WOMGEN 1409 - Transsexuality, Transgenderism, and the Rest

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This course will cover narrative, anthropological, historical, scientific, and theoretical texts (including films) about transexuality and transgenderism. The course will begin with transexuality before and beyond identity politics and its transformation in the light/shadow of identity politics and theories of gender; it will consider these issues initially in a Euro-American context, but also move onto other socio-cultural formations and consider how trans-subjectivities as well as histories and politics of transexuality and transgenderism have been formed transnationally.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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