Gender and Social Inequality

Announcements

Gender and Media Online Programme Area

Netiquette

Extra Reading/Relevant websites, blogs and journals

Resource Sharing

Link to SOAS Essentials Guide

Gender Studies Subject Guide

Assesment Information, and Forums

Weekly Topics Forum

E-tivity 1: Access and Socialisation

E-tivity 2: Information Retrieval

Assignment 2 (AS2) – 2023/24

E-tivity 3: Text Critique I

Assignment 3 (AS3) – 2023/24

E-tivity 4: Essay Plan

Assignment 4 (AS4) – 2023/24

E-tivity 5: Text Critique II (Bespoke)

Assignment 5 (AS5) – 2023/24

E-tivity 6: Final Submission

Assignment 6 (AS6) – 2023/24

Resources for Assignments

E-tivity Calendar

SOAS Student Learning Centre

Relevant SOAS policies

Essay Questions 2024

Monthly Live Zoom Seminars

Slides from workshop

Topic 1: Feminist Theory and the Study of Social Inequality

Recommended Readings

Topic 1 Introductory Video

Slides from the Topic Introdction Video

Introductory video transcript

What is Capitalism? (Short Video)

Robin D. G. Kelley - What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? (Long Video)

Zillah Eisenstein on, ‘CAPITALIST &amp; RACIST PATRIARCHY’ (Long Video)

Feminism for the 99% (Short Video)

Nancy Fraser: Marx and Feminism (Short Video)

bell hooks on interlocking systems of domination (Short Video)

How do racism and patriarchy intersect? (Short Video)

Postcolonialism: WTF? An Intro to Postcolonial Theory

Introducing Feminism in International Relations Theory (Article)

Topic 2: Intersectionality and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender

Recommended Readings

The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw (Long Video)

Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality? (Short Video)

Angela Davis on Intersectional Feminism (Short Video)

Kimberlé Crenshaw Discusses 'Intersectional Feminism' (Short Video)

Intersectional Frameworks and Marxist Analysis (Long Video)

Intersectionality - Video Transcript

Intersectionality - Slides from Video

Intersectionality and Inequality - Video Link

Topic 3: Gender and Labour Under Capitalism

Recommended Readings

Tithi Bhattacharya | What is Social Reproduction Theory?

What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Social Reproduction Theory and Labor Theory of Value

Aaron Jaffe - Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon - with Sara Farris | Pluto Live

8 Minutes with Silvia Federici

«Marx imagined a totally asexual worker»

The History of Wages for Housework

Gender and Labour Under Capitalism Video Link

Slides from Video

Gender and Labour Under Capitalism Video Transcript

Topic 4: Gender, Empire, Nation

Recommended Readings

Know Your African Feminists: Dr. Amina Mama

Lila Abu-Lughod / The Cunning of Gender Violence

Lila Abu Lughod - Muslim Women and the Freedom to Choose

Gender identity: ‘How colonialism killed my culture’s gender fluidity’ - BBC World Service

Was Gender Fluidity ‘Mainstream’ in Pre-Colonial India?

COLONIAL REPERCUSSIONS - Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Françoise Vergès, Rahul Rao: Panel "Desire"

Gendering Modernity: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

Video - Gender, Empire, Nation

Video Transcript - Gender, Empire, Nation

Slides from Video

Topic 5: Gendering/Sexualising State Power

Recommended Readings

Sovereignty Explained | World101

Keynote Lecture: "The Effect of the State"

(Un)Making Sexual States: Antisodomy Law and Racialization in India - Jyoti Puri

Zillah Eisenstein on, ‘CAPITALIST & RACIST PATRIARCHY’ (Long Video)

The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation & Garments Made in India, SOAS

CASAR Lecture: Politics of Rightful Killing: Iranian Transgender Refugees & Promise of Freedom

Feminism & Abolition Lecture with Angela Davis