GEN138 Sex, Gender and Society

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
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. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.
Division of Gender Studies – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
each even Monday 16:00–19:30 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course is focused on gender aspects of selected social phenomenon. 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 researches. The lectures will be supplemented with multimedia presentations (film, documents etc.). The lessons will be hold 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 welcomed.
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
Assessment methods
Lectures, 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 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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