Gendered experiences
This course starts with the issue of gender as a social structure focusing on the human body and sets of practices governed by this structure which bring reproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes. In the discussions we shall explore those cultural sites which, even though, thoroughly gendered, often fall outside the dominant foci of gender research. Such sites are, for example, hair, toilet use, toys, clothing, body adornment (e.g. piercing, tattoos) which are all semiotically potent ways in which gender and its experience are constructed.
In their work, students will be expected to select and focus on a site of their choosing which might, but don’t have to, be one of those mentioned above.
- Teacher: Dariusz Galasiński