SOS6.4.1/SOS6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS

Lectures: Tuesdays 12-14, 4 September - 13 November 2012. NB Place: Main building, room A32 (25.9.-13.11.) (The course will be videoed to the University of Jyväskylä).

No enrolment.

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary.

The lecture diary may be written in Finnish or in English.
Program:

4.9. Lecturer Jaana Kuusipalo (TaY): “Introduction to the course”
11.9. Lecturer Taina Kinnunen (TaY): "Construction of interview material through interacting bodies"
18.9. Lecturer Kirsti Lempiäinen (University of Lapland): “Methodological reflexivity: Discussing feminist frames in interview research”
25.9. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Donna Haraway’s 'Situated Knowledges"
2.10. Dr. Astrida Neimanis (LSE): "Nature, Culture and Feminist Methodology”
9.10. Lecturer Minna Nikunen (TaY): "Membership categorization analysis"

16.10. No lecture

23.10. Professor Päivi Korvajärvi (TaY): “Interdisciplinarity as a Methodological Question”
30.10. Lecturer Elina Penttinen (TaY): “Posthumanism”

6.11. PhD. Eira Juntti (University of Jyväskylä): Methodological debates on the histories of gender”
13.11. Dr. Tuula Juvonen (TaY): “Queer Feminist Methodology”

Teacher responsible
Jaana Kuusipalo
Jaana.Kuusipalo@uta.fi

Teaching
4-Sep-2012 – 13-Nov-2012