Sexuality, Gender, and Power in Political Theory - JPB066

• Title: Sexuality, Gender, and Power in Political Theory
• Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2025 to 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (86)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Janusz Salamon, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. Kennan Ferguson

Annotation

How do politics connect to the various meanings of “sex?” That power inheres in relationships
between individuals and society is well accepted: second-wave feminism’s insistence that “the
personal is political” has proven true in a wide variety of ways. But the particularities and
specifics of sex, including what exactly we mean by the term, are still undetermined and argued.
Is sex an individual’s biology? A system of desires? A socially-constructed identity? The
precise importance of politics in the creation, perpetuation, and distribution of these aspects
depends intimately on what we mean when we use the term “sex.” This course asks all of these
questions, paying specific attention to the interrelated natures of sex,
gender, and sexuality. The course will address important social issues, many of which concern
your own personal experience.

Participation: 25%
Midterm: 25%
Final: 50%

Last update: Ferguson Kennan, prof. (02.02.2026)

Descriptors

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Last update: Ferguson Kennan, prof. (26.02.2026)