2018 - 2019

0607-5405-01
  Gendered Temporalities: Feminist Interpretations of Time, Age & the Life-Course                     
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Kinneret LahadRosenberg - Jewish Studies2121600-2000 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

"Time" is a central dimension of social order, provides us with a sense of orientation, constitutes and reflects taken for granted and normative structures of domination. Through "time", we create social orders, norms, collective rhythms, bodies of knowledge, meaning and morality. This course will discuss in detail feminist and queer scholarship which criticizes hegemonic temporalities and aims to revisit binary notions such as “feminine time” “masculine time” and examine the temporal dimensions of power relations and gender identities. The tone of the course will be analytical during which we will also discuss the relations between ageism and sexism, images of the life course and its various time stations, the gendered duty to balance between work and family life, “free time”, hetrenormative time and family time. The course’s readings include classical and contemporary texts written by Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Tom Boellstorff, Judith Jack Halberstam, Kathleen Woodward, Susan Sontag, and more.

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