Gender Studies: Feminist Theories and Intersectional Analysis, 15 credits
Law: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Contents
This course focuses on classic and contemporary feminist theoretical debates and explores the complex relations between gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity and class. Through critical readings, central feminist theories will be scrutinized to see how they are able to theorize power dimensions such as heteronormativity, racism, (post)colonialism and class.
The course is divided into two modules. The first module, Feminist theory (7,5 ECTS), opens with an introduction to feminist theory and puts questions of power, sexuality, subjectivity and politics in focus. Different intersectional approaches are discussed, and feminist theory is connected to critical theoretical fields such as queer studies and postcolonialism.
In the second module, we will engage with intersectional analysis of power relations (7,5 ECTS). Through different themes such as place/space, class, body and race/ethnicity we will explore ways of doing intersectional analysis. The course takes its departure from central feminist theory texts and uses critical text analyses as a focus and methodology. Active participation by students in working seminars is vital to the successful completion of the course.
Expected learning outcomes
Module 1: Feminist theory encounters other critical theoretical fields (7,5 ECTS)
After the course the student shall
- be able to independently identify, describe and relate critically to central divisions within feminist theory regarding the meanings of class, ethnicity/race and sexuality.
- be able to, orally and in writing, present an independent analysis related to the central questions in the field of feminist theory and intersectional analysis.
Module 2: Intersectional analysis of power relations (7,5 ECTS)
After the course the student shall
- have achieved comprehension of the different theoretical positions presented during the course and understand their consequences in relation to the intersectional analysis, and be able to apply these understandings in empirical analysis.
- be able to contribute qualified analytical comments at seminars and chair a seminar discussion.
Required Knowledge
To be admitted to the course applicants must have completed three semesters of full time studies, equivalent to 90 ECTS, of which at least 15 ECTS must be an independent project or four semesters of full time studies equivalent to 120 ECTS.
English proficiency equivalent to English A/5 from Swedish Upper secondary education.
Form of instruction
Teaching is conducted through lectures and seminars. The seminars are compulsory, and students who are unable to participate will be given extra written examination tasks. The time to hand in extra examinations follow the same rules as renewed examination in general, that is within two year after the student registered. Emphasis is placed on students' independent work.
Examination modes
The course will be examined successively through active participation in seminars, and through individual oral, and written examination. The examination of module 1 consists of a written assignment. The examination of module 2 consists of one oral and one written assignment in which the three themes; body, politics, and place/space, are linked to each other. For both modules and the course as a whole, the following grades are given: Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with distinction (VG). In order to be awarded Pass for the entire course, it is necessary that all examinations and all compulsory teaching sessions have been passed. In order to achieve Pass with distinction on the whole course, this grade is demanded at both modules. A re-sit examination can be offered at the earliest ten days and at the latest three months after publishing information about the first examination. One more examination will be offered within the next year. A student who has passed the examination is not eligible for a new examination to raise grades. The option of a re-examination based on the original course syllabus will be available for at least two years after a student registered for the course. All in all, a student is given five chances of fulfilling the course examination. A student has the right to change examiner after failing two examinations for a course module, unless there are strong arguments against this. Course diplomas will be issued within 60 days after a passed examination.
Academic credit transfer
This course cannot be credited for other courses in gender studies at Umeå University. A course with the same name (7,5 ECTS), given during Autumn 2006, can be given credits for in this course
corresponding to 7,5 ECTS. For further information we recommend contact with the director of studies.
Literature
Module 1
"Feminism and Postmodernism" and "Subjectivity, Historiography, and Politics"
Benhabib Seyla
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York :
Routledge :
1995 :
176 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 17-34
"Contingent Foundations" and "For a careful reading"
Butler Judith
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York :
Routledge :
1995 :
176 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 35-58
”The intersectional turn in feminist theory. A dream of a common language?”
Carbin Maria, Edenheim Sara
European Journal of Women Studies. Vol. 20, nr. 3. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 233-248
Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of colour
Crenshaw Kimberlé Williams
Included in:
Critical race theory
New York :
New Press :
1995 :
494 s. :
Mandatory
The subject and power
Foucault Michel
Ingår i: Critical Inquiry, vol. 8, No 4. s.777-795. 1982 :
Mandatory
The feminine subject
Hekman Susan J.
