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)
Established by: Director of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), 2019-06-14
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 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
The course will be examined successively through active participation in seminars, and through individual oral, and written examinations. The examination consists of a written assignment. For 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 passedA 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
Literature
Valid from:
2020 week 28
"Subjects of sex/gender/desire” Included in: Gender trouble[Elektronisk resurs]b feminism and the subversion of identity New York : Routledge : 1999. : xxxiii, 221 p. : Mandatory
Abu-Lughod Lila Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthopological reflections on Cultural relativism and its Others. Ingår i: American Anthroplogist, 104(3) pp. 783-790. 2003. : 2003 :
Mandatory
Bordo Susan The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought Ingår i: Signs Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring, 1986, s. 439-456 :
Mandatory
”The intersectional turn in feminist theory. A dream of a common language?” Carbin Maria, Edenheim Sara European Journal of Women Studies. Vol. 20, nr. 3. : Mandatory Reading instructions: pp. 233-248
Carbin Maria Postcolonialism, theoretical and critical perspectives on Included in: The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies [Elektronisk resurs] / Editor-in-chief, Nancy A. Naples ; associate editors, Renee C. Hoogland, Maithree Wickramasinghe, Wai Ching Angela Wong] Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell : 2016 : 1 online resource. :
Mandatory Reading instructions: pp. 1-6
Crenshaw Kimberle Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color Included in: Stanford law review. Stanford, Calif. : School of Law : 1948- :
Mandatory Reading instructions: pp. 1241- 1299
Haraway D. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective Included in: Feminist studies. New York : 1972- : 14 : pages 575-599 : Mandatory
Hill Collins Patricia Defining Black Feminist Thought Included in: The second wave New York : Routledge : 1997 : x, 414 s. : pages 241-259 : Mandatory
Introduction Included in: Feminist postcolonial theory New York : Routledge : 2003 : pdf (xi, 754 s.) :
Mandatory Reading instructions: pp 1-24
Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing (Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; 1) Lykke Nina, Max Novick Routledge : Mandatory
Mohanty Chandra Talpade Under western eyes. Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Included in: Feminist review. London,c 1979- : 1979- : pages 61-88 : Mandatory
Norlander Kerstin Empathetic reading. The art of reading a text in its own terms Swedish Secreteriat for Gender Research : 2013 :
Mandatory Reading instructions: pp. 10-13
Rubin Gayle Thinking sex Included in: The Lesbian and gay studies reader New York : Routledge : 1993 : 666 s. : pages 3-44 : Mandatory
Nicholson Linda J. The second wave : a reader in feminist theory New York : Routledge : 1997 : x, 414 s. : ISBN: 0415917603 Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 158-180 and pp 323-329
Virgins or whores? Feminist critique of sexuality Included in: Sexuality Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2008 : 151 p. :
