Gender and Society

Recommended Prerequisites

n.a.

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.);
- the emergence and diversity of the main 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;
3. Feminisms and social change (in the North ans in the Global South);
4. Social Inequalities and intersectionality;
5. Identities, Bodies and Sexualities;
6. Gender and Families;
7. Sexual health and reproductive rights;
8. Gender and Labor;
9. Gender and cultural representations;
10. Gender and Political Participation;
11. Gender Violence;
12. Questions of method, epistemology and ethics in scientific practice from a gender perspective - feminist epistemologies and queer challenges.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

Bibliography

Crenshaw, K. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43(6).
Duarte, M. 2023. O Papel do Direito e dos Tribunais na Violência Contra as Mulheres. Afrontamento
Mar Pereira, M. do 2023. A construção do género na sociologia portuguesa contemporânea. Análise Social, 58(2 (247).
Monteiro, R. 2022. "A agenda portuguesa da descriminalização do aborto à luz do backlash sob as forças políticas liberais e conservadoras", Cadernos Pagu
Santos, A. C. 2023. LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe. Citizenship, Care and Choice. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Schouten, M. J. 2011. Uma Sociologia do Género. Braga: Húmus.
Spivak, G. & Sarah H. 1990. The post-colonial critic: interviews, strategies, dialogues. London: Routledge.
Torres, A. coord. 2018. Igualdade de Género ao Longo da Vida. Estudos da Fundação FMS.
Valentine, C. G.; et al. 2019. The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities. SAGE.