The aim of this interdisciplinary course is to develop and practice a critical way of looking at contemporary cultural practices. In these practices of production, dissemination and reception, masculinity and femininity are permanently (re)constructed, just as are concepts of class, race, ethnicity, and geopolitical location.
We will be studying cultural practices in various manifestations: popular culture (e.g. soaps, advertising, music icons) but also the cultural logic underlying art practice and visual ethnographic research. In all these sites old and new identities are being contested and reconstructed. The interaction between text and image will be main point of focus. The book can be bought at Savannah Bay (Telingstraat 13, Utrecht).
Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving
5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.
This course is the second course in the minor Gender Studies, for more information about this minor see
http://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/gender-studies.