Gendered Violence, 7.5 credits
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This course deals with gendered violence as a theoretical, human rights and policy issue. Taking departure from a variety of feminist and intersectional approaches the course will address questions such as: What is violence? How can violence be gendered? What are the relationships between violence, gender and power? How can gender-based violence be understood, addressed and responded to? How are notions of gender equality and violence linked?
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student shall have the ability to:
Knowledge and understanding:
- understand and explain different definitions of gendered violence.
- understand and explain gendered violence from critical feminist perspectives.
Skills and abilities:
- independently apply relevant critical theories on empirical or theoretical problems related to gender and violence.
Judgement and approach:
- independently identify and formulate relevant questions regarding gendered violence feminist perspectives.
- be able to, orally and in writing, present an independent analysis related to central questions regarding gendered violence.
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/6 from Swedish Upper secondary education.
Form of instruction
The course is a full-time on-line course in English. The course is taught entirely through an electronic Learning Management System where the student takes part in lectures, mandatory assignments and other learning activities. The studies are characterized by a high degree of independent and active search for knowledge, and critical reflection, both individually and in groups.
Examination modes
Examination takes place through fulfillment of two parts:
1) Mandatory assignments during the course
2) Individual written assignment.
For part 1 the grades are Fail (U) or Pass (G). For part 2, as well as for the whole course, the grades are Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with Distinction (VG). The grade for the whole course in based on the examination of part 2. The whole course is not graded until part 1 is fulfilled.
Other regulations
Students have the right to apply to have a previous education or experience evaluated for transfer of credits. For more
information, see: www.umu.se/utbildning/antagning/tillgodoraknande/
Literature
Seductions of the “Honor Crime”
Abu-Lughod Lila
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press :
1989- :
22 :
17-63 pages
Mandatory
Addressing violence against women: a call to action
Garcia-Moreno C, Zimmerman C, Morris-Gehring A, Heise L, Amin A, Abrahams N, Watts C
The Lancet :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 1685-1695
What’s in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
Boyle Karen
Sage Publications :
2018 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 19-36
Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender
Cannon Clare, Lauve-Moon Katie, Buttell Fred
Social sciences :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 668-687
The requirement to speak
: Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour-related violence
Carbin Maria
Included in:
Women's studies international forum : h [Elektronisk resurs] b a multidisciplinary journal ...
Oxford :
Pergamon P. :
1982- :
46 :
107-114 pages
Mandatory
Towards a politics of uncertainty: 
: difficulties of naming the relationship between gender and violence
Carbin Maria
Included in:
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
2017- :
Mandatory
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Corrigan Rose
Cambridge University Press :
2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
Crenshaw Kimberlé
Included in:
Stanford law review.
Stanford, Calif. :
School of Law :
1948- :
1241-1299 pages
Mandatory
“Killed Out of Love”: A Frame Analysis of Domestic Violence Coverage in Hong Kong
Hernández Miriam
Sage Publications :
2018 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.1454-1473
Domestic Violence:
: The Intersection of Gender and Control
Johnson Michael P
Included in:
Gender violence
2. ed. :
New York :
New York University Press :
cop. 2007 :
xiv, 529 s. :
Mandatory
Standing the test of time?
: Reflections on the concept of continuum of sexual violence
Kelly Liz
Included in:
Handbook on sexual violence
Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge :
cop. 2012 :
516 p. :
1-12 pages
Mandatory
Frames in Contestation: Gendering Domestic Violence Policies in Five Central and Eastern European Countries
Krizsan Andrea, Popa RM
Sage Publications :
2014 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.758-782
Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities
Kuokkanen Rauna
Routledge :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 271-288
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Strid Sofia
Oxford Academic :
2013 :
Mandatory
‘Every bone of my body:’
: Domestic violence and the diagnostic body
Sweet Paige L
Included in:
Social science & medicine.
Oxford,c 1982- :
1982- :
122 :
44-52 pages
Mandatory
The health-systems response to violence against women
García-Moreno C, Hegarty K, d'Oliveira A, Koziol-McLain J, Colombini M
Included in:
The Lancet.
