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This course introduces students to the feminist scholarship on the body, embodiment and the senses. We explore the place of the body in gender theory and activism and address the questions: How do bodies get sexed, gendered and racialised? What is the importance of biological and environmental knowledges for feminist scholarship of the body? What methods and frameworks are used to understand the agency of bodily materiality and its relations to cultural discourses and meanings? How do we evaluate bodily transformations (e.g. modifications through surgery) and ‘bodily integrity’ if bodies are always relationally constituted and in flux? How is writing and conceptualising an embodied activity, and how can we attune our senses also to what is withdrawn? Throughout the course we will reflect on the affects and orientations produced by reading and discussing key texts of established and emerging feminist scholars. The course introduces students to creative writing that is not about but of the body.
Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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1. to develop a critical appreciation of bodies as relational, active, open, material and discursive 2. to understand and apply different conceptual approaches to the gendered and gendering body (e.g. post-structuralist, phenomenological, new materialist) 3. to attune your bodily sensorium to smells, sounds, movements and fleeting gestures and what they tell us 4. to experiment with creative writing of the body and what affect can do 6. to foster teamwork, collaboration and constructive criticism Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (20.09.2022)
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Assessment will be continuous and includes individual and group work through the semester. Instead of a final exam students will write a final paper, individually or in pairs. Individual work: Ø Active participation in weekly class discussions: 25 % Ø Creative writing paper/memory work (700 words): write in the third person about an autobiographical body experience, that we will anonymise and examine in small groups. Due in week 5: 15% Group work (in small groups of 2-4 students) Ø Choose a session that you want to run with your peers: prepare a summary of a main concept (500 words) and 3-4 questions for class discussion: 20% Ø Group Presentation on the creative writing and concepts: collective recompose one of the creative writing papers – analyse it from perspectives of the course (c 12-15 minutes): 15% Ø Final paper: analyse and expand the group presentation, or a course topic of your choice, drawing on further readings and at least two main readings (2300 words individually or 3500 words in pairs). Short abstracts are due by 6 January 2025 35% Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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This course will be divided between short introductions and a discussion of weekly required readings, held in smaller groups and the class as a whole. we will also do short classroom excercises like concept speed dating and will discuss student creative writings. Class discussions will be prepared by small groups of students who will meet online with the class teacher before class and will be responsible for this session. students will receive written feedback on their writing. Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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1. Rage: The Performativity of the Body 2. Affected and Affective Bodies 3. Embodied Writing - Écriture féminine 4. Flesh and Discourse 5. Trans* Sex 6. Bodily Gestures and Utopia 7. Listening to Images 8. Necropolitics: Body Capacity and Debility 9. Reverberations of Sound 10. Review and Final Papers
Compulsory literature: BUTLER, Judith. Bodies that Matter. “Introduction.” New York: Routledge, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-61015-5. HAYWARD, Eva. "More Lessons from a Starfish: Prefixial flesh and Transspeciated Selves," Women’s Studies Quarterly 36 (3/4). MUNOZ, Jose Esteban (2007) Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Chapter: “A Jete through the Window”. New York: NYU Press. ISBN: 978-1479874569.
Elective literature: GUNARATNAM, Yasmin. Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care. Chapter: “Music”. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. ISBN 978-1474238267. MANNING, Erin. The Minor Gesture. Chapter: “In the Act: The Shape of Precarity”, Durham, Duke University, 2016. ISBN: 978-0822361213 PRECIADO, Beatrix. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Politics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Chapter: “Becoming T”. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013. ISBN 978-1558618374. Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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