Gender and Development

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

5

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Кафедра демографии (Институт демографии имени А.Г. Вишневского)

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватели

Исупова Ольга Генриховна

Соболева Наталья Эдуардовна

Уткина Валерия Владимировна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course will inform students about three waves of feminism and the concepts of women and development, Women in development (WID), Women and Development (WAD), Gender and Development (GAD). Gender Indexes are of great help in understanding the inequality in studied area. It will explore the topics of gender division of labor and its role in development in the context of power relations involved and different access to resources, will address the issue of gender roles and gender analysis of family policy in different areas of the world. We will discuss fertility issues and reproductive decisions as well as reproductive options, such as large families, intended childlessness, one parent families and technologies overcoming infertility since this area is related both to development and to gender. Issues of reproductive health as related to sex and gender are an inalienable part of our course. Hierarchical relations in the organization (both governmental and those in business), related to gender, will be our next topic. Finally, gender violence and sexual harassment are the last important issue of our course.

Learning Objectives

• The objective of the discipline "Gender and Development" is the appropriation of basic principles of gender research and getting knowledge of its main areas.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Know basic concepts and principles of gender studies and main areas of research on which this discipline focuses Be able to construct productive research questions using approaches of gender studies Have the skill to criticize and evaluate the quality of outcome of different forms of gender and development research
• Know basic concepts and principles of gender studies and main areas of research on which this discipline focuses Be able to construct productive research questions using approaches of gender studies Have the skill to criticize and evaluate the quality of outcome of different forms of gender and development research
• Know basic concepts and principles of gender studies Be able to construct productive research questions using approaches of gender studies Have the skill to criticize and evaluate the quality of outcome of different forms of gender and development research

Course Contents

• Introduction and division of domestic labor
• Reproductive options, gender and reproductive health
• Gender and Power, Women and Men in the Organization, Gender Violence and Sexual Harassment
• Reproductives Rights and Reproductive Technologies. Family policy and Demographic Policy: how these are related to gender and formed by gender ideologies?
• Gender indexes and measurement of gender role attitudes.

Assessment Elements

• 8 written tests
  Tests are written during a class or can be assigned as homework. They can be written later (before the end of a course) if the reason why they were not done in time is serious and documents are provided. They are handed by e-mail or special program for test writing (up to a lecturer to decide which channel to use) to a lecturer the same day when they are given to students before 23.59. One of the tests after three of four weeks of study will be in the form of analytic essay on the topics already studied during the course. This essay as well as final analytic essay will be checked for plagiarism via Turninin program. Another test will be in the form of individually assigned (by the lecturer) case based homework, different for each student. Each student is expected to deliver a presentation on the basis of this homework during a class. The remaining tests will be based on the articles given as reading for each class.
• written exam in form of an essay based on a case study, predefined by lecturer, and different from
  при первой и второй пересдаче пересдается только экзамен по заданиям, аналогичным приведенным для основного экзамена. Оценка за предмет выводится с учетом накопленной по той же формуле, что и при сдаче экзамена в срок The exam essays are to be handed to supervisor by e-mail before 23.59 on the 12th of June 2020. The grades will be known to students on the 22nd of June by e-mails. No proctoring is used.
• oral presentations
  each student is expected to present the case

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 3rd module
• 2021/2022 4th module
  0.5 * 8 written tests + 0.1 * oral presentations + 0.4 * written exam in form of an essay based on a case study, predefined by lecturer, and different from

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Alsos, G. A., Hytti, U., & Ljunggren, E. (2016). Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1359169
• Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone, & Éva Beaujouan. (2015). Educational differences in timing and quantum of childbearing in Britain. Demographic Research, (26), 733. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.dem.demres.v33y2015i26
• Arrighi, B. A., Pollitt, K., Nonn, T., Rogers, M. F., Reay, D., Mill, J. S., … Estrich, S. (2007). Understanding Inequality : The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender (Vol. 2nd ed). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=632280
• Berge, A. (2003). Men in groups: a reexamination of patriliny in Lowland South America. Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis/LANGUAGES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC RIM (Book). International Journal of American Linguistics, 69(3), 340–342. https://doi.org/10.1086/381342
• Cameron, D. (2019). Feminism : A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1941140
• Carr, S., Pless-Mulloli, T., & Unwin, N. (2007). An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology (Vol. 2nd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234613
• Couto, T. M., Nitschke, R. G., Lopes, R. L. M., Gomes, N. P., & Diniz, N. M. F. (2015). Everyday life of women with a history of domestic violence and abortion / Cotidiano de mulheres com história de violência doméstica e aborto provocado / Cotidiano de mujeres con historia de violencia doméstica y aborto causados. Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem, 24(1), 263–269. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-07072015003620012
• Hannam, J. (2014). Feminism (Vol. 2nd ed). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=797720
• Iyigun, M., & Walsh, R. P. (2007). Endogenous gender power, household labor supply and the demographic transition. Journal of Development Economics, (1), 138. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.eee.deveco.v82y2007i1p138.155
• Pettman, J. (2015). Gender and World Politics. Australia, Australia/Oceania: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.55C261F

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Jacobs, A. P. (2018). Mother knows best: How listening to Dutch Christian mothers can change the way we look at religion, calling, and self-sacrifice. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.19B3EBF5
• Koonz, C. (2013). Mothers in the Fatherland : Women, the Family and Nazi Politics. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=573492
• Marquis, D. (2006). Abortion and the Beginning and End of Human Life. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 34(1), 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2006.00004.x
• Scholz, S. J. (2013). Feminism : A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford, UK: Oneworld Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=910739