Cambridge :
Polity :
2014. :
228 pages :
ISBN: 9780745687834 (hbk.) :
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
This Sex Which is Not One
Irigaray Luce
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 323-329
Sexuality
MacKinnon Catharine A
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 158-180
Subjectivity
: theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
Mansfield Nick
New York :
New York Univ. Press :
2000 :
ix, 198 s. :
ISBN: 0-8147-5651-4 (hft.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
“Introduction. Justice and Gender”
Moller Okin Susan
Ingår i: Gender, Justice and the Family. Basic Books. S. 1-24. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 1-24
Empathetic reading. The art of reading a text in its own terms
Norlander Kerstin
Swedish Secreteriat for Gender Research :
2013 :
Gender Studies Education and Pedagogy
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-13
Where have all the subjects gone?
: bringing together the concepts of intersectionality and subjectification
Staunæs Dorthe
Included in:
NORA
Stockholm :
Taylor & Francis :
1993- :
Mandatory
Reference literature module 1
Module 2
Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthopological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others.
Abu-Lughod Lila
Ingår i: American Anthroplogist, 104(3) pp. 783-790. 2003. :
2003 :
http://org.uib.no/smi/seminars/Pensum/Abu-Lughod.pdf
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 783-790
Feminists Theorizing Class - Issues and Arguments
Acker Joan
Included in:
Introduction - The Feminist Problem with Class
Lanham, Mdb Rowman &Littlefield ,c 2006 :
Rowman &Littlefield :
2006 :
219 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 15-44
A phenomenology of whiteness
Ahmed Sara
Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS) :
2007 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 149-168
Whose counting? ; Who counts (or doesn't count) what as feminist theory? ; What counts as feminist theory?
Ahmed Sara, Winter Bronwyn, Ermarth Elisabeth
Included in:
Feminist theory.
London :
Sage :
2000- :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 97-103 & 1-76
A Very Private Business
: Exploring the Demand for Migrant Domestic Workers
Andersson Bridget
Included in:
The European journal of women's studies
London :
Sage :
1999- :
14 :
247-264 pages
Mandatory
Transsexual women and feminist thought: Toward new understanding and new politics
Connell Raewyn
The University of Chicago Press :
2012 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.857-881
White women, race matters
: the social construction of whiteness
Frankenberg Ruth
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press :
cop. 1993 :
289 s. :
ISBN: 0-8166-2257-4
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: pp. 1-7 and 43-101
Gender, place and culture
: a journal of feminist geography
Abingdon :
Carfax Publ. Co. :
1994- :
http://search.epnet.comz Prenumeration krävs
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 178-194
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism. Towards a more progressive union
Hartmann Heidi
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
97-122 pages
Mandatory
Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender
Heyes Cressida J
The University of Chicago Press :
2003 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 1093-1120
Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed.
Koskela Hille
Included in:
A companion to feminist geography
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub. :
2005 :
617 s. :
Mandatory
Whose feminism is it anyway?
: The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate
Koyama Emi
Included in:
The transgender studies reader
London :
Routledge :
2006 :
752 p. :
pp.698-705 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.698-705
Geographies of the veil: violent encounters in urban public spaces in Malmö, Sweden.
Listerborn Carina
Ingår i: Social & Cultural Geography, 16(1), 95-115. :
2015 :
Mandatory
Space, place and gender.
