240108 SE Seminar Individual Specialisation II (2022S)
Queere und Trans*Reproduktion, Familie und Verwandtschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
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Bitte beachten Sie, dass die Lehreinheiten im März 2022 eventuell digital stattfinden können. Sie erhalten zeitgerecht eine Information seitens der Lehrveranstaltungsleitung.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 07.02.2022 00:01 to Th 24.02.2022 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2022 23:59
Details
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes
The first 2 classes will be held online. (7.3. and 21.3). We start in person teaching from April on.
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Attendance (75% of class time), active participation (also in group work), 2 marked tasks, a short individual presentation, and based on one's choice either 2 short essays during the term or one seminar paper towards the end of the term (both options about a self-chosen topic corresponding to the seminar's content).
Assessment: active participation (20% of final grade), presentation (30%), seminar paper (50%).
Assessment: active participation (20% of final grade), presentation (30%), seminar paper (50%).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
2 marked tasks: 25%
Short individual presentation: 25%
Written work (either 2 short essays during term or one longer seminar paper at the end of term): 50%
Short individual presentation: 25%
Written work (either 2 short essays during term or one longer seminar paper at the end of term): 50%
Examination topics
Materials for assessment are all contents presented during the seminar.N.B.: COVID-19 alternative scenarios:
Scenario 1:
If course units cannot be held with students in attendance on campus,
• learning materials (e.g. PDFs, PowerPoint presentations or videos) will be made available in the Moodle course and
• communication with students will take place via communication tools (e.g. forum or chat) that are available in the Moodle course and
• planned tasks that would originally require the student to be present in the classroom (e.g. presentations, active group work within the course unit, active participation in class, etc.) will be replaced by tasks and activities in the video conference and in the Moodle course so students can work on and submit them there and
• course units will be held synchronously as a video conference.
For people who belong to a COVID-19 risk group, who are living with people belonging to a COVID-19 risk group, who are in quarantine due to COVID-19, or who are affected by travel restrictions and therefore cannot attend courses personally, relevant materials will be made available in the Moodle course and individual substitute forms of assessment will be offered to allow for the completion of the required study achievement.Scenario 2:
Parts of course units can be held with students in attendance, and parts of course units can be held online.
Those parts in attendance will be held with Covid-19 measures: if the weather allows, as much as possible of the teaching will be held outside (meeting point in the assigned classroom with FFP2 face masks). If the weather is not permitting, we will be in the assigned classroom with face masks on (no cloth face coverings or vizors), physical distancing, and open windows (bring warm jackets in cold weather!). The rest of the teaching will be held online as described in scenario 1.
Scenario 1:
If course units cannot be held with students in attendance on campus,
• learning materials (e.g. PDFs, PowerPoint presentations or videos) will be made available in the Moodle course and
• communication with students will take place via communication tools (e.g. forum or chat) that are available in the Moodle course and
• planned tasks that would originally require the student to be present in the classroom (e.g. presentations, active group work within the course unit, active participation in class, etc.) will be replaced by tasks and activities in the video conference and in the Moodle course so students can work on and submit them there and
• course units will be held synchronously as a video conference.
For people who belong to a COVID-19 risk group, who are living with people belonging to a COVID-19 risk group, who are in quarantine due to COVID-19, or who are affected by travel restrictions and therefore cannot attend courses personally, relevant materials will be made available in the Moodle course and individual substitute forms of assessment will be offered to allow for the completion of the required study achievement.Scenario 2:
Parts of course units can be held with students in attendance, and parts of course units can be held online.
Those parts in attendance will be held with Covid-19 measures: if the weather allows, as much as possible of the teaching will be held outside (meeting point in the assigned classroom with FFP2 face masks). If the weather is not permitting, we will be in the assigned classroom with face masks on (no cloth face coverings or vizors), physical distancing, and open windows (bring warm jackets in cold weather!). The rest of the teaching will be held online as described in scenario 1.
Reading list
Butler, Judith. 2002. ”Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?” differences 13.1: 14–44.
–. 2002. Antigone’s Claim. New York: Columbia University Press.
