Queer theories and sex-dissident thought

Seminar 1922

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Facundo Nazareno Saxe and Atilio Raúl Rubino (IdIHCS/UNLP-CONICET, Argentina)
Home: 27 / 06 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 22/06/2019

Teaching team: Facundo Nazareno Saxe, Atilio Raúl Rubino, María Inés Moretti and Silvina Sanchez.

Workload: (12 weeks) 48 hours of work with the teacher and 120 hours of total dedication

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 17/06/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:
This course aims to introduce participants to gender-dissident thought through the collective and non-hierarchical construction of a historical, theoretical, and cultural genealogy of gender and sexual dissidence and its relationships with gender, feminism, and sex-political movements. To this end, key concepts and different moments in gender and sexual dissidence thought and its various cultural representations will be explored in an interdisciplinary approach linked to counter-hegemonic and subversive conceptualizations regarding the North-South centers of knowledge direction. Furthermore, gender and sexual dissidence will be addressed from a situated perspective that seeks to propose a multidirectional spatio-temporal framework for knowledge construction from feminist and gender-dissident positions. This involves thinking about gender and sexual dissidence outside of the usual cis-hetero-patriarchal constructions of knowledge. To this end, the course aims to comparatively examine different moments in the development of sex-dissident knowledge (situated in a "here and now"), as well as its connections to theorizations and cultural representations in various media. This approach, which will be developed throughout the course, seeks to challenge the idea of a single, hierarchical queer theory in order to comparatively (and queerly) consider the flows of theoretical and cultural sexual dissidence within a transnational system-node.

Contents:

Introduction to key concepts of dissidence, feminism, genders and sexualities.
Comparative sex-gender perspectives and genealogies of sex-gender dissidence.
Of sexual revolutions and counter-revolutions. The conservative turn and the disciplining from the thirties to the fifties.
Conservative turns and dreams of extermination: the German case to think about other modalities of sex-dissident memory.
Laboratories of sexual experimentation: sex-gender dissidences in the sixties and seventies.
Contexts of crisis and sex-dissident tensions in the face of normalization policies.
Queer Theory/Queer Theories/Queer Moment.
Criticism and normalization of queerness and the emergence of countersexuality.
Sex-gender dissidences as a system of simultaneities and feedbacks.
Sexual dissidences. Tensions, debates, reconceptualizations, drifts and enunciations.

General Bibliography of the Seminar

CABRAL, Mauro/MAFFÍA, Diana. “Are sexes inherent or constructed?” in MAFFÍA, Diana (ed.). Migrant Sexualities. Gender and Transgender. Buenos Aires: Librería de las mujeres, 2009, pp. 95-107.

MATTIO, Eduardo. “What do we talk about when we talk about gender? A conceptual introduction” in MORÁN FAÚNDES, José et al. (eds.). Reflections on sexual and reproductive rights. Córdoba: Ciencia, Derecho y Sociedad Editorial, 2012.

PRECIADO, Paul B. “Anal Terror: Notes on the First Days of the Sexual Revolution” in HOCQUENGHEM, Guy. Homosexual Desire. Barcelona: Melusina, 2009.

GOLDMANN, Emma. If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution. Buenos Aires: La mariposa y la iguana, 2015. [contains “The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation” and “The Hypocrisy of Puritanism”]

STORNI, Alfonsina. “Cuca” in Complete Works. Poetry, essay, journalism, theater. Comp. MUSCHIETTI, Delfina. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1999.

STORNI, Alfonsina. Writings: Images of Gender, Villa María: Eduvim, 2014 [“The Fossil Men”, “Diary of a Useless Girl”, “The Perfect Typist”]

CORREAS, Carlos. “The narration of history” in BRIZUELA, Leopoldo (comp.). History of a desire. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2000. [1959]

LLAMAS, Ricardo. Twisted Theory. Prejudices and Discourses Surrounding “Homosexuality”. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno de España Editores, 1998. [chapter: “First-Person Discourses”]

MANN, Klaus. “Homosexuality and fascism” in Orientations: magazine of homosexualities, No. 5, 2003.

