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CS92PROD
Gendered Belonging and the Politics of Inclusion

CHUM 379
Spring 2024
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: FGSS 379
Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, 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.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA CHUM
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (HRAD-MN)
Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above

Last Updated on NOV-14-2024
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