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Syllabus:

Gendered Violence, 7.5 Credits

Swedish name: Bekönat våld

This syllabus is valid: 2022-07-04 and until further notice

Course code: 2KC027

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Gender Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)

Revised by: Director of Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), 2022-05-25

Contents

Contents
This course deals with gendered violence as a theoretical, human rights and policy issue. Taking departure from a variety of feminist and intersectional approaches the course will address questions such as: What is violence? How can violence be gendered? What are the relationships between violence, gender and power? How can gender-based violence be understood, addressed and responded to? How are notions of gender equality and violence linked?

Expected learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student shall have the ability to:
Knowledge and understanding: 

  • understand and explain different definitions of gendered violence. 
  • understand and explain gendered violence from critical feminist perspectives.

Skills and abilities: 

  • independently apply relevant critical theories on empirical or theoretical problems related to gender and violence.   

Judgement and approach:

  • independently identify and formulate relevant questions regarding gendered violence feminist perspectives.
  • be able to, orally and in writing, present an independent analysis related to central questions regarding gendered violence. 

Required Knowledge

To be admitted to the course applicants must have completed three semesters of full time studies, equivalent to 90 ECTS, of which at least 15 ECTS must be an independent project or four semesters of full time studies equivalent to 120 ECTS.
English proficiency equivalent to English A/6 from Swedish Upper secondary education.

Form of instruction

The course is a full-time on-line course in English. The course is taught entirely through an electronic Learning Management System where the student takes part in lectures, mandatory assignments and other learning activities. The studies are characterized by a high degree of independent and active search for knowledge, and critical reflection, both individually and in groups.

Examination modes

Examination takes place through fulfillment of two parts:
1) Mandatory assignments during the course
2) Individual written assignment.
 
For part 1 the grades are Fail (U) or Pass (G). For part 2, as well as for the whole course, the grades are Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with Distinction (VG). The grade for the whole course in based on the examination of part 2. The whole course is not graded until part 1 is fulfilled.

Other regulations

Students have the right to apply to have a previous education or experience evaluated for transfer of credits. For more
information, see: www.umu.se/utbildning/antagning/tillgodoraknande/

Literature

Valid from: 2023 week 39

Abu-Lughod Lila
Seductions of the “Honor Crime”
Included in:
Differences
Bloomington : Indiana University Press : 1989- : 22 : pages 17-63 :
https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1218238
Mandatory

Addressing violence against women: a call to action
Garcia-Moreno C, Zimmerman C, Morris-Gehring A, Heise L, Amin A, Abrahams N, Watts C
The Lancet : 2015 :
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0140673614618304?token=AC9DFC9570C3D07758AF977549B482DD474FFF094ABBC9D2103A9CAE7089B401C13DACA1D6E3E89BAEA032894395B797
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 1685-1695

Boyle Karen
What’s in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
Sage Publications : 2018 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464700118754957
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 19-36

Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender
Cannon Clare, Lauve-Moon Katie, Buttell Fred
Social sciences : 2015 :
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/668/htm
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 668-687

Carbin Maria
The requirement to speak : Victim stories in Swedish policies against honour-related violence
Included in:
Women's studies international forum : h [Elektronisk resurs] b a multidisciplinary journal ...
Oxford : Pergamon P. : 1982- : 46 : pages 107-114 :
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.12.002
Mandatory

Carbin Maria
Towards a politics of uncertainty:  : difficulties of naming the relationship between gender and violence
Included in:
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
2017- :
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jgbv/5/1/article-p95.xml
Mandatory

Corrigan Rose
Building Theory and Making Change: The Challenges ofStudying Feminist Activism
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4BFF89E55C69B0A14DFD7A8883356BBF/S1743923X13000354a.pdf/building_theory_and_making_change_the_challenges_of_studying_feminist_activism.pdf
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 489-493

Crenshaw Kimberlé
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
Included in:
Stanford law review.
Stanford, Calif. : School of Law : 1948- : pages 1241-1299 :
Mandatory

Hernández Miriam
“Killed Out of Love”: A Frame Analysis of Domestic Violence Coverage in Hong Kong
Sage Publications : 2018 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077801217738581
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.1454-1473

Johnson Michael P
Domestic Violence: : The Intersection of Gender and Control
Included in:
Gender violence
New York : New York University Press : cop. 2007 : xiv, 529 s. :
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umeaub-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3025607&ppg=7
Mandatory

Kelly Liz
Standing the test of time? : Reflections on the concept of continuum of sexual violence
Included in:
Handbook on sexual violence
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : cop. 2012 : 516 p. : pages 1-12 :
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umeaub-ebooks/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=957739
Mandatory

Frames in Contestation: Gendering Domestic Violence Policies in Five Central and Eastern European Countries
Krizsan Andrea, Popa RM
Sage Publications : 2014 :
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801214543386
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp.758-782

Kuokkanen Rauna
Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities
Routledge : 2015 :
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2014.901816?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 271-288

Strid Sofia
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities: Visibility in British Policy on Violence Against Women
Oxford Academic : 2013 :
https://academic.oup.com/sp/article/20/4/558/1712523
Mandatory

Sweet Paige L
‘Every bone of my body:’ : Domestic violence and the diagnostic body
Included in:
Social science & medicine.
Oxford,c 1982- : 1982- : 122 : pages 44-52 :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614006601
Mandatory

The health-systems response to violence against women
García-Moreno C, Hegarty K, d'Oliveira A, Koziol-McLain J, Colombini M
Included in:
The Lancet.
London : 1996- : 385 : pages 1567-79 :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673614618377
Mandatory

Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedishgender equality and global health
Öhman Ann, Emmelin Maria
Elsevier Ltd : 2014 :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539513002112
Mandatory
Reading instructions: pp. 115-122

Optional literature

García Manuel Calvo
The Role of Social Movements in the Recognition of Gender Violence as a Violation of Human Rights: : From Legal Reform to the Language of Rights
Included in:
The age of human rights journal
2013- : 6 : pages 60-82 :
https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/2930/2327

MacManus Viviana Beatriz
We are not Victims, we are Protagonists of this History
Included in:
International feminist journal of politics.
London : Routledge : 1999- : 17 : pages 40-57 :
https://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14616742.2013.817847?needAccess=true

MacKinnon Catharine A
Sexuality
Included in:
The second wave
New York : Routledge : 1997 : 414 s. :
Reading instructions: pp. 158-180