Collier, Jane Fishburne, and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako, eds. 1987. Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Craven, Christa, and Elizabeth Peel. 2014. ”Stories of Grief and Hope: Queer Experiences of Reproductive Loss.” In Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Margaret F. Gibson, 97–110. Bradford: Demeter Press.
Dahl, Ulrika. 2018. (The promise of) Monstrous kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference. Somatechnics, 8(2). Pp. 195-211.
–. 2018. Becoming fertile in the land of organic milk: Lesbian and queer reproductions of femininity and motherhood in Sweden. Sexualities, 21(7). Pp. 1021-1038.
Deomampo, Daisy. 2013. “Gendered Geographies of Reproductive Tourism” Gender & Society 27 (4). pp. 514- 537.
Deomampo, Daisy. 2013. “Transnational Surrogacy in India” Frontiers 34 (3). pp. 167-188.
Duggan, Lisa. 2003. The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press.
Ehrenreich, Nancy Ed. 2008. The Reproductive Rights Reader. Law Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood. New York University Press, New York/London.
Edelman, Lee. 2005. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press.
Eng, David. 2010. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Durham: Duke University Press.
Franklin, Sarah. 2013. Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future Kinship Duke University Press, Durham/London.
Freeman, Elizabeth. 2007.”Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory.” In A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry, 295–314. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Halberstam, Judith. 2005. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, SubculturalLives. New York: New York University Press.
–. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hayden, Corine. 1995. ”Gender, Genetics and Generation: Reformulating Biology in
Lesbian Kinship.” Cultural Anthropology 10.1:41–63.
Hudson, David. 2014. ”Lesbian Woman Sues US sperm Bank after Giving Birth to a
Mixed-Race Child.” Gay Star News, October 2. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/
lesbian-woman-sues-us-sperm-bank-after-giving-birth-mixed-race-child021014.
Mamo, Laura. 2007. Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience Duke University Press, Durham & London.
Malmqvist, Anna. 2014. ”Women in Lesbian Relations: Construing Equal or Unequal Parental Roles?” Psychology of Women Quarterly June:1–12.
Muñoz, José Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NewYork: New York University Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2002. ”Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality.” Public Culture 14.1:215–38.
Roberts, Dorothy: Race, gender, and genetic technologies: A new reproductive dystopia? Signs 34 (4), 2009. S. 783-804.
Strathern, Marilyn. 1992. Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the Reproductive Technologies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Stockton, Kathryn Bond. 2009. The Queer Child: Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press.
Russel, Camisha (2018): The Assisted Reproduction of Race, Bloomington.
Thompson, Charis (2013) Good Science: the ethical choreography of stem cell research MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London.
Thompson, Charis (2011) “Medical Migrations Afterword: Science as a Vacation?” Body & Society 17 (2&3). pp. 205-213.
Thompson, Charis (2005) Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Weston, Kath. 1991. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press.
–. 2002. Antigone’s Claim. New York: Columbia University Press.
Collier, Jane Fishburne, and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako, eds. 1987. Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Craven, Christa, and Elizabeth Peel. 2014. ”Stories of Grief and Hope: Queer Experiences of Reproductive Loss.” In Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Margaret F. Gibson, 97–110. Bradford: Demeter Press.
Dahl, Ulrika. 2018. (The promise of) Monstrous kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference. Somatechnics, 8(2). Pp. 195-211.
–. 2018. Becoming fertile in the land of organic milk: Lesbian and queer reproductions of femininity and motherhood in Sweden. Sexualities, 21(7). Pp. 1021-1038.
Deomampo, Daisy. 2013. “Gendered Geographies of Reproductive Tourism” Gender & Society 27 (4). pp. 514- 537.
Deomampo, Daisy. 2013. “Transnational Surrogacy in India” Frontiers 34 (3). pp. 167-188.
Duggan, Lisa. 2003. The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press.
Ehrenreich, Nancy Ed. 2008. The Reproductive Rights Reader. Law Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood. New York University Press, New York/London.
Edelman, Lee. 2005. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press.
Eng, David. 2010. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Durham: Duke University Press.
Franklin, Sarah. 2013. Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future Kinship Duke University Press, Durham/London.
