Course ID
039330
Course Description
Working with the assertion that \"the personal is political\" that emerged from Feminist of Color scholarship, this course will introduce students to transgender identity and politics through memoir, autobiography, and self-narrative. Students will learn how transgender people require a story that authenticates their identification in order to receive medical, legal, and social care. From questions about pronoun use to \"When did you know\" or \"How do you know,\" transgender identity has a unique relationship with self-narrative and the biographical. How has this biographical imperative of transgender subjectivity shaped theoretical, political, and aesthetic debates in Transgender Studies? Attentive to questions of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability, this course will study how \"the story of self\" reveals the bond between embodiment and subjectivity, the experiential and the social, inside and outside, and semiotics and materiality.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Requisites
Student should have completed one GWS course or equivalent.
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No