Swedish name: Bekönat våld
This syllabus is valid: 2017-11-27 and until further notice
Course code: 2JU193
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Law: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Gender Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
Established by: Director of Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society, 2017-06-20
This course deals with gendered violence as a theoretical, legal, human rights and policy issue. Taking departure from a variety of feminist and intersectional approaches the course will address questions such as: What is violence? How can violence be gendered? What are the relationships between violence, gender and power? How can gender-based violence be understood, addressed and responded to? How are notions of gender equality and violence linked?
At the end of the course the student shall have the ability to:
- show knowledge about gendered violence from critical feminist and socio-legal perspectives,
- independently identify and formulate relevant questions regarding gendered violence from critical socio-legal and feminist perspectives,
- independently and in a critically sophisticated way apply relevant critical theories and methods on empirical or theoretical problems related to gender, violence and law, and
- demonstrate the ability to identify the personal need for further knowledge and to take responsibility for the personal competence development.
A minimum of 90 university credits in one main field of social sciences, including an individual essay carrying at least 15 university credits, and an introductory course in law carrying at least 15 university credits. Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English A/5. Where the language of instruction is Swedish, applicants must prove proficiency in Swedish to the level required for basic eligibility for higher studies.
The course is a full time on-line course in English. The course is taught entirely through an electronic Learning Management System where the student takes part in lectures, mandatory assignments and other learning activities. The studies are characterized by a high degree of independent and active search for knowledge, and critical reflection, both individually and in groups.
Examination takes place through fulfillment of two parts:
1) Mandatory assignments during the course,
2) Individual written assignment.
For part 1 the grades are Fail (U) or Pass (G). For part 2, as well as for the whole course, the grades are Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with Distinction (VG). The grade for the whole course in based on the examination of part 2. The whole course is not graded until part 1 is fulfilled.
Transfers
Students have the right to apply to have a previous education or experience evaluated for transfer of credits. For more
information, see: www.umu.se/utbildning/antagning/tillgodoraknande/
Feminist review : Violence
Included in:
Feminist review.
London,c 1979- : 1979- : 112 :
https://link.springer.com/journal/41305/112/1/page/1
Westmarland Nicole
Violence against women : criminological perspectives on men's violences
London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group : 2015. : 1 online resource. :
Electronic book from ebrary
ISBN: 9781315768830
Search the University Library catalogue
The concept and measurement of violence against women and men
Walby Sylvia, Towers Jude., Balderston Susie.
Bristol : Policy Press : 2017 : 1vol. (XIV-177 p.) :
ISBN: 1447332636
Search the University Library catalogue
McMillan Lesley
Feminists organising against gendered violence
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2007 : 224 p. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9780230592247
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Boyle Karen
Whats in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
Sage Publications : 2018 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464700118754957
Reading instructions: pp. 19-36
Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender
Cannon Clare, Lauve-Moon Katie, Buttell Fred
Social sciences : 2015 :
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/668/htm
Reading instructions: pp. 668-687
Enander Viveka
Violent women? : the challenge of women's violence in intimate heterosexual relationships to feminist analyses of partner violence
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Hearn Jeff
The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications
Sage Publications : 2012 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011392112456503
Reading instructions: pp.152-170
Joan S Meier
Johnsons Differentiation Theory: Is It Really Empirically Supported?
GW Legal Studies Research Paper : 2015 :
https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=977064095013106095123001080103011104019054002084028050101111081093118025004109100011043053098015118055007098031124116089080029019055041077011078090117101110104074077062087073014080108073093025100090106088085002072023087024065122095107101089064110117&EXT=pdf
Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes: Domestic Violence in Finland and Scotland
Hearn Jeff, McKie Linda
Sage Publications : 2010 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077801209355185
Reading instructions: pp. 136-158
I Wasnt a Priority, I Wasnt a Victim: Challenges in Help Seeking for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Guadalupe-Diaz Xavier L, Jasinski Jana
Sage Publications : 2017 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077801216650288
Reading instructions: pp. 772-792
Redefining Intimate Partner Violence Beyond the Binary to Include Transgender People
Yerke A.F, DeFeo J
Journal of Family Violence (2016) 31: 995-998. : 2016 :
Reading instructions: pp. 975-979
Howe Adrian
Every time you said "penis" : (Men's) violence, victim advocacy and impermissible speech
Included in:
Australian feminist studies
Adelaide : Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide : 1985- :
Crenshaw Kimberlé
Mapping the margins: Intersecionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color : I: Standford Law Review, Vol. 43, no 6, s 1241-1299.
Kuokkanen Rauna
Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities
Routledge : 2015 :
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2014.901816?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Reading instructions: pp. 271-288
Carbin Maria
The requirement to speak : Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour-related violence
Included in:
Women's studies international forum : h [Elektronisk resurs] b a multidisciplinary journal ...
Oxford : Pergamon P. : 1982- : 46 : pages 107-114 :
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.12.002
Eriksson Maria
Girls and Boys as Victims: Social Workers Approaches to Children Exposed to Violence
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd : 2009 :
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.1091
Reading instructions: pp. 428-445
Strid Sofia
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Oxford Academic : 2013 :
https://academic.oup.com/sp/article/20/4/558/1712523
Addressing violence against women: a call to action
Garcia-Moreno C, Zimmerman C, Morris-Gehring A, Heise L, Amin A, Abrahams N, Watts C
The Lancet : 2015 :
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0140673614618304?token=AC9DFC9570C3D07758AF977549B482DD474FFF094ABBC9D2103A9CAE7089B401C13DACA1D6E3E89BAEA032894395B797
Reading instructions: pp. 1685-1695
Frames in Contestation: Gendering Domestic Violence Policies in Five Central and Eastern European Countries
Krizsan Andrea, Popa RM
Sage Publications : 2014 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801214543386
Reading instructions: pp.758-782
Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4BFF89E55C69B0A14DFD7A8883356BBF/S1743923X13000354a.pdf/building_theory_and_making_change_the_challenges_of_studying_feminist_activism.pdf
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Hernández Miriam
Killed Out of Love: A Frame Analysis of Domestic Violence Coverage in Hong Kong
Sage Publications : 2018 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077801217738581
Reading instructions: pp.1454-1473
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedishgender equality and global health
Öhman Ann, Emmelin Maria
Elsevier Ltd : 2014 :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002112
Reading instructions: pp. 115-122