Freeman, Elizabeth. 2007.”Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory.” In A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry, 295–314. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Halberstam, Judith. 2005. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, SubculturalLives. New York: New York University Press.
–. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hayden, Corine. 1995. ”Gender, Genetics and Generation: Reformulating Biology in
Lesbian Kinship.” Cultural Anthropology 10.1:41–63.
Hudson, David. 2014. ”Lesbian Woman Sues US sperm Bank after Giving Birth to a
Mixed-Race Child.” Gay Star News, October 2. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/
lesbian-woman-sues-us-sperm-bank-after-giving-birth-mixed-race-child021014.
Mamo, Laura. 2007. Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience Duke University Press, Durham & London.
Malmqvist, Anna. 2014. ”Women in Lesbian Relations: Construing Equal or Unequal Parental Roles?” Psychology of Women Quarterly June:1–12.
Muñoz, José Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NewYork: New York University Press.
Povinelli, Elizabeth. 2002. ”Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality.” Public Culture 14.1:215–38.
Roberts, Dorothy: Race, gender, and genetic technologies: A new reproductive dystopia? Signs 34 (4), 2009. S. 783-804.
Strathern, Marilyn. 1992. Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the Reproductive Technologies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Stockton, Kathryn Bond. 2009. The Queer Child: Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press.
Russel, Camisha (2018): The Assisted Reproduction of Race, Bloomington.
Thompson, Charis (2013) Good Science: the ethical choreography of stem cell research MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London.
Thompson, Charis (2011) “Medical Migrations Afterword: Science as a Vacation?” Body & Society 17 (2&3). pp. 205-213.
Thompson, Charis (2005) Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Weston, Kath. 1991. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Th 03.03.2022 15:48
The questions about kinship and reproduction are politically highly contested, as on one hand to want and have children is seen as a fundamental, universal and natural desire among humans, but on the other hand not all types of families and reproductive practices are accepted and count as “normal”. Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), for example allowed in Austria since 2015 for lesbian couples, are medical procedures such as In Vitro Fertilization, semen, egg or embryo donations and surrogacy. ARTs have developed and are distributed globally and question the “naturalness” of heterosexual sex acts and reproduction as the basis for building a family. ARTs have caused many and complex ethical questions.
Questions which we will answer in this course are: How do LGBTIQ-people create, practice and narrate kinship and family alliances? What kind of national and international challenges do they face? How does queer and trans* kinship broaden and reconfigure the connotations of kinship and family in an ethnographic and biological sense? What kind of concerns exist about ART, especially their biopolitical consequences on ethnicities, rassifications and nations?
At the end, if desired and enough time is left, we can elaborate on three Greek tragedies, Sophocles' Oedipus, the King and Antigone, and Euripides' The Bacchae. Based on Judith Butler's interpretations of these tragedies, we consider alternative ways of thinking and queer and trans* rewritings about non-normative kinship. Are all forms of non-normative kinship tragic? What are the conditions under which we come to recognize new forms of kinship that do not lead only to tragic consequences?
We will read theoretical and scientific works about queer and trans* families and kinship, and texts from anthropology, literary studies, contemporary history, feminist philosophy and psychoanalysis, sociology and science & technology studies. Furthermore, contemporary films and videos are used.
Teaching and Learning Aims: Students should get a comprehensive overview concerning
• queer and trans* reproduction, family and kinship.
• unequal challenges and adverse effects for LGBTIQ-people’s reproductive possibilities and which kind of questions arise with ART.
Students learn:
• critical and analytical reading and writing techniques.
• how pivotal scientific and ethnographic questions about kinship and reproduction can be answered.
• how reproductive and family/kinship challenges look like for LGBTIQ-people.
• how tools from ethnography and Gender Studies are used to solve contemporary problems of LGBTIQ families and reproduction.
Teaching Methods: Close readings with questions and analytical schema, Blended Learning, flipped classroom when possible, interactive taks ( pair and group work, plenum, World Café, Expert groups, etc.), materials and tasks on Moodle. Close readings of texts with questions and analytical schema, interactive tasks, pair and group work, short individual presentations, mini lectures by lecturer mostly with PowerPoint.
Materials used: text, internet, films, audio, images, etc.
With time for discussions and Q&A.