15045
Undergraduate Course
WiSe 18/19: (GEND) Introduction to Gender and Politics: Body Politics
Jennifer Ailed Chan de Avila
Comments
Politics as a practice, as well as political science as an academic discipline are highly gendered. The issues that politics address - such as safety, health, education, work and access to markets, public space and free expression, to name just a few¬- have a gender dimension that determines people’s experience of these issues based on the body they inhabit and the sex ascribed to that body.
Furthermore, other categories such as ethnicity, class, sexual identity and age are simultaneously marked out on the body influencing its cultural, social, economic and political positioning.
This course focuses on the body as both the source and object of knowledge in political science. It provides a framework to intersectionality as an analysis of the power relations that regulate, denigrate, define, or produce the body. Intersectionality also identifies the ways different bodies are located and constructed.
We will start by engaging with the feminist concept of embodiment and a reconstruction of how the embodied experience of the female body became an entry point for political engagement. We will then continue to map out a web of power relations that place and constitute bodies in a variety of theoretical approaches: materialism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, post structuralism, postcolonial and critical race studies. A big emphasis will be placed on relating these theoretical approaches to current and pressing political issues, such as sexuality policing, reproductive rights, sexual division of labour, care and reproductive work, sex work, migration and gender violence. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2018-10-15 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-10-22 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-10-29 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-11-05 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-11-12 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-11-19 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-11-26 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-12-03 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-12-10 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2018-12-17 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-01-07 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-01-14 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-01-21 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-01-28 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-02-04 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-02-11 10:00 - 12:00