Are you interested in gender and governance? Seats available in POLT 35001 Selected Topics in Political Theory: Governing Gender.
Because students might be seeing only the generic name of the course and it is not officially listed as a WGSS course, I wanted to alert interested students that this is a Politics course that will also count towards the WGSS degree. It doesn't have the WGSS attribute yet but it will count! You can find the information below. Please reach out to me with any questions you might have at satuk@ithaca.edu.
POLT 35001-01: Selected Topics in Political Theory: Governing Gender (Fall 2024)
CRN: 20415
SCHEDULE: Tuesday/Thursday 2.35-4.15
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Gender and sexuality have always been political issues that concern the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Recently, we have witnessed the global rise of what is called “anti-gender ideology,” a sort of backlash that intends to revert the gains of feminist and LGBTQ+ movements locally and transnationally. Authoritarian populist regimes adopt this discriminatory approach, which has significant consequences for the lives and rights of women and LGBTQ+ individuals. This course focuses on governing practices that concern gender and sexuality with a focus on the recent political context. The questions we will ask in this course include but are not limited to: What is the relationship between governance and gender? What practices do states engage in to regulate gender? How do institutional practices legitimize and normalize certain performances of gender while delegitimizing others? How do social justice movements mobilize against discriminatory government practices?