Syllabus for Gendered Bodies: Theories and Challenges
Gendered Bodies: Theories and Challenges
Syllabus
- 7.5 credits
- Course code: 5GN022
- Education cycle: Second cycle
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Main field(s) of study and in-depth level:
Gender Research A1N
- Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
- Established: 2008-04-01
- Established by: The Faculty Board of Arts
- Revised: 2018-08-23
- Revised by: The Faculty Board of Arts
- Applies from: week 02, 2019
- 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 the course. The course is part of the two-year Master programme given by Centre for Gender Research.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course students will:
- Have acquired advanced insight into different feminist theoretical perspectives on the body.
- Have gained a deeper level of understanding regarding the constitution of bodies, their boundaries, and possibilities in relation to their spatio-temporal context.
- Be able to trace historical conceptualisations of bodies and to recognise social, cultural, and political dimensions of how bodily limits of normality and abnormality have been constituted.
- Enhance their capacity to critical thinking, problem identification and solving, as well as developing their communication skills, research and knowledge positioning, and concern for quality.
Content
The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of the vast field of theory of the body within gender and feminist research. Looking at various different ways in which the body and embodiment are approached and conceptualised, we will discuss issues concerning both the stability and the fluidity of bodies, focusing on the force of the sexually marked body for the stabilisation of conventional gender identities as well as the body as a subversive force and the carrier of changing temporal and spatial inscriptions.
Instruction
The course is concentrated around seminars.
Assessment
Examination includes oral presentations and a written paper on a theme of the course and compulsory attendance and participation in the seminars. 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.
Reading list
Reading list
Applies from: week 27, 2020
Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.
Literature
The reading list will be updated every year, at the latest 5 weeks before the course starts.
Reading list
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Adeyemi, Kemi
The Practice of Slowness: : Black Queer Women and the Right to the City
Part of:
GLQ : a journal of lesbian and gay studiesp. 545-567 (22 pp)
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Ahmed, Sara
Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the "New Materialism"
Part of:
The European journal of women's studies.(16 p.)
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Ahmed, Sara
Strange encounters [Elektronisk resurs] : embodied others in post-coloniality
London: Routledge, 2000
Chapter 1. pp 21-37 (16 p.)
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Barad, Karen
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
Part of:
Signs : journal of women in culture and society(30 p.)
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Berthold, Dana
Tidy Whiteness: : A Genealogy of Race, Purity, and Hygiene
Part of:
Ethics & the environment [Elektronisk resurs]Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001-
vol. 15 (2010) nr. 1 s. 1-26 (25 pp)p. 1-26 (25 pp)
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Bond, Emma
Writing Migration through the Body
1st ed. 2018.: Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2018
Chapter 1-4, pp 1-148 (148 p.)
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Brah, Avtar
Cartographies of diaspora [Elektronisk resurs] : contesting identities
London: Routledge, 1996
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Butler, Judith
Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex"
New York: Routledge, 1993
pp. 1-16 (16 p.)
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Classen, Constance
Foundations for an Anthropology of the Senses
Part of:
International social science journal.p. 401-412 (11 pp)
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Dame, Joke
Sexual difference and the castrato
Part of:
Brett, Philip; Wood, Elizabeth; Thomas, Gary C. Queering the pitch : the new gay and lesbian musicology2., [rev. and expanded] ed.: New York: Routledge, 2006
p. 139-153 (15 pp)
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Dolezal, Luna
The body and shame : phenomenology, feminism, and the socially shaped body
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, [2015]
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Folkmarson Käll, Lisa
A being of two leaves : on the founding significance of the lived body
Part of:
Bromseth, Janne C. H.; Folkmarson Käll, Lisa; Mattsson, Katarina Body claimsUppsala: Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, 2009
S. 110-133
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Grosz, Elizabeth
Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, cop. 1994
Chapter 1, pp. 3-26 (23 p.)
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hooks, bell
Eating the Other
Part of:
Gilmartin, Christina; Lydenberg, Robin; Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy Feminist approaches to theory and methodology : an interdisciplinary readerNew York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999
(1999) s. 179-194(15 p.)
