LGBT 100: Trans Studies, Seats AVAILABLE
LGBT 100: Trans* Studies
Tuesdays/Thursdays 3:30-5 pm/190 Barrows
Instructor: Christine Quinan
This course will explore understandings and experiences of trans bodies and identities, including transgender, transsexual, and gender-variant individuals and communities. While the course will be largely U.S.-focused, we will approach topics related to gender non-normativity through a trans-cultural lens. We will begin by historically situating gender and sex in conceptual frameworks, looking at sexology research that emerged in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. We will then move to examining a first-person account of transition alongside secondary sources that touch upon a wide range of issues, including pathologization, desire, and visibility. Finally, we will discuss how gender is controlled, confined, and policed by structural institutions, including the legal system, the medical establishment, and the prison industrial complex. Throughout the semester, we will also interrogate what is at stake in including 'T' in LGBT as well as critical trans studies' relationship to queer theory and feminism.
Tuesdays/Thursdays 3:30-5 pm/190 Barrows
Instructor: Christine Quinan
This course will explore understandings and experiences of trans bodies and identities, including transgender, transsexual, and gender-variant individuals and communities. While the course will be largely U.S.-focused, we will approach topics related to gender non-normativity through a trans-cultural lens. We will begin by historically situating gender and sex in conceptual frameworks, looking at sexology research that emerged in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. We will then move to examining a first-person account of transition alongside secondary sources that touch upon a wide range of issues, including pathologization, desire, and visibility. Finally, we will discuss how gender is controlled, confined, and policed by structural institutions, including the legal system, the medical establishment, and the prison industrial complex. Throughout the semester, we will also interrogate what is at stake in including 'T' in LGBT as well as critical trans studies' relationship to queer theory and feminism.