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2021/2022

Anthropology of Sex/Gender Systems

Code: 101252 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OB 3 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Laia Narciso Pedro
Email:
Laia.Narciso@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Other comments on languages

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Teachers

Estel Malgosa Gasol
Laia Narciso Pedro

External teachers

A determinar

Prerequisites

There are no pre- requisites

Objectives and Contextualisation

Third year course of the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, it is taught during the first semester and is part of the subject "General areas of Anthropology."

This subject:

Develops anthropological theory and the analysis of cultural diversity in sex / gender systems.

Criticizes scientific androcentrism and reviews assumptions, concepts and theories, incorporating the gender perspective and feminist research into the social sciences.

It applies the disciplinary knowledge to the identification and the study of the socio-cultural reality linked to the current debates on gender.

This is done by approaching:

Feminist criticism and anthropology: presentation of empirical revisions, theoretical and methodological innovations that gender studies have contributed to classical Social and Cultural Anthropology: ethno-androcentrisms, sexisms and / or masclisms.

Changes in perspective and related key concepts: from studies on universal women to culturally diverse gender relations.

Debates on gender and status. The knowledge and analysis of the dichotomies, nature / culture, public / private and production / reproduction, and their relation to differences and inequalities.

Relationship and analysis of gender, class, "race" and ethnicity categories.

OBJECTIVES

        At the end of the course the student will be able to:

Identify the transcultural variability of sex / gender systems and know the anthropological theory linked to this question.

Understand sociocultural constructions linked to sex, gender and sexual identity. Apply anthropological knowledge to current socio-cultural problems.

Competences

  • Apprehending cultural diversity through ethnography and critically assessing ethnographic materials as knowledge of local contexts and as a proposal of theoretical models.
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Using the discipline's ethnographic and theoretical corpus with analytical and synthesis skills.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing a contemporary fact from an anthropological perspective.
  2. Applying the basic concepts of Social and Cultural Anthropology to the understanding of relationships between various societies and cultures.
  3. Applying the knowledge of cultural variability and its genesis to avoid ethnocentric projections.
  4. Identifying main and supporting ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  5. Identifying the sociocultural variability through ethnographic texts and audiovisual resources.
  6. Identifying the transcultural variability of economic, kinship, political, symbolic and cognitive, educational and gender systems as well as their corresponding anthropological theory.
  7. Interpreting the cultural diversity through ethnography.
  8. Interpreting today's main events from physical, economic, social and cultural diversity.
  9. Summarising acquired knowledge about the origin and transformations experienced in the several fields of anthropology.
  10. Summarizing the characteristics of a written text in accordance to its communicative purposes.
  11. Theoretically analysing ethnographic examples of cultural diversity in the fields of education, gender and inclusion-exclusion systems.

Content

1. Anthropology and feminism. Basic concepts and main perspectives.

2. The binary oppositions of domination: nature/culture; productive/reproductive work; public/private spaces.

3. Violence against women. Anthropological perspectives.

4. Gender as an ethnic border. Sex/race, gender/ethnicity, age, disabled: intersectionality.

5. Gender, public policies and social intervention.

 

 

 

Methodology

This Teaching Guide contains all the information related to the subject.  Each group has a detailed programme that will be delivered at the beginning of the course, with compulsory bibliography, and the detailed instructions of the evaluation activities, described in this Teaching Guide.

The protagonist of the teaching-learning process is the student and under this premise a methodology based on the continuous work has been planned.

 The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.

About the sessions:

The subject will be developed through face-to-face sessions, supervised and self-employed.

The face-to-face sessions will always be carried out with the entire class group and will be devoted to the presentation of the contents of the subject by faculty and professionals invited, according to the calendar included in the present Teaching Guide, with the active participation of the student group In their analysis and discussion, sometimes in small groups so these sessions always involve a prior or later autonomous work.

Autonomous work includes activities such as reading and the comprehensive and analytical study of texts, the comprehensive and analytical vision of audio-visual materials, the search of bibliographic references, the recession of information, observation and writing, among others.

Supervised sessions will be on-site or virtual (with an appointment) specially aimed at contributing to the follow-up of the subject and carrying out the assessment activities

 

About the communication: 

The communication will be done through Moodle.

 

About the writing assignments:

  • Form and Formatting Aspects: all written works must be submitted

-        Through Moodle

-        Identified with the NIU

-        In Word format

-        With the page number

-        Indicating the total number of words In Catalan, Spanish or English

-        Without spelling and / or grammatical errors

-        With citations, notes, references and bibliography in APA format

 

  • Correction criteria:

-        Quality of the presentation, format, writing and bibliographical references in APA

-        Comprehension, amplitude and depth of the analysis of the bibliography, presentations and viewings and their relation with the concepts of the course.

-        Presentation of an articulated text through a coherent and academic-based argumentation.

-        Linkage of presentations, bibliographies and / or views with ethnographic examples from the press, own experience or ethnographic observation.

 

  • Scale of qualification:

To what extent have the objectives indicated in the qualification criteria been achieved?

