the ongoing effects of colonialism on the former colonies, and what is ‘discursive colonialism’? What do we mean by Othering? What is the relationship between colonialism and the Western logic of ‘modernity’? And how can we ‘delink’ ourselves from West knowledge structures, and reconstitute our ways of thinking, speaking and living?