Introduction to Trans* Politics - Einzelansicht

Course description:

Over the last two decades, Trans* Studies has emerged as a distinctive
field within gender and queer research. Building on feminist, gender, and queer studies,
Trans* Studies continues to challenge trans* exclusion within these fields and provides novel
scholarship that engages differently with questions of bodies, identities, feminism, gender,
sexuality and politics. This course will offer an overview of diverse trans* scholarship,
critiques, and engagements, and will highlight some of the most important texts in the field.
Moreover, students will be introduced to the various historical debates, tensions, and revisions
that have shaped and transformed the field of Trans* Studies over decades. Students will learn
some of the key concepts in Trans* Studies and will study texts from various geographies.

Bitte beachten: Dieser Kurs wird auf Englisch gehalten. This course is held in English

•To understand relevant theoretical frames for discussions of trans*, gender, queer,
sexualities, feminisms, and identity politics
• To recognize historical relationships between (non)normalized gender, sexuality and body in
feminist rhetoric and medico-legal milieus
• To consider discourses of gender and body across different daily-life imaginaries
• To work through contemporary discussions about gender, trans*, queer and sexuality, and
their intersectionalities with politics, race, class, locality, and history