Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Gender and Sexuality
Course Code
SZF_259
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Social Anthropology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Diāna Kiščenko
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
SZF, Kuldigas Street 9C, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
Through a wide range of ethnographic material, to develop an understanding of the anthropological approach to gender studies, with a particular focus on themes such as gender, sex, sexuality, the body. The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the course Kinship Systems and is linked to the course Medical Anthropology.
Preliminary Knowledge
Knowledge of kinship anthropology and medical anthropology is desirable.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students are able to understand the role of human gender and sex in different times and societies through ethnographic research, as well as to recognise and explain the interaction of different broader processes (colonisation, globalisation, etc.) with human gender, sex and sexuality.
Skills
1.To analyse and interpret academic and practical issues related to gender and sex. To discuss the theoretical framework and methods of gender anthropology orally and in writing. To evaluate authors’ arguments and justify one’s attitude with reference to the ethnographic works covered in this and other courses in the programme.
Competences
1.Able to make sound judgements about gender and sex from an anthropological perspective and critically analyse discourses on gender, sex and sexuality in the media and policy documents.
Assessment
Individual work
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Book review |
20.00% from total grade
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10 points
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During the course, students complete a midterm assignment in the form of a book review based on one of the ethnographies discussed in the course. The essay should be approximately 1,000 words in length. |
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Mini-ethnography |
60.00% from total grade
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10 points
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At the end of the course, students complete a final assignment in the form of a short mini-ethnography based on the themes covered in the course and on a small-scale empirical study conducted by the student. The paper should be 3,500–4,000 words in length. |
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Mini-ethnography presentation |
20.00% from total grade
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10 points
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Kursa noslēgumā studenti prezentē izstrādāto minietnogrāfiju. |
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
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Gender Research in Social Anthropology: A Brief History
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The Development of Gender Anthropology
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Gender and Sexual Diversity
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Classic and Contemporary Ethnographic Works on Gender and Sexuality
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Everyday Violence and Intimacy: Trans Experiences
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The Body, Agency, and Subjectivity
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Gender, Colonialism, and the Global Economy
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Sexuality, Labor, and Intimacy in the Economy
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Globalization, Modernity, and Gender
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Masculinity from an Anthropological Perspective
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Contemporary Masculinities and Digital Spaces
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Masculinity, Reproduction, and Biosocial Relations
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Sexuality and Reproduction under Socialism: Ideology, Practice, and Everyday Life
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Sexuality and Reproduction under Socialism: Ideology, Practice, and Everyday Life 2
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Gender Issues in Post-Socialist Countries
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Motherhood and Reproduction in Socialism
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Gender equality
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Gender as a Threat: Ideology, Actors, and Political Strategies
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Body and Reproduction: Birth, Abortion, (In)Fertility
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Biomedicine, Gender, and Social Inequality
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Sexuality, Disability, and Social Isolation
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Pleasure, the Body, and Sexual Practices
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Gender and Sexuality in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
48 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Kulick, Don, and Jens Rydström. 2015. Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2.
Mohr, Sebastian. 2018. Being a Sperm Donor: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark. New York: Berghahn Books.
3.
Gerrand, Vivian, Debbie Ging, Joshua M. Roose, and Michael Flood. 2025. “Mapping the Neo-Manosphere(s): New Directions for Research.” Men and Masculinities 28 (5): 443–64.Suitable for English stream
4.
Weiss, Margot. 2011. Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
5.
Zengin, Aslı. 2024. Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
6.
Kuhar, Roman, and David Paternotte, eds. 2017. Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
7.
Luna, Sarah. 2020. Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico–US Border. Austin: University of Texas Press.
8.
Martínez, Rebecca Gilda. 2018. Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
9.
Strathern, M. 1988. Power: Claims and Counterclaims. In The Gender of the Gift, pp. 98-132. (Akceptējams avots, nozīmīga autore dzimtes studijās.)Suitable for English stream
10.
Butler, J. 2006. Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions. In Gender Trouble, pp. 175-193. (Akceptējams avots, hrestomātisks darbs, nozīmīga autore dzimtes studijās.)
11.
Martin, E. 1991. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles. Signs, 16 (3), pp. 485-501. (Hrestomātisks darbs, nozīmīga autore dzimtes antropoloģijas studijās.)
12.
Rubin, G. 1975. The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex", in Rayna Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York, Monthly Review Press. (Akceptējams avots, hrestomātisks darbs, nozīmīga autore dzimtes studijās.)Suitable for English stream
13.
Kulick, D. 1998. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. (Nozīmīgs darbs nenoramatīvās seksualitātes pētniecībā, ievērojams mūslaiku sociālantropologs.)
14.
