Gender and Diversity

Overview courses

• Theorizing Gender and Intersectionality

  This course introduces the theoretical perspectives in feminist, race, and intersectionality theory, and forms the backbone of the minor. It gives insight into the sex/gender debate, social constructionism and materialism, gender and race theory, the debate about intersectionality.

• Sexual Health: Threats and Opportunities

  Sexual Health aims at coming to a better understanding of sexual health in its societal and scientific context. In the course, theories and methodologies of research into sexual health will be studied, and implications of outcomes of such research for public health policy will be examined. 

• The Personal is Political: life-world and biographies of the Othered

  The course borrows "The personal is political", from the late 1970s women's movement, to engage with auto/biographies, storytelling and personhood. The course brings them forth to discuss how sexualities, pleasures, bodies, racialization, illnesses and disabilities intersect historically and become multidimensions of gendered differences and natureculture divide?  This question is based on the fact that the knowledge of “our” personhood are embedded within our imaginations and identities. We, humans, speak from that knowledge. This course dialogues with students to spotlight how knowledge of oneself and perspective into oneself is a biographical experience that is political and becomes political.

• Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion

  You will address questions around national and European identity, in which gender, (homo)sexuality and class have become prominent as markers of national inclusion and exclusion. You will study Islamophobic rightwing and Islamic radicalization as possible reactions to experienced threats to identity.

• American Film

  You will discuss key representations of the “Other” – in terms of race, sexuality, and gender – in American films such as Jezebel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Vertigo, and Alien.

• Religions and Gender

  In this course, you will learn about the relationship of religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto, Greek and Babylonian religions) to gender. For example: male and female models in religious narratives, historical shifts in the religious status of women, religious views of homosexuality and, masculinity in religious politics.