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This is an advanced-level, in-depth, discussion-based module that seeks to challenge and extend students鈥� engagement with gender theory and research. The course asks what it is to 鈥榙o鈥� gender studies, exploring methodological approaches as well as questions of form in feminist writing and the politics of representing both the self and multiple 鈥榦thers鈥�. The first half of the course provides an introduction to feminist epistemology and methodological issues, before going on to look at a range of innovative forms of enquiry. Drawing on a variety of feminist approaches, for example to poetry and auto-ethnography, memoir and drawing, to photography and archives, the course explores alternative techniques for capturing the complexity of gender relations in research. Concerned with intersecting axes of social belonging such as class, race and sexuality, especially as these coalesce around ideas of 鈥榗ulture鈥�, the course embraces the complexity 鈥� and contradictions 鈥� of researching, reading, writing and representing gender through research.鈥�
Preparatory Reading
- Alcoff, L. and Potter, E. eds (1993) Feminist Epistemologies. New York: Routledge.听
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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