Massey Doreen
Oxford :
Polity Press :
1994 :
280 s. : tab. :
ISBN: 0-7456-1236-9
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics
Mouffe Chantal
Included in:
Feminists theorize the political
New York :
Routledge :
1992 :
1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages) :
369-384 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 369-384
"Circuits of queer mobility. Tourism, travel and globalisation"
Puar Jasbir Kaur
Included in:
GLQ
Yverdon :
Gordon and Breach :
1993- :
8 :
101-137 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies 8
The Politics of Transgender
Raymond J.G
Sage Publications :
1994 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.628-633
Thinking sex
Rubin Gayle
Included in:
The Lesbian and gay studies reader
New York :
Routledge :
1993 :
666 s. :
3-44 pages
Mandatory
"Introduction and Ambivalent Femininities"
Skeggs Beverly
Included in:
Formations of class and gender
London :
Sage :
1997 :
192 s. :
Mandatory
Mutilating Gender
Spade Dean
Included in:
The transgender studies reader
London :
Routledge :
2006 :
752 p. :
315-332 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 315-332
Questions of multi-culturalism
Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty
Included in:
The post-colonial critic
New York :
Routledge :
1990 :
viii, 168 s. :
59-66 pages
Mandatory
Under western eyes revisited. Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles
Talpade Mohanty Chandra
Signs. Vol. 28/no 2. 2002. s. 499-535. :
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dasgupta/Mohantysigns.pdf
Mandatory
Brown skinned white girls
: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities
Twine France Winddance
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon :
Carfax Publ. Co. :
1994- :
pp. 205-225. pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.205-224
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality
: A Challenge for Feminist Geography
Valentine Gill
Included in:
Professional geographer
Oxford :
Blackwell :
1997- :
59 :
10-21 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-21
The future is now.
: Utopian demands and the temporalities of hope
Weeks Kathi
Included in:
The problem with work
Durham :
Duke University Press :
2011. :
287 s. :
pp 175-226 pages
Reading instructions: pp. 175-226
Intersectionality as multi-level analysis: Dealing with social inequality.
Winker Gabriele, Degele Nina
European Journal of Women's Studies, 18(1), 51-66. 2011 :
Mandatory
Reference literature module 2
Space invaders
: race, gender and bodies out of place
Puwar Nirmal
Oxford :
Berg :
2004 :
ix, 187 s. :
ISBN: 9781859736593
Search the University Library catalogue
Module 1
"Feminism and Postmodernism" and "Subjectivity, Historiography, and Politics"
Benhabib Seyla
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York :
Routledge :
1995 :
176 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 17-34
"Contingent Foundations" and "For a careful reading"
Butler Judith
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York :
Routledge :
1995 :
176 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 35-58
”The intersectional turn in feminist theory. A dream of a common language?”
Carbin Maria, Edenheim Sara
European Journal of Women Studies. Vol. 20, nr. 3. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 233-248
The Psychodynamics of the Family
Chodorow Nancy
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 181-197
Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of colour
Crenshaw Kimberlé Williams
Included in:
Critical race theory
New York :
New Press :
1995 :
494 s. :
Mandatory
Introduction to The Second Sex
de Beauvoir Simone
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 11-18
The Dialectic of Sex
Firestone Shulamith
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 19-26
The subject and power
Foucault Michel
Ingår i: Critical Inquiry, vol. 8, No 4. s.777-795. 1982 :
Mandatory
The Feminist Standpoint. Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
Hartsock Nancy
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 216-240
The feminine subject
Hekman Susan J.
Cambridge :
Polity :
2014. :
228 pages :
ISBN: 9780745687834 (hbk.) :
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
This Sex Which is Not One
Irigaray Luce
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 323-329
Sexuality
MacKinnon Catharine A
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 158-180
The problem of Marxism and Feminism
MacKinnon Catharine A
Included in:
Toward a feminist theory of the state
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press :
1989 :
330 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 1-12
Subjectivity
: theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
Mansfield Nick
New York :
New York Univ. Press :
2000 :
ix, 198 s. :
ISBN: 0-8147-5651-4 (hft.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
“The complexity of Intersectionality”
McCall Leslie
Ingår i: Signs. Vol. 30. No.3. 2005 :
2005 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 1771-1800
“Introduction. Justice and Gender”
Moller Okin Susan
Ingår i: Gender, Justice and the Family. Basic Books. S. 1-24. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 1-24
Empathetic reading. The art of reading a text in its own terms
Norlander Kerstin
Swedish Secreteriat for Gender Research :
2013 :
Gender Studies Education and Pedagogy
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-13
Where have all the subjects gone?
