Gender, Body and Intersectionality, Essay

Students identify and are able to conceptualise social structures, cultural phenomena and human activity from the perspective of gender, the body and their intersecting differences. They recognise the ways in which inequalities related to these aspects shape social practices and embodiment and the ways in which they open opportunities for change. Students are familiar with the history of research on gender, the body and their diversity, as well as current discussions in the field.

Students learn about gender and bodily diversity and their intersecting differences, as well as their key conceptualisations.

Recommended Prerequisites

• Basic Studies in Social Sciences, YKT-P01, 25 cr
• Free Choice Studies in Social Sciences, Basic Studies, YKT-P02, 25 cr

Three of the following:

1. Harjunen,
       Hannele (2016) Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body. London:
       Routledge
2. Holloway,
       Karla FC (2011) Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural
       Bioethics. Durham & London: Duke UP.
3. Kafer,
       Alison (2013) Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University
       Press.
4. Niemi, Johanna & Kainulainen, Heini & Honkatukia, Päivi
       (2017): Sukupuolistunut väkivalta: Oikeudellinen ja sosiaalinen ongelma. Tampere:
       Vastapaino.
5. Richardson,
       Diane (2000) Rethinking Sexuality. London: Sage.
6. Schilt,
       Kristen (2010) Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence
       of Gender Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
7. Tyler,
       Imogen (2013) Revolting Subjects. Social Abjection and Resistance in
       Neoliberal Britain. London: Zed Books.
8. Vänskä, Annamari (2012) Muodikas lapsuus: lapset mainoskuvissa. Helsinki:
       Gaudeamus.

General scale, 0-5

• YHTOPPIOAY Social Studies for Subject Teachers, Open University Studies
• YKT-A03 Intermediate Studies in Social Sciences