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), 2020-06-11
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:
A minimum of 90 university credits in one main field including an individual essay carrying at least 15 university credits. Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English A/5.
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 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.
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
Collins Patricia Hill
On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics
Included in:
Ethnic and racial studies.
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul : 1978- : 40 : pages 1460-1473 :
Mandatory
Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Enander Viveka
Violent women? : the challenge of women's violence in intimate heterosexual relationships to feminist analyses of partner violence
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
Hearn Jeff
The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications
Sage Publications : 2012 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.152-170
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
Howe Adrian
Every time you said "penis" : (Men's) violence, victim advocacy and impermissible speech
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
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
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
‘The public health turn on violence against women’ : Analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies
Öhman Ann, Burman Monica, Carbin Maria, Edin Kerstin
2020 :
Mandatory
Hegemonic masculinity? : rethinking the concept
Connell R. W., Messerschmidt James W.
Mandatory
Demetriou Demetrakis Z.
Connell's Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critique
Included in:
Theory and society
Amsterdam ; London ; New York : Elsevier Scientific Publ. : 1974- : Vol. 1- : Vol.30 : pages 337–361 :
Mandatory
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
Collins Patricia Hill
On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics
Included in:
Ethnic and racial studies.
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul : 1978- : 40 : pages 1460-1473 :
Mandatory
Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Enander Viveka
Violent women? : the challenge of women's violence in intimate heterosexual relationships to feminist analyses of partner violence
Included in:
Nora
London : Taylor & Francis : 1998- :
Mandatory
Feminist review : Violence
Included in:
Feminist review.
London,c 1979- : 1979- : 112 :
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
Hearn Jeff
The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications
Sage Publications : 2012 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.152-170
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
Howe Adrian
Every time you said "penis" : (Men's) violence, victim advocacy and impermissible speech
Included in:
Australian feminist studies
Adelaide : Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide : 1985- :
Mandatory
Joan S Meier
JohnsonÂ’s Differentiation Theory: Is It Really Empirically Supported?
GW Legal Studies Research Paper : 2015 :
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
McMillan Lesley
Feminists organising against gendered violence
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2007 : 224 p. :
ISBN: 9780230592247
Mandatory
Strid Sofia
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Oxford Academic : 2013 :
Mandatory
The concept and measurement of violence against women and men
Walby Sylvia, Towers Jude., Balderston Susie.
Bristol : Policy Press : 2017 : 1vol. (XIV-177 p.) :
ISBN: 1447332636
Mandatory
Westmarland Nicole
Violence against women : criminological perspectives on men's violences
London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group : 2015. : 1 online resource. :
ISBN: 9781315768830
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
‘The public health turn on violence against women’ : Analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies
Öhman Ann, Burman Monica, Carbin Maria, Edin Kerstin
2020 :
Mandatory
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
Collins Patricia Hill
On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics
Included in:
Ethnic and racial studies.
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul : 1978- : 40 : pages 1460-1473 :
Mandatory
Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493
Enander Viveka
Violent women? : the challenge of women's violence in intimate heterosexual relationships to feminist analyses of partner violence
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
Hearn Jeff
The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications
Sage Publications : 2012 :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.152-170
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
Howe Adrian
Every time you said "penis" : (Men's) violence, victim advocacy and impermissible speech
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
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
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
‘The public health turn on violence against women’ : Analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies
Öhman Ann, Burman Monica, Carbin Maria, Edin Kerstin
2020 :
Mandatory