Gender and Family
Code
711001055
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1.To outline the development of different family and gender cultural conceptions and categorizations
2.To identify the relevant ethnographies produced about significant areas of concern and application of family and gender
3. To understand how ethnographic studies complicate and elaborate theoretical models.
4. To achieve methodological skills and tools for research in family and gender issues
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. History of Family and Sexuality
2. Families, households and political economy
3. Sexuality and Gender in Anthropological Theory
4. Ethnographic approaches to family and gender
5. Feminism, colonialism and Pós-colonialism.
Bibliography
Butler, Judith (1990) Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Collier, Rosaldo and Yanagisako Is There a Family? in Rethinking the family: Some Feminist Questions / edited by Barrie Thorne with Marilyn Yalom
Foucault, Michel (1978) The history of sexuality. Volume 1: an introduction. New York: Vintage.
Hansen, Karen V. Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Héritier, F., Masculin, feminine. I: la pensée de la difference. Paris, O. Jacob, 1996. Héritier, F., Masculin-féminin. II: Dissoudre la hiérarchie.Paris, O. Jacob, 2002.
Wilchins, Riki Anne(1997) Read my lips: sexual subversion and the end of gender. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books.
Teaching method
The course will work under a seminar regime. Classes will alternate moments of theoretical framework with thematic sessions of debate around texts, films and case studies presented by students for each of the thematic modules. The student participation will be essential and evaluated according to a pre-defined timetable. The pace of work will require the reading of at least one text for each class, as well as the progressive reading of the bibliography of general interest.
Evaluation method