Syllabus, Gender, Sex, Bodies: Theories and Debates, 2018-09-03 and until further notice

This is a cross-disciplinary course on biological and constructionist explanatory models for giving meaning to sex, gender and the body. The course is divided into two modules. The first module, Conceptualizing gendered bodies: historical and contemporary understandings and debates (7,5 ECTS) begins by introducing central concepts in relation to historical and contemporary frontiers of debate and knowledge in different fields and disciplines where research debates have been particularly marked. The second module Theoretical and methodological studies (7,5 ECTS) involves an extended focus on theoretical and methodological issues. Active participation by students in seminars is vital to complete course. The course is taught in English.

Expected learning outcomes

Module 1: Conceptualizing gendered bodies: historical and contemporary understandings and debates
(7,5 ECTS)
After the course the student shall
- be able to give an account of central concepts, research theories and debates about gender and sexuality.
- be able to give an account of how these concepts and theories are used to give meaning to gender in some specific academic disciplines
- in a written assignment, be able to critically scrutinize perceptions and theories of gender

Module 2: Theoretical and methodological studies
(7,5 ECTS)
After the course the student shall
- be able to give account of some central theoretical and methodological positions regarding gender.
- be able to make independent examinations and applications of some methodological positions within gender studies.
- in a written paper, be able to make a critical analysis of theories and methods in relation to one chosen area of the course.

Required Knowledge

Requierements: 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

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 examinations. The examination of module 1 consists of a written assignment. The examination of module 2 consists of one written paper, where a critical analysis of theories and debates in one chosen theme area is done. 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.

Academic credit transfer
This course cannot be credited for other courses in gender studies at Umeå University.

Literature

Valid from: 2019 week 27

Faux feminism? : a reply to Mia Liinason's Position paper
Gemzöe Lena
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
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
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Telling feminist stories
Hemmings Clare
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- :
Mandatory

What is a feminist theorist responsible for?
Hemmings Clare
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- : 8 : 69-76 pages
Mandatory

Speculum of the other woman
Irigaray Luce
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : 1985 : 365 p. :
ISBN: 0801416639
Mandatory
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Reading instructions: pp.246-286

The Soldier and the Terrorist: Sexy Nationalism, Queer Violence
Kuntsman Adi
Sage Publications : 2008 :

Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.142-170

Feminist challenges : response to Lena Gemzöe
Liinason Mia
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Mandatory

Institutionalized knowledge : notes on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in gender studies in Sweden
Liinason Mia
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Mandatory

Is multiculturalism bad for women?.
Okin Susan Moller, Cohen Joshua
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : cop. 1999 : 146 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-00432-3
Mandatory
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Reading instructions: pp.7-24

Introduction: homonationalism and biopolitics
Puar Jasbir. K
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Terrorist assemblages
Durham : Duke University Press : 2007. : 1 online resource (xxviii, 335 pages) :
Mandatory

What's wrong with aspiring to find out what happened in academic feminism's recent past?
Torr Rachel
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- : 8 : 59-67 pages
Mandatory

Woman and the history of philosophy
Tuana Nancy
1. ed. : New York : Paragon House : 1992 : 158 s. :
ISBN: 1-55778-194-X ;
Mandatory
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Reading instructions: pp. 1-56 and pp. 113-121

Bringing nations in: Some methodological and conceptual issues in connecting feminisms with nationhood and nationalisms
Vickers FRSC Jill
Routledge : 2006 :

Mandatory

Gender and Nation [electronic resource] : SAGE Publications
Yuval-Davis Nira.

Mandatory
Reading instructions: Chapter 1-3, pp. 1-67

Encyclopedia of feminist theories[Elektronisk resurs]c edited by Lorraine Code.
Code Lorraine.
London ;a New York : Routledge : 2000. : xxvi, 530 p. :
http://ezproxy.its.uu.se/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=70627
ISBN: 0-203-28723-1z 0415132746
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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.)
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Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory
Weedon Chris
Oxford : Basil Blackwell : 1987 : 187 s. :
ISBN: 0-631-15069-2 ;
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The history of sexuality.n Vol. 1,p The will to knowledge
Foucault Michel
Harmondsworth : Penguin : 1990 : 168 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-026868-5
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ArticleThe queer time of death:Temporality, geopolitics,and refugee rights
Shakhsari Sima
Sage Publications :

Reading instructions: pp. 998-1015

Imperial leather : race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest
McClintock Anne
London : Routledge : 1995 : xi, 449 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-90889-2 (inb.)
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Terrorist assemblages : homonationalism in queer times
Puar Jasbir K.
Durham : Duke University Press : 2007. : 1 online resource (xxviii, 335 pages) :
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9044-2
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Reading instructions: Especially chapters 1 and 2

Legislating love: Norwegian family reunification law as a racial project
Muller Myrdahl Eileen
Routledge : 2010 :

Reading instructions: pp. 103-116.

