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Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015
THEOLOGY
gender online. The aimof the course is to discuss and analyze
internet culture, social media and gender from a feminist
perspective. Through case studies the course examines how
gender, sexuality, femininity andmasculinity are constructed
online (in for example blogs, social networking sites, (mas-
sivelymultiplayer) online games. Through these case studies,
the course will consider how the construction of gender and
sexuality is related to questions about normativity and power.
Learning outcomes: After completing the course, the student
is expected to be able to show that she/he can analyze rela-
tionships between gender and internet culture. The student is
expected to be able to relate these relationships to normativ-
ity, power, time, place and context, and be particularly familiar
to cyberfeminism in a Nordic context.
Teaching methods: The course will consist of b oth lectures
and seminars.
Form of assessment: The assessment will consist of assign-
ments throughout the course.
Target audience: The students are expected to be 1. exchange
students, 2. undergraduate and graduate students at Åbo
Akademi University
Feminist perspectives on equality work
5 credits
Advanced level
Offered: Spring 2015
Teacher: Msc Pauline Hortelano
Literature: TBA
Aim:This course will look into contemporary equality issues
and concerns in Finlandusing intersectionality as a conceptual
tool and starting point for analysis. An overview of relevant
phenomenon (e.g. migration, social activism), discourses, and
debates providing the impetus for equality work will ground
the discussions; and various existing approaches to equality
work in Finland, the EU and abroad will be studied.
Learning outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be
familiarized through readings anddiscussionswith theoretical
perspectives and critiques concerning equality work within
gender studies and postcolonial feminist theory. They will
likewise be exposed to actual practices of equality work and
familiarized with its challenges and complexities through
short fieldworks in their chosen thematic area/equality issue
and organizations.
Gendered and embodied subjectivities
5 credits
Basic level
Offered: May 2015
The summer school is an intensive introduction to develop-
ments fromearly perspectives to critiques and contemporary
developments in constructivist thinking. The course focuses
on developments in postcolonial and intersection theories.
Emphasis is placed on social construction of both gender and
embodiment and the work of central feminist theorists in this
area. The course explores the links between critical thinking
about gender and critical understandings of knowledge. The
summer school has a specific focus on the body and it will
explore howbodies are policed and regulated by institutions,
practices and discourses, how bodies can be analysed, rep-
resented and explored in relations to resistance, agency and
subversion. We will focus on a range of visual texts including
documentaries, feature films, media images and artwork.
Focus areas will be: Policing/ regulating bodies, Representa-
tions of diseased, disabled and un/altered bodies, Beauty,
pornography and eroticisim, The body as a site agency and
resistance
Workload: 125 hours of work, equaling 5 ECTS (European
Credit Transfer System)
Teachers: TBA
Format:
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Lectures
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Group work (home groups & expert groups)
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Panels
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Final essay
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All participants are expected to participate in the entire
programme of the course.
