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MODULE I.
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF GENDER STUDIES
Author: Olga A.Voronina, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Course duration: 12 hours
Teaching forms: Lections, workshops, tutorial consultations
Control over teaching results: Those passing the course should take
active part in collective research, work individually, and timely produce an
essay.
Module objectives:
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to acquiant the audience with principal notions, approaches, and orientations
of the modern gender theory;
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to display opportunities of applying the gender theory and methodology
in social and humane studies;
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to train the audience to apply the gender theory for working out their
own courses in the field of social and humane disciplines;
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to analyze the evolution of gender studies in Russia.
Main Module Topics
Part 1. Social and Intellectual Prerequisites for the Emergence of Gender
Studies as a New Type of Humane Knowledge
Topic 1. Traditional philosophical, sociological, and psychological
theories of sex. The notions of "masculinity" and "femininity"
in traditional philosophic conceptions. Formation of "normal femininity"
in the S.Freud's psychoanalysis. T.Parsons' theory of instrumental and expressive
roles. Socio-biology (L.Tyger & R.Fox, Wilson, Geodakian). The psychological
conception of E.Ericson.
Topic 2. Feminism: core ideas, directions and theories. Social and
intellectual prerequisites of feminism. Conceptions of liberal, marxist,
socialist, radical, psychoanalytic, existentialist, and post-modernist feminisms.
Feminist criticism of the traditional science. The spread of feminist theory
into universities and emergence of the "women's studies" phenomenon.
Part 2. Bases of Gender Theory and Methodology.
Topic 1. Universalism and relativism of culture in constructing the
gender system. Patriarchy and matriarchy theories. Practice of division
of labour within the context of different cultures. Cultural variety problem.
Topic 2. Core concepts of the gender theory.
Differentiation between the "sex" and "gender" concepts.
Gender in socio-demographic studies. Theory of social construction of gender.
Gender as a stratification category. Gender as a cultural metaphor.
Topic 3. Gender approach in sociology, political sciences, philosophy,
and social practice.
Topic 4. Evolution of gender studies in Russia: chief centres, subjects
of studies and curriculums.
MODULE II. THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN GENDER ECONOMICS
Author: Elena B.Mezentseva, Ph.D. (Economics)
Course duration: 10 hours
Teaching forms: Lections, workshops, tutorial consultations
Control over teaching results: Those passing the course shall take active
part in collective research, work individually with their tutors, and introduce
in proper time an essay.
Module objectives:
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to provide for the audience knowledge of principal theoretical approaches
to the analysis of women's standing in economy; promote the audience
to work out independent blocks or separate themes pertinent to the gender
analysis of economic policy;
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to discuss with the audience principal theoretical and methodological
approaches elaborated by the current moment within the framework of
the feminist economic theory and prepare them to produce independent
blocks in the context of the theme proposed.
Main Module Topics
Topic 1. Marxist approach to economic unequality of women. Marxism and
neo-Marxism. Feminist criticism of the Marxist approach. Modern theoretical
approaches (Christine Delphy, Heidi Hartmann, R.Barron, and G.Norris).
Topic 2. Gender in neoclassical theory. Principals of the neoclassical
approach. Feminist criticism of fundamentals of the neoclassical theory. Modern
theoretical approaches, i.a. family and household as objects for the economic
analysis; marriage decision-making and marital stability; reproductive behaviour.
Topic 3. Intra-family distribution of income (family concensus model
of P.Samuelson, altruistic model of G.Becker). Productive function of household
(G.Becker's "new economics of the household"). Division of labour
within the family ("human capital" theory of T.Schulz, G.Becker).
Topic 4. Women in the labour market. Sex discrimination in the field
of employment as the central notion in the economic dimension of gender unequality.
Theories of discrimination by sex in the labour market. Professional segregation
by sex.
Topic 5. Institutionalism and feminism. Fundamental theoretical approaches.
Torstein Veblen's "Theory of the idle class". Negotiation models of
family. Marriage and divorce decision-making within negotiation family model
(R.Pollack, L.Weitzman).
Topic 6. The subject and tasks of the feminist economic theory. Grounding
for the equality policy for men and women in the economic area.
MODULE III. GENDER APPROACH IN POLITICS AND LAW STUDIES
Author: Elena V.Kochkina, Olga A.Voronina
Course duration: 10 hours
Teaching forms: lectures, seminars, tutorials
Control over teaching results: those passing the course should take active
part in collective studies, work individually, and timely produce an essay.
Module objectives:
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to display how conventional Western political science evolved and analyze
feministic criticism of this science;
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to acquaint the audience with opportunities proposed by the application
of gender approach for analyzing of political developments;
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to examine main orientations and themes of gender studies in the field
of Western and Russian politics;
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to inform the audience on international and Russian documents in the
field of human rights, on international organizations for human rights
protection;
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to demonstrate possibilities for human rights protection in Russia
on the basis of international practice and documents;
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to analyze the history and actual conditions of women's political movements
in Russia.
