FSS:GEN103 Gender Structure of Society I. - Course Information
GEN103 Gender Structure of Society I.
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martina Hynková, DiS. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová - Timetable
- Thu 14:00–15:40 exP52
- Prerequisites
- GEN101 Sociological Theories of Gender
basic knowledge from the course: Sociological theories of gender - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 58 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/58, only registered: 0/58, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/58 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-SO)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-TV)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce and critically review selected core social institutions using basic theoretical and methodological tools of gender analysis. The gendered society and axes of its stratification, mechanisms of engemndering the institutions and their re/production are the core skills students learn to use in the semminars. The topics and institutions analysed in this term of the course (to be followed by GEN 106) are: Institutions and gender relations, Dimensions of gender, Gender relations and structures, Public representations of gender – media and language; the beauty myth and violence; Normativne social institutions: family, (hetero)sexuality, educational system, labour market
- Syllabus
- Institutions and gender relations Dimensions of gender: Gender local and global, private and public Gender relations and structures Public representations of gender – media and language Public representations of gender - the beauty myth and violence Normativne social institutions: family Normativne social institutions: (hetero)sexuality Normativne social institutions: educational system Normativne social institutions: labour market Empirical fieldwork instructioin and feedback
- Literature
- Gender. Edited by Raewyn Connell. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, viii, 173. ISBN 0745627161. info
- BOURDIEU, Pierre. Nadvláda mužů. Edited by Miloslav Petrusek, Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2000, 145 s. ISBN 8071847755. info
- CONNELL, R. W. Gender and power : society, the person and sexual politics. 1st pub. Cambridge: Policy Press, 1998, xvii, 334. ISBN 0-7456-0467-6. info
- BADINTER, Elisabeth. Materská láska :od 17. storočia po súčasnosť. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Aspekt, 1998, 277 s. ISBN 80-85549-04-2. info
- BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 179 s. ISBN 8071845183. info
- MARTIN, Emily. The woman in the body :a cultural analysis of reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992, xx, 276 s. ISBN 0-8070-4619-1. info
- Assessment methods
- reading abstracts, presentations, field work and written report, test; active semminar discussion based on the assigned literature
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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