KUMS010 Body and Gender (5 cr)

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Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of History and Ethnology
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

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This module discusses body and gender as areas of study in ethnology and anthropology.

Description


Learning outcomes

On completion of this module the student will

  • know why body and gender are important areas of study and what are the critical perspectives they offer to our understanding of society, individual and culture

  • recognize the challenges inherent in ethnographic research on body and gender as well as the significance of the researcher's gender, embodied subjectivity, age and ethnic background in ethnological research and

  • have a broad awareness of ethnologically-oriented researchers and research directions related to body and gender. 

Additional information

Taught study module or independent study (book exam, study circle or essay).

Study materials

Teacher in charge of the module will announce possible literature and/or other materials. For a book exam, choose three of the following:

  • Bordon, Susan 2004: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body.

  • Abu-Lughod, Lila 1993: Writing Women’s Worlds.

  • Young, Marion Iris 2005: On Female Body Experience. Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays.

  • Del Valle, Teresa 1993: Gendered Anthropology.

  • Lock, Margaret & Farquar, Judith 2007: Beyond the Body Proper: Reading Anthropology of Material Life.

  • Harjunen, Hannele 2016: Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body. 

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:
Taught study module.
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved.   In modules organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires 80% attendance.
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Method 2

Description:
independent study (book exam, study circle or essay).
Evaluation criteria:
The grading scale in all completion modes will be numerical: 0-5. The grade will be based on the evaluation of the assignments that measure the extent to which the learning goals have been achieved.   In modules organized in the form of contact teaching, completion requires 80% attendance.
Select all marked parts
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Teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish
No published teaching
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Independent study (5 cr)

Type:
Independent study
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish

Teaching