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Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology - JSM129
Title: Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology
Czech title: Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology
Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 8
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 30 / unknown (20)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/section.php?id=232776
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Ema Hrešanová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Ema Hrešanová, Ph.D.
Class: Courses for incoming students
Annotation
This course provides a space to engage with and discuss a range of feminist works grounded in the discipline of anthropology. It invites students to read, discuss, learn and think critically about key issues, ethnographies and theoretical perspectives that have shaped feminist anthropological perspectives up to date.
It is designed as a reading and discussion seminar based on intensive student engagement and interaction with the feminist anthropological scholarship and with each other.
Following Mahmud (2021), this course follows feminist work in socio-cultural anthropology in four areas of particular relevance to feminist anthropological scholarship:
1) The anthropology of science and medicine
2) Political anthropology
3) Economic anthropology
4) Ethnography as writing and genre.
Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)
Course completion requirements

Course Requirement and Assignments:

1)     Group work:

a)     A group presentation on a topic of choice summarizing the state of the art in the given field or subject area of socio-cultural anthropology (30%)

-            Ppt + presentation at the class, incl. relevant questions for the class discussion and a recommendation of one or two studies to those in the class interested in the subject

2)     Individual work:

a.      Active participation in seminar discussions (10%)

b.     Opinion essay (op-ed) on the topic of choice (30%)

due 10th January 2025

Tips to write an op-ed:

Donnelly, M. 2023. “Writing Op-Eds in Anthropology Courses.“ Cultural Anthropology. Teaching Tools. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/writing-op-eds-in-anthropology-courses

Op-ed project: https://www.theopedproject.org/resources

General tips: https://www.oxbridgeessays.com/blog/how-to-write-an-opinion-essay/

 

3)     Final written exam (30%)

·       two open questions related to the course workload and readings

·       Exam terms announced prior to the exam period, students need to be registered in the SIS

 

Please avoid any signs of plagiarism in any of these assignments. This is a useful source to get oneself acquainted with plagiarism and how to avoid it: 

How to avoid plagiarism. Student Handbook 

 

Grades: (in line with the Faculty of Social Sciences Dean’s regulation)

  • 91 % a více       =>          A
  • 81-90 %             =>          B
  • 71-80 %             =>          C
  • 61-70 %             =>          D
  • 51-60 %             =>          E
  • 0-50 %                =>          F
Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)
Literature

Key literature:

Lewin, E. 2006. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader.Blackwell Publishing.

Mahmud, L. 2021. Feminism in the House of Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 50: 345-361. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3952403 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110218

 

Key resource:

Feminist Anthropology journal.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26437961

Further required readings specified in the detailed theme overview and schedule in the MOODLE page here: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16487

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)
Registration requirements

This course is open to students with a general background in socio-cultural anthropology.

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)
 
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