Neutral claims, gendered meanings: Parenthood and developmental psychology in a modern welfare state.
Andenæs Agnes
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Mandatory

From soft fathers to the right of the sperm? Biologism as a heteronorming resource
Annfelt Trine
Included in:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm : Makadam : 2008 : 223 s. : 181-201 pages
Mandatory

Is kinship always already heterosexual?
Butler Judith
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1989- :
Mandatory

The Rodent’s Tale
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Included in:
Sexing the body
1. ed. : New York : Basic Books : Books,c cop. 2000 : 473 s. : 195-232 pages
Mandatory

The normality of doing things differently : bodies, spaces and disability geography
Hansen N, Philo C
Included in:
Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Oxford : Blackwell, 1998- : 94 : 493-506 pages
Mandatory

Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936
Haraway Donna
Included in:
Social text
Madison, Wis. : Coda P. : 1979- :
Mandatory

The social construction of lesbianism
Kitzinger Celia
London : Sage : 1987 : ix, 230 s. :
ISBN: 0-8039-8116-3 (inb.) ; £20.00 : CIP rev.
Mandatory
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"Bold walk and breakings" : women's spatial confidence versus fear of violence
Koskela Hille
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon : Carfax Publ. Co. : 1994- :
Mandatory

Naked Sex in Exile: On the Paradoxes of the ‘Sex Question’ in Feminism and in Science.
Kraus Cynthia
Included in:
NWSA journal
Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp. ;a Bloomington : 1988- :
Mandatory

Becoming smaller : Autobiographical spaces of weight loss
Longhurst R
Included in:
Antipode
Oxford : Blackwell Publishing : 1997- : 44 : 871-888 pages
Mandatory

Sense and the City : exploring the embodied geographies of urban walking
Middleton J
Included in:
Social & cultural geography
Routledge : 2000- : 11 : 575-596 pages
Mandatory

New Fathers and Mothers as Gender Troublemakers? Exploring Discursive Constructions of Heterosexual Parenthood and their Subversive Potential.
Nentwich Julia C.
Included in:
Feminism & psychology
London : SAGE : 1991- :
Mandatory

The neurodevelopment of human sexual orientation.
Rahman Oazi
Included in:
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews.
Fayetteville, N.Y. : ANKHO International : 1978- :
Mandatory

Deconstructing the essential father.
Silverstein Louise, Auerbach Carl
Included in:
The American psychologist
Washington,c 1946- : 1946- :
Mandatory

Married fathers and caring daddies : welfare reform and the discursive politics of paternity
Haney Lynne, March Miranda
Included in:
Social problems
Buffalo, N.Y.,c 1953- : 1953- :
Mandatory

The Crisis of Disability Is Violence: Ableism, Torture, and Murder
Brown Lydia
DUKE University Press :

Mandatory

Cognitive Ableism and Disability Studies: Feminist Reflections on the History of Mental Retardation
Carlson Litia
Hypatia Inc :

Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 124-146

Feminist, queer, crip
Kafer Alison
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press : 2013 : 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) :
ISBN: 9781299608191
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Reading instructions: pp. 1-24

Exploring internalized ableism using critical race theory
Kumari Campbell Fiona A
Routledge : 2008 :

Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 151-162

Crip theory : cultural signs of queerness and disability
McRuer Robert
New York : New York University Press : cop. 2006 : xi, 283 s. :

ISBN: 978-0-8147-5712-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
Mandatory
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Reading instructions: pp. 1-32

Recovering a Cripistemology of Pain: Leaky Bodies, Connective Tissue, and Feeling Discourse
Patsavas Alyson
Liverpool University Press : 2014 :

Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 203-218

Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
Samuels Ellen
DSIQ : 2017 :

