CARE08055 2022 Gender and Sexuality

General Details

Full Title

Gender and Sexuality

Transcript Title

Gender and Sexuality

Code

CARE08055

Attendance

80 %

Subject Area

CARE - Social Studies

Department

SOCS - Social Sciences

Level

08 - NFQ Level 8

Credit

05 - 05 Credits

Duration

Semester

Fee

€

Start Term

2022 - Full Academic Year 2022-23

End Term

9999 - The End of Time

Author(s)

Kate Duke, Rose Banaghan-Sesta

Programme Membership

SG_HSOCI_H08 202200 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HEARL_H08 202200 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_HEARM_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education SG_HSOCP_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HSOCI_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HEARL_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Early Childhood Care and Education

Description

The aim of this module is to enable students to think critically about current constructions of gender and sexuality both in a national and international context. The module will also provide students with an opportunity to examine gender and sexuality in the context of professional social care practice.

This module maps to the CORU Standards of Proficiency below:

Domain 1: Professional Autonomy and Accountability

Domain 2: Communication, Collaborative Practice and Team working

Domain 3: Safety & Quality

Domain 4: Professional Development

Domain 5: Professional Knowledge and Skills

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module the learner will/should be able to;

Analyse various discourses of gender and sexuality (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 1.23, 2.15, 4.4, 5.7, 5.13)

Examine gendered identities as social constructions (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 1.23, 4.4, 5.7, 5.13, 5.19)

Explore gendered norms and gendered practices (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 1.23, 4.4, 5.11, 5.13, 5.19)

Investigate gender and sexuality issues in professional social care practice (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 2.15, 3.6, 4.4, 5.2, 5.11, 5.13, 5.15)

Teaching and Learning Strategies

learning outcome	learning methodology	assessment method
1.analyse various discourses of gender and sexuality	class discussion, small group activities, online engagement, self-directed and directed research	portfolio and individual project – based on personal reflection and critical assessments of contemporary theory and practice
2. examine gendered identities as social constructions	class discussion, small group activities, online engagement, self-directed and directed research	portfolio and individual project – based on personal reflection and critical assessments of contemporary theory and practice
3.explore gendered norms and gendered practices	class discussion, small group activities, online engagement, self-directed and directed research	portfolio and individual project – based on personal reflection and critical assessments of contemporary theory and practice
4. investigate gender and sexuality issues in professional social care practice	class discussion, small group activities, online engagement, self-directed and directed research	portfolio and individual project – based on personal reflection and critical assessments of contemporary theory and practice

Module Assessment Strategies

Continuous assessment [100%]

Gender Analysis Portfolio 50%

Reflective Research Response 50%

This modules assessment allows for assessment of CORU Standards of Proficiency as follows:

Gender Analysis Portfolio (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 1.23, 4.4, 5.2, 5.11, 5.13)

Reflective Research Response (Domain 1.8, 1.22, 1.23, 4.4, 5.2, 5.13, 5.19)

Repeat Assessments

As above

Indicative Syllabus

Syllabus content

Conceptualising gender and sexuality

examine various theoretical approaches to conceptualizing gender and sexuality, for example, social constructionism, biological determinism and postmodernist performativity
evaluate the discourses of ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’
analyse representations of gendered and sexualised identities in visual media
explore how the gender binary is inscribed in early childhood artefacts, for example, toys, clothing, literature

Identity formation

examine cultural influences vis-a-vis gender norms and gendered practices
explore the concept of sexual differences and sexual identities
assess the discourses and debates surrounding representations of gender and sexuality in the media
analyse the relations of power on which the gender binary is predicated
explore how gender diversity destabilizes socially prescribed gendered norms

Gender, sexuality and the body

analyse contemporary theories of the gendered and sexualised body
examine contemporary body related issues such as anorexia, bulimia, dieting, healthy bodies

Gender and sexuality in professional practice

examine the practical issues that emerge in caring environments with regard to gender and sexuality
assess key contemporary political issues focussing on gender and sexuality
explore personal attitudes, views and values in an open, safe and anti-oppressive environment

Coursework & Assessment Breakdown

Coursework & Continuous Assessment

100 %

Coursework Assessment

	Title	Type	Form	Percent	Week	Learning Outcomes Assessed
1	Gender Analysis Portfolio	Coursework Assessment	Individual Project	50 %	Week 9	2,3
2	Reflective Research Response	Coursework Assessment	Individual Project	50 %	Week 13	1,4

Full Time Mode Workload

Type	Location	Description	Hours	Frequency	Avg Workload
Workshop / Seminar	Flat Classroom	Workshop	2	Weekly	2.00
Tutorial	Flat Classroom	Workshop	1	Weekly	1.00
Independent Learning	Library	Independent Learning	3	Weekly	3.00

Total Full Time Average Weekly Learner Contact Time 3.00 Hours

Module Resources

Non ISBN Literary Resources

Library Catalogue: some of texts that are available on the library shelves:

Allyson, J. (2008) A beginner's guide to language and gender. New York: Multilingual Press.

