Gendered Belonging and the Politics of Inclusion
FGSS 379
Spring 2026
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Queer Studies |
If inclusion and belonging are tied to recognition, how do marginalized subjects establish their legibility and "right to appear"? This course addresses social exclusions around gender nonconformity and examines legal, activist, and artistic practices that contest them. Using several contemporary case studies, including fights over the sex segregation of bathrooms, controversies over the diagnosis and treatment of trans* youth, and the movements defending the lives of trans* women of color and advocating for trans* people in immigrant detention, the course will address how U.S.-based social contests over sex/gender are implicated in hierarchies of race, citizenship, and dis/ability, and situated in (neo)colonialism, racial capitalism, and geopolitics in complex ways. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FGSS |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Human Rights Advocacy Minor) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
SPADE, NORMAL LIFE: ADMINISTRATIVE POLITICS, CRITICAL TRANS POLITICS AND THE LIMITS OF LAW (2015 ED); CURRAH, SEX IS AS SEX DOES (2022) ; AIZURA MOBILE SUBJECTS: TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINARIES OF GENDER REASSIGNMENT (2018); GREEN, "MOBILIZING A TRANS* ANALYTIC" (2016) , PUAR, "BODIES WITH NEW ORGANS" (2017); BUTLER, NOTES TOWARD A PERFORMATIVE THEORY OF ASSEMBLY (2015)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Midterm paper; Final Project |
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| Instructor(s): Pitts-Taylor,Victoria Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 17 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 17 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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