Module POL3246 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3246: Gender and Militarism in West Africa
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
The module aims to introduce you to the dynamic impact of gender as a unit of analysis in understanding the workings of militaries of state and the relationship between the international and the local in exploring the current policies of gender integration in the military. It also encourages the use of a more global perspective in exploring the issues of gender politics in the contemporary military, the interplay between the macro and micro levels of military and gender politics and understanding the connections between local context and international gender policy outcomes in the military.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Critically appreciate the interplay between local context and military gender politics from a global perspective. 2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of non-western militaries, their gendered culture and how this responds to international norms and policies of gender compared to non-western ones. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Critically reflect on key elements of the debates regarding women in military participation, gender and gender integration processes in the militaries of non-Western and Western states. 4. Display awareness of a range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to understand the complex and changing interaction between gender perceptions and the military. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. Demonstrate an ability to problematize settled truths and assumptions about gender perceptions, social culture and the identity of the military and our knowledge of these. 6. Demonstrate awareness of contingency in historical sociological processes. 7. Study independently and manage time and assessment deadlines effectively. 8. Communicate effectively in speech and writing. 9. Demonstrate critical and analytical skills through tutorial discussions and module assessments. 10. Demonstrate proficiency in the use of the internet, online journal databases and other IT resources for the purposes of tutorial and assessment preparation. 11. Demonstrate effective applied writing. |
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.
DAYIL, P. B., AND THE CLEEN FOUNDATION 2011. Nigeria. In: GAANDERSE, M., VALASEK, K. (ed.) The Security Sector and Gender in West Africa: a Survey of Police, Defence, Justice and Penal Services in Ecowas States Geneva: The Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
GOLDSTEIN, J. S. 2001. War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press.
SJOBERG, L. & VIA, S. 2010. Gender, war, and militarism: feminist perspectives, Santa Barbara, Califonia: ABC-CLIO.
AKINKUNMI, A.A. 2018. Hubris: a Brief political history of the Nigerian Army. Army publishing services.
PADDOCK, A. 2018. The Women’s War of 1929. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. http://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-271?print=pdf
STIEHM, J. H. 1983. The protected, the protector, the defender. Women's Studies International Forum. Elsevier, 367-376.
CARREIRAS, H. 2006. Gender and the Military: Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies, Routledge.
COHN, C. 2000. “How Can She Claim Equal Rights When She Doesn't Have to Do as Many Push-Ups as I Do?” The Framing of Men's Opposition to Women's Equality in the Military. Men and Masculinities, 3, 131-151.
OMBATI, M. 2015. Feminine masculinities in the military. African Security Review, 24, 403-413.
OGEGE, S. O. 2011. Gender Roles Differentiation and Social Mobility of Women in Nigeria. Journal of Social Science, 27, 67-74.
COCKBURN, C. 2004. Militarism, male power and the persistence of war. Militarism and male violence. London: European Social Forum.
