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This module is designed to introduce a sociological study of gender and examine why it remains central in understanding the social relations of contemporary life. It examines how different institutions of family, labor market, mass media and government become the pivotal sites for the interaction, reproduction, and changes in gender roles. It also investigates how gender is interconnected with other social systems of domination such sexuality, age, class, race and ethnicity. The module combines theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of gender in both western and Asian societies.
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. recognise and examine the ways in which gender structures our culture and society today.
b. explore the ways in which systems of power, privilege, and oppression shape our gendered experiences as individuals and members of communities.
c. explain and evaluate the ways in which our lived experiences and social institutions are structured through the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and culture.
1. Defining gender
1.1 Understanding gender, culture and society
1.2 The social construction of sex, gender and sexuality
1.3 Feminist perspectives: The interaction of gender and inequality and feminist social movements
2. “Doing” gender: gender and culture
2.1 Gender in private sphere – family, reproduction and intimate relationship
2.2 Gender, race and the exotic
2.3 Gender in public sphere: media and consumption
3. Gender, Relation and Power
3.1 Gender, work and leisure
3.2 Gender and migration
3.3 Gender, pornography and sex work
3.4 Gender violence
1. Class participation (10%)
2. Group presentation (15%)
3. Test (25%)
4. Individual Essay (50%)
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2. Dines, G and Humez, M. J. (2015). Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader. Los Angeles: SAGE
3. Grusky, B. D. and Szelenyi, S. (2011). The inequality reader: contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender, 2nd Ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
4. Hochschild, A. and A. Machung. 2012. The second shift: Working families and the revolution at home. New York: Penguin Putnam.
5. Kam, L. (2013). Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (Queer Asia). Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press.6.
6. Kimmel, M. (2016). The gendered society, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
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8. Marchbank, J. and Gayle, L. (2007). Introduction to Gender: Social Science Perspectives. Harlow: Pearson.
9. Nehring, D. (2013). Sociology: An Introductory Textbook and Reader, Harlow: Pearson.
10. Ore, T. E. (Ed.) (2019). The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality, 7th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
11. Rahman, M. & Jackson, S. (2010), Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches. Cambridge: Polity Press
12. Ryle, R. (2020). Question Gender: A Sociological Exploration, 4th ed. LA: Sage Publications
13. Seidman, S., Fischer, N. and Meeks, C. (201) (Eds). Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge
14. Shaw, S.M., & Lee, S. (2015). Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings., 6th ed., New York: McGraw Hill Education Wood, J. T. and Oraiz N. F. (2019). Gendered Lives: Communication Gender and Culture, 13th ed. Boston: Cengage Learning
15. Whelehan, I. (2004). 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies. London: Sage
