Gender and Society

Year
1
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01018071
Subject Area
Sociology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

None.

Teaching Methods

The classes will combine lectures and interpelative methods in each topic of the syllabus in combination with more active methodologies that imply the initiative of the students inside and outside the classroom, as it follows from the modality of continuous assessment and the theoretical-practical classes.

In some sessions there will also be oral presentations of students of texts indicated in the bibliography. 

Learning Outcomes

In this curricular unit we will look at how:

- gender relations shape social life;

- individual experiences articulate with broader social and historical forces;

- social inequalities are organized along social relations of gender and how they intersect with other axes of inequality (such as race, social class, sexuality, age, etc.);

For purposes of framing, one will also seek to scrutinize the historical roots of feminism and the main current feminist currents.

At the end of the semester, each student must be able to:

- know the main topics and problematics in debate in the sociology of social relations of gender;

- master the theoretical and empirical interconnections between gender, sexuality, race, class and age;

- assess the importance of sex / gender for issues of identity, social diversity and inequalities;

- frame social problems in the context of current sex/gender regimes in each society.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to gender studies;

2. Perspectives on social gender relations - concepts of sex/gender; androcentrism and patriarchy;

3. Feminisms and social change;

4. Social Inequalities and intersectionality;

5. Gender, Family and Reproduction;

6. The sexual division of labor and the segregation of employment;

7. Identities, Bodies and Sexuliadades;

8. Gender and cultural representations - advertising, audiovisuals, media;

9. Gender Violence;

10. Questions of method, epistemology and ethics in scientific practice from a gender perspective - feminist epistemologies and queer challenges.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Madalena Santos Duarte

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Igualdade de Género ao Longo da Vida, coordenado por Anália Torres (2018). Estudos da Fundação FMS.

- Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches (2017), Edited by L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara Shaw, and Heather Rellihan. Oxford Univ. Press.

- Schouten, Maria Johanna (2011), Uma Sociologia do Género. Braga: Húmus.

- Spivak, Gayatri and Sarah Harasym (1990) The post-colonial critic: interviews, strategies, dialogues. London: Routledge.

- Sociología y Género, editado pr Capitolina Díaz Martínez y Sandra Dema Moreno (2013). Madrid: Tecnos.

- The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Sixth Edition (2019), edited by Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine (Editor), Mary Nell Trautner (Editor), Joan Z. Spade  (Editor). SAGE.

- Trinh T. Min-Ha (1989) Woman, native, other: writing postcoloniality and feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.