OSUN Theme: Inequalities
Family, Gender, and Politics in the Age of Immaterial Labor
Term: June 5, 2023 – July 14, 2023Level: 100-Level
Day/Time: M/T/W/Th 9:00 AM EST - 10:45 AM EST
Instructor: Mariana Bodnaruk, Bard College
All Summer Courses are accredited through Bard College.
This course is a general introduction to the feminist and queer writing on the family, kinship, and reproduction, and aims to familiarize students with current theories of gender as a dimension of both social and subjective experience. Todays’ social reproduction theory updates an insight of autonomist feminism some fifty years prior: the feminized category of reproductive labor aids capitalist accumulation. Our current era of post-Fordist, immaterial labor offers an odd mix of family politics. But only by recognizing the question of family and family values at the center of the neoliberal project, we can make sense of the defining political alliance of our times, that between free-market economics and social conservatism. This is a discussion-based, seminar course that requires high levels of class participation.
Credits: 4 U.S./8 ECTS