NPTEL - Contextualizing Gender
offered by IIT Roorkee

Public/Government Institute
Estd. 1847

Contextualizing Gender
at
IIT Roorkee
Overview

Learn everything you need to know about Introducing Queer Theory and give a boost to your professional career

Duration	12 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Contextualizing Gender
at
IIT Roorkee
Highlights

Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee

Contextualizing Gender
at
IIT Roorkee
Course details

Who should do this course?

For Interested Students

More about this course

This course aims to introduce students to an interdisciplinary framework that allows them to explore and theorize the intersectional nature of gender and culture
The course will stimulate a nuanced discussion on gender inequality, sexuality, masculinity, and the interaction of gendered social processes
The students will get the opportunity to examine new ways of looking at gender possibilities, like contextualizing the plurality of bodies at the intersection of science and technology
The current development of Artificial Intelligence and cyborg technologies formulate a new form of scientific biopower, which can envision concepts such as post-human and post-woman under a transhumanist discourse

Contextualizing Gender
at
IIT Roorkee
Curriculum

Week 1

Intersecting Gender and Feminism

Feminist Consciousness and Gendered Experiences in Simone de Beauvoir

Week 2

Gender and Race: Black Feminism and Intersectionality

Week 3

Gender Blurring and Unmasking Heterosexual Assumptions: Toni Morrison, Nancy Chodorow and Teresa de Lauretis

Week 4

Introducing Queer Theory: Eve Sedgwick and Gayle Rubin

Week 5

Gender Performativity and the Heterosexual Matrix: Judith Butler

Week 6

Gender, Speech and Subjectivity: Judith Butler

Week 7

Precarity, Assembly and Gender Politics: Judith Butler

Week 8

Gender and Nonconformity: Queer Literature and Global Social Movements

Week 9

Contextualizing Contemporary Masculinities and Approaches to Men's Studies

Week 10

Cyborg Women and Technologies of the Gendered Body: Anne Balsamo

Week 11

Biopolitics of the Gendered Body: Jemima Repo, Emily Cox-Palmer-White and Donna Haraway

Week 12

Post-Human and Post-Woman: Nomadic Subjectivities and the Futures of Gender: Rosi Braidotti and Francesca Ferrando

Contextualizing Gender
at
IIT Roorkee
Faculty details

Prof. Rashmi Gaur

Professor Rashmi Gaur teaches courses of Communication, Culture, Gender Studies and Media (Film and Literature) at IIT Roorkee. In her career, spanning three decades, she has guided about 12 Ph.D. theses, published four books, more than ninety research papers in national and international journals, besides participating in many conferences in India and abroad.