Swedish name: Bekönat våld
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Course code: 2KC027
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Gender Studies: 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), 2025-03-18
Contents
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?
At the end of the course the student shall have the ability to:
Knowledge and understanding:
Skills and abilities:
Judgement and approach:
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.
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 takes place through fulfillment of:
1) Mandatory assignments during the course (U/G)
2) Individual in-depth written assignment (U/G/VG).
The student has the option to either complete the mandatory assignments for a Pass (G) on the entire course or to additionally write an individual in-depth assignment to have a chance of a higher grade (VG - Pass with Distinction). If the student opts for point 1, the course grade will be Pass (G) upon fulfillment of all assignments. Point 2 cannot be chosen after the course grade has been reported.
Students have the right to apply to have a previous education or experience evaluated for transfer of credits. For more
information, see: www.ͯÑÕÊÓƵ/utbildning/antagning/tillgodoraknande/
Abu-Lughod Lila
Seductions of the “Honor Crime”
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1989- : 22 : pages 17-63 :
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
Boyle Karen
WhatÂ’s in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
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
Carbin Maria
The requirement to speak : Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour-related violence
Included in:
Women's studies international forum : h [Elektronisk resurs] b a multidisciplinary journal ...
Oxford : Pergamon P. : 1982- : 46 : pages 107-114 :
Mandatory
Carbin Maria
Towards a politics of uncertainty: : difficulties of naming the relationship between gender and violence
Included in:
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
2017- :
Mandatory
Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Crenshaw Kimberlé
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
Included in:
Stanford law review.
Stanford, Calif. : School of Law : 1948- : pages 1241-1299 :
Mandatory
Hernández Miriam
“Killed Out of Love”: A Frame Analysis of Domestic Violence Coverage in Hong Kong
Sage Publications : 2018 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.1454-1473
Johnson Michael P
Domestic Violence: : The Intersection of Gender and Control
Included in:
Gender violence
New York : New York University Press : cop. 2007 : xiv, 529 s. :
Mandatory
Kelly Liz
Standing the test of time? : Reflections on the concept of continuum of sexual violence
Included in:
Handbook on sexual violence
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : cop. 2012 : 516 p. : pages 1-12 :
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
Kuokkanen Rauna
Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities
Routledge : 2015 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 271-288
Strid Sofia
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Oxford Academic : 2013 :
Mandatory
Sweet Paige L
‘Every bone of my body:’ : Domestic violence and the diagnostic body
Included in:
Social science & medicine.
Oxford,c 1982- : 1982- : 122 : pages 44-52 :
Mandatory
The health-systems response to violence against women
GarcÃa-Moreno C, Hegarty K, d'Oliveira A, Koziol-McLain J, Colombini M
Included in:
The Lancet.
London : 1996- : 385 : pages 1567-79 :
Mandatory
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedishgender equality and global health
Öhman Ann, Emmelin Maria
Elsevier Ltd : 2014 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 115-122
GarcÃa Manuel Calvo
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
Included in:
The age of human rights journal
2013- : 6 : pages 60-82 :
MacManus Viviana Beatriz
We are not Victims, we are Protagonists of this History
Included in:
International feminist journal of politics.
London : Routledge : 1999- : 17 : pages 40-57 :
MacKinnon Catharine A
Sexuality
Included in:
The second wave
New York : Routledge : 1997 : 414 s. :
Reading instructions: pp. 158-180