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Cursus: MCMV16025
MCMV16025
Feminist Toolbox: Theories and Methodologies
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMCMV16025
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
After completion of this course, the student has learned to
A) work with the interdisciplinary canon of feminist scholarship in theory and practice;
B) apply different schools of feminist theory and methodology in socially relevant case studies;
C) manoeuvre the ‘feminist toolbox’ of standpoint epistemologies, situated knowledges, intersectional gender analysis, deconstruction, psychoanalysis and 'queering' perspectives
D) present the gained knowledge in oral and written form. 
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This course provides students with an analytical 'toolbox' for their studies in the MA Gender Studies. Each week deals with a different branch of feminist theories and methodologies that inspire contemporary Gender Studies. The course presents different schools of feminist thinking concerning subjectivity, agency and difference, and it also explores the most influential strands of feminist epistemologies, such as e.g. standpoint epistemologies, situated knowledges and intersectional approaches. The course starts from postfoundational thinking, which is defined as a historical and epistemological moment of questioning and challenging established notions of subjectivity and knowledge production. It concentrates especially on an affirmative understanding and manoeuvering of differences and diversity in today's global context, and it elaborates them from multiple feminist traditions of thought and activism. The course enables the student to learn that any societal relevant phenomenon can be analysed with concepts and approaches derived from the large body of Gender Studies scholarship.

This course is for students in the MA Gender Studies; students from other M.A. programmes should check with the course coordinator before enrolling. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.
 
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