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Kier, Bailey
Interdependent ecological transsex: Notes on re/production, "transgender" fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources
Part of:
Women & performance : a journal of feminist theoryNew York, N.Y.: Women & Performance Project at the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 1983-
vol. 20 (2010) nr. 3 s. 299-319(21 p.)
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King, Jason
Which way is down? Improvisations on black mobility
Part of:
Women & performance : a journal of feminist theoryNew York, N.Y.: Women & Performance Project at the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 1983-
vol. 14 (2004) nr. 1p. 25-45 (20 pp)
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Kunst, Bojana
Subversion and the Dancing Body Autonomy on Display
Part of:
Performance research [Elektronisk resurs]London: Routledge, 1996-
vol. 8 (2003) nr. 2p. 61-68 (7 pp)
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Langston, Nancy
Toxic bodies : hormone disruptors and the legacy of DES
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
Chapters 1,3,4,6,8 (totally 87 p.)
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Lorde, Audre
Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference
Part of:
Lorde, Audre Sister outsider : essays and speechesBerkeley, Calif.: Crossing Press, c2007.,
(2007) s. 114-124(10 p.)
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Lönn, Maria
Fractured whiteness: : On the sensory and temporal conditions of Russian femininity
Part of:
Lönn, Maria Bruten vithet : om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga & temporala villkorStockholm: Leopard förlag, 2018
(handout) (10 pages)
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Marks, Laura
Thinking Multisensory Culture
Part of:
Paragraph : the journal of the Modern Critical Theory GroupOxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983-
vol. 31 (2008) nr. 2p. 123-137 (14 pp)
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Murray, Samantha
Normative imperatives vs pathological bodies : constructing the "fat" woman
Part of:
Australian feminist studiesAdelaide: Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide, 1985-
p. 213-224 (23 pp)
2008(23), 56, s. 213-224
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Phelan, Peggy
Unmarked : the politics of performance
London: Routledge, 1993
pp. 1-110 and 146-166 (129 p.) NB: is also available 2003 ed.
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Robertson, Jennifer
Gendering Humanoid Robots: : Robo-Sexism in Japan
Part of:
Body & society.Sage, 1995-
vol. 25 (2010) nr. 4 s. p. 545-567 (22 pages) -
Smith, Mark M.
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses [Elektronisk resurs]
University of North Carolina Press, 2006
p. 1-47 (46 pp)
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Sobchack, Vivian
Choreography for One, Two, and Three Legs (A phenomenological meditation in movements)
Part of:
International journal of performance arts and digital media [Elektronisk resurs]2005-
vol. 13 (2017) nr. 2p. 183-198 (15 pp)
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Sundén, Jenny
Steampunk Practices: : Time, Tactility, and a Racial Politics of Touch
Part of:
Ada : a journal of gender, new media, and technology [Elektronisk resurs]2012-
(2014) nr. 5 s. ca 15Approx. 15 pages
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Thomson, Rosemarie Garland
Staring : how we look
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
p. 3-32 (29 pp)
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Tuana, Nancy
Viscous porosity: witnessing Katrina
Part of:
Hekman, Susan J.; Alaimo, Stacy Material feminismsBloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008
(2008) s. 85-120(26 p.)
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Weiss, G.
The natural, the normal, and the normative: : A Merleau-Pontian legacy to feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability studies
Part of:
Continental Philosophy Review -
Wilson, Elizabeth
Gut Feminism
Part of:
Differences b a journal of feminist cultural studies -
Young, Iris Marion
Throwing like a girl : a phenomenology of feminine body comportment, motility and spatiality
Part of:
Human studies : a journal for philosophy and the social sciencesDordrecht: Kluwer, 1978-
(20 p.)
3(1980):2, s. 137-156
Reading list revisions
- Latest reading list (applies from week 27, 2020)
- Previous reading list (applies from week 35, 2019)