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GEN103 Gender Structure of Society I.

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Jarkovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Dvořáčková (assistant)
Mgr. Martina Hynková, DiS. (assistant)
Mgr. Zdeňka Lechnerová (assistant)

Supervisor

doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Division of Gender Studies - Department of Sociology - Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová

Timetable

Thu 14:00–15:40 P24

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 32 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce and critically review social institutions. Students will be able to use basic theoretical and methodological tools of gender analysis. The students will acquire the skills of identifying and defining of gender relevant social problems and inequalities. They will be able to evaluate gender aspects of institutions as family, school, labor market or media.

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
• Gendered violence
• Normativne social institutions: family
• Normativne social institutions: (hetero)sexuality
• Normativne social institutions: educational system
• Normativne social institutions: labour market

Literature

• 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
• CONNELL, R. W. Gender. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002. viii, 173. ISBN 0-7456-2716-1. 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
• BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998. 179 s. ISBN 80-7184-518-3. info
• BOURDIEU, Pierre. Nadvláda mužů. Edited by Miloslav Petrusek, Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, 2000. 145 s. ISBN 80-7184-775-5. info
• BADINTER, Elisabeth. Materská láska :od 17. storočia po súčasnosť. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Aspekt, 1998. 277 s. ISBN 80-85549-04-2. info

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion, position papers, reading

Assessment methods

reading abstracts, test, final test

Follow-Up Courses

• GEN106 Gender Structure of Society II

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• GEN106 Gender Structure of Society II
  GEN103 && souhlas  

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.

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