Swedish name: Genusvetenskap: Feministisk teori och intersektionell analys
This syllabus is valid: 2019-06-24 and until further notice
Syllabus for courses starting after 2019-06-24
Syllabus for courses starting between 2015-11-02 and 2019-06-23
Syllabus for courses starting between 2014-12-01 and 2015-11-01
Syllabus for courses starting between 2013-09-30 and 2014-11-30
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-11-21 and 2013-09-29
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-03-21 and 2011-11-20
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-03-14 and 2011-03-20
Syllabus for courses starting between 2011-01-17 and 2011-03-13
Course code: 2KC003
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Gender Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Law: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
Revised by: Director of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), 2019-06-11
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Benhabib Seyla
"Feminism and Postmodernism" and "Subjectivity, Historiography, and Politics"
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York : Routledge : 1995 : 176 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 17-34
Butler Judith
"Contingent Foundations" and "For a careful reading"
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
Crenshaw Kimberlé Williams
Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of colour
Included in:
Critical race theory
New York : New Press : 1995 : 494 s. :
Mandatory
Foucault Michel
The subject and power
Ingår i: Critical Inquiry, vol. 8, No 4. s.777-795. 1982 :
Mandatory
Hekman Susan J.
The feminine subject
Cambridge : Polity : 2014. : 228 pages :
ISBN: 9780745687834 (hbk.) :
Mandatory
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Irigaray Luce
This Sex Which is Not One
Included in:
The second wave
New York : Routledge : 1997 : 414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 323-329
MacKinnon Catharine A
Sexuality
Included in:
The second wave
New York : Routledge : 1997 : 414 s. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 158-180
Mansfield Nick
Subjectivity : theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
New York : New York Univ. Press : 2000 : ix, 198 s. :
ISBN: 0-8147-5651-4 (hft.)
Mandatory
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Moller Okin Susan
Introduction. Justice and Gender
Ingår i: Gender, Justice and the Family. Basic Books. S. 1-24. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 1-24
Norlander Kerstin
Empathetic reading. The art of reading a text in its own terms
Swedish Secreteriat for Gender Research : 2013 :
Gender Studies Education and Pedagogy
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-13
Staunæs Dorthe
Where have all the subjects gone? : bringing together the concepts of intersectionality and subjectification
Included in:
NORA
Stockholm : Taylor & Francis : 1993- :
Mandatory
Abu-Lughod Lila
Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthopological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others.
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
Acker Joan
Feminists Theorizing Class - Issues and Arguments
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
Ahmed Sara
A phenomenology of whiteness
Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS) : 2007 :
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ad660603596eec00ce71a3/t/58bec74415d5db1951fa9f15/1488897863830/Phenomenology+of+Whiteness.pdf
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
Andersson Bridget
A Very Private Business : Exploring the Demand for Migrant Domestic Workers
Included in:
The European journal of women's studies
London : Sage : 1999- : 14 : pages 247-264 :
http://ejw.sagepub.com/content/14/3/247.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc
Mandatory
Connell Raewyn
Transsexual women and feminist thought: Toward new understanding and new politics
The University of Chicago Press : 2012 :
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/664478.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad7b6c6b72a1704aa81b9e9d90e65cd9b
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.857-881
Frankenberg Ruth
White women, race matters : the social construction of whiteness
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press : cop. 1993 : 289 s. :
ISBN: 0-8166-2257-4
Mandatory
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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
Hartmann Heidi
The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism. Towards a more progressive union
Included in:
The second wave
New York : Routledge : 1997 : 414 s. : pages 97-122 :
Mandatory
Heyes Cressida J
Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender
The University of Chicago Press : 2003 :
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/343132?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 1093-1120
Koskela Hille
Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed.
Included in:
A companion to feminist geography
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 617 s. :
Mandatory
Koyama Emi
Whose feminism is it anyway? : The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate
Included in:
The transgender studies reader
London : Routledge : 2006 : 752 p. : pages pp.698-705 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.698-705
Listerborn Carina
Geographies of the veil: violent encounters in urban public spaces in Malmö, Sweden.
Ingår i: Social & Cultural Geography, 16(1), 95-115. : 2015 :
Mandatory
Massey Doreen
Space, place and gender.
Oxford : Polity Press : 1994 : 280 s. : tab. :
ISBN: 0-7456-1236-9
Mandatory
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Mouffe Chantal
Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics
Included in:
Feminists theorize the political
New York : Routledge : 1992 : 1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages) : pages 369-384 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 369-384
Puar Jasbir Kaur
"Circuits of queer mobility. Tourism, travel and globalisation"
Included in:
GLQ
Yverdon : Gordon and Breach : 1993- : 8 : pages 101-137 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies 8
Raymond J.G
The Politics of Transgender
Sage Publications : 1994 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959353594044024
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.628-633
Rubin Gayle
Thinking sex
Included in:
The Lesbian and gay studies reader
New York : Routledge : 1993 : 666 s. : pages 3-44 :
Mandatory
Skeggs Beverly
"Introduction and Ambivalent Femininities"
Included in:
Formations of class and gender
London : Sage : 1997 : 192 s. :
Mandatory
Spade Dean
Mutilating Gender
Included in:
The transgender studies reader
London : Routledge : 2006 : 752 p. : pages 315-332 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 315-332
Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty
Questions of multi-culturalism
Included in:
The post-colonial critic
New York : Routledge : 1990 : viii, 168 s. : pages 59-66 :
Mandatory
Talpade Mohanty Chandra
Under western eyes revisited. Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles
Signs. Vol. 28/no 2. 2002. s. 499-535. :
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dasgupta/Mohantysigns.pdf
Mandatory
Twine France Winddance
Brown skinned white girls : class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon : Carfax Publ. Co. : 1994- : pages pp. 205-225. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.205-224
Valentine Gill
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality : A Challenge for Feminist Geography
Included in:
Professional geographer
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 59 : pages 10-21 :
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00587.x/abstract
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp 10-21
Weeks Kathi
The future is now. : Utopian demands and the temporalities of hope
Included in:
The problem with work
Durham : Duke University Press : 2011. : 287 s. : pages pp 175-226 :
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
Puwar Nirmal
Space invaders : race, gender and bodies out of place
Oxford : Berg : 2004 : ix, 187 s. :
ISBN: 9781859736593
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