SoSe 19: PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Introduction to Gender Studies: Historical and Critical Perspectives of #MeToo Feminism
Zoe Sutherland
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Whereas gendered inequality and sexualised violence are the norm in patriarchal culture, in the wake of the recent social media movement known in the English-speaking world as #Metoo, accusations of sexual harassment in the arts, politics, and other walks of life have apparently been received with new seriousness. Precisely what kind of reckoning with identity and inequality does #Metoo discourse represent? Cultural, and in particular, feminist theory has a lot to say about power in society. By reading contemporary case studies via gender theorists on social change, and by comparing the #Metoo movement with other social justice movements, we will gain historical and critical perspectives of our social moment. And we will imagine where gendered norms under construction might take us from here.
This course will survey a range of feminist theory by authors including Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Susan Stryker, and Catherine MacKinnon.
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