GWSS 4403 is also offered in Fall 2024
GWSS 4403 is also offered in Fall 2023
Spring 2017 | GWSS 4403 Section 001: Queering Theory (68343)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
GLBT 4403 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments. prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course
- Class Notes:
- Instructor TBD
- Class Description:
- Theories exist to explain some range of phenomena; they aim at clarification, at bringing order to conceptual chaos. Identities do much the same for our lives; they impose a structure on the disparate stuff of experience. "Queer" names neither a theory nor an identity; it is antithetical to both. But even if we can live without theories (which is doubtful), we cannot live without theorizing, and similarly, even if we can live without identities (also doubtful), we cannot live without identifying (ourselves and others). Queering, as an activity and an orientation, may start by dismantling particular, oppressive theories, identities, and other normalizing devices; but beyond those specific dismantlings - which leave open the possibility of embracing better theories and non-oppressive identities - is a commitment to unsettling what we cannot do without, the ground underneath our feet, whatever it might be. This class starts from the idea that such unsettling, however paradoxical, is intellectually exciting and politically liberatory, but that we risk not just digging up the ground under our own feet, but - far more troublingly - digging up the ground under the feet of others, including some whose allies we take ourselves to be, whose standing may be far more perilous than our own. Our aim will be to productively puzzle over these ideas.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68343/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 April 2012
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