Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description Salt, sugar, chocolates, cotton, pepper, cinnamon, cardamom - how many of these do you have in your home right now? How did they arrive there? Through tracing the place in our society of one such product in each class, we will look at how these inanimate objects have shaped our ideas about ourselves as gendered beings, what colonialism did to contribute to this process, and their impact that continues in our lives. In merging the economic, culinary, social and sexual histories, this course will initiate a discussion into understanding human society through its indulgences. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Understand what is gender and why studying masculinities is important Understand how colonialism shapes the construction of gender identities 2. Analyse major political, economic and social events and processes from a gendered perspective Understand how gender was crucial to the colonial and imperial rule 3. Assess the gender impact of political choices Identify gender-based discrimination and violence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Books1. Levine, Philippa. 2004. Gender and Empire. London: Oxford University Press. https://dcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005462067107206&co ntext=L&vid=353DCU_INST:VU1&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local% 20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Philippa%20Levine%20gender%20and %20empire 2. McClintock, Anne. 1995. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. London: Routledge. 3. Malhotra, Aanchal. 2018. Remnants of a Separation: A History go through Partition through Material Memory. India: Harper Collins Publishers. 4. Hartman, Chris. 2017. A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium. London: Verso. 5. Subramanyam, Sanjay. 2017. Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires 1500-1800. London: Harvard University Press. 6. Jablonka, Ivan. 2022. A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice. London: Penguin Books.FictionTagore, Rabindranath. 1949. Gora. London: MacMillan & Co Limited. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.351175/page/n1/mode/2up Banerjee Divakaruni, Chita. The Mistress of Spices.FilmsI am Not your Negro. https://youtu.be/3y6xwH88kpgSeriesStuff the British Stole. 2022. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21058104/ Peck, Raoul. 2021. Exterminate All the Brutes. HBO. https://www.hbo.com/exterminate-all-the-brutesArticles3. Mitchell, M. and Shibusawa with Stephan F. Miescher, N. (2014), Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges. Gender & History, 26: 393-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12081. Kern, Leslie. 2020. Introduction: City of Men. In Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World. London: Verso. Ahmed, Sara. 2007. A phenomenology of Whiteness. Feminist Theory 8: 149 DOI: 10.1177/1464700107078139. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1991. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. In Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Marie M Stack, Rob Ackrill, Martin Bliss, Sugar trade and the role of historical colonial linkages, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 79–108, https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jby020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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