-        0: Out of deadline or Moodle without accredited justification

-        1-4.9: delivery not based on the required analysis materials in each case or based only on a description or summary of the proposed materials

-        5-6.9: delivery based only on the articulation of the required material analysis

-        7-8.9: delivery based on the proposed materials incorporating additional materials or ethnographic examples -experience, press, observation-

-        9-10: delivery based on the proposed materials incorporating additional materials and ethnographic examples -experience, press, observation-

 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Preparation in the classroom of evaluation activities 2 0.08
Theoretical and practical sessions in large group 16 0.64
Visionaries and conferences in large group 12 0.48
Type: Supervised      
Classroom evaluation activities 1.5 0.06
Individual and / or group tutorials (face to face and / or virtual) 2 0.08
Type: Autonomous      
Observations, in groups and individuals 10 0.4
Reading, analysis, preparation and writing of individual and group works and study 45 1.8

Assessment

The evaluation of the subject is understood as a continuous process that extends during the lecture period and is developed through 3 (three) activities.

 

Activity 1: Commentary (30%)

Delivery of a critic essay linking 3 texts proposed in the course programme.

 

Activity 2: Presentation in group (30%)

Oral presentation in class of a maximum of 10 minutes in groups of three people of an analysis work of a minimum of 10 hours of participant observation or/and audiovisual material chosen by the students, 2 readings to choose between the options proposed in this teaching guide, composed of a compulsory reading and an additional reading, and one extra reading freely chosen. Each reading option can be chosen by only 1 group of students.

This activity is divided in three deliveries:

-        A script of the presentation showing the readings and the audiovisual material or participant observation chosen and the reasons why you chose them (20% of the qualification)

-        Power point or prezzi of the oral presentation (10% of the qualification)

-        Oral presentation (60% of the qualification divided in 40% grade assigned by the teaching staff and 20% grade assigned by the students through the co-evaluation)

 

Test (40%)

Individual written test in class on the content of lectures, including compulsory readings, presentations and related viewings

 

Evaluation normativity:

 -         On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.

-        To be considered as having passed the subject, you will need to obtain a minimum grade of 5.0 as an average grade resulting from the marks obtained in each of the activities, considering the percentage of each of them in the final grade."

-        Once the subject has been passed, it cannot be subject to a new evaluation.

-        Students will obtain a “Not assessed/Not submitted” course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.

-        Those who for "attendance at meetings of the collegiate bodies of university representation or other reasons provided for in their respective regulations" [...] "cannot attend programmed evaluation activities at any time, they have the right to be programmes a different day and time for its realization ".

-        Those who participate in the different assessment activities and they need it, they will receive a justification document for this participation.

-        The ones who carry out any irregularity that can lead to a significant variation of the qualification of an evaluation activity, this and the whole subject will be qualified with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed.

-        The copy or plagiarism, both in the case of the works and in the case of examinations, constitutes a crime that will be sanctioned with 0 (zero) to the activity, loss of the right to re-evaluate and the entire subject will be failed. Remember that a work that reproduces all or a part of the work of a partner is considered a "copy". "Plagiarism" is to present all or part of an author's text as its own, without mentioning the sources, either on paper or in digital format. See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at:

http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html.

-        The delivery of evaluation activities 2 days outside the deadline will have a maximun grade of 8. Between 2 and 7days, the maximum grade will be 5.

 

About the re-revaluation

 

They can re-evaluate those who:

-        Have obtained an average grade of the 3 (three) activities of at least 3.5

-        The re-evaluation will consist of a single test and will take place between on the day, time and place programmed by the Faculty.

-        The mark obtained in the re-evaluation will constitute the final grade of the subject.

 

Evaluation in case of virtual teaching

In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools or will offer them feasible alternatives.

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
10 min. grupal presentation on 10 hours audiovisual material or participant observation and 2 articles 30% 27 1.08 11, 2, 4, 10, 9
Critic essay linking three compulsory texts 30% 28 1.12 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
Written test on the compulsory bibliography, invited conferences and the lectures 40% 6.5 0.26 11, 5, 6, 4, 7

Bibliography

General Readings

Aixelà Cabré, Y. (2005). Género y antropología social.  Sevilla: Editorial Doble J.

Essed. Ph., Goldberg, T. & Kobayashi, A. (2009). A companion to Gender Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fausto-Sterling, A. [2000] (2006). Cuerpos sexuados. La política de género y la construcción de la sexualidad.  Barcelona: Editorial Melusina.

Harris, O. y Young, K. (1979). Antropología y feminismo. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama.

Héritier, F. (1996). Masculino/Femenino. El pensamiento de la diferencia.  Barcelona: Ariel.

Lewin, E. (2006).  Feminist Anthropology. A Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell.

Lancaster, R. & di Leonardo, M. (eds.) (1997). The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. London: Routledge.

Laqueur, T. (1994). La construcción del sexo. Cuerpo y género desde los griegos hasta Freud.  Madrid: Cátedra/Universidad de Valencia (Serie Feminismos).

Martín Casares, A. (2006). Antropología del Género. Culturas, mitos y estereotipos sexuales.  Madrid: Cátedra.

Moncó, Beatriz. (2011). Antropología del género.  Madrid: Síntesis.

Moore, H. [1988] (1991). Antropología y feminismo.  Madrid: Cátedra.

  

 

Software

No specific software required.