Mandatory

Hijackers and humble servants : Individuals as camwitnesses in contemporary controlwork
Koskela H
Included in:
Theoretical criminology
London : Sage : 1999- : 15 : 269-282 pages

Imperial leather : race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest
McClintock Anne
London : Routledge : 1995 : xi, 449 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-90889-2 (inb.)
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Fear and Loathing in Umeå : Gendered Bodies and Actual Imprints of the Haga Man
Sandberg L
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- : 21 : 108-122 pages

Finding oneself, losing oneself : The lesbian and gay 'scene' as a paradoxical space
Valentine G, Skelton T
Included in:
International journal of urban and regional research [Elektronisk resurs].
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 27 : 849-866 pages

Picturing inclusive places in segregated spaces : a participatory photo project conducted by migrant woman in Sweden
Giritli-Nygren K, Schmauch U
Included in:
Gender, place and culture
Abingdon : Routledge : 1995 : 19 : 600-614 pages

Valid from: 2018 week 36

Resisting Pathology : Gid and the Contested Terrain of Diagnosis in the Transgender Rights Movement
Burke Mary C.
Included in:
Advances in medical sociology
Amsterdam : Elsevier : [20--?]- : 12 : 183-201 pages
Mandatory

Dueling Dualism
Included in:
Sexing the body
1. ed. : New York : Basic Books : Books,c cop. 2000 : 473 s. : 1-29 pages
Mandatory

Faux feminism? : a reply to Mia Liinason's Position paper
Gemzöe Lena
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
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

Gender bias in medicine
Hamberg Katarina
Included in:
Women's Health
Future Medicine Ltd : May 4 : 237-43 pages

Mandatory

Telling feminist stories
Hemmings Clare
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- :
Mandatory

What is a feminist theorist responsible for?
Hemmings Clare
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- : 8 : 69-76 pages
Mandatory

The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Jordanova Ludmilla
Included in:
Social history of medicine
Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press : 1988- : pp 361-381 pages
Mandatory

The medical construction of gender : case management of intersexed infants
Kessler Suzanne J.
Included in:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago U. P. : 1975- :
Mandatory

Feminist challenges : response to Lena Gemzöe
Liinason Mia
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Mandatory

Institutionalized knowledge : notes on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in gender studies in Sweden
Liinason Mia
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Mandatory

Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation
Savic I, Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF
Included in:
Progress in brain research
Amsterdam : Elsevier : [20--?]- : 186 : 41-62 pages

Mandatory

Mutilating Gender
Spade Dean
Included in:
The transgender studies reader
London : Routledge : 2006 : 752 p. : 315-332 pages
Mandatory

What's wrong with aspiring to find out what happened in academic feminism's recent past?
Torr Rachel
Included in:
Feminist theory [Elektronisk resurs].
Thousand Oaks : Sage : 2000- : 8 : 59-67 pages
Mandatory

The less noble sex : scientific, religious, and philosophical conceptions of woman's nature
Tuana Nancy
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1993 : xii, 224 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-36098-6 (alk. paper)
Mandatory
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Woman and the history of philosophy
Tuana Nancy
1. ed. : New York : Paragon House : 1992 : 158 s. :
ISBN: 1-55778-194-X ;
Mandatory
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Shaping biology. Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'
Birke L.
Included in:
Debating biology
London : Routledge : 2003. : ix, 322 p. :

Encyclopedia of feminist theories[Elektronisk resurs]c edited by Lorraine Code.
Code Lorraine.
London ;a New York : Routledge : 2000. : xxvi, 530 p. :
http://ezproxy.its.uu.se/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=70627
ISBN: 0-203-28723-1z 0415132746
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Sexing the brain: How biologists make a difference
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Included in:
Sexing the body
1. ed. : New York : Basic Books : Books,c cop. 2000 : 473 s. : Chapter 5, pp. 115-149 pages

Biology, gender and behaviour. A critical discussion of the biological models used for explaining cognitive and behavioural gender differences.
Hamberg Katarina
Included in:
Psychology of gender identity
New York : Nova Science Publishers : cop. 2005 : 178 s. : pp 127-144 pages

Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections and why does it matter?
Krieger Nancy
Included in:
International journal of epidemiology
Oxford : Oxford U. P. : 1972- :