Gender and Sexuality
The course provides a broad empirical and theoretical overview of gender and sexuality within anthropological research. The course draws on theoretical insights from feminism, psychoanalysis, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory to illuminate and analyse a range of concrete examples of how societies and cultures deal with gender and sexual relations. The course demonstrates how anthropological knowledge challenges western assumptions surrounding kinship, the family, and gender-related behaviours, as well as the meaning of the terms ‘gender’, ‘sex’ and ‘sexuality’. Themes taken up include reproductive technology, the body, nationalism, and masculinities and femininities. Special emphasis is placed on how gender and sexuality are implicated in relations of power.
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”. American Anthropologist Vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 783-790. (pdf)
Allison, Anne. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (e-bok på SUB)
Halberstam, Jack. 2015. Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability. Berkeley: University of California Press. (e-bok på SUB)
Mohanty, CH. 1989. “Under Western Eyes” in boundary 2 Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 333-358. (pdf)
Mohanty, CH. 2003. “Under Western Eyes Revisited” in Signs, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 499-535. (pdf)
Ortner, Sherry 1974 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In M Rosaldo, L Lamphere eds Woman, Culture & Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Rosaldo, Michelle. 1974. “Woman, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview”. I M Rosaldo & L Lamphere red. Woman, Culture and Society, Stanford University Press. (pdf)
Strathern, Marylin. 2016. Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life. Chicago: HAU Books. (e-bok på SUB)
Thompson, Eric, Pattana Kitiarsa, and Suriya Smutkupt. 2016. “From Sex Tourist to Son-in-Law: Emergent Masculinities and Transient Subjectivities of Farang Men in Thailand” in Current Anthropology 57(1). (pdf)
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Contact
Stockholm University, Department of Social Anthropology 10691 STOCKHOLM
Visitor address: Universitetsvägen 10B, floor 6
Student office: socant@socant.su.se
Study counsellor: studievagledare@socant.su.se
Director of studies: studierektorgrund@socant.su.se
Phone 08-163377
