Gender and Society

SO208
Gender and Society
This information is for the 2008/09 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Suki Ali, S206

Availability

Optional course for BSc Sociology, BSc Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, BSc Social Policy and Sociology and the Diploma in Sociology.

Course content

The course will explore the meaning of gender in contemporary society. It considers gendered relations of power and the articulation of gender with other kinds of social difference such as 'race', class and sexuality. A variety of theoretical perspectives will be applied to a number of substantive issues of contemporary concern.

Indicative topics are: gender and sexuality; the body; families; employment; violence; nation and citizenship; reproductive technologies; globalisation; sex work; representation; body modification.

Teaching

The course will consist of 20 lectures (SO208) and 23 classes (SO208.A).

Formative coursework

Students will be expected to prepare one essay per term and at least one class paper per term which will be written up and handed to the class teacher.

Course requirement

Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.

Reading list

S Jackson & S Scott (Eds), Gender, London and New York: Routledge, 2000; H Mirza (Ed), Black British Feminism: A Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 1997; R. Parker and P. Aggleton (eds.) Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader (2nd edn), 2007; D Bell & J Binnie, The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond, London: Polity, 2001; P Abbott & C Wallace, An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives (3rd edn), 2005; R W Connell, Gender and Power, 1987; Littlewood, B Feminist Perspectives on Sociology. Essex: Pearson Education. 2005; I Grewal & K Caplan (Eds), An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World; M Mac an Ghaill, Understanding Masculinities, 1996; The Polity Reader in Gender Studies, 1994; J M Alexander & C T Mohanty (Eds), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, London & New York: Routledge, 1997; Essed et al, A Companion to Gender Studies, 2005; C Wright & G Jagger (Eds), Changing Family Values, London & New York, 1999.

A more detailed reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.



Assessment

A three-hour unseen sat exam in ST.