Gay Marriage and Queer Theory - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2017
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	03.04.2017 - 10.05.2017 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	16:00 bis 18:00	wöchentlich	20.04.2017 bis 27.07.2017	1.19.0.31			40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The highly publicized successes of campaigns for lesbian and gay marriage rights in various countries (mostly in North and South America and Europe) in recent years appear to signal major (and for many people unexpectedly sudden) victories for gay and lesbian rights and an increased acceptance of gay and lesbian lives and sexualities in some parts of the world. For queer theory, however - generally understood as an anti-identitarian critique - gay marriage campaigns have proved contentious and yet productive. Many queer theorists have opposed the focus on marriage rights for various reasons: because of new exclusions and discriminations that marriage rights might create, in light of long-standing feminist critiques of marriage as an institution oppressive to women, due to the national and racial implications of some gay rights rhetoric, or on various other grounds. Other scholars have focused on thinking through alternatives to marriage. Still others have offered a meta-critique, in order to examine how these discussions and theorizations have exposed some of the implicit biases of the discipline of queer studies as it exists today. Thus, a series of debates tangential to, but undoubtedly linked to, the push for marriage rights has emerged within the discipline: from futurity to prisons from homonationalism, migration and citizenship to emotions and affect. This course will look briefly at the history of gay, lesbian and queer thinking on relationship recognition and legal rights, primarily in Europe and the US, before turning recent work in queer theory generated by these debates.
Literatur	open to: British Cultural Studies, American Lit&Cult, Studiumplus, Spezialisierung

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The highly publicized successes of campaigns for lesbian and gay marriage rights in various countries (mostly in North and South America and Europe) in recent years appear to signal major (and for many people unexpectedly sudden) victories for gay and lesbian rights and an increased acceptance of gay and lesbian lives and sexualities in some parts of the world. For queer theory, however - generally understood as an anti-identitarian critique - gay marriage campaigns have proved contentious and yet productive. Many queer theorists have opposed the focus on marriage rights for various reasons: because of new exclusions and discriminations that marriage rights might create, in light of long-standing feminist critiques of marriage as an institution oppressive to women, due to the national and racial implications of some gay rights rhetoric, or on various other grounds. Other scholars have focused on thinking through alternatives to marriage. Still others have offered a meta-critique, in order to examine how these discussions and theorizations have exposed some of the implicit biases of the discipline of queer studies as it exists today. Thus, a series of debates tangential to, but undoubtedly linked to, the push for marriage rights has emerged within the discipline: from futurity to prisons from homonationalism, migration and citizenship to emotions and affect. This course will look briefly at the history of gay, lesbian and queer thinking on relationship recognition and legal rights, primarily in Europe and the US, before turning recent work in queer theory generated by these debates.

Literatur

open to: British Cultural Studies, American Lit&Cult, Studiumplus, Spezialisierung

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2017 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024