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Contextualizing Gender

Prof. Rashmi Gaur · IIT Roorkee

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Lectures

week-01

  1. Lecture 01: Introduction, Aims and Objectives Video
  2. Lecture 02: Introduction to Gender Studies Video
  3. Lecture 03: Feminist Consciousness and Gendered Experiences in Simone de Beauvoir Video
  4. Lecture 04: Gender Perspectives in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (Volume 1) Video
  5. Lecture 05: Gender Perspectives in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (Volume 2) Video

week-02

  1. Lecture 06: Gender and Race Consciousness I Video
  2. Lecture 07: Gender and Race Consciousness II Video
  3. Lecture 08: Intersectionality Video
  4. Lecture 09: Gender and Power Politics in bell hooks Video
  5. Lecture 10: Gender and Power Politics in Audre Lorde Video

week-03

  1. Lecture 11: Gender-Blurring in Toni Morrison I Video
  2. Lecture 12: Gender-Blurring in Toni Morrison II Video
  3. Lecture 13: Gender-Blurring in Toni Morrison III Video
  4. Lecture 14: Unmasking Heterosexual Assumptions in Nancy Chodorow Video
  5. Lecture 15: Technologies of Gender in Teresa de Lauretis Video

week-04

  1. Lecture 16: Introduction to Queer Theory Video
  2. Lecture 17: Sex/Gender System in Gayle Rubin Video
  3. Lecture 18: Thinking Gender and Homosexuality in Gayle Rubin Video
  4. Lecture 19: Queer Theory and Literature in Eve Sedgwick Video
  5. Lecture 20: Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet Video

week-05

  1. Lecture 21: Introduction to Queer Literature Video
  2. Lecture 22: 21st Century Queer Fiction Video
  3. Lecture 23: Queer Cinema I Video
  4. Lecture 24: Queer Cinema II Video
  5. Lecture 25: Queer Representation in OTT Platforms Video

week-06

  1. Lecture 26: Introduction to Judith Butler Video
  2. Lecture 27: Gender Trouble I Video
  3. Lecture 28: Gender Trouble II Video
  4. Lecture 29: Bodies that Matter I Video
  5. Lecture 30: Bodies that Matter II Video

week-07

  1. Lecture 31: Speech and Subjectivity Video
  2. Lecture 32: Gender in Translation Video
  3. Lecture 33: Undoing Gender I Video
  4. Lecture 34: Undoing Gender II Video
  5. Lecture 35: Judith Butler and the Unaccountable Subject Video

week-08

  1. Lecture 36: Performativity, Precarity and Sexual Politics Video
  2. Lecture 37: Gender Politics and the Right to Appear Video
  3. Lecture 38: Global Gender Movements Video
  4. Lecture 39: Mapping the Theories of Social Movements Video
  5. Lecture 40: #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change Video

week-09

  1. Lecture 41: “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept” I Video
  2. Lecture 42: “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept” II Video
  3. Lecture 43: “Feminism and Men/Masculinities Scholarship” by Chris Beasley [Updated] Video
  4. Lecture 44: “Postcolonial Masculinities” by Fataneh Farahani and Suruchi Thapar-Bjo?rkert Video
  5. Lecture 45: “Engaging Men for Gender Justice” by Tal Peretz Video

week-10

  1. Lecture 46: Cyborg and Feminism in Anne Balsamo’s Technologies of the Gendered Body (I) Video
  2. Lecture 47: Cyborg and Feminism in Anne Balsamo’s Technologies of the Gendered Body (II) Video
  3. Lecture 48: Female Bodybuilding, Cosmetic Surgery and New Imaging Technologies in Anne Balsamo Video
  4. Lecture 49: The Virtual body in Anne Balsamo’s Technologies of the Gendered Body Video
  5. Lecture 50: Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology in Anne Balsamo Video

week-11

  1. Lecture 51: Introduction to Biopolitics and Gender by Jemima Repo Video
  2. Lecture 52: “Women or Womankind?" by Jemima Repo (I) Video
  3. Lecture 53: “Women or Womankind?" by Jemima Repo (II) Video
  4. Lecture 54: ‘Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary from Simians, Cyborgs and Women by Donna J. Haraway Video
  5. Lecture 55: Biopolitics, Gender Representation and Video Games Video

week-12

  1. Lecture 56: Introduction to the Literary Posthuman: Narratives of “Becoming Post—” Video
  2. Lecture 57: 'A Cyborg Manifesto' by Donna Harroway Video
  3. Lecture 58: 'Ex-Machina' and The Female Cyborg Video
  4. Lecture 59: “Re-figuring the Subject” by Rosi Braidotti Video
  5. Lecture 60: A Gender Perspective on COVID-19 Pandemic Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Roorkee
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Rashmi Gaur
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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