London :
1996- :
385 :
1567-79 pages
Mandatory
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedishgender equality and global health
Öhman Ann, Emmelin Maria
Elsevier Ltd :
2014 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 115-122
Optional literature
The Role of Social Movements in the Recognition of Gender Violence as a Violation of Human Rights:
: From Legal Reform to the Language of Rights
García Manuel Calvo
Included in:
The age of human rights journal
2013- :
6 :
60-82 pages
We are not Victims, we are Protagonists of this History
MacManus Viviana Beatriz
Included in:
International feminist journal of politics.
London :
Routledge :
1999- :
17 :
40-57 pages
Sexuality
MacKinnon Catharine A
Included in:
The second wave
New York :
Routledge :
1997 :
414 s. :
Reading instructions: pp. 158-180
Seductions of the “Honor Crime”
Abu-Lughod Lila
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press :
1989- :
22 :
17-63 pages
Mandatory
Addressing violence against women: a call to action
Garcia-Moreno C, Zimmerman C, Morris-Gehring A, Heise L, Amin A, Abrahams N, Watts C
The Lancet :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 1685-1695
What’s in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
Boyle Karen
Sage Publications :
2018 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 19-36
Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender
Cannon Clare, Lauve-Moon Katie, Buttell Fred
Social sciences :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 668-687
The requirement to speak
: Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour-related violence
Carbin Maria
Included in:
Women's studies international forum : h [Elektronisk resurs] b a multidisciplinary journal ...
Oxford :
Pergamon P. :
1982- :
46 :
107-114 pages
Mandatory
Hegemonic masculinity?
: rethinking the concept
Connell R. W., Messerschmidt James W.
Mandatory
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Corrigan Rose
Cambridge University Press :
2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
Crenshaw Kimberlé
Included in:
Stanford law review.
Stanford, Calif. :
School of Law :
1948- :
1241-1299 pages
Mandatory
Connell's Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critique
Demetriou Demetrakis Z.
Included in:
Theory and society
Amsterdam ; London ; New York :
Elsevier Scientific Publ. :
1974- :
Vol. 1- :
Vol.30 :
337–361 pages
Mandatory
Violent women?
: the challenge of women's violence in intimate heterosexual relationships to feminist analyses of partner violence
Enander Viveka
Included in:
Nora
London :
Taylor & Francis :
1998- :
Mandatory
“I Wasn’t a Priority, I Wasn’t a Victim”: Challenges in Help Seeking for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Guadalupe-Diaz Xavier L, Jasinski Jana
Sage Publications :
2017 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 772-792
Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes: “Domestic Violence” in Finland and Scotland
Hearn Jeff, McKie Linda
Sage Publications :
2010 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 136-158
The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications
Hearn Jeff
Sage Publications :
2012 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.152-170
“Killed Out of Love”: A Frame Analysis of Domestic Violence Coverage in Hong Kong
Hernández Miriam
Sage Publications :
2018 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.1454-1473
Every time you said "penis"
: (Men's) violence, victim advocacy and impermissible speech
Howe Adrian
Included in:
Australian feminist studies
Adelaide :
Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide :
1985- :
Mandatory
Frames in Contestation: Gendering Domestic Violence Policies in Five Central and Eastern European Countries
Krizsan Andrea, Popa RM
Sage Publications :
2014 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.758-782
Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities
Kuokkanen Rauna
Routledge :
2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 271-288
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Strid Sofia
Oxford Academic :
2013 :
Mandatory
Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions
Roesch Elisabeth, Amin Avni, Gupta Jhumka, García-Moreno Claudia
Included in:
BMJ (British Medical Journal)
1988- :
369 :
Mandatory
Redefining Intimate Partner Violence Beyond the Binary to Include Transgender People
Yerke A.F, DeFeo J
Journal of Family Violence (2016) 31: 995-998. :
2016 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 975-979
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedishgender equality and global health
Öhman Ann, Emmelin Maria
Elsevier Ltd :
2014 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 115-122