Swedish name: Genusvetenskap: Feministisk teori och intersektionell analys
This syllabus is valid: 2013-09-30 valid to 2014-11-30 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
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: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
Revised by: Director of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), 2013-10-01
This course focuses on contemporary feminist theoretical debates and explores the complex relations and tensions between gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity and class. Through critical readings, central feminist theories will be scrutinized to see how they are able to theorize other power dimensions such as heteronormativity, racism, (post)colonialism and classism. The course is divided into two modules. The first module, Feminist theory encounters other critical theoretical fields (7,5 ECTS), opens with an introduction of feminist theory which puts questions of power, knowledge and subjectivity in focus. Then, in order to illustrate the potential of different feminist theories for doing intersectional analysis, feminist theory is connected to other critical theoretical fields. The other module, Intersectional analysis of power relations (7,5 ECTS), consists of a discussion on the concept of intersectionality followed by more specific discussions on the prospects of intersectional analysis in relation to three empirical fields of study; body, politics and place/space. 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. Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English A (IELTS (Academic) with a minimum overall score of 6.5 and no individual score below 5.5. TOEFL PBT (Paper-based Test) with a minimum score of 575 and a minimum TWE score of 4.5). TOEFL iBT (Internet-based Test) with a minimum score of 90 and a minimum score of 20 on the Writing Section). Where the language of instruction is Swedish, applicants must prove proficiency in Swedish to the level required for basic eligibility for higher studies.
Teaching is conducted through lectures and seminars. Major part of the scheduled lectures and seminars are compulsory, and students who are unable to participate may be given extra examination tasks. 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.
Acker Joan
Introduction - The Feminist Problem with Class : In: Class questions, feminist answers
Lanham, Mdb Rowman &Littlefield ,c 2006 : Rowman &Littlefield : 2006 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-7425-4630-6 (hft.)
Mandatory
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Benhabib Seyla
"Feminism and Postmodernism" and "Subjectivity, Historiography, and Politics"
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York : Routledge : 1995 : 176 s. :
Mandatory
Butler Judith
"Contingent Foundations" and "For a careful reading"
Included in:
Feminist contentions
New York : Routledge : 1995 : 176 s. :
Mandatory
Butler Judith
Against proper objects
Included in:
Feminism meets queer theory
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univ. Press : cop. 1997 : 341 s.a (xiii, 341 s.) : pages pp 1-30 :
Mandatory
Foucault Michel
Truth and Power
Included in:
Power/knowledge
New York : Pantheon Books : c1980. : xii, 270 p. :
Mandatory
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
Lenz Taguchi Hillevi
In på bara benet : en introduktion till feministisk poststrukturalism
Stockholm : HLS förl. : 2004 : 237 s. :
ISBN: 91-7656-574-2
Mandatory
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MacKinnon Catharine A.
Feminism unmodified : discourses on life and law
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press : cop. 1987 : 315 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-29873-X (inb.)
Mandatory
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MacKinnon Catharine A.
Toward a feminist theory of the state
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press : 1989 : 330 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-89645-9 (inb.)
Mandatory
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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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Mohanty Chandra Talpade
Under western eyes. Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses.
Included in:
Feminist review.
London,c 1979- : 1979- : pages 61-88 :
Mandatory
Is multiculturalism bad for women?
Okin Susan Moller, Cohen Joshua
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : cop. 1999 : 146 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-00431-5 (inb.)
Mandatory
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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
Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty
Questions of multi-culturalism
Included in:
The post-colonial critic
New York : Routledge : 1990 : viii, 168 s. : pages 59-66 :
Mandatory
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
Brown Wendy
"American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization"
Included in:
Political theory
Beverly Hills : Sage Publications : 1973- : 34 : pages 690-714 :
Mandatory
Carbin Maria
Honour related violence. The invention of a Policy problem in Sweden.
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : pages 24-47. (23 pages) :
Mandatory
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
Edenheim Sara
Politics out of time : historical expertise and temporal claims in Swedish governmental reports
Included in:
In experts we trust
Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark : 2010 : 292 s. :
Mandatory
Eduards Maud
Kroppspolitik : om moder Svea och andra kvinnor
Stockholm : Atlas : 2007 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 91-85677-54-X
Mandatory
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Grosz Elizabeth
Bodies-Cities
Included in:
Sexuality & space
New York : Princeton Architectural Press : cop. 1992 : 389 s. : pages 241-255 :
Mandatory
Grosz Elizabeth
Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism
Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press : cop. 1994 : xvi, 250 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-32686-9 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Hausman Bernice Louise
Changing sex : transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender
Durham, N.C. : Duke Univ. Press : 1995 : 245 s. :
ISBN: 0-8223-1680-3 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Holgersson Ulrika
Klass och postmodernism : ett feministiskt val
Included in:
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
Malmö : Studentcentrum, Malmö högskola : 2007- :
Mandatory
Knopp Larry
"From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Geographies: Pasts, Prospects and Possibilities"
Included in:
Geographies of sexualities
Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate : cop. 2007 : [xii], 264 s. :
Mandatory
Koskela Hille
Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed.
Included in:
A companion to feminist geography
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 617 s. :
Mandatory
Laqueur Thomas
Making sex : body and gender from the Greeks to Freud
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Press : 1990 : x, 313 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-54349-1 (alk. paper) ; CIP rev. : $27.95
Mandatory
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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
On the political
London : Routledge : 2005 : 144 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024746.html
ISBN: 0-415-30521-7 (hft.)
Mandatory
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Probyn Fiona
"Playing chicken at the intersection: the white critic of whiteness"
Included in:
Borderlines in Borderlands
3 : pages 1-14 :
Mandatory
Puar Jasbir Kaur
"Circuits of queer mobility. Tourism, travel and globalisation"
Included in:
GLQ
Yverdon : Gordon and Breach : 1993- : 8 : pages 101-137 :
Mandatory
Rönnblom Malin
"Vad är problemet? Konstruktioner av jämställdhet i svensk politik"
Included in:
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
Malmö : Studentcentrum, Malmö högskola : 2007- :
Mandatory
Sandberg Linda
"It was entirely his fault. Constructing white masculinities and the Haga Man assults in Umeå, Sweden 1998-2006"
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon : Carfax Publ. Co. : 1994- :
Mandatory
Staunæss Dorthe
Where have all the subjects gone?
Included in:
NORA
Stockholm : Taylor & Francis : 1993- : pages pp 101-110 :
Mandatory
Young Iris Marion
Communication and the other. Beyond deliberative democracy
Included in:
Intersecting voices
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 1997 : 195 s. : pages 60-74 :
Mandatory
Acker Joan
Introduction - The Feminist Problem with Class : In: Class questions, feminist answers
Lanham, Mdb Rowman &Littlefield ,c 2006 : Rowman &Littlefield : 2006 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-7425-4630-6 (hft.)
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A companion to gender studies
Essed Philomena, Goldberg David Theo., Kobayashi Audrey Lynn
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 561 s. :
ISBN: 0-631-22109-3 (alk. paper)
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Sawicki Jana
Feminism, Foucault, and ´Subjects´ of Power and Freedom
Included in:
Feminist interpretations of Michel Foucault
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State Univ. Press : cop. 1996 : ix, 320 s. : pages 159-178 :
Skeggs Beverley
Formations of class and gender : becoming respectable
London : Sage : 1997 : 192 s. :
ISBN: 0-7619-5511-9 (inb.)
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