Swedish name: Critical Perspectives on Nordic Gender Equalities
This syllabus is valid: 2011-09-05 valid to 2012-08-19 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Course code: 2KC009
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)
This course deals with gender equality as political ideal and practice in the Nordic region. Taking a historical departure the course will address questions such as: How and when was the issue of gender equality put on the political agenda in the Nordic countries? How is gender equality understood and practised today? Are Nordic countries still to be conceived as egalitarian? Drawing on various research fields such as post-structuralist feminist theory, postcolonial theory as well as critical perspectives on violence, class and sexuality the course will explore the ideal of gender equality from different angles. Special emphasis is put on examining the ways in which present day Nordic societies in general and gender equality in particular are marked by processes of postcoloniality, heteronormativity and neoliberalism. This is a cross-disciplinary course and will be able to enrich and complement courses in many different programmes. The course is organized around active student participation and consists of lectures, seminars and written examinations. The course is taught in English.
Module 1: Gender and Politics in the Nordic countries (7,5 ECTS) After the course the student shall be able to - describe the history of Nordic politics of gender equality as well as be able independently identify and compare central divisions in Nordic feminist research on gender equality and politics. - orally and in writing present an independent and critical analysis of different conceptualisations of gender equality. Module 2: Critical Perspectives on Nordic Gender Equality (7,5 ECTS) After the course the student shall be able to - describe and independently compare the different feminist analytical positions presented during the module. - orally and in writing present an independent and critical analysis of Nordic gender equality related to processes of heteronormativity, colonialism, class and neo-liberalism. Added to this, the student should be able to contribute to qualified analytical comments at seminars and lead discussions.
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 B from Swedish Upper secondary education. (IELTS (Academic) with minimum score 6.5 and no individual score below 5.5. TOEFL (Paper based with minimum score 575 and minimum TWE 4.5). TOEFL (Internet based with minimum score 90 and minimum Written 20).
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 gradually through active participation in seminars, and through individual oral, and written examination. The examination of module 1 consists of two written assignments. The examination of module 2 consists of one written assignment in which at least three of the themes; class, neoliberalism, heteronormativity and colonialism are discussed in relation to gender equality. 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 on module two and at least on one of the written assignments on module one. 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.
Approaches to gender mainstreaming: What's the problem represented to be?
Bacchi Carol, Eveline Joan
Included in:
Mainstreaming politics
Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press : c2010. : xviii, 368 p. :
Mandatory
Bergqvist Christina et al. (eds.)
Introduction.
Included in:
Equal democracies?
Oslo : Scandinavian Univ. Press in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers : cop. 1999 : 350 s. : pages 1-11. (10 pages) :
Mandatory
Borchorst Anette
Equal status institutions.
Included in:
Equal democracies?
Oslo : Scandinavian Univ. Press in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers : cop. 1999 : 350 s. : pages 167-185. (18 pages) :
Mandatory
Borchorst Anette
What is institutionalized gender equality?
Included in:
Equal democracies?
Oslo : Scandinavian Univ. Press in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers : cop. 1999 : 350 s. : pages 4 pages :
Mandatory
Brown Wendy
Postmodern Exposures, Feminist Hesitations.
Included in:
States of injury
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 1995 : xiii, 202 s. : pages 30-51. (21 pages) :
Mandatory
Brown Wendy
Suffering Rights as Paradoxes.
Included in:
Constellations
Oxford : Blackwell Publishers : 1997- : Vol 7 : pages 230-241. (11 pages) :
Mandatory
Burman Monica
The Ability of Criminal Law to Produce Gender Equality: Juridical Discourses in the Swedish Criminal Legal System.
Included in:
Violence against women
Thousand Oaks, Ca : Sage : 1999- : 16 : pages 173-188. (15 pages) :
Mandatory
Women's questions on the agenda. The politicization of gender equality in Sweden.
Florin Christina, Nilsson Bengt
Included in:
Different paths to modernity
Lund : Nordic Academic Press : 2005 : 368 s. : pages (16 pages) :
Mandatory
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk. Addendum. Mission to Sweden.
General Assembly, A/HRC/4/34/Add.3. : 2007 :
Mandatory
Action plan to combat men's violence against women, violence and oppression in the name of honour and violence in same-sex relations.
Government Communication 2007/08:39. : 2007 :
Mandatory
Gender and the state.
Kantola Johanna, Dahl Hanne Marlene
Included in:
International feminist journal of politics.
