GENDER STUDIES

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None

Notes

This course will not be available in 2009/10.

Overview

This course is inspired by the paradoxical invisibility of the work of sex/gender in political 'sex scandals' (eg Lewinsky/Clinton) whereby 'sex' appears to be the most important factor in the story, yet is ultimately rendered irrelevent in the context of the 'bigger picture' (eg national security or simply running the country). We will work with the ideas of a 'sex-scandal' to illustrate and analyze the persistent 'scandal of gender' in a number of social/political sites. The overarching theoretical and empirical focus through which we will look at specific issues is post-feminism. The sites we will investigate include: celebrity femininity, science, human rights, gender mainstreaming and cyborg citizenship.

Structure

One hour lecture: time to be arranged.
One hour tutorial: to be arranged.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Short paper (10%), essay (40%), project (50%).

Resit: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work. And then: if mark is less than 6, three hour written examination (100%).

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

Available only to Senior Honours students taking a Joint Honours programme in Gender Studies.

Overview

A dissertation of 12,500 words on a subject to be decided in consultation with the course co-ordinator, to be researched and written (under supervision by a member of the Gender Studies Group) during Senior Honours.

Structure

Individual supervision over 12 weeks.

Assessment

1st Attempt: Dissertation (100%).

Resit (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr M Zalewski

Pre-requisites

None.

Notes

This course will be available in second half-session of 2009/10. This course cannot be taken as part of a graduating curriculum with GD 3503. This course is open to Master of Arts senior honours students.

Overview

Wars rage, famines ravage, people die, politicians talk. Osama bin Laden still evades 'capture'; Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he is open to US participation in talks on Iran's nuclear programme; Barak Obama and Gordon Brown meet to discuss the future of the Middle East/the world economy. The names and faces change over time but the issues still seem to remain the same. What also seems to remain the same is that these events of international significance seem to have little to do with gender in any really important sense. This course suggests otherwise; this course suggests that international politics and global practices are deeply constituted by ideas about gender and sex. To investigate this we will study a range of issues from war to the military; from masculinity to Hollywood movies.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 3,000 word essay (30%), written tutorial presentation (10%), one examination (60%) and attendance and participation at tutorials.

Resit: In-course grades will be carried forward unless the student opts to resubmit course work.