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Sexualities and Gender Identities - JSM412

Title:	Sexualita a genderové identity
Guaranteed by:	Department of Sociology (23-KS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2008 to 2008
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Additional information:	http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=800
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Zdeněk Sloboda, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.05.2008)

The area of sexuality is wide, very popular and interesting for public, handled by biology, sexology or psychology, but in social sciences often neglected. The popular interest, deep in common sense rooted (socio)biological explanations on difficult social interactions, popular tips from "popular sexologists", the presence of sexuality in every(wo)man's lives and commercialization and medialization of the topic leads hugely to mixing of terminology, to misunderstandings and to detraction of this interesting, but complicated and intimate topic.
In this course we will on the base of Gender Studies confront biological, psychological and sociological aspects of human body and sexuality because on first sight natural and given human sexuality is historically, socially and discursively constructed. We will focus on topics such as: evolution of individual's sexuality, gender socialization, heterosexuality as implied condition, sexual deviations, other sexualities as - homosexuality or transgender, we focus on power dynamics in sexuality (for example prostitution, social control of the body and sex, concepts of doing or performing gender), with contextual dynamic of the identity we will deal with post-modern view on sexuality and deconstruction of the body with queer theories, last but not least we will focus on relation and intersection of biology, society and identity in the fields of sexuality, gender and sex.

Aim of the course -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.04.2008)

Successful absolvent of this course shoud have a basic insight on the approach of social sciences in the area of gender identity, sexuality and body. In the course we would criticise, deconstruct and redefine categories that seem natural and given, but are culturally constructed and dynamicaly evolving from past to present days.

Literature -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.04.2008)

Bourdieau, P. (2000): Nadvláda mužů. Praha: Karolinum.

Epstein, S. (1997): ?A Queer Encounter: Sociology and the Study of Sexuality.? In Seidman, S.: Queer Theory/Sociology. Blackwell. S. 145-167.

Fafejta, M. (2004) : Úvod do sociologie sexuality a pohlaví. Věrovany: Jan Piszkiewicz.

Foucault, M. (1999): Dějiny sexuality I: Vůle k vědění. Praha: Herrmann & synové.

Oakley, A. (1999): Gender, pohlaví a společnost. Praha: Portál. (kap 1 a 4)

Scott, S./Jackson, S. (2000): ?Sexuality?. In: Payne, Geoff: Social Division. New York: Palgrave. S.168-184

Šmausová, G. (2000): ?Proti tvrdošíjné představě o ontické povaze těla a gender?. In Barša, P. (ed.): Politika rodu a sexuální identity. Sociální studia 7. Brno: MUNI. S. 15-27.

Other material:

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Aus. 1994. D/S: Stephen Elliott. [film]

Queer as Folk. USA 2001-2005. [series]

Umělec 2/2002. [photographs]

picket advertisments and music videos

Teaching methods -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.04.2008)

(inter)active lectures

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: Mgr. Zdeněk Sloboda, Ph.D. (11.10.2011)

Point system, points to gain for:

presence at lectures
Test
scientific Paper/Research design on chosen topic (10 pages)

Syllabus -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.04.2008)

1. Feminist point of view and Gender Studies

(foundation and evolution of feminist movement and thinking and introduction to Gender Studies)

2. Basic gedner terminology

(stereotypes, identity, role, socialization and education)

3. Biology as ideology

(biology of the body, genes, chromosomes, brain, biological sex and reproduction organs; history of male and female body; biology as natural geveness or social construction; intersexuality)

4. Evolution of sexuality of individual

(psycho-sexual evolution by Freud, Ericson and Horney; gender and theory of learning, theory of cognitive structures and gender lenses by Sandra Bem)

5. The cultural body

(body and sexuality in other cultures; Sociology and Antropology of body and sexuality)

6. Social control, doing and performing gender

(Foucault's history of sexuality and watch and punish; West&Zimmerman's doing gender; Butler's performativity)

7. Visualisation and medialisation of body and sexuality

(body and sexuality in art and media)

8. Heteronormativity and Masculinities

(heterosexuality as unspoken normality; masculinities and critical men studies)

9. Protitution, pornography / paraphilias and sexual deviations

(sexual violence, prostitution and comodification of body and sex; fetich, sado-masochism, pedofilia etc.)

10. Homosexuality

(origin and evolution of homosexuality, emergence of mythological 4 %, coming-out, bisexuality)

11. Transgender, Queer Theories and gender deconstruction

(transsexuality - identity and body chage; drag and cross-dressing; the concept of queer)

Entry requirements -

Last update: SLOBODZ (13.04.2008)

Basic knowledge on gender studies (men a women differences) and openness to social deconstruction of "natural order".