FSS:SAN230 Anthropology and feminism - Course Information
SAN230 Anthropology and feminism
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Wed 9:45–11:15 P22
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 524 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course provides a survey of main ideas underlying debates on gender, feminism, masculinity and femininity in anthropology. Based on assigned weekly reading, issues of history of feminist anthropological thought, epistemology and cross-cultural gender diverity are tackled. Course supplements the obligatory courses in social antrhopology program.
- Syllabus
- 1) FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY: BIRTH, EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - Gender, feminism and antrhorpology - What is (not) feminist anthropology - Anthropology of women, female antrhopology? - Anthropology of gender and feminist anthropology 2) FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE FIELD, MAIN ISSUES AND CROSS-CULTURAL NOTIONS OF GENDER - Masculinity, femininity and gender roles in social anthropology - Feminist antrhopology and study of kinship - Feminist antrhopology and study economic systems - Feminist antrhopology and study of politics and power - Feminist antrhopology and study of religion - Feminist antrhopology and linguistic
- Literature
- Gender in cross-cultural perspective. Edited by Caroline Brettell - Carolyn Fishel Sargent. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993, viii, 504. ISBN 013352048X. info
- Feminist anthropology : past, present, and future. Edited by Pamela L. Geller - Miranda K. Stockett. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, xvi, 226. ISBN 0812239407. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, seminars
- Assessment methods
- presentation and essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
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