FVP:UPPV00197 Introduction to Gender Studies - Course Information

UPPV00197 Introduction to Gender Studies - seminar

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Zdeňka Kalnická, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Zdeňka Kalnická, CSc.
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava

Prerequisites

none

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

Seminars have a practical orientation. Their aim is to deepen the gender sensitivity of students, that is, their ability to realize gender aspects of their life and profession. In the seminars, the discussion about practical consequences and forms of gender inequality in family and society will be held in order to help students to understand their causes and sometimes pathological results we can encounter in our everyday experience. Students will report on current problems from the point of gender inequality in contemporary Czech society and develop their own attitude based on theoretical arguments on their causes and consequences. Students will be encouraged to offer a vision of possible ways how they might be solved.

Syllabus

• 1. The projection of the documentary film made by Olga Sommerová "What are women dreaming about".
  2. Gender socialization in family and at the school.
  3. Gender roles and stereotypes. Devices for their stabilization (advertisements, medias, popular culture, etc.).
  4. Gender roles and stereotypes. Devices for their destabilization (homosexuality, queer, transsexuality etc.).
  5. Contemporary Czech family from gender point of view (distribution of labor, fatherhood and motherhood).
  6. The status of women in different religions.
  7. Discrimination of women in contemporary society: labor market.
  8. Discrimination of women in contemporary society: representation in the politics.
  9. Institutions, initiatives, devices and legislation framework for gender equality implementation in the Czech Republic.
  10. Pathological consequences of gender inequality: violence (domestic violence against women, rape).
  11. Language from gender point of view: recent discussions.
  12. Gender Studies at the Czech Republic universities. Development and current state.
  13. Discussion about other social phenomena from gender point of view.
  

Literature

required literature
• Abc feminismu. Brno, 2004. info
• Společnost žen a mužů z aspektu gender. Společnost žen a mužů z aspektu gender. Praha: Open Society Fund, 1999. info
• DEBEAUVOIR, S. Druhé pohlaví. Orbis Praha, 1967. info

recommended literature
• OATES-INDRUCHOVÁ, L. (ed.). Dívčí válka s ideologií (Klasické texty angloamerického feministického myšlení),. Sociologické nakladatelství Praha, 1998. info
• Muž a žena v médiích. , Praha, Nadace Gender Studies, 1998. info
• KICZKOVÁ, Z. Príroda: vzor žena ? Bratislava, Aspekt, 1998. info
• GILLIGAN, C. Jiným hlasem. ASPEKT 2/1994, 1994. info

not specified
• BARSTOW, A. L. Ošial honu na čarodejnice. Aspekt. info
• TYLDESLAY, J. Dcery bohyně Isis. Bomino, 1999. info
• BADINTER, E. Identita muža. Aspekt, 1999. info
• BADINTER, E. Materská láska (od 17.storočia po súčasnosť). Aspekt, 1998. info
• WOLLSTONECRAFT, M. Obhajoba práv ženy. ASPEKT 1/1997, 1997. info
• EISLEROVÁ, R. Číše a meč, agrese a láska aneb Žena a muž v průběhu staletí. Lidové noviny, 1995. info
• NAGL.DOCEKALOVÁ, H.,WEISSHAUPTOVÁ, B., FOX-KELLEROVÁ, E., CODEOV. Štyri pohľady do feministickej filozofie. Archa Bratislava, 1994. info

Teaching methods

Lecturing

Assessment methods

Written exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Credit - seminar essay, attendance

• Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2018, recent)
  
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