| TGTU16 | Gender, Technology and Culture, 6 ECTS credits. /Genus, teknik, kultur/ |
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hours: 38 |
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Area of Education: Humanities Subject area: Gender, Technology and Culture |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): B
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| Aim: Gender means social sex, and is a scientific concept used in the study of how what we take for granted about the sexes and their behaviour is more often cultural conventions than physical differences between women and men. The gender perspective is not the same as working for equal opportunities, neither does the perspective entail the demonstration and romanticising of biological differences between men and women. Instead, the assumptions we make in both academic and everyday life about sex and sexuality are analysed and problemized. What we believe is natural and therefore simple and understood often proves to be, with a gender perspective, considerably more complex and interesting, both culturally and biologically. For example, traditionally it is taken as a matter of course that thought is ?naturally? divided differently between women and men, which research has shown has dramatic consequences, not only for the knowledge produced scientifically, but also for male and female individuals? opportunities in various situations, even in academia. The course aims to give an introduction to a gender perspective on the interplay between technology, science and popular culture. The focus is on the intersection between basic gender theory, the theory of science and more recent cultural studies. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their critical and epistemological competence, acquire fundamental knowledge about gender theory, and also have the opportunity to practice the critical analysis of scientific as well as popular cultural phenomena. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Organisation: Lectures and seminars. Time equivalent to 4 weeks is devoted to lectures and seminars with accompanying assignments. Time equivalent to 1 week is devoted to report writing. |
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| Course contents: Using gender theory as the point of departure, students should: 1) improve their ability to critically analyse scientific and popular cultural phenomena, 2) gain an increased understanding of how technical and scientific knowledge is generated in a social context, and under special cultural conditions. With the focus on the intersection between fundamental gender theory, the theory of science and more recent cultural studies, various concepts ? those of knowledge, culture, and science communication ? will be problemized. Examples are analysed, taken from everyday popular culture, such as advertising, popular science and science fiction films. Concrete examples are central (e.g. the film Blade Runner) and theoretical concepts ?for instance the cyborg idea as it has been used in a gender-, culture- and theory of science perspective. |
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| Course literature: (in Swedish) - Berner, Boel (red) 2003. Vem tillhör tekniken? Kön och kunskap i teknikens värld. Lund: Arkiv förlag. s 13–52, 229–254. - Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk (1995) ed. Featherstone, Mike, Burrows, Roger, London - Det dolda budskapet. Kön makt och kvinnor och män i museiutställningar. 1994. Norrköping: Arbetets museum. 79s - Devonshire, Amanda and Wood, Barbara, (ed), 1996. Women in Industry and Technology. Current research and the museum experience. London: Museum of London. Ett urval av artiklar. - Gemzöe, Lena 2002. Feminism. Stockholm: Bilda förlag. 192 s. - Gothlin, Eva 1999. Kön eller genus? Göteborg: Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning. 16 s. - Grahn, Wera 1999. Tekniska museet – den manliga teknikens tempel? I: Dædalus 2000. Stockholm: Tekniska museet. s191–209. - Haraway, Donna, 1991. Situated Knowledges. I: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association Books. s183–201. - Lykke, Nina 2002. Feminist Caultural Studies of Technoscience and Other Cyborg Studies. A Cartography. I: Braidotti, et al, (eds.), The Making of European Women’s Studies. Utrecht: Athena och Universiteit Utrecht. Sida 133–146. - Porter, Gaby, 1988 (1995). Putting your house in order: representations of women and domestic life. I: Lumley, Robert (red) The Museum Time Machine. London: Routledge. s 102–126. - Porter, Gaby, 1996. Seeing through solidity: a feminist perspective on museums. I: Macdonald, Sharon & Fyfe, Gordon (red), Theorizing Museums. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. S 105–126. - Springer, Claudia (1996) Electronic Eros. Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age, Austin. - The Gendered Cyborg. A Reader (2000) ed. Kirkup, Gill, Janes, Linda, Woodward, Kathryn, Hovenden, Fiona, London/New York. - Trojer, Lena 2002. Genusforskning inom Teknikvetenskapen – en drivbänk för forskningsförändring. Stockholm: Högskoleverket. 72 s. |
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| Independent or group presentation of a synopsis (1-2 pages) An independently- or group-written report (10-15 pages in total), which is presented and discussed at a seminar Active participation in the seminars is a requirement for a Pass grade |
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Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: TEMA. Director of Studies: Ulrika Andersson Examiner: Nina Lykke Link to the course homepage at the department |
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