: bringing together the concepts of intersectionality and subjectification
Staunæs Dorthe
Included in:
NORA
Stockholm :
Taylor & Francis :
1993- :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 101-110
“Intersectionality and feminist politics”
Yuval Davis Nira
European Journal of Women's Studies August 2006 vol. 13 no. 3. s. 193-209. :
http://ejw.sagepub.com/
Mandatory
Reference literature module 1
Module 2
Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthopological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others.
Abu-Lughod Lila
Ingår i: American Anthroplogist, 104(3) pp. 783-790. 2003. :
2003 :
http://org.uib.no/smi/seminars/Pensum/Abu-Lughod.pdf
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 783-790
A Very Private Business
: Exploring the Demand for Migrant Domestic Workers
Andersson Bridget
Included in:
The European journal of women's studies
London :
Sage :
1999- :
14 :
247-264 pages
Mandatory
Bodies-Cities
Grosz Elizabeth
Included in:
Sexuality & space
New York :
Princeton Architectural Press :
cop. 1992 :
389 s. :
241-255 pages
Mandatory
Volatile bodies
: toward a corporeal feminism
Grosz Elizabeth
Bloomington :
Indiana Univ. Press :
cop. 1994 :
xvi, 250 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-32686-9 (inb.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism. Towards a more progressive union
Hartmann Heidi
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
97-122 pages
Mandatory
Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed.
Koskela Hille
Included in:
A companion to feminist geography
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub. :
2005 :
617 s. :
Mandatory
Geographies of the veil: violent encounters in urban public spaces in Malmö, Sweden.
Listerborn Carina
Ingår i: Social & Cultural Geography, 16(1), 95-115. :
2015 :
Mandatory
Space, place and gender.
Massey Doreen
Oxford :
Polity Press :
1994 :
280 s. : tab. :
ISBN: 0-7456-1236-9
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Interrogating intersectionality: Productive ways of theorising multiple positioning.
Phoenix Ann
Ingår i: Kvinder, kön & forskning, (23). (2006). :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 21-30
"Circuits of queer mobility. Tourism, travel and globalisation"
Puar Jasbir Kaur
Included in:
GLQ
Yverdon :
Gordon and Breach :
1993- :
8 :
101-137 pages
Mandatory
Thinking sex
Rubin Gayle
Included in:
The Lesbian and gay studies reader
New York :
Routledge :
1993 :
666 s. :
3-44 pages
Mandatory
"It was entirely his fault. Constructing white masculinities and the Haga Man assults in Umeå, Sweden 1998-2006"
Sandberg Linda
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon :
Carfax Publ. Co. :
1994- :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 178-194
"Introduction and Ambivalent Femininities"
Skeggs Beverly
Included in:
Formations of class and gender
London :
Sage :
1997 :
192 s. :
Mandatory
Questions of multi-culturalism
Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty
Included in:
The post-colonial critic
New York :
Routledge :
1990 :
viii, 168 s. :
59-66 pages
Mandatory
Under western eyes revisited. Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles
Talpade Mohanty Chandra
Signs. Vol. 28/no 2. 2002. s. 499-535. :
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dasgupta/Mohantysigns.pdf
Mandatory
Intersectionality as multi-level analysis: Dealing with social inequality.
Winker Gabriele, Degele Nina
European Journal of Women's Studies, 18(1), 51-66. 2011 :
Mandatory
“Intersectionality and feminist politics”
Yuval Davis Nira
European Journal of Women's Studies August 2006 vol. 13 no. 3. s. 193-209. :
http://ejw.sagepub.com/
Mandatory
Feminists Theorizing Class - Issues and Arguments
Acker Joan
Included in:
Introduction - The Feminist Problem with Class
Lanham, Mdb Rowman &Littlefield ,c 2006 :
Rowman &Littlefield :
2006 :
219 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 15-44
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality
: A Challenge for Feminist Geography
Valentine Gill
Included in:
Professional geographer
Oxford :
Blackwell :
1997- :
59 :
10-21 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-21