London : Routledge : 1999- : 7:1 : pages 49-70. (21 pages) :
Mandatory
Langvasbråten Trude
A Scandinavian Model? Gender Equality Discourses on Multiculturalism.
Included in:
Social politics
Champaign, Ill. : Published by the University of Illinois Press in cooperation with the Swedish Council for Social Research : 1994- : 15 (1) : pages 32-52. (20 pages) :
Mandatory
MaCarry Melanie
Masculinity studies and male violence: Critique or collusion?
Included in:
Women's studies international forum
Oxford : Pergamon P. : 1982- : 30 : pages 404-415. (11 pages) :
Mandatory
Introduction. Critical Studies of Equalities: Nordic dislocations, dilemmas and contradictions.
Magnusson Eva, Rönnblom Malin, Silius Harriet
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : pages 7-23. (16 pages) :
Mandatory
Intersectionality in practice?
Skjeie Hege, Langvasbråten Trude
Included in:
International feminist journal of politics.
London : Routledge : 1999- : 11:4 : pages 513-529. (26 pages) :
Mandatory
Abu Lughod Lila
Do Muslim Women really need saving? Antropological reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others.
Included in:
American anthropologist
Washington N.W., D.C. : American Anthropological Assoc. : 1888- : Vol. 1 (1888)-11 (1898) ; N.S., 1 (1899)- : Vol 104. Issue 3. : pages 783-790. (6 pages) :
Mandatory
Mainstreaming and neoliberalism: a contested relationship.
Bacchi Carol, Eveline Joan
Included in:
Mainstreaming politics
Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press : c2010. : xviii, 368 p. :
Mandatory
Bergqvist Christina
Childcare and parental leave models.
Included in:
Equal democracies?
Oslo : Scandinavian Univ. Press in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers : cop. 1999 : 350 s. : pages 121-134. (13 pages) :
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
Fraser Nancy
Feminism, capitalism and the cunning of history.
Included in:
New left review.
London,c 1960- : 1960- : 56 :
Mandatory
Gavanas Anna
Who cleans the welfare state? : migration, informalization, social exclusion and domestic services in Stockholm
Stockholm : Institute for Futures Studies : 2010 : 94 s. :
Fulltext
ISBN: 978-91-978537-5-0
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Keskinen Suvi
Honour related violence and Nordic nation-building.
Included in:
Complying with colonialism
Aldershot : Ashgate : 2009 : 276 s. : pages 257-272. (15 pages) :
Mandatory
Magnusson Eva
Conflict, danger and Difference. Nordic heterosexual couples converse about gender equality and fairness.
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : pages 161-179. (17 pages) :
Mandatory
Rönnblom Malin
Letting women in? Gender mainstreaming in regional policies.
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- : Vol 13. :
Mandatory
Stenum Helle
Au-pair migration and new inequalities: the transnational production of corruption.
Included in:
Global care work
Lund : Nordic Academic Press : 2010 : 240 s. : pages 23-48. (25 pages) :
Mandatory
Stormhoj Christel
Queering the family. Critical reflections on state regulated heteronormativity in the Scandinavian countries.
Included in:
Lambda nordica
Stockholm : Föreningen Lambda nordica : 1989- : 3-4 (8) : pages 38-56. (18 pages) :
Mandatory
Towns Ann
Paradoxes of (In)equality "Something is rotten in the gender equal state of Sweden".
Included in:
Cooperation and conflict
Johanneshov : Scandinavian University Books : 1965- : June, Vol 37 Issue 2 : pages 157-180. (23 pages) :
Mandatory
Törnqvist Maria
From threat to promise. The changing position of gender quota in the Swedish debate on Women's Political representations.
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : pages 75-93. (18 pages) :
Mandatory
Vuorela Ulla
Colonial complicity: The 'postcolonial' in a Nordic context.
Included in:
Complying with colonialism
Aldershot : Ashgate : 2009 : 276 s. : pages 19-34. (15 pages) :
Mandatory
Vuori Jaana
Guiding migrants in the realm of Gender Equality.
Included in:
Complying with colonialism
Aldershot : Ashgate : 2009 : 276 s. : pages 207-225. (18 pages) :
Mandatory
Widding Isaksen Lise
Introducing: global care work in Nordic societies.
Included in:
Global care work
Lund : Nordic Academic Press : 2010 : 240 s. : pages 9-19. (10 pages) :
Mandatory