Syllabus for Gender Theory

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Syllabus

  • 7.5 credits
  • Course code: 5GN010
  • Education cycle: Second cycle
  • Main field(s) of study and in-depth level: Gender Research A1N

    Explanation of codes

    The code indicates the education cycle and in-depth level of the course in relation to other courses within the same main field of study according to the requirements for general degrees:

    First cycle

    • G1N: has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
    • G1F: has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G1E: contains specially designed degree project for Higher Education Diploma
    • G2F: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G2E: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
    • GXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

    Second cycle

    • A1N: has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1F: has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
    • A2E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (120 credits)
    • AXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

  • Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
  • Established: 2007-02-27
  • Established by:
  • Revised: 2021-03-11
  • Revised by: The Faculty Board of Arts
  • Applies from: Autumn 2021
  • Entry requirements:

    A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university

  • Responsible department: Centre for Gender Research

Decisions and guidelines

The centre for gender research is responsible for this course. This course is obligatory for students reading the Master's programme in the Humanities - Gender Studies. Priority is given to students reading this programme.

Learning outcomes

Following successful completion of the course students will be able to:

- Independently identify, discuss and critically relate to various theoretical debates about sex/gender.

- Discuss gender studies theories and methods as developed through inter-disciplinary perspectives and with a global outlook

- Identify and problematise the ways in which sex/gender structures, and is structured in, culture, society and science based on different themes (for example) work, politics, family as well as masculinity, race and globalization.

- Actively participate in seminar discussions and present written and oral arguments in the independent and critical manner expected at the advanced level

Content

Since the 1970s, theoretical developments in the field of Gender Studies have been both extensive and multi-faceted. Starting from a basis in feminist theory, this course aims to introduce major theoretical discussions about sex and gender, examine different understandings of these core concepts and how they intersect with other aspects of power and embodiment related to, among others, questions of race, sexuality and ability. During the course a selection of different theoretical perspectives are interrogated, problematised, and positioned in relation to one another to identify divergences and lines of development.

Instruction

The course is delivered through a series of obligatory lectures and/or seminars

Assessment

Examination forms include an active participation in the seminars; student led seminars; and a written paper based on the theme of the course. All essays will undergo a plagiarism check.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Syllabus Revisions

Reading list

Reading list

Applies from: Autumn 2022

Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.

  • Ahmed, Sara "Orientations: Towards a Queer Phenomenology"

    Part of:

    GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studies

    vol. 12 (2007)

    p. 543-574 (25 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Ahmed, Sara “A Phenomenology of Whiteness”

    Part of:

    Feminist theory

    Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000-

    vol. 8 (2007) nr. 2

    p. 149-168 (20 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Alaimo, Stacy “Trans-corporeal Feminisms and The Ethical Space of Nature"

    Part of:

    Material feminisms

    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008

    p. 237-264 (27 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Anzaldúa, Gloria "La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness"

    Part of:

    Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera

    2. ed.: San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, cop. 1999

    p. 77-91 (14 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Barad, Karen “Nature’s Queer Performativity"

    Part of:

    Kvinder, køn & forskning [Elektronisk resurs]

    1992-

    vol. 26 (2012) nr. 1-2

    p. 25-53 (28 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Braidotti, Rosi “Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project"

    Part of:

    Nomadic subjects : embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory

    2. ed.: New York: Columbia University Press, cop. 2011

    p. 146-171 (25 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Butler, Judith “Imitation and Gender Insubordination"

    Part of:

    The lesbian and gay studies reader

    New York: Routledge, 1993

    p. 307-320 (13 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Butler, Judith “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”

    Part of:

    Theatre journal

    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996-

    vol. 40 (1988) nr. 4

    p. 519-531 (12 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Butler, Judith “The End of Sexual Difference?"

    Part of:

    Undoing gender [Elektronisk resurs]

    New York: Routledge, 2004

    p. 174-203 (29 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Colebrook, Claire; Weinstein, Jami “Preface: Postscript on the Posthuman”

    Part of:

    Posthumous life : theorizing beyond the posthuman

    New York: Columbia University Press, [2017]

    ix-xxi (11 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Connell, R.W. “A Very Straight Gay: Masculinity, Homosexual Experience, and the Dynamics of Gender"

    Part of:

    American sociological review

    Menasha, Wis.: American Sociological Society, 1936-

    vol. 57 (1992)

    p. 735-751 (16 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Dahl, Ulrika “Sexism: A femme-inist perspective"

    Part of:

    New formations : a journal of culture, theory, politics

    London: Methuen, 1987-

    (2015) nr. 86

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • De Beauvoir, Simone "Introduction"

