15141
Proseminar
WiSe 23/24: Thinking Sex: Radical Theories of the Politics of Sexuality
Ben Miller
Kommentar
This seminar introduces students to a series of crucial texts in the development of radical theories of the politics of sexuality. Taking its title from Gayle Rubin's seminal 1984 intervention into the field, this seminar takes seriously her challenge to use the politics of sexuality – pleasures, desires, transformations, and the regulations thereof – as a point of departure from which to reconsider the ways we make and understand our world. Beginning with Rubin’s essay as a guide to our general approach, the seminar will then focus around five main points of departure: firstly, gay liberation and its discontents; secondly, queer challenges to those politics around both infectious disease and gender; thirdly, sexuality in women-of-color feminism; fourthly, queer theory’s move from queer lives as its object of inquiry to a nebulous ‘queering’ as its mode of analysis; and finally, the reintegration of queer theory and materialist analysis. Throughout, we will be attentive to our location in Berlin and to how manifestations of sexual politics in Berlin are similar to and different from those articulated in the canonical texts in the field. Students will leave with a broad sense of the evolution of and relationship between activist and academic debates about sex and sexual politics, and will be able to apply these theoretical insights and approaches to the analysis of a broad variety of research questions in the study of political theories, actors, institutions, and conflicts.
Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 18.10.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 25.10.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 01.11.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 08.11.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 15.11.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 22.11.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 29.11.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 06.12.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 13.12.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 20.12.2023 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 10.01.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 17.01.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 24.01.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 31.01.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 07.02.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Mi, 14.02.2024 16:00 - 18:00