Concepts in Gender Studies

Pre-requisites: Students should know at least one foreign language.

Course objectives: Using the comparative perspective, this course introduces students to post-feminist and postmodern influences in gender relations and the social status of women.

Course description: Critiques and taking another look at gender relations – gender & sex; feminist theory and the relation of gender-sex; a look at the current state of feminist ideas, practically and organizationally, present-day social status of women through a comparative perspective: legal aspects, economic-professional aspect, political aspects, cultural-communicational aspects, gender in contemporary postmodern families, the commercialization of intimacy and sexual gender-based practices, gender inter-relatedness and interaction.

Learning Outcomes: Students gain a deeper insight into gender issues and will be able to complete theoretical work on feminist activism.

Literature/Reading:

• Anđelka Milić(1994):Žene,Politika,Porodica,Institut za političke studije, Beograd.
• Žarana Papić(1997):Polnost i kultura,Biblioteka 2o vek,Beograd.
• Mileva Filipović i E.Rog (2005);priređivači:Ženske Studije, CIP,Podgorica.
• Pjer Burdije (2001)Vladavina Muškaraca,CIP,Podgorica.
• Sarah Gamble(ed),2001:Feminism and Post-feminism,Routledge,London.
• A.R.Hochschiled(2003)The Commercialization Of Intimate Life.Notes from Home and Work,University of California,Berkley.
• B.Ehrenreich &A.R.Hochschield(2004):Global Women.Nainies,Maids, and sex Workers in the new Economy.A Metropolitan