Main Module Topics
Topic 1. Gender study of political developments.
Topic 2. Feministic criticism of conventional political science.
Topic 3. Women's rights within the human rights system. International
and national documents concerning human rights/women's rights.
Topic 4. Russian State's policies towards women.
Topic 5. Policy of equal rights and equal opportunities (example of USA).
MODULE IV. GENDER AND SOCIAL POLICY
Author: Natalia S.Grigorieva, Ph.D. (Philosophy), Marina E.Baskakova,
Ph.D. (Economics)
Course duration: 12 hours
Teaching forms: lectures, tutorials
Control over teaching results: those passing the course shall take active
part in collective studies, work with the teacher who is developing the topic
individually, timely produce an essay.
Module objectives:
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to prepare the audience for working out independent blocks or separate
topics on gender analysis of social policy;
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to find out to what extent the conflict between social rights and market
values might be represented in the gender expert examination of social
policy;
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to trace changes in the Russian social policy of Soviet and post-Soviet
periods within a comparative analysis with the state of prosperity's
structure;
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to examine social consequences caused by reforms in Russian systems
of health service, education, and social security;
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to analyze the definitive features of men and women's conditions in
the employment sphere and in the labour market, as well as the provision
of pensions for different socio-demographic groups of the population.
Main Module Topics
Topic 1. Social policy. Problem of the target and tasks formulation: the
essence and peculiar features.
Topic 2. Ideologies defining modern social policies of industrial nations:
the place and role of feminism within this context.
Topic 3. Main orientations of the social policy. Health service reform
and the state of women's health.
Topic 4. Gender structure of employment. Modern labour market of Russia.
Topic 5. Pensions for men and women (social reforms in the provision
of pensions in Russia).
Topic 6. Gender aspects of investment in human capital.
MODULE V. FEMINIST ORIENTATION IN SOCIOLOGY
Author: Tatiana A.Gurko, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Course duration: 6 hours for lectures, 2 hours for a seminar
Teaching forms: lectures, seminars, tutorials
Control over teaching results: those passing the course should attend
all the lectures, answer questions, and be active at seminar studies.
Module objectives:
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to examine conceptions of socio-sexual relations in classical sociological
theories, acquaint the audience with main orientations of feministic
criticism of sociological theories;
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to discuss the progress of feminist methodology in sociology;
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to display different attitudes towards the family institution in different
orientations of feminism;
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to acquaint the audience with gender approach application, e.g. to
the sociology of family.
Main Module Topics
Topic 1. Classical sociological theories on the division of men and women's
roles.
Topic 2. Evolution of the feministic orientation in sociology. Criticism
of functionalism, application of the Marxist theory and symbolistical inter-actionism.
From women's studies to gender studies.
Topic 3. Stratification by sex. Women's standing in the society: studies
described in Russian literature.
Topic 4. Socialization as a source for constructing femininities and
masculinities. Re-socialization.
Topic 5. Views of the family institution in different orientations of
feminism. 20 century.
Topic 6. Evolution of the feministic sociology of family. Gender approach
in studies of family.
MODULE VI. GENDER APPROACH IN THE HUMANITIES
Author: Olga A.Voronina, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Course duration: 10 hours
Teaching forms: lectures, seminars, tutorials
Control over teaching results: those passing the course should take active
part in collective studies, work with the teacher who is developing the topic
individually, timely produce an essay.
Module objectives:
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to demonstrate opportunities provided by application of gender methodology
in the humanities;
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to consider the scope of problems, methods, and conceptions of most
important orientations in gender history as a component part of inter-disciplinary
gender studies;
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to display how gender analysis application makes it possible to change
the general conception of history and construct new explanatory models
of socio-historical development;
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to present a methodological basis for studies of gender aspects in
the field of language and analyze feministic linguistics and masculinity
studies;
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to consider reflection of gender stereo-types in language;
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to give an analysis of specific gender conditions in modern Russian
arts.
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to trace the cultural and historical evolution of the "woman-painter"
phenomenon as a 20th century phenomenon and point out peculiar features
of its appearance on the Russian ground;
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to prepare the audience for gender approach application when working
out independent blocks or separate topics on the humanities problems;
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to demonstrate the possibility of employing various auxiliary materials
in teaching, including film and video-tapes, as well as the Internet.
Main Module Topics
Topic 1. Gender aspects in studies of culture.
Topic 2. Gender in history: problems and methods of research.
Topic 3. Study of gender aspects in linguistics.
Topic 4. Gender representations in Russian arts.
Topic 5. "Retrospective of the femininity types in the Russian cinematograph".
Master-class.
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