Anderson, K.J. (2015) Modern misogyny: ant-feminism in a post-feminist era. New York: Oxford University Press.

Armstrong, C.L. (2013) Media disparity: a gender battleground. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Attwood, F. (2018) Sex media. Cambridge: Polity.

Attwood, F. (2009) Mainstreaming sex: the sexualization of Western culture. New York: I.B. Tauris.

Barr, R.A. et al. (eds) (2019) Ireland and masculinities in history. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.

Bates, L. (2021) Men who hate women: the extremism nobody is talking about. London: Simon and Schuster.

Bates, L. (2018) Misogynation: the true scale of sexism. London: Simon and Schuster.

Bates, L. (2016) Girl up. London: Simon and Schuster.

Bates, L. (2015) Everyday sexism. London: Simon and Schuster.

Baxter, H. and Cosslett, R.L. (2015) The vagenda. London: Vintage.

Beard, M. (2017) Women and power: a manifesto. London: Profile Books.

Beasley, C. (2005) Gender and sexuality: critical theories, critical thinkers. London: Sage.

Beynon, J. (2002) Masculinities and culture. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Bordo, S. (1995) Unbearable weight: Feminism, western culture and the body. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bray A. (2014) Misogyny re-loaded. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Brown, C. (2014) Parenting beyond pink and blue: how to raise your kids free of gender stereotypes. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.

Brownmiller, S. (1986) Femininity. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Buchbinder, D. (2013) Studying men and masculinities. London: Polity.

Butler, J. (2006) Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

Butler, J. (1993) Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of sex. London: Routledge.

Carter, C. et al. (2015) The Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge.

Clare, A.W. (2000) On men: masculinity in crisis. London: Arrow.

Coates, J. (ed.) (1998) Language and gender: a reader. Oxford: Blackwell.

Connell, R. (2009) Gender: in world perspective. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity.

Connell, R. (2005) Masculinities. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity.

Connell, R. (2000) The men and the boys. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity.

Connell, R. (1987) Gender and power: Society, the person and sexual politics. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Criado-Perez, C. (2020) Invisible women: exposing data bias in a world designed for men. London: Vintage.

Dawson, J. (2017) The gender games: the problem with men and women from someone who has been both. London: Two Roads.

Dindia, K. and Canary, D. (2006) Sex differences and similarities in communication. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dines, D. (2011) Pornland: how porn has hijacked our sexuality. Boston: Beacon Press.

Dow, B. and Wood, J. (2006) The Sage handbook of gender and communication. California: Sage.

Eckert, P and McConnell-Ginet, S. (2013) Language and gender. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ehrensaft, D. (2011) Gender born, gender made: raising healthy gender non-conforming children. New York: Experiment.

Ehrlich, S. et al. (eds) (2017) The handbook of language, gender and sexuality. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Blackwell.

Eliot, L. (2010) Pink brain, blue brain: how small differences grow into troublesome gaps and what we can do about it. New York: One World.

Fine, C. (2017) Testosterone Rex: myths of sex, science and society. New York: W.W. Norton.

Fine, C. (2010) Delusions of gender: the real science behind sex differences. London: Icon.

Fitzgerald, M. (2018) Madam politician: the women at the table of Irish political power. Dublin: Gill Books.

Fixmer-Oraiz, N. and Wood, J.T. (2019) Gendered lives: communication, gender and culture. Boston: Cengage.

Ford, C. (2018) Boys will be boys: power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship. New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.

Ford, C. (2016) Fight like a girl. New South Wales: Allen and Unwin.

Gailey, J. (2014) The hyper (in)visible fat woman: weight and gender discourse in contemporary society. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Gauntlett, D. (2008) Media, gender and identity: an introduction. New York: Routledge.

Gay, R. (2014) Bad feminist. New York: Harper Perennial.

Gill, R. (2007) Gender and the media. Cambridge: Polity.

