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This module introduces students to key debates in decolonial approaches to gender and sexuality studies. It explores how complex and plural interpretations of gender, sexuality, and feminist concerns are inextricably linked to race, ethnicity, colonisation, and nationality.听听

The module provides an academic foundation of the topic in two ways. First, it contextualises the intellectual landscape through which decolonial approaches emerge in gender and sexuality studies. It introduces students to earlier tensions surrounding gender, feminisms, and sexuality by approaching canonical texts in the field that have challenged and influenced research methods in different and sometimes conflicting ways. Through these readings, students will gain knowledge of the intimate connection between decolonial ways of thinking and issues of postcoloniality, globalisation, transnationalism, and intersectionality, amongst other terms.鈥疘n the second part, students will learn about particular interdisciplinary discussions in gender and sexuality studies in tension with decolonial approaches.鈥疍iscussions include theorising the 鈥渜ueer鈥�, feminist archives, reproductive justice, the university curriculum, politics of temporality, decolonising decolonisation, amongst others.鈥疭tudents will learn about a range of contemporary events whilst familiarising themselves with new and upcoming decolonial literature and visions.鈥�听

A fundamental aim of this module is to cultivate a critical view of multiple forms of cultural and political representation, where issues concerning race, ethnicity, and coloniality are not understood as additional frames of analysis but fundamental to understanding gender, sexuality and feminisms. Therefore, the module will encourage students to critically reflect on their standpoint when researching gender, sexuality, and feminisms.听

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Readings for the module include:听

1. Ahmed, S. (2016) 鈥楬ow Not to Do Things with Words鈥�.听

2. Cusicanqui, S. R. (2018) A Ch鈥檌xi World is Possible: Essays from a Present in Crisis.听

3. Gonzalez, L. (1988) 鈥楩or an Afro-Latin American Feminism鈥�.听

4. Isasi-Di虂az, M. and Mendieta, E. (2012) Decolonizing Epistemologies: Latina/o Theology and Philosophy.听听

5. Lugones, M. (2007) 鈥楬eterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System鈥�.听

6. Lugones, M. (2010) 鈥楾oward a Decolonial Feminism鈥�.听

7. Mignolo, W. (2018) 鈥楾he Invention of the Human and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power: Racism, Sexism, and Nature鈥�.听

8. Mohanty, C. (2003) Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity.听

9. Morgensen, S. L. (2010) 鈥楽ettler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities鈥�.听听

10. Oy臎w霉m铆, O. (1997) The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses听

11. Pierce, J. M. et al. (2021) 鈥楥uir/Queer Ame虂ricas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable鈥�.听

12. Pitts, A. J., et al. (2019) Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.听听

13. Quijano, A. (2000) 鈥楥oloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America鈥�. .听

14. Rowe, A. C. (2017) 鈥楢 Queer Indigenous Manifesto鈥�.听听

15. Tuck, E., and Yang, W. K. (2012) 鈥楧ecolonisation is not a metaphor鈥�.听