Contextualizing Gender

Gender permeates all aspects of the social world and is analyzed in numerous ways, including as an institution, ideology, and process that organizes everyday life. This course aims to introduce students to an interdisciplinary framework that allows them to explore and theorize the intersectional nature of gender and culture. Through various essays and philosophers, the course will stimulate a nuanced discussion on gender inequality, sexuality, masculinity, and the interaction of gendered social processes. The students will get the opportunity to examine new ways of looking at gender possibilities, like contextualizing the plurality of bodies at the intersection of science and technology. The current development of Artificial Intelligence and cyborg technologies formulate a new form of scientific biopower, which can envision concepts such as post-human and post-woman under a transhumanist discourse. A variety of theoretical approaches pertaining to contemporary Gender Studies will generate engaging discussions on the conception of gender in a digital and post-industrial society.