Degree | Type | Year |
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Sociocultural Gender Studies | OB | 2 |
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It is recommended to have taken basic principles of Anthropology (first-year subject).
Topic 1: Sex/gender systems: the production of alterity, the historical construction of gender relations, and their universalization
Topic 2: Anthropology and diverse sex/gender systems
Topic 3: Feminist ethnographies and decolonial perspective: tools for the analysis of contemporary societies
Topic 4: Globalization, interculturality, and sex/gender systems: current debates
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Theoretical lectures | 30 | 1.2 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06, CM04 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Individual and group tutoring | 5 | 0.2 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06, CM04 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual study | 40 | 1.6 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06, CM04 |
This Course Guide contains all the information related to the subject and should be considered the primary reference document for any questions regarding course content and assessment.
The main actor in the teaching-learning process is the student. Based on this premise, the methodology is planned around continuous work.
Regarding the sessions:
Independent work:
Tutoring
Communication:
Written assignments:
Correction criteria:
Grading scale: How well have the objectives outlined in the grading criteria been met?
Note: 15 minutes of one session, within the calendar set by the faculty/program, will be reserved for students to complete evaluation surveys on the instructor's performance and the course/module.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Restricted use: For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted only for support tasks such as text correction, translations, or other specific situations that must bepreviously agreed upon with the instructor via a tutorial meeting. Students must clearly identify which parts of the activity have been generated using AI, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these tools influenced the process and the final outcome of the activity. Lack of transparency in the use of AI in assessable activities will be considered a violation of academic integrity and may result in partial or total penalization of the activity grade, or more severe disciplinary measures in serious cases.
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.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Debates | 30% | 25 | 1 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06 |
Individual essay | 40% | 30 | 1.2 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06 |
Questionnaires on mandatory readings | 10% | 12 | 0.48 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06 |
Reflexive writting on the three debates | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | CM04, KM09, KM11, KM12, SM05, SM06 |
Continuous Assessment
ACTIVITY 1: Questionnaire on each compulsory reading (10%)
This individual activity aims to encourage the reading of the compulsory texts and the extraction of their key concepts. It accounts for 10% of the final grade for the course.
Using the questionnaire tool on the Virtual Campus, 8 tests will be available in which students must answer between 8 and 10 questions on each reading. These quizzes should be completed during the student’s independent study hours. The correct answers will be reviewed at the beginning of each session dedicated to the corresponding reading, where the questions will be discussed and a deeper analysis of the text will be carried out.
The compulsory readings can be found in the Bibliography section of this course guide.
To receive the percentage corresponding to Assessment 1, students must complete at least 6 out of the 8 available quizzes within the established deadline.
ACTIVITY 2: Individual Essay (40%)
This individual activity aims to help students learn how to identify and connect three key concepts from three compulsory readings through a prepared essay that will be written in class. Students are allowed to bring any materials they consider necessary for writing the essay. This activity counts for 40% of the final grade.
Detailed instructions for this activity, along with the evaluation rubric, will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the course.
The essay will take place on March 27.
ACTIVITY 3: Roundtable / Debate (30%)
This group activity aims to foster reflection and discussion on the challenges of gender and cross-culturality in the contemporary world. It will be carried out in small groups (maximum of three people), where students must prepare a roundtable-debate on one of three proposed topics. For this, they must present and discuss key concepts from:
These readings must be connected to current events and news articles.
It is mandatory to schedule a tutoring to select the optional reading listed in the guide. This tutorial must be held before April 17, 2025.
Each debate day will include three 30-minute roundtable debates. During each session, students must present and discuss the concepts and arguments from the selected authors, with the moderation of the course instructor. A total of six groups will participate per day (two per debate).
The evaluation will focus on the ability to apply theoretical concepts from the readings to current news events.
Debate dates:
To ensure fairness in evaluation, all debates will be recorded with a voice recorder.
Attendance at all debates is mandatory.
Detailed instructions and the evaluation rubric for this activity will also be available on the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the course.
