Module POLM168 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM168: From Oppression to Resistance: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class and Gender
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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:
- Conceptualising the Anatomy of Oppression
- Mapping sexism from the inside
- Mapping racism from the inside
- Mapping classism from the inside
- Thinking Across Power Relations: Conceptualising Intersectionality (student run workshop)
- Conceptualising the Anatomy of Resistance
- Exploring the politics of feminism
- Exploring the politics of anti-racism
- Exploring the politics of class
- Practising Intersectional Resistance (student run workshop)
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 |
...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 activities | 22 | 11x2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 139 | Reading set texts and wider reading |
| Guided Independent Study | 139 | Conducting research and preparing for assignments |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
On Gender and Feminism:
- I. M. Young. 1989. ‘Polity and group difference: A critique of the ideal of universal citizenship’ Ethics 9, 250-74.
- G. Omvedt. 1986. ‘Patriarchy: the analysis of women’s oppression’, Critical Sociology
- J. Medina. 2013. The Epistemology of Resistance, OUP.
- C. Redfern and K. Aune. 2013. Reclaiming the F Word!, Zed Publishers.
- Made in Dagenham a film by Nigel Cole or On the Basis of Sex film by Leder.
- Feminist Poetry Slam - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/27/verse-goes-viral-how-young-feminist-writers-are-reclaiming-poetry-for-the-digital-age
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ TEDx Talk or booklet version 2012. Anchor Books.
- A. Gumbs, C. Martens and M. Williams. 2016. Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, PM Press.
- Roma, Film by Alfonso Cuarón
On Race and Anti-racist politics:
- L. M. Alcoff. 2015. The Future of Whiteness, Polity.
- R. Diangelo. 2018. White Fragility, Penguin Random House.
- K-Y. Talyor. 2016. From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation, Haymarket Books.
- R. Eddo-Lodge. 2017. Why I’M No Longer Talking to White People, Bloomsbury Publishing.
- J. Baldwin. 1955. Notes of a Native Son.
- TN. Coates. 2015. Between the World and Me, Text publishing.
- Toni Morrison. 1970. The Bluest Eye. Holt publishers.
- Get Out! Film by Jordan Peele.
- I am Not Your Negro, documentary by Raoul Peck
On Class and Working Class Politics:
- Evans and Tilly. 2017. The New Politics of Class, OUP.
- A. Sillitoe. 1962. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, W.H Allen.
- S. Todd. 2014. The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, John Murray.
- L. Hanley. 2016. Crossing the Class Divide, Penguin.
- J. D. Vance. 2016. Hillbilly Elegy, Harper Collins Publishers - and his critics
- I, Daniel Blake a film by Ken Loach