    Part of:

    The second sex

    New York: Vintage books, 1989

    27 p

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Deleuze, Gilles “Lecture/Transcript on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect"

    Webdeleuze, 1978

    Link to PDF

    27 p

    Mandatory

  • Duggan, Lisa; McHugh, Kathleen “A fem(me)inist manifesto"

    Part of:

    Women & performance : a journal of feminist theory

    New York, N.Y.: Women & Performance Project at the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 1983-

    vol. 8 (1996) nr. 2

    p. 153-159 (6 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Frye, Marilyn "Oppression"

    Part of:

    The politics of reality : essays in feminist theory

    Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing P., cop 1983

    p. 1-16 (16 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Grosz, Elisabeth "The Force of Sexual Difference"

    Part of:

    Time travels : feminism, nature, power

    Durham: Duke University Press, 2005

    p. 171-183 (12 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Grosz, Elisabeth “Refiguring Lesbian Desire"

    Part of:

    Space, time, and perversion : essays on the politics of bodies

    New York: Routledge, 1995

    p. 173-185 (12 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Hemmings, Clare “Invoking Affect: Cultural Theory and the Ontological Turn"

    Part of:

    Cultural studies [Elektronisk resurs]

    London: Taylor & Francis, 1998-

    vol. 19 (2005) nr. 5

    p. 548-567 (18 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Hoodfar, Homa “The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: The Persistence of Colonial Images of Muslim Women"

    Part of:

    RFR/DRF : Resources for feminist research : Documentation sur la recherche féministe

    Toronto: 1979-

    vol. 22 (1993) nr. 3-4

    p. 5-22 (14 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • hooks, bell “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"

    Part of:

    Feminist theory : from margin to center

    2. ed.: London: Pluto Press, cop. 2000

    p. 17-31 (14 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • hooks, bell “Postmodern blackness"

    Part of:

    Yearning : race, gender, and cultural politics

    New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

    s. 23-31 (7 s)

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    Mandatory

  • Irigaray, Luce Porter, Catherine; Burke, Carolyn This sex which is not one

    Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985

    p. 23-33, 205-218 (23 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Kuhar, Roman; Paternotte, David “Gender ideology"

    Part of:

    Anti-gender campaigns in Europe : mobilizing against equality

    London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2017]

    p. 1-22 (22 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Lorde, Audre “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface"

    Part of:

    Sister outsider : essays and speeches

    Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, cop. 1984

    3 p

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Lorde, Audre “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House"

    Part of:

    Sister outsider : essays and speeches

    Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, cop. 1984

    2 p

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Martin, Biddy “Sexualities Without Genders and Other Utopias"

    Part of:

    Diacritics : a review of contemporary criticism

    Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, Dept. of Romance Studies, 1971-

    vol. 24 (1994) nr. 2-3

    p. 104-121 (17 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • McRuer, Robert “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence

    Part of:

    The disability studies reader

    4th ed.: New York, NY: Routledge, 2013

    p. 88-99 (11 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Muñoz, Jose Esteban “Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's ‘The Sweetest Hangover (And Other STDs)’”

    Part of:

    Theatre journal

    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996-

    vol. 52 (2000) nr. 1

    p. 67-79 (12 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Muñoz, José Esteban “Queerness as Horizon"

    Part of:

    Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity

    New York: New York University Press, cop. 2009

    p. 19-32 (13 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Narayan, Uma “Contesting Cultures"

    Part of:

    Dislocating cultures : identities, traditions, and Third-World feminism

    New York: Routledge, 1997

    p. 2-39 (19 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Preciado, Beatriz "Testogel"

    Part of:

    Testo Junkie : sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era

    New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2013

    p. 55-67 (12 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Puar, Jasbir “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”

    Part of:

    Right to maim : debility, capacity, disability

    Durham: Duke University Press, 2017

    p. 33-62 (29 p)

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    Mandatory

  • Serano, Julia. Whipping girl : a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity

    Seattle, Wash.: Seal, 2007.

    chap. 8 (33 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Somerville, Siobhan “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body"

    Part of:

    Journal of the history of sexuality

    vol. 5 (1994) nr. 2

    p. 243-266 (23 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Spade, Dean “Mutilating Gender"

    Part of:

    The transgender studies reader

    London: Routledge, 2006

    p. 315-332 (17 p)

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Stryker, Susan “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage"

    Part of:

    GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studies

    vol. 1 (1994) nr. 3

    p. 237-254 (17 p)

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    Mandatory

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