Pruitt, D., & LaFont, S. 1995. For love and money - Romance Tourism in Jamaica. Annals of Tourism Research, 22-2, pp. 422-440. (Nozīmīgs darbs seksualitātes un tūrisma pētniecībā.)
15.
Buckley, T. 1982. Menstruation and the Power of Yurok Women: Methods in Cultural Reconstruction. American Ethnologist, 9 (1), pp. 47-60. (Nozīmīgs darbs dzimtes antropoloģijā.)
16.
Ashwin, S. and Lytkina T. 2004. Men in Crisis in Russia: The Role of Domestic Marginalization. Gender and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 2004), pp. 189-206 (Nozīmīgs reģionāls pētījums dzimtes antropoloģijā.)Suitable for English stream
17.
Scott, J. W. 1986. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis. The American Historical Review. 91 (5): 1053. (Nozīmīgs darbs dzimtes antropoloģijā.)
18.
Kukaine, J. 2016. Daiļās mātes. Rīga: Neputns. (latviešu plūsmai)
19.
Kukaine, J. 2019. Dzimumu vienlīdzības izpratne un dzimtes kārtība Padomju Savienībā. Letonika, Nr. 40, 97.–115. (latviešu plūsmai)
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Sedlenieks, K., un Rolle, K. 2016. Palīdzēt un atbalstīt: Latvijas tēvi ģimenes dzīvē. Nodibinājums "Tēvi". (latviešu plūsmai)
Additional Reading
1.
Brown, J. K. 1970. A Note on the Division of Labor by Sex. American Anthropologist, New Series, 72 (5), pp. 1073-1078. (Akceptējams avots)
2.
Kulick, D. 1995. The Sexual Life of Anthropologists: Erotic Subjectivity and Ethnographic Work. In Taboo: Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Field Work. Don Kulick and Margaret Willson, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 1-28. (Akceptējams avots)Suitable for English stream
3.
Klein, L. F. 1980. Contending with Colonization: Tlingit Men and Women in Change. In Women and Colonization. Etienne and Leacock, eds. New York: Preager, pp. 88-108. (Akceptējams avots)
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Collier, J. F. and Rosaldo, M. Z. 1981. Politics and Gender in Simple Societies. In Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality. Ortner and Whithead, eds. pp. 275-329. (Akceptējams avots)Suitable for English stream
5.
Apo, S. 1998. Ex cunno Come the Folk and Force. Concepts of Women’s Dynamistic Power in Finnish-Karelian Tradition. In Gender and Folklore: Perspectives on Finnish and Karelian Culture. Apo, S. et al., eds. pp. 63-91. (Akceptējams avots)
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Keough, L. J. 2006. Globalizing 'Postsocialism:' Mobile Mothers and Neoliberalism on the Margins of Europe Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 79, Number 3, Summer 2006, pp. 431-461.
7.
Kulick, D. 1997. Gender of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes. American Anthropologist 99(3), pp. 574-585. (Akceptējams avots)
8.
Elliston, D. A. 1995. Erotic Anthropology: 'Ritualized Homosexuality' in Melanesia and Beyond. American Ethnologist 22(4), pp. 848-867. (Akceptējams avots)
9.
Eglitis, D. 2002. (Re)-Constructing Gender in Post-Communism. In Imagining the nation: History, Modernity and Revolution in Latvia. Pennsylvania, pp. 186-224. (Akceptējams avots)
10.
Putniņa, A. 2007. Sexuality, masculinity and homophobia: Latvian case In Everyday life of LGBT in Eastern and Central Europe. 2007. The Peace Institute (Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia). (Akceptējams avots)
11.
Demogrāfiskā situācija šodien un rīt / [zinātniskais redaktors Pēteris Zvidriņš. Rīga : Zinātne, 2005. 205 lpp. Zinātniski pētnieciskie raksti / Stratēģiskās analīzes komisija ; 2005/3(4) (latviešu plūsmai)
12.
Stoler A. L. 1997. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th Century Colonial Cultures, pp. 634-660. (Akceptējams avots)
13.
Bacigalupo A. M. 2004. The Struggle for Mapuche Shamans' Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Southern Chile, Ethnohistory, 51 (3), pp. 489–533. (Akceptējams avots)
14.
Yanagisako, S. J. and Collier, J. F. 1987 Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship, in Gender and Kinship, J.F. Collier and S.J. Yanagisako , eds. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. (Akceptējams avots)Suitable for English stream
15.
Errington, S. 1995 Recasting sex, gender and power: A theoretical and regional overview. In J, Atkinson, & S. Errington (Eds.), Power & difference: Gender in island Southeast Asia, Stanford: Sanford University Press. (Akceptējams avots)
16.
Jackson, P. 2000. An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imagining Queer Theory. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2(4), 405-424.
17.
Brennan, D. 2001. Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 7:4, pp. 621-663.