https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5856?type=COREWhat would it mean for our research practices if we shifted the attention from looking for gender to listening to gender? How is sound gendered, and what is the sound of gender(s)? This course aims to bring together the categories of gender and sound, often analysed separately. We will tune into how power, inequality and agency might be expressed in the sonic realm - in other words; we will turn to the sound as the signifier of power and to the ear as an ideological filter. At the end of the day, we "learn" gender through the total sensorium. We will analyse sound as a constitutive aspect of our gendered perceptions and perceptions of gender. The course will be loosely organised around three different modalities and modes of sound production: 1) voice as a particular modality of sound (e.g. we will "listen" to and think with drag, queer and trans voices when analysing vocal cord training, but also discuss terms such as "white voice"), 2) sound (when do we recognise the sound as noise and what systems of power underlie such distinctions, but also the role of sound in reproductive rights issues such as the case of "Heartbeat Protection Act" of 2017 (H.R. 490), and 3) music (e.g. what can the analysis of technologised voice and sound in RnB music contribute to posthuman theory and its critique?). This course will draw from the nexus of sound studies, gender, posthuman and critical race theory, and science and technology studies. Understanding that we are in a time of need for different modes of expression that use art and alternative syntax, the class assignments will play with a variety of sonic artistic practices such as cacophonic reading and performances, singing and capturing sounds in texts.