Ging, D. (2013) Men and masculinities in Irish cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Halberstram, J. (1998) Female masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press.

Holland, J. (2006) A brief history of misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice. London: Constable and Robinson.

Iantaffi, A. and Barker, M.J. (2018) How to understand your gender: a practical guide for exploring who you are. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Ivy, D. (2017) Genderspeak: communicating in a gendered world. Iowa: Kendall Hunt.

Jackson, S. and Scott, S. (2002) Gender: a sociological reader. London: Routledge.

Jeffreys, S. (2015) Beauty and misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West. 2nd ed. East Sussex: Routledge.

Kane, E. (2012) The gender trap: parents and the pitfalls of raising boys and girls. New York: New York University Press.

Kearney, M.C. (2012) The gender and media reader. New York: Routledge.

Kendall, M. (2021) Hood feminism: notes from the women that a movement forgot. New York: Penguin.

Kimmel, M. and Aronson, A. (2017) The gendered society reader. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kimmel, M.S. (2005) The gender of desire: essays on male sexuality. New York: University of New York Press.

Kiraly, M. and Tyler, M. (eds) (2015) Freedom fallacy: the limits of liberal feminism. New York: Connor Court.

Leane, M. and Kiely, E. (eds) (2014) Sexualities and Irish society: a reader. Dublin: Orpen Press.

Lennon, K. and Alsop, R. (2020) Gender theory in troubled times. Cambridge: Polity.

Levenson, E. (2009) The Noughtie girl's guide to feminism. London: Oneworld Publications.

Levy, A. (2006) Female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of rauch culture. London: Pocket Books.

Lynch, A. (2012) Porn chic: exploring the contours of rauch eroticism. London: Berg.

Maguire, E. (2008) Princesses and pornstars: sex, power, identity. Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company.

McAuliffe, M., McAvoy, S., Redmond, J. and Tiernan, S. (2015) Sexual politics in modern Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.

McRobbie, A. (2020) Feminism and the politics of resilience: essays on gender, media and the end of welfare. Cambridge: Polity.

Milestone, K. and Meyer, A. (2021) Gender and popular culture. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity.

Murphy, P.F. (ed) (2004) Feminism and masculinities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Olufemi, L. (2020) Feminism interrupted: disrupting power. London: Pluto Press.

O'Toole, E. (2015) Girls will be girls: dressing up, playing parts and daring to act differently. London: Orion.

Palczewski, C.H., DeFrancisco, V. and McGeough, D. (2019) Gender in communication: a critical introduction. 3rd ed. California: Sage.

Rahman, M. and Jackson, S. (2010) Gender and sexuality: sociological approaches. Cambridge: Polity.

Richardson, N. and Wearing, S. (2014) Gender in the media. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Rippon, G. (2019) The gendered brain: the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. London: Bodley Head.

Ross, K. (2010) Gendered media: women, men and identity politics. Lantham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Ruti, M. (2018) Penis envy and other bad feelings: the emotional costs of everyday life. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ryle, R. (2015) Questioning gender: a sociological explanation. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage.

Saini, A. (2018) Inferior: the true power of women and the science that shows it. London: 4th Estate.

Seidman, S. (ed) (1996) Queer theory/sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Share, P. and Lalor, K. (eds) (2013) Applied social care: an introduction for Irish students. 3rd ed. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

Smith, J. (2013) Misogynies. London: The Westbourne Press.

Stringer, R. (2011) Feminism at the movies: understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. Oxon: Routledge.

Summers, A. (2013) The misogyny factor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Taylor, K. and Price, D. (2016) Gender diversity and inclusion in early years education. Oxon: Routledge.

Valenti, J. (2008) He's a stud, she's a slut and 49 other double standards every woman should know. Berkeley: Seal Press.

Wade, L. and Ferree, M.M. (2019) Gender. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

Whitehead, S.M. (2002) Men and masculinities: key themes and new directions. Cambridge: Polity.

Wolf, N. (2002) The beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women. New York: Perennial.

Yousman, B., Bindig, L., Dines, G. and Humez, J. (2021) Gender, race and class in media: a critical reader. 6th ed. California: Sage.

Journal Resources

There are journal articles listed in each week's tile on the Gender and Sexuality Moodle page.

URL Resources

There are numerous online resources listed in each week's tile on the Gender and Sexuality Moodle page.

Other Resources

There is a wide range of ebooks listed in each week's tile on the Gender and Sexuality Moodle page.

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