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There's No Place Like It: Critical Queer and Feminist Theories of the Home

Alexander Niessen

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When we speak of the notion of home, everybody will have a different conception of it. It might be a place, a feeling, a space, or other people. While this description can, or even should, be dismissed as romanticized, it is nonetheless a real phenomenon warranting sociological inquiry and theorizing. Throughout the semester, we will engage with critical theories including of the economy of the household, marriage, rural and urban spaces, and the nuclear family. We will specifically focus on the position of women, gender non-conforming, and queer people and try to understand the extent to which marginalization based on class, race, and/or gender, and critically and intersectionally assess the home as a concept deeply ingrained in capitalism, heterosexuality, and other patriarchal social structures. What role does the family home play in the proliferation of capitalism in the United States? Which groups are included or excluded in the discourses of having a home? How do ideas of love, sex, and marriage structure our physical and social infrastructures? Students will be exposed to historical and contemporary theories as tools for formulating their own inquiries, especially within but not limited to, the field of queer and feminist social theories informing relevant and adjacent areas of sociological research. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Fr, 14:00 - 16:00 14 Termine

Fr, 19.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Alexander Niessen