Sociology of Gender: Exclusion and Resistance through Intersectional Decolonial Trans, Intersex, Queer and Feminist Theory [Seminar]

The course examines theoretical approaches to the sociology of gender, focusing on a decolonial, intersectional, trans-intersex-queer feminist approach. Inspired by Auguste Comte, who coined the term «sociology,» the course aims to understand how a gendered-racial discourse about class, gendered, racial purity, and decency is reproduced through gender. The concept of racial oppression and denigration, which exists in a white-dominated society and science, will also be central to our approach, through the work of Franz Fanon. Furthermore, we will delve into the perspectives of decolonial feminist theory, such as those of Françoise Vergès and María Lugones, as well as the theory of decolonial sociology, such as that of sociologist Julian Go and sociologist Vrushali Patil. This will help us to highlight both the history of gender-racial repression, the role of Euro-American eugenic colonialism through white science, and the forms of resistance, as well as the possibility of a post-colonial sociology of (social) gender, in the abolition of the construction of a gender-racial dimorphism, a discourse of half-disability and the consequent annihilation of trans-intersex life, but also of nature.