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Introduction to Gender Studies

Gender studies 02DF721 / 2 ECTS / 12h / Évaluation session 1 assidu·es : contrôle continu ; dispensé·es d’assiduité : ET écrit 2h / Évaluation session 2 : ET oral

12h – Anaïs Le Fèvre-Berthelot

Gender studies is an essential academic field providing relevant analytical tools for many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this course, we will analyze and challenge the cultural notions of gender as a fixed binary. We will see how gender, defined as a system of power that relies on this binary, shapes cultural productions and people’s lives. Through the readings, discussions and assignments in this course, students will become familiar with and learn to use key theoretical concepts (sex, gender, feminisms, intersectionality, oppression, privilege, hegemony, cultural construction, situated knowledge…). Assignments and class discussions will focus on a wide range of primary sources and allow students to become familiar with quantitative and qualitative methods.

Selected bibliography:

  • Bereni, Laure, Sébastien Chauvin, Alexandre Jaunait, and Anne Revillard. Introduction aux études sur le genre. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique: De Boeck, 2012.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. 2nd (1999). New York and London: Routledge, 1990.
  • Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43 (1991): 1241–99.
  • Davis, Angela. Women, race and class. New York: Random House, 1981.
  • Gilbert, Sandra M. & Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale University Press, 1984. ▪ Lakoff, Robin. “Language and Woman’s Place.” Language in Society 2, no. 1 (1973): 45–80.
  • Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. Screen 16, no 3 (1975): 6-18.
  • Rennes Juliette, Achin Catherine, Andro Armelle, Bereni Laure, Jaunait Alexandre, Greco Luca, Lagrave Rose-Marie, and Rebucini Gianfranco. Encyclopédie critique du genre: corps, sexualité, rapports sociaux. Paris: La Découverte, 2016. [available online via Rennes 2 Library]
  • Scott, Joan W. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”. The American Historical Review 91, no 5 (1986): 1053-75.
  • Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Harcourt, Inc., 1981.