Gender and Sexuality (2025/2026: Semester 1 – Fall)

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to:
  1. demonstrate knowledge of key theorists and key debates in gender & queer theory and sexuality studies;
  2. identify, summarize, and analyze issues pertinent to conceptual debates in gender & queer theory and sexuality studies;
  3. explain the constructed nature of gender and sexuality;
  4. demonstrate knowledge of multicultural case study material;
  5. appreciate the creative tension between cultural systems and individual agency;
  6. describe the history of women’s emancipation, feminism, and feminist theory in different cultural contexts;
  7. design, conduct and analyse an oral history project;
  8. devise cogent verbal presentation with appropriate visual support;
  9. apply rhetorical skills (communication, argumentation, directing a group discussion);
  10. present written work consistent with established standards of academic integrity and scholarship.
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
  1. class participation & reading accounts (20%), corresponding with course aim 1-6, 9-10
  2. group project/presentation (20%), corresponding with course aim 1,4,8,9
  3. life history project (25%), corresponding with course aim 1-3,5,7,10
  4. review paper (35%), corresponding with course aim 1-6, 9-10

Vakinhoudelijk

Gender is a relatively new concept coinciding with the development of anthropological scholarship. In this course we addresses some of the central questions that concern anthropologists’ interested in the nature, determinants and dynamics of gender, gender roles and gender relations. The course traces how anthropologists have used different theoretical orientations to examine such issues. Ranging from early work to contemporary anthropological studies, this course analyzes evolutionary, materialist, structuralist, sociolinguistic, and reflexive approaches to understanding gender behavior and gender stratification.

The course demonstrates how anthropological data from around the world are crucial for the questioning of unproven but widely held assumptions about gender and sexuality in contemporary societies. Therefore it examines the processes and the practices of the construction of notions such as ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ in different cultural and historical contexts and demonstrates how gender and sexuality always intersect with other dimensions of identity and power relations that are shaped by economic and political forces and cultural discourses. By presenting ethnographic and historical accounts of gender variations and how they are currently understood and displayed, the course reveals the social and cultural phenomena that have created changes in sex/gender systems. It pays a particular attention to the ways in which categories of gender/sexuality are deployed in various discursive regimes such as nationalism, modernism, colonialism, and globalization.

FORMAT
There is one lecture session per week supplemented by a second session dedicated to documentaries, group discussion and presentations.
Students are required to read one ethnographic monograph, prepare additional weekly readings and a discussion session in teamwork with colleagues.

Werkvormen

ucu ssc 2 course

Toetsing

Class participation & reading

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

life history project

Verplicht | Weging 25% | ECTS 1,88

review paper

Verplicht | Weging 35% | ECTS 2,63

group project presentation

Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Academisch schrijven
  • Debatteren / discoursanalyse
  • Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
  • Interdisciplinariteit
  • Kritisch lezen
  • Onderzoeksvaardigheden
  • Presenteren
  • Samenwerken

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • BOEK
    Hossain, A. (2021) Beyond emasculation: Pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh. Cambridge University Press. Full-text e-book can be accessed via the university library, (provided that you are logged-in with student solis ID and password)
  • ARTIKELEN
    Online Journal articles

Aanbevolen materiaal

  • BOEK
    C.J.Pascoe. 2007. Dude, You're a Fag. University of California Press. Full-text e-book can be accessed via the university library, (provided that you are logged-in with student solis ID and password)

Coördinator

dr. S. Kisch S.Kisch@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. S. Kisch S.Kisch@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

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