Expand+SSJ10070 Exploring Gender
Academic Year 2022/2023

This Course provides an opportunity for students to engage with central ideas and thinking in gender and feminist theory including gender, power, patriarchy, oppression and identity. Development o...

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Academic Year 2022/2023

This Course provides an opportunity for students to engage with central ideas and thinking in gender and feminist theory including gender, power, patriarchy, oppression and identity. Development of concepts of gender in contemporary gender and social theory that challenge the traditional gender/sex binary will be explored. The important relation between theory and practice using the body as a site of interrogations will be examined and oppressive social identity systems including sexism, racism and classism will be challenged. Regulation of the body, sexualities, changing body images, issues of bodily integrity, gender-based violence, consent and agency will be explored using key feminist and gender theory texts. To think through core concepts, questions will be asked around a range of themes such as sexual reproduction and reproductive justice, care, migration, work and privilege. Gendered hierarchies linked to material and structural disadvantage will be explored in a global context and different patriarchal systems will be analysed that have disadvantaged women and enforced rigid gender roles that confine and restrict both women and men.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students should:

1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of different theoretical approaches to conceptualising gender.

2. Show an awareness of ideas that bring new perspectives to understandings of gender and sexuality.

3. Demonstrate an understanding of gender roles, gender relations, power and patriarchy.

4. Show an understanding of debates on consent, agency and gender-based violence.

5. Have an awareness of structural gender inequalities the way in which gender and other inequalities such as ethnicity, social class and disability intersect.

6. Present informed ideas of key feminst and gender concepts covered in a clear and coherent manner.

Indicative Module Content:
this module serves as an introduction to feminist ideas and theories on gender, class, power, intersectionality, sexualities and activism