Genus, kön, kropp: teorier och debatt, 15 hp
Innehåll
This is a cross-disciplinary course on biological and constructionist explanatory models for giving meaning to sex and gender. 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 together with historical and contemporary frontiers of debate and knowledge in the field. This is followed by highlights from the fields of medicine, biology and psychology; disciplines where collisions between standpoints have been particularly marked. The second module Contemporary theoretical issues: evolution, sexualities, reproduction and parenthood (7,5 ECTS) engages more deeply on theoretical issues. Three central areas of debate are in focus: sexualities, reproduction, and parenthood. Recent debates on biologism and evolution will also be addressed. Active participation by students in seminars is vital to the successful completion of the course. The course is taught in English.
Förväntade studieresultat
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 and theories, and research theories and debates about gender and sex. - be able to give an account of how these concepts and theories are used to give meaning to gender and sex in medicine, biology, and in psychology. - in a written assignment, within a restricted area, be able to critically scrutiny perceptions and theories where gender and sex are given meaning. Module 2: Contemporary theoretical issues: evolution, sexualities, reproduction and parenthood (7,5 ECTS) After the course the student shall - be able to give account of important theoretical standpoints towards gender and sex, in areas such as; sexualities, reproduction, and parenthood. - be able to make independent examinations about different theoretical standpoints, and how these standpoints are expressed in public debates about gender, nature and culture. - in a written paper, be able to make a critical analysis of theories and debates in one chosen theme area of the course.
Behörighetskrav
Univ: Minst 90 hp varav minst 15 hp ska vara självständigt arbete, alternativt minst 120 hp. En A och svenska för grundläggande behörighet för högskolestudier (om kursen ges på svenska).
Undervisningens upplägg
Teaching is conducted through lectures and seminars. Seminars are compulsory, and students who are unable to participate may be given extra examination tasks. Emphasis is placed on students independent work.
Examination
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.
Litteratur
Giltig från: 2010 vecka 35
Obligatory literature Module 1
Shaping biology (2003). Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'.
Birke L.
Ingår i:
Debating biology
London :
Routledge :
2003. :
ix, 322 p. :
Chapter 3, pp 39-55 sid.
Sitting on the fence: Biology, feminism and gender-bending environments
Birke Lynda
Ingår i:
Women's studies international forum
Oxford :
Pergamon P. :
1982- :
587-599 sid.
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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Invidious comparisons: Imagining a psychology of race and gender beyond differences.
Cole Elizabeth, Stewart Abigail
Ingår i:
Political psychology
New York :
Plenum :
1979- :
293-308 sid.
Feminist body/politics as world traveller: Translating Our bodies, ourselves.
Davis Kathy
Ingår i:
The European journal of women's studies.
London :
Sage :
1994- :
223-247 sid.
The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture
Fausto-Sterling A.
Ingår i:
Debating biology
London :
Routledge :
2003. :
ix, 322 p. :
Chapter 9, pp 123-144 sid.
Bare bones of sex: Part 1, Sex and gender.
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Ingår i:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. :
Chicago U. P. :
1975- :
pp 491-528 sid.
Sexing the brain: How biologists make a difference
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Ingår i:
Sexing the body
1. ed. :
New York :
Basic Books :
Books,c cop. 2000 :
473 s. :
Chapter 5, pp. 115-149 sid.
In fitness and in health: Crafting bodies in the treatment of Anorexia nervosa
Gremillion Helen
Ingår i:
Signs
Chicago, Ill. :
Chicago U. P. :
1975- :
pp 381-414 sid.
Volatile bodies
: toward a corporeal feminism
Grosz Elizabeth
Bloomington :
Indiana Univ. Press :
cop. 1994 :
xvi, 250 s. :
ISBN: 0-253-32686-9 (inb.)
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Läsanvisning: P. 3-27 (24 pages).
Biology, gender and behaviour. A critical discussion of the biological models used for explaining cognitive and behavioural gender differences.
Hamberg Katarina
Ingår i:
Psychology of gender identity
New York :
Nova Science Publishers :
cop. 2005 :
178 s. :
pp 127-144 sid.
Re-claiming bodies of knowledge: an exploration of the relationship between feminist theorizing and feminist style in the rhetoric in the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
Hayden Sara
Ingår i:
Western journal of communication.
Portland, Or. :
Western Speech Communication Association :
1992- :
pp 127-163 sid.
The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge
Jordanova Ludmilla
Ingår i:
Social history of medicine
Oxford :
Oxford Univ. Press :
1988- :
pp 361-381 sid.
Is it sex or is it gender?
Kim JS, Nafziger AN
Ingår i:
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
St. Louis, Mo :
Mosby :
1960- :
Genders, sexes, and health: what are the connections and why does it matter?
Krieger Nancy
Ingår i:
International journal of epidemiology
Oxford :
Oxford U. P. :
1972- :
Differences, similarities or inequalities in the study of gender in psychology
Magnusson Eva, Marecek Jeanne
Ingår i:
Gender and culture in psychology: theories and applications
Stockholm :
Natur & Kultur :
2010 :
12 sid.
