GEND 4800 - Transgender Theory and Policy

3 unit(s)

Course examines select theoretical discourses addressing the politics of culture, institutions and social movements in relation to the broad spectrum of identities referred to as trans and/or gender nonconforming. Some areas are: trans genealogies, trans migrations and geographies, resistance movements, technologies of discipline/surveillance, epistemic erasures, media and representation, science and technologies of gender. Special attention is paid to the way trans identities operate as sites of discursive production and political contestation, with real, material consequences for trans people’s lives.

Prerequisites: GEND 2110 or GEND 3550 or Permission from the Instructor.

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