Course Program
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1: Introduction and Review to Gender and Sexuality Part 1
Reviewing concepts of gender, sex, and sexuality.
Definition of terms and reviewing the Genderbread Models.
The Gender Aptitude Test by Kate Bornstein.
Inclusive Language
Week 2: Sex vs Gender
Breaking down the concepts of sex and gender
Introducing the Genderbread Model
***Class Seatwork
Week 3: Transgender History and Transgender Studies Part 1
Judith Butler and Gender Performativity
Discussion focused on Leslie Feinberg’s “Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman.”
***Practicing your essays
Week 4: FEMINISM
Waves of Feminism
Where LGBTQ people figure in
Intersectionality
The Intersections of Race, Gender, Feminisms and Otherness
Julia Serrano’s Transgender Manifesto
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Week 5: INTERSEX, TWO SPIRIT, and TRANSGENDER HISTORY
Week 6: Part 1: Discovering Transness and Otherness in “Some of Asia”
The Babaylans: A walk into the pre-colonial and colonial Philippines’ transness and otherness
Discussion on the Historical evidences available on the pre-colonial identities of transness and otherness such as the Babaylans and the trans nomenclature during those times from Brewer, Alegre and Garcia.
Texts discussion of B. Alegre’s “Transpinays”
Carolyn Brewer: “Holy Confrontation Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the Philippines.”
J. Neil Garcia: Chapter: “Pre-Colonial Cross-Dressing and the Babaylan Chronicles in the Philippines”
***Assessment: 1 question in-class essay
Week 7: Part 2: Hong Kong and the Victorian Queers: Finding spaces during the colony years
Discussion on “Trans in Asia, Asian in Trans” by Chiang, Henry and Leung.
Discussion on “Unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities in Hong Kong Action Cinema (pp. 81-98)”
Week 8: Beauty and the Beast: whitening, transitioning, body modifications
Discussion on Peter Jackson’s Performative Genders, Perverse Desires”
Occidentalisation of Beauty https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/isl/files/occidentalisation_of_beauty_standards_eurocentrism.pdf
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Week 9 :
Discussion on the intersections of gender, transness and sex work among transwomen in Thailand and the Philippines including those who migrate in Hong Kong.
Discussion on the Chapters on Thailand and the Philippines in TvT Social Experiences of Trans people in The Philippines and Thailand (Alegre et al.; Khangpiboon).
***Assessment: 1 question in-class essay
Week 10 : Transness in Cinema
***Assessment: In Class Essay on the film screened written essay per individual to Reflect and propose improvements on Transgender rights in their respective countries.
***Submission of Final project: Group Video and the Individual MOOC Doing Gender and why it matters
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Note: *** - Required student activity and or course assessment(s) in and out of class. These "***" are subject to change, students will be informed accordingly during the lecture.