Teaching
This academic year Marie-Louise Janssen is teaching the courses:
- MA Thesis seminar Telling Gender and Sexual Stories (Feb-July 2021)
- Sex Work in its Local and Global Complexity (BA) (Feb-March 2021)
- Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (Sept-Dec 2020)
- Intersections of Culture, Sexuality & Gender (MA) (Sept - Dec 2020)
- Bachelor Onderzoek Sociologie Gender and Sexuality, 2019, UvA.
- Summer Course Introduction into Sexuality Studies, 2019, UvA, Amsterdam.
- Summer Course Sexuality, Culture and Society, 2019, UvA.
- Theorizing Sexualities (BA) (Feb-March 2018)
This course examines the historical evolution, different policy approaches, and political, cultural and feminist discourses concerning prostitution used to approach the subject, and intends to engage the students in efforts to articulate their own position concerning the issue of sexwork. It gives insights into the complexity of the subject and contests the myths and prejudices concerning prostitution by replacing them with a culturally specific analysis that can account for change overtime as well developmental and regional differences. A range of subjects will be treated in the course,including the different histories of prostitution in different regions of the world, female, male, transgender and child prostitution, human trafficking, clientsand sextourism. Guest speakers representing key Dutch organizations will provide informative sessions on several of the issues.
- Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Politics (BA) (Feb - June 2018)
This course introduces the key themes and theories in the field of gender and sexuality studies. Its first part is devoted to the historical development of the social meaning of gender and sexuality and how it differs from natural - or essentialist - explanations. We will examine the political critique of inequalities as articulated by social movements, like feminists and gays, and assess how it has contributed to the emergence of gender and sexuality studies. On the basis of classic and contemporary texts it introduces students to the main concepts, theories and debates in an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Intersectionalities of Gender. Why Gender is not the final answer (BA) (Feb-March 2017)
The aim of the course is to study gender in interplay with other social categorizations and power differentials such as ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, age and (dis)ability. To examine how the interconnections, tensions, and harmonies between gender and other ‘social categorizations’ function as systems of privilege and/or oppression, it will be explored how people can be advantaged and disadvantaged simultaneously. To gain an understanding of the development of the concept of intersectionality recent developments in intersectionality theory will be discussed. It will also be analyzed how the paradigm of ‘Intersectionality’ is deployed as a conceptual tool and as a methodology for describing structures of privilege and or oppression.
Boesveldt, N. F., Correll, T. I., & Janssen, M. P. C. (2024). A Minority Stress Analysis of LGBTQ+ Homelessness in the Netherlands. Poster session presented at 18th European Research Conference on Homelessness