GEN138 Sex, Gender and Society

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Lucie Jarkovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Kateřina Lišková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Division of Gender Studies – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
each even Monday 14:00–17:40 P31 Posluchárna A. I. Bláhy
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand the application of gender categories;
- identify core authors and aproaches;
- recognize relevant concepts for understanding a given social phenomenon.
The course is focused on gender aspects of selected social phenomena. The lectures of this course will be taught by several teachers from gender studies who will present the outcomes of their analytical work and their research. The lectures will be supplemented with multimedia presentations (film, documents etc.). The lessons will be held in blocks in two weeks interval. Main objective of the course is to introduce current gender analysis. Students from other then gender studies program are more than welcome.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to gender studies
  • Gender aspects of childbearing
  • Pornography and feminism
  • Sexuality, criminality and deviation of women
  • Beauty myth
  • Sex educaton in the Czech school
  • Sex in the City: media analysis of TV series
Literature
  • ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. Otcovství u porodu. Re-konstrukce genderových vztahů v rodině (Delivering Fatherhood: Re-Constructions of Gender Relations in the Family). Sociální studia. Brno: Fakulta sociálních studií MU Brno, 2008, 5., 1., p. 11-34. ISSN 1214-813X. info
  • LIŠKOVÁ, Kateřina. Spříznění bez volby. Pornografie v sexuologickém, kriminologickém a feministickém diskursu (Non-Elective Affinities. Pornography in Sexological, Criminological and Feminist Discourses). Sociální studia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2008, vol. 5, No 1, p. 77-97, 20 pp. ISSN 1214-813X. info
  • JARKOVSKÁ, Lucie. Feminismus a sexuální výchova (Faminism and sex education). Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum. Praha: Gender & sociologie, Sociologický ústav, 2006, vol. 7, 2/2006, p. 41-45. ISSN 1213-0028. URL info
  • NEDBÁLKOVÁ, Kateřina. Spoutaná Rozkoš: (re) produkce genderu a sexuality v ženské věznici (Chained Pleasure: (re) production of gender and sexuality in women's prison). Praha: SLON, 2006, 189 pp. Gender sondy. ISBN 80-86429-65-2. info
  • Panství člověka a touha ženy :feminismus mezi psychoanalýzou a poststrukturalismem. Edited by Pavel Barša. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002, 323 s. ISBN 80-86429-06-7. 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
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Final test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Autumn 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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