Description
Questions
(answer two)
1. Formulate a key question for contemporary gender studies and explain how you would address it using at least two theorists or texts from the course.
2. EITHER
Coloniality is a condition of our time. Unpack this statement with reference to a specific example.
OR
Decoloniality is a concept, analytic, practice, and scholarship. Unpack this statement with reference to a specific example
3. Why does ‘representation’ matter? Discuss with reference to at least two theorists or critics encountered on the course.
4. What are feminism’s relationships to nationalism? Discuss with reference to one or more examples.
5. Outline the key theoretical and political implications of understanding productive and reproductive labour as distinct.
6. Critically discuss Foucault’s notion of biopower with reference to the intersection between race, gender, and sexuality.
7. Drawing on theorists from the course, identify and discuss affects that have been considered necessary for political transformation.
8. Discuss two examples of anti-gender activism with reference to their political context.
9. ‘hope is the waking dreams, the psychic delusions, the slippery knowledge produced by passing’? (C Riley Snorton) Discuss.
10. Critically discuss de Lauretis’ proposition that “the representation of gender is its construction” (‘The Technology of Gender’, p.3) drawing on other theorists, texts or topics covered on the course.
11. Make the case for including a consideration of ‘psychic life’ in gender studies.
