Module ARAM225 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ARAM225: Gender and Politics in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Studying gender, from the everyday to the geopolitical – and back again
- Questions of status: Women’s representation(s) and realities
- Men in Crisis? Dynamic masculinities, masculinity dynamics
- Sexuality and power: From “honour crimes” to queer politics
- Everyday life: Intimacy, family and sociality
- From nations to states: Nationalism, modernisation and citizenship
- Violence, war and militarisation
- Displacement and migration
- Social movements and feminist activism
- Globalisation, new media and public spheres
- Protest, transition and transformation: [Case study] The MENA uprisings
- Imagination and cultural productions
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 278 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 77 | Weekly reading (7 hours per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 22 | Class participation (2 hours preparation per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Blog posts (2 hours researching & 4 hours writing per week, 5 submitted in total) |
| Guided Independent Study | 59 | Project (40 hours researching/coordinating, 19 hours writing/preparing presentation and materials). |
| Guided Independent Study | 90 | Essay (60 hours reading and 30 hours writing) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Videos/films, TV programmes, online materials (news sites, blogs, social media), images, podcasts, play scripts, music, memoirs.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Abdo, Nahla, Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, 2011.
Abu-Lughod, Lila (ed.), Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 1998
Al-Ali, Nadje, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present, 2007.
Al-Ali, Nadje & Nicola Pratt, Women & War in the Middle East, 2009.
Charrad, Mounira, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Joseph, Suad (ed.) Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity, 1999.
Kanaaneh, Rhoda, Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel, 2002.
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives, 1996
Kandiyoti, Deniz (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, 1991.
Khalil, Andrea (ed.), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, 2014.
Ouzgane, Lahoucine (ed.) Islamic Masculinities, 2006.
Puar, Jasbir, Terrorist Assemblages: homonationalism in queer times, 2007.
Singerman, Diane, Avenues of Participation: Family Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, 1997.