Woman under erasure: Anorexic bodies in postmodern context
Malson Helen
Ingår i:
Journal of community & applied social psychology.
Chichester, W. Sussex :
John Wiley :
137-153 sid.
Social suffering, gender, and women’s depression
Marecek Jeanne
Ingår i:
Women and depression
Cambridge ;a New York :
Cambridge University Press :
2005 :
xviii, 582 s. :
283-308 sid.
Functionalism, Darwinism and the psychology of women: A study in social myth.
Shields Stephanie
Ingår i:
Seldom seen, rarely heard
Boulder :
Westview Press :
1992 :
459 s. :
79-106 sid.
Our bodies, ourselves for the new century
: a book by and for women
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
New York :
Simon & Schuster :
1998 :
780 p. :
ISBN: 0-684-84231-9
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Läsanvisning: eller Våra kroppar våra jag: [en bok om kvinnor av kvinnor]/ chosen parts.
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)
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Läsanvisning: Pages ix-xii, 3-107.
Additional articles may be added before the seminar.
Reference literature
Shaping biology. Feminism and the idea of 'the biological'
Birke L.
Ingår i:
Debating biology
London :
Routledge :
2003. :
ix, 322 p. :
Men, women, and madness
: understanding gender and mental disorder
Busfield Joan
Washington Square, N.Y. :
New York University Press :
1996 :
xiv, 287 p. :
ISBN: 0-8147-1278-9
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The problem with sex/gender and nature/nurture
Fausto-Sterling A.
Ingår i:
Debating biology
London :
Routledge :
2003. :
ix, 322 p. :
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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Women's madness
: misogyny or mental illness?
Ussher Jane M.
Hemel Hempstead :
Harvester Wheatsheaf :
1991 :
341 s. :
ISBN: 0-7450-0831-3
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Debating biology
: sociological reflections on health, medicine and society
Williams Simon J.q (Simon Johnson), Birke Lynda., Bendelow Gillian
London :
Routledge :
2003. :
ix, 322 p. :
ISBN: 0-415-27902-X
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Obligatory literature Module 2
Neutral claims, gendered meanings: Parenthood and developmental psychology in a modern welfare state.
Andenæs Agnes
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
From soft fathers to the right of the sperm? Biologism as a heteronorming resource
Annfelt Trine
Ingår i:
Critical studies of gender equalities
Göteborg ;a Stockholm :
Makadam :
2008 :
223 s. :
181-201 sid.
I. Attachment theory revisited: Challenging conceptual and methodological sacred cows
Birns Beverly
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
Is kinship always already heterosexual?
Butler Judith
Ingår i:
Differences
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press :
1989- :
III. Bowlby's theory of attachment and loss. A feminist reconsideration
Cleary Rose J.
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
Critical studies of gender equalities
: Nordic dislocations, dilemmas and contradictions
Magnusson Eva, Rönnblom Malin, Silius Harriet
Göteborg ;a Stockholm :
Makadam :
2008 :
223 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-7061-058-5
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Läsanvisning: pp 181-201.
The Rodent’s Tale
Fausto-Sterling Anne
Ingår i:
Sexing the body
1. ed. :
New York :
Basic Books :
Books,c cop. 2000 :
473 s. :
195-232 sid.
II. Historicizing attachment theory: Binding the ties that bind.
Franzblau Susan H.
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
Extract from The Social Construction of Lesbianism.
Kitzinger Celia
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
Naked Sex in Exile: On the Paradoxes of the ‘Sex Question’ in Feminism and in Science.
Kraus Cynthia
Ingår i:
NWSA journal
Norwood, N.J. :
Ablex Pub. Corp. ;a Bloomington :
1988- :
New Fathers and Mothers as Gender Troublemakers? Exploring Discursive Constructions of Heterosexual Parenthood and their Subversive Potential.
Nentwich Julia C.
Ingår i:
Feminism & psychology
London :
SAGE :
1991- :
The neurodevelopment of human sexual orientation.
Rahman Oazi
Ingår i:
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews.
Fayetteville, N.Y. :
ANKHO International :
1978- :
Deconstructing the essential father.
Silverstein Louise, Auerbach Carl
Ingår i:
The American psychologist
Washington,c 1946- :
1946- :
Shorter articles may be included.
Reference literature
Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix.
Butler Judith
Ingår i:
Gender trouble[Elektronisk resurs]b feminism and the subversion of identity
New York :
Routledge :
1999. :
xxxiii, 221 p. :
45-100 sid.
Undoing gender
Butler Judith
New York :
Routledge :
cop. 2004 :
viii, 273 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-96922-0 (alk. paper)
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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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Läsanvisning: Vol. 1-3.
Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936
Haraway Donna
Ingår i:
Social text
Madison, Wis. :
Coda P. :
1979- :
The politics of heterosexuality-a missing discourse in cancer nursing literature on sexuality: A discussion paper.
Hyde A.
Ingår i:
International journal of nursing studies.
London :
Pergamon :
1963- :
The invention of heterosexuality
Katz Jonathan
University of Chicago Press ed. :
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press :
2007 :
ix, 291 p. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039623.html
ISBN: 978-0-226-42601-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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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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