- Department: Politics and International Relations
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Alasia Nuti
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
- See module specification for other years: 2022-23
Gender shapes our political and social landscape and our personal interactions. The module will provide an introduction to gender theories with a particular focus on their importance to politics.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2021-22 |
Gender shapes our political and social landscape and our personal interactions. This module aims to introduce students to gender theories and to enable them to draw upon these theories in making sense of political issues, broadly conceived. The module will guide students through the established cannon of theoretical work on gender. We will discuss the relationship between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’, trans* theory and politics, discourse and performativity theory, intersectionality, (post)coloniality, masculinity, and sexuality. The module will provide students with the necessary tools to understand the complexity of gender and carry out research on gender studies.
Upon completing this module, students will be able to:
This module will also equip students with a range of key transferable skills:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled) Introduction to the Politics of Gender |
8 hours | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled) Introduction to the Politics of Gender |
8 hours | 100 |
Students will receive written timely feedback on their formative assessment. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their feedback during the module tutor’s feedback and guidance hours.
Students will receive written feedback on their summative assessment no later than 20 working days; and the module tutor will hold a specific session to discuss feedback, which students can also opt to attend. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their feedback during the module tutor’s regular feedback and guidance hours.
Judith Butler. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London and New York: Routledge.
R.W. Connell, Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley, LA: University of California Press, 1990).
Patricia H. Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment (New York: Routledge, 1990)
Jack Haberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018).