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Cursus: MCRMV16028
MCRMV16028
The Body in Feminist Theory and Practice
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMCRMV16028
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
This course aims to allow students to:
A) analyze art practices as well as contemporary and historical case studies related to the body and embodiment;
B) explore multiple ways in which the body can become a subject of feminist and queer inquiry, art, and activism;
C) discuss and interrogate the ways in which our own embodiment as researchers impinges on the work we read and do;
D) present convincing and compelling arguments in oral and written form. 
Inhoud
This course is for students in the RMA Gender Studies and GEMMA; students from the RMA programmes CLS, Musicology, MAPS, Religious Studies and NLC should check with the course coordinator by email before enrolling November 28th at the latest. Only this way participation can be granted. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.

This course familiarizes students with conceptual and theoretical approaches to analysing the body, embodiment, and the embodied subject through its focus on the place of the corporeal in various interdisciplinary contexts (e.g., queer and feminist theory, transgender studies, visual studies, poststructuralist theory, critical race studies, disability studies, and feminist Marxist theory). In approaching these thematics, the course will engage with a variety of different media and texts.

Topics can include: technologies of power and their role in producing gendered subjectivities and sexed bodies; reproduction under capitalism; the body in practices of representation; body modification and transformation; the material-discursive construction of race; transgender and disability politics; relationships between embodiment and the environment.

This is a participatory course, where students input is crucial to designing the sessions and key points of debates with their peers.

 
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