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Course: Gender studies

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Course title	Gender studies
Course code	KSA/GST
Organizational form of instruction	Lecture
Level of course	Bachelor
Year of study	3
Semester	Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits	3
Language of instruction	Czech
Status of course	Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction	Face-to-face
Work placements	This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components	None

Lecturer(s)
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
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the 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 normativity and deviations from the normativity (homosexuality, transgender, intersexuality, etc.) and gender structure of sexuality. The course also focuses on gender and sexual division of labour and gender roles in public and in private space.
Prerequisites
unspecified
Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
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.. 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..

Study plans that include the course

Faculty	Study plan (Version)	Category of Branch/Specialization	Recommended year of study	Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (2019)	Category: Philosophy, theology	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (2019)	Category: Philosophy, theology	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (2019)	Category: Philosophy, theology	2	Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Sociology (2016)	Category: Social sciences	3	Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: -

Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 09.06.2024 00:06.