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Learning outcomes |
To gain more in-depth knowledge about gender questions, as well as to practice a multifacetal reflection about these, in particular in the context of processes of social exclusion and as a major dimension in social policy; to examine recent developments in social life, legislation and attitudes of the Portuguese concerning gender-related items such as work-life balance and same-sex relationships. To draw comparisons between diverse societies, in an historical and in a contemporary perspective. To assess and interpret concrete cases. After completion of this course unit, the students will have the capacity to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in the processes of detection, diagnostics and solution of social problems.
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Syllabus |
1. Gender Studies: an interdisciplinary area with tradition in various fields of study;
2. The gender approach according to various Theoretical Perspectives
3. Gender inequalities in work, education, politics and civic participation, health, art ...
4. Genderized times: the articulation of personal, family and work times.
5. Gender and vulnerability to social exclusion.
6. Gender Violence
7. LGBT Rights
8. Gender Equality Policies
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Main Bibliography |
- ALMEIDA, Miguel Vale (1995). Senhores de Si. Uma interpretação Antropológica da Masculinidade, Lisboa: Fim de Século.
- AMÂNCIO, Lígia (1994). Masculino e Feminino. A Construção Social da Diferença. Porto: Afrontamento.
- BELL, Hooks (2015). Feminist Theory. Nova Iorque: Routledge.
- BUTLER, Judith (2017). Problemas de Género. Lisboa: Orfeu Negro.
- BUTLER, J. (1990). Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Nova Iorque : Routledge
- CONNELL, R. W. (2002). Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- PEREIRA, Maria do Mar (2012). Fazendo Género no Recreio. A negociação do género em espaço escolar, Lisboa: ICS.
- SANTOS, Filomena (2008). “A dominância simbólica do masculino e o modelo da assimetria nas representações do género; Representações do género e identidade social” in Sem Cerimónia nem papéis – um estudo sobre as uniões de facto em Portugal. Tese de doutoramento, Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior, pp. 121-127. Disponível em http://ubibliorum.ubi.pt/handle/10400.6/654
- SANTOS, Filomena & DIAS, Rita (2017). Homoparenthood: Family Dynamics and Individual Biographies (Conference abstracts). Queering Parenting, 2ND Intimate International Conference”, 02-03 March 2017, CES, Coimbra.
- SANTOS, M. H., & AMÂNCIO, L. (2006). Democracia e género: A sub-representação das mulheres na política e as medidas de acção positiva. Actas do VI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, Universidade de Évora.
- SCHOUTEN, Maria Johanna (2011). Uma Sociologia do Género. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Ed. Húmus.
- SUMMER, S. et al. (2008). Becoming working mothers: Reconciling work and family at three particular workplaces in Norway, the UK, and Portugal. Community, Work & Family, 11(4), 365–384.
- WALL, K., CUNHA, V., ATALAIA, S., RODRIGUES, L., CORREIA, R., CORREIA, S. V., ROSA, R. (2016). Livro Branco. Homens e Igualdade de Género em Portugal. Lisboa: ICS/CITE http://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/26649/1/ICs_KWall_LivroBranco_Outros.pdf
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