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B019216 - GENDER ANTROPOLOGY
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Academic Year 2013-14
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
60
Teaching Term
30/09/2013 ⇒ 20/12/2013
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The naturalization of sexual difference is a product of the eighteenth century and is grounded in the development of biology and medicine. The birth of anthropology, however, introduces the distinction between sexual identity and anatomical identity socially constructed, from which descend the concept of gender. The course examines the anthropological work of Margaret Mead and compares it to the present developments of the concept of gender in feminist studies in the global context.
Learning Objectives
Understand the concept of culturae
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understand the concept of culturae
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Understand the concept of culturae
Understanding the cultural relativism.
Understand the concept of gender.
Understanding the social construction of femininity.
Understanding the social construction of motherhood.
Understanding the social construction of stigma (gender, ethnicity, etc. ...).
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of European history from the beginning of modernity.
Constant attention to current events (daily reading of newspapers).
Basic notions of social sciences (society, conflict, social movement ...).
Constant attention to current events (daily reading of newspapers).
Basic notions of social sciences (society, conflict, social movement ...).
Teaching Methods
Lectures, seminars, screenings of documentary films.
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
The course will begin with an introduction to key concepts in anthropology, through the study of Levi Strauss, but also the reading of texts by Herskovits, Benedict, Mead. Students will learn the concept of cultural relativism.
The course will then focus the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, ithe course will analyze the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight several examples that show how the construction as in the roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in diThe course will begin with an introduction to key concepts in anthropology, through the study of Levi Strauss, but also the reading of texts by Herskovits, Benedict, Mead. Students will learn the concept of cultural relativism.
The course will then focus the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, ithe course will analyze the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight several examples that show how the construction as in the roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in different societies.
fferent societies.
The course will then focus the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, ithe course will analyze the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight several examples that show how the construction as in the roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in diThe course will begin with an introduction to key concepts in anthropology, through the study of Levi Strauss, but also the reading of texts by Herskovits, Benedict, Mead. Students will learn the concept of cultural relativism.
The course will then focus the analysis of the work of Margaret Mead in relation to sexual difference. Once established the importance of anthropology in the reflection on the social construction of femininity, ithe course will analyze the concept of gender as part of the feminist literature. Currently the concept of gender is one of the most crucial in the social sciences. Finally the course will highlight several examples that show how the construction as in the roles and representations of femininity or motherhood are produced in different societies.
fferent societies.