HEGER, Heinz. The Men of the Pink Triangle: Memoirs of a Homosexual in the Nazi Concentration Camps. Madrid: Amaranto, 2009. [selection]

MÜLLER, Herta. Everything I have I carry with me [Atemschaukel]. Buenos Aires: Punto de lectura, 2011 [2009]. [Fragment]

RUBIN, Gayle. “Reflecting on Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of Sexuality” in VANCE, Carole (Ed.). Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Revolution,

MÉRIDA JIMÉNEZ, RM (ed.). Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Manifestos: Testimonies of a Struggle (1969-1994). Barcelona: Icaria, 2009. [chapters: A. Rich, preface to “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”; Audre Lorde, “The Uses of the Erotic: Eroticism as Power”; Cheryl Clarke, “Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance”; Larry Kramer, “The ACTing-UP Principle”]

GUIBERT, Hervé. Cytomegalovirus. Hospitalization Diary. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2012.

HARAWAY, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. Mar del Plata: Puente Aéreo, 2014 [1984].

WITTIG, Monique. The Heterosexual Mind and Other Essays. Madrid: Egales, 2006. [contains “The Heterosexual Mind”]

BUTLER, Judith. Gender Trouble. Barcelona: Paidós, 2007 [1990]. [selection]

CALIFIA, Pat. “A hidden side of lesbian sexuality” in WEINBERG, Thomas S. BDSM: Studies on domination and submission. Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2008 [1995].

LEMEBEL, Pedro. Mad Desire. Selection of AIDS Ward Chronicles. Buenos Aires: Anagrama/página12, 2009. [Contains “Manifesto” and “The Stonewall Bar”]

MISSÉ, Miguel. Transsexualities. Other possible perspectives. Barcelona, Egales, 2013. [Selection]

PRECIADO, Paul B. Counter-Sexual Manifesto. Madrid: Opera Prima, 2002 [2000]. [chapter “What is Counter-Sexuality”]

PRECIADO, Paul B. “Garbage and gender. Peeing/pooping. Masculine/feminine” in Errancia, the unfinished word. Journal of psychoanalysis, critical theory and culture, No. 0, 2011.

CABRAL, Mauro. “Thinking about intersexuality today” in MAFFÍA, Diana (comp.). Migrant sexualities. Gender and transgender. Buenos Aires: Librería de las mujeres, 2009, pp. 131-142.

BERKINS, Lohana. “The trans existentialists” in FERNÁNDEZ, Ana María/SIQUEIRA PERES, William (eds.), The unhinged difference. Genders and sexual diversities, Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2013, pp. 91-96.

BERKINS, Lohana. “A political itinerary of transvestism” in MAFFÍA, Diana (comp.). Migrant sexualities. Gender and transgender. Buenos Aires: Librería de las mujeres, 2009, pp. 143-156.

FLORES, val. “A zombie feminism? Promiscuity and contagion: decolonial trans feminist queer lesbian politics” in Interruqciones. Essays on activist poetics. Writing, politics, pedagogy. Neuquén: La Mondonga Dark, 2013.

WAYAR, Marlene. “Letter to Nadia Echazú” in BERKINS, Lohana/FERNANDEZ, Josefina (coords.). The feat of the proper name. Report on the situation of the transvestite community in Argentina. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Madres de Plaza de Mayo, 2013 [2005].

FLORES, val. “Small manual for teachers with concerns” in Soy-Página/12, March 16, 2012, Buenos Aires.

MOLLOY, Sylvia. Disarticulations. Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2010. (selection)

SHOCK, Susy. Upbringing. Stories for growing up in all diversity. Buenos Aires: Muchas nueces, 2016. (selection)

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Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
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The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

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A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.