230541 SE Gender, Class & Race (2006S)

Does it matter to be a woman or a man in the sciences? Does our social class and race-ethnicity background matter? In what ways do these categoreis interact with each other? In this course we critically examine the argument that gender, social class and race-ethnicity lead to processes of marginalization in the sciences. We start out to determine what we mean with these often used but hardly defined categories. We then engage with texts that show us how they become relevant in the sciences. After we have established this groundwork for our discussions we draw on poststructuralist, psychoanalytic and critical theories to grasp how marginalization works. This understanding will allow us to arrive at our final goal: to elaborate in what ways we can resist and counter marginalization and create sciences in which women, working-class people and racial minorities can thrive.