Course: Identity and Gender

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Course title Identity and Gender
Course code KZU/IGM
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bočák Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Fafejta Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to gender studies and social construction of human identity. Basic gender theories. 2. Deconstruction of sex/gender opposition. Garfinkel, Kessler and McKenna, Butler, West and Zimmerman. Basic gender stereotypes and socialization. 3. Deviations from gender norms - heterosexual normativity: social invisibility of deviations from gender norms, gender and sexual rights. 4. Homosexuality: social construction of homosexuality. Public space and homosexuality. Bisexuality. 5. Transgender and transsexuality, social construction of reality as a two-gender system. 6. Intersexuality as a deviation from sexual norms, social construction of two-sex system. Intergender. 7. Asexuality as a deviation from gender-sexual norms. 8. Gender and sexuality: the social construction of sexuality, gender and sexual scripts. 9. Gender and public space: a glass elevator and a glass ceiling; gendering of labor market, gender and social stratification. Gender mainstreaming a gender budgeting. 10. Gender and private space: gender division of labor in a family, maternal privilege and faterhood. 11. Gender and crime: gender in a prison, crime determined by gender. 12. Gender and media: gender in advertising.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to familiarize students with major authors and concepts of gender studies. The discipline is theoretically based on constructivism and post-structuralism and introduces gender feminist theories through this perspective. The course reflects the historical background of gender concept and current criticism of these concepts - primarily through the deconstruction of sex/gender opposition. Other core topics include gender and sexual normativeness and deviations from the normativeness (homosexuality, transgender, intersexuality, etc.) and gender structure of sexuality. The course also focuses on gender and sexual division of labor's issues and gender roles in public and in private space.
To be able to define and explain the term "gender", to judge and appraise presented theories and deconstruct basic gender oppositions on the basis of presented theories, to describe and characterize basic gender minorities, to identify, illustrate and analyse basic problems that these minorities encounter. To apply the same approach for the position of men and women in the private and public spheres and formulate basic problems.
Prerequisites
No prior requirements.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

Based on taught subject matter - see Content and Literature
Recommended literature
  • Berger, P. L. ? Luckmann. Sociální konstrukce reality. Brno: CDK 1999.
  • Berger, P. L. - Luckmann, T. Sociální konstrukce reality. Brno: CDK, 1999..
  • Butler, J. Trampoty s rodom: feminizmus a podrývanie identity. Bratislava: Aspekt, 2003..
  • Connell, R. W. Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005..
  • Fafejta, M. (2004). Úvod do sociologie pohlaví a sexuality. Věrovany: Nakladatelství Jan Piskiewicz 2004..
  • Fausto-Sterling, A. Sexing the Body. New York: Basic Books, 1999..
  • Foucault, M.:. Dějiny sexuality, 1. díl. Praha: Herrmann a synové 1999..
  • Gagnon, J. H. - Simon, W. Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality (Social Problems and Social Issues). Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey: Aldine Transaction, 2005..
  • Kessler, S. J. - McKenna W. Gender: An Ethnometodological Approach. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985..
  • Lippa, R. A. Pohlaví: příroda a výchova. Praha: Academia, 2009..
  • Nedbálková, K. Spoutaná Rozkoš: sociální (re)produkce genderu a sexuality v ženské věznici Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2006..
  • West, C. - Zimmerman, D. H. Doing gender. Gender and Society, 1987, č. 2..


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