Gender and Psychology - YMGS626

• Title: Gender and Psychology
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Kristýna Macková (28.02.2019)

Annotation In this course, the student will explore a variety of themes at the intersection of gender and psychology, including gendered concepts of moral development, feminist insights and critical theory and current trends and concerns. In addition, this course will explore gender as a cateogry within psychological theory as well as the construction of masculinity and feminity. Specific topics include: sexual harassment; women in prison; domestic abuse; disease and mental health; and body images and mental health.

Syllabus

Last update: Kristýna Macková (28.02.2019)

Topics:
1. Intro to Gender, Feminism and Psychology

2. Gender Differences and Stereotyping in Developmental Psychology

3. Gender Differences and Stereotyping in Cognitive Development

4. The Development of Gender Identity

5. Sexuality

6. Relationships

7. Motherhood

8. Aging

9. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

10. Women in Prison

11. Domestic Abuse and Violence

12. Disease and Mental Health;

13. Body and Mental Health

Compulsory literature:
GILLIGAN, C. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780674970960.

CRAWFORD, M. Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. ISBN: 978-0073532158.

HOLLOWAY, W. “Feminism, Psychology and Becoming a Mother.” Feminism and Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2016): 137-152.

RODE, D., RODE, M. “Risk Factors in Committing Domestic Violence in Light of Gender Psychology.” Current Issues in Personality Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2018): 143-153.

THOMPSON, L. “Mainstreaming ‘Women’ without Feminisms in Psychology.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Vol. 11, No. 11 (2017): e12359.

Elected literature:
IWANICKA, A. et al. „The Cult of the Body and Its Psychological Consequences among Adolescent Girls.“ Polish Journal of Public Health, Vol. 128, No. 1 (2018): 44-48.

CRESSWELL, M., KARIMOVA, Z., WARD, J. „Women, Self-Harm and the Moral Code of the Prison.“ Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2018): 27-42.

MOORKATH, F., VRANDA, N. M., NAVEENKUMAR, Ch. „Lives without Roots: Institutionalized Homeless Women with Chronic Mental Illness.“ Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 5 (2018): 476-481.

HERRERA, M., HERRERA, A., EXPOSITO, F. „To Confront Versus Not to Confront: Women’s Perception of Sexual Harrassment.“ European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2018): 1-7.

OSKOUIE, F., KASHEFI, F., RAFII, F. „Barriers to Self-Care in Women of Reproductive Age with HIV/AIDS in Iran: A Qualitative Study.“ Pan African Medical Journal, Vol. 28 (2017): 1-6.