ACTIVITY 4: Written Reflection on the 3 Debates (20%)
This is an individual written test in which each student will briefly reflect on the theoretical concepts used in the three debates and summarize the main arguments discussed.
This activity will take place on June 5.
Detailed instructions and the evaluation rubric for this activity will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the course.
Single Assessment
The single assessment will consist of a synchronous test with three parts on the date and time established by the Faculty:
Recovery Assessment
For students who fail the course, i.e., whose average grade across all assessment activities is below 5, a resit sessionwill be organized within the period established by UAB regulations (from June 22 to July 3).
However, students who have not reached a minimum score of 3.5 will not be eligible for resit.
Mandatory Readings
1: Rubin, Gayle ([1975]2013). El tráfico de mujeres: notas sobre la 'economía política' del sexo. En Marta Lamas (Comp.), El género: La construcción cultural de la diferencia sexual (pp. 35-96). Universidad Autónoma de México.
2: Nanda, Serena (1993). Hijras: An alternative sex and gender role in India. In Gilbert Herdt (Ed.), Third sex, third gender: Beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history (pp. 373–417). Zone Books.
3: Roscoe, Will (1993). How to become a Berdache: Toward a Unfieid Analysis of Gender Diversity. In Gilbert Herdt (Ed.) Third Sex. Third Gender. Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History (pp. 329–372). Zone Books.
4: Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ([1988]2009). ¿Pueden hablar los subalternos? En Laura Meseguer (coord). ¿Pueden hablar los subalternos? (pp. 43-125). Macba.
5: Abu-Lughod, Lila, «¿Puede haber una etnografía feminista?», en Alhena Caicedo (ed.). Antropología y feminismo. Popayán-Colombia: Asociación Colombiana de Antropología, 2019 [1988], pp. 15-48.
6: Nigst, Lorenz and Sánchez-Garcia, José. (2010). ‘Boyät’ in the Gulf: Identity, Contestation, and Social Control. Middle East Critique, 19(1), 5-34.
7: Molinero Gallego Aranzazu G., & Clemente-Martínez, Chandra Kala (2021). Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices. Childhood, 28(4), 467–476.
Lectura 8: Alvarez, Bruna, Vera, Edith, Contreras, Edgar, & Marre, Diana. (2024). Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality. Children & Society, 00, 1-19
Optional readings for round tables and debates
Gender and Islam
Reproduction in a globalized world
Sexualities, children and adolescence in a global world
Aditional References
Behar, Ruth & Gordon, Deborah (Eds.). (1995). Women writing culture. Univ of California Press.
Butler, Judith (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.
Graham Davies, Sharyn (2006). Thinking of Gender in a Holistic Sense: Understandings of Gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia. In Demos, Vasilikie & Texler Segal, Marcia (Ed.) Gender and the Local-Global Nexus: Theory, Research, and Action (pp. 1-24). Leeds.
Gregorio Gil, Carmen. (2006). Contribuciones feministas a problemas epistemológicos de la disciplina antropológica: representaciones y relaciones de poder. AIBR Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 1 (1): pp.22-39.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599.
Harris, Olivia & Young, Kate (1979). Antropología y feminismo. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama.
Herdt, Gilbert (1993). Third sex, third gender: Beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history. Zone Books.
Karakola, Eskalera (2004). Prólogo. Diferentes diferencias ciudadanías excluyentes: una revisión feminista. En Otras Inapropiables: feminismos desde las fronteras (pp. 9-32). Traficantes de sueños.
Lewin, Ellen (2006). Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Lugones, María (2007). Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System. Hypatia 22(1), 186-209.
Mead, Margaret (1949). Male and female: A study of the sexes in a changing world. William Morrow and Co.
Ramírez, Jacobo & Munar, Ana María. (2022). Hybridgender colonization: The case of muxes. Gender, Work & Organization, 29(6), 1947–1965.
Sciortino, Maria Silvana (2012). Antropología y feminismos en América Latina: hacia una práctica descolonial. En Elena Hernández Corrochano (Ed.). Teoría Feminista y antropología: claves analíticas (pp. 133–151). Madrid.
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Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |