Gender Studies MA

“Model of Futurity” / Roundtable participants: Kai Lumumba Barrow, Yve Laris Cohen, and Kalaniopua Young; Moderator: Dean Spade (pp. 321-337) " We  are in  a  crisis moment, and within  conflict and crisis, change occurs. 2)  Our response to  state violence has become  ritualized. We participate in a “spectacle  of protest”  that  is  strong on  performance but lacks a generative strategy. 3) Our  evolving  movement  is  well  resourced and has access to numerous  platforms." p.322 "A re our  tactics and methods  of dissent predictable?  Do  our tactics of disruption really  heighten the contradic  tions  between anti-Black violence and Black  liberation?" p.322 "S imilarly, the  act of constructing transformative futures allows us  to  imag  ine ourselves  outside of the borders...

"Trans History in a Moment of Danger: Organising within and Beyond 'Visibility' in the 1970s'" - Abram J.Lewis (pp.57-89) "Within and beyond activist communities, the 1970's threw trans issues and identities into the national spotlight. During this decade, trans activists became leaders in gay and women's liberation movements, and they were important contributors to an expansive Left print culture." p.59 "70's activists also recognised - and sought to build coalitions with - a wide range of marginalised gender and sexual communities." p.60 "Perhaps one of the greatest resources that 1970s trans communities offer to our conditions of neoliberal austerity in the present is their effort to theorise and effect trans justice outside of the limitations of mainstream reform institutions - institutions from which trans people found themselves increasingly excluded as the '70s progressed" p.61 "Facing increasingly ...

Lauren Berlant (2011): Chapter 5 – Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta in Cruel Optimism (pp. 161-189) "The ongoing prospect of low-waged and uninteresting labour is for Rosetta nearly utopian; it makes possible imagining living the proper  life that capitalism offers as a route to the good  life." p163-164

Rosalind Coward (1993): Chapter 5 - The concept of the family in Marxist theory, in Patriarchal Precedents (pp.130-162) The family and the social totality Engel claimed "that the history of the family has revealed the relationship between the state and private property" p.132 "the family was a concept by which the interaction between various elements of the social formation was theorised" p.133 Engels made Marx more relevant - he "liberated Marx's sociological work from the special economic form in which it first appeared and placed it in the larger framework of a general conception of society" p.134 (But actually from a source in the book) "Studies of the history of the family were the bearers of speculation on the nature and form of alliances between groups... Perhaps this centrality would also explain a factor which has often puzzled commentators on the history of marxism. For these commentators have often been worried by the fact tha...

Barrett & McIntosh (2015 [1982]): Chapter IV – Strategies for change in The Anti-social Family (pp. 131-159) “the danger of functionalism is that the style of analysis tends to ignore, as does conspiracy theory, dimensions of the family not immediately explicable as serving the interest of a particular ruling class or sex.” P.131 A recap of the Marxist critique of the family under capitalism: “It is an agency of socialisation, a key institution for the reproduction of capitalist ideology and capitalist social relations. It is a vehicle for the inheritance of private property and a mechanism for class placement.” P.131-132 The working class did not as enthusiastically take up the Marxist critique of the family, as conceived by and fought for by Socialists. Instead, the working class found it improved their living conditions and did not question the inheritance of the son through the father. The Socialists believed they were suffering from a ‘false consciousness...

“Director’s Foreword” / Lisa Phillips (pp. xi-xiv) and “Known Unknowns: An Introduction to Trap Door” / Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton (pp. xv-xxvi) " Trap Door  examines the paradox of this moment: seeming embrace paired with violent rejection." p.xii “Out of Obscurity: Trans Resistance 1969-2016” / Grace Dunham (pp. 91-119) "The AIDS epidemic, as well as ongoing violence against Black and Latinx trans people, resulted in massive losses of both life and collective memory. With so many trans people disappeared and forgotten, few remained alive long enough to carry accounts of resistance into canonical histories." p.93 "Trans political life was not born out of institutions; it rubbed up against and resisted them." p.93 "On the one hand, white gays and lesbians continued to build their platforms around such normalising agendas as marriage rights, employment security and the general tenets of equality. At the same time, the U...