Gender, Body and Intersectionality (5cr)
Course unit code: C-10122-YKT--228
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
- Institution
- University of Tampere
Objectives
Students will be able to identify and conceptualise social structures, cultural phenomena and human activities from the perspective of gender, embodiment and intersecting differences. They will identify how inequalities in these contexts shape social practices and embodiment and how they open up possibilities for change. Students will be familiar with the field of research on gender, embodiment and their diversity.
Content
Students will become familiar with the diversity of gender and embodiment and key ways of structuring and conceptualising the intersecting differences that produce inequalities.