🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This course examines theories of gender and sexuality in relation to performance, for both women and men. The focus will be on artists who emerged in the 60s, 70s, and 80s whose work defined, influenced, and to some extent influenced contemporary theories of gender as they intersect with other cultural phenomena and movements such as feminism, environmentalism, Marxism, materialism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, and post-colonialism. These artists brought to the fore issues such as: the body in pain, trauma, masculinity, globalization, the image, the viewer, voyeurism, the artist in society, intertextuality, gender identity, dualistic thinking, embodiment, race, binary structures, desire, temporality/space, objectification, trans studies, identity politics, masculinity, gaze, rape, prostitution, violence, disability, motherhood, beauty, representation, performativity and forms of protest. With these as reference points, he will explore issues of self, authenticity, difference in execution, and identities in transition. Students will be able to explore performance using a range of theoretical approaches drawn from gender and sexuality studies.

Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theories, histories, and performance of gender/gender.

• Critically analyze and creatively explore the ways in which social and biological sex are represented and staged.

• Articulate an understanding of the relationship between theatre, drama and performance of different periods, as well as the material, cultural and historical contexts of sexuality and gender.

• Analyze performance texts using both theoretical and practical perspectives.

• Produce practical work that explores gender and gender ethically and creatively using appropriate and original stimuli and resources.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (3 hours)

1. Introduction - Definition of the concept of Gender

2. Biological/Social Gender

3. The Body

4. The Gaze

5. Image

6. Violence

7. The maternal body

8. Queerness

9. Gender as Performance

10. Masculinity

11. Trans-sexuality/Queer Identities

12. Protest as Performance

13. Redefining Gender and Sexuality

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Attendance/Attendance: 10 %

• Short Presentation: 40%

• Final Written Assignment: 50%

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.

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🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Butler, J. (2010). Gender Disorder. Alexandria Publications.

Extra Bibliography

• Allain, P. and Harvie, J. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (2006)

• Bernardin, Susan, The Routledge Companion to Gender in the American West (2022)

• Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter (2011)

• Butler, Judith. “Critically Queer.” GLQ 1.1 (1993): 17-32.

• Clark, Anna. Desire, A History of European Sexuality (2008)

• Dolan, Jill. Theatre and Sexuality (2010)

• Dolan, Jill. The Feminist Spectator (2005)

• Dolan, Jill. Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (1994)

• Fausto-Sterling, Anne.  “Dueling Dualisms” and “Should There Be Only Two Sexes?” Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.  New York: Basic Books, 2000, pp. 1-29, 78-114.

• Halberstam, Jack. “‘Trans* - Gender Transitivity and New Configurations of Body, History, Memory and Kinship’.” Parallax 22:3 (2016): 366–375.

• Halferty, Paul and Leeny, Cathy, Analysing Gender in Performance (2022)

• Lips, Hilary, M. Gender: The Basics (2019)

• Perkins, KA. The Routledge Companion to African-American Theatre and Performance (2018)

• Prosser, Jay. “Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex.” The Transgender Studies Reader. Eds. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. New York: Routledge, 2006: 257-280.

• Rodowick, David. “The Difficulty of Difference”. In The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory. New York: Routledge, 1991. 1-17

• Rapi, Nina et al.  Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance (1998)

• Shaw, Fiona et al, The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance (1998)

• Solga, Kim. Theatre and Feminism (2016)

• Aston, E and Harris, G. (2012), A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.

• Causey, M and Walsh, F (eds) (2013), Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject

• Gay, J. Goodman, L (2003), Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women