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Sex and Gender - EKSAMEN
Beskrivelse:
In both the UK and the US Sex and gender issues have become more and more visible in the media and in fiction lately and we explore some of these issues by working with non-fiction and fiction, among other things the issue of biological sex (is it binary or a continuum). When working with non-fiction focus is on argumentation, rhetorical devices and on how to argue in a respectful way. We have also analysed a short story, a poem, an episode of a TV series, and an excerpt from a novel, which all deal with the theme of sexuality in different ways.
Vocabulary: options, biological sex, gender identity, chromosomes, non-binary, inter-sex people, genitalia, transgender person, transsexual, sex and gender binary, LGBTQ+, discriminate, gay, homosexual, abnormal, normal, gender norms, shame, acceptance, labels, boxes, vagina, testicles, tolerance/tolerant, transformation, body, surgery, lack of understanding, ignorance, queer, self-identify as….
During this theme the class has been Introduced to queer theory. We finished off the theme by reading about consent and then the students made dilemmas and questions for each other that were relevant to the theme of Sex and Gender.
When we read excerpts from” Only this Beautiful Moment”, the class was divided into three large groups. Each group read one chapter and presented their chapter to the other groups in a creative way, focusing on narrative perspective, characterization and setting. The purpose was among other things, to talk about the effects of the narrative technique used in the novel.
(Klassen blev delt i tre grupper som læste hver sit kapitel og derefter fremlagde de kreativt indholdet for andre grupper med fokus på narrative perspective, setting, characterisation og themes, således at alle fik indtryk af de tre kapitlers indhold)
(65 sider)
Kernestof:
”Should there be a limit to gender identities/ Good Morning Britain” ITV news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDT-Yj5n6zE&t=177s uploaded to YouTube 11. september 2019
”Should Piers Morgan Be Fired For His Views on Gender?/ Good Morning Britain” ITV news 15. oktober 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1roM98Dass
"Sex and Gender Identity", by PlannedParenthood.org
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity
De Loof, Arnold: ”Only two sex forms but multiple gender variants: How to explain? ”(Abstract)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824932/
Small excerpt from: Brokeback mountain.
Quinn, Emily: ”The way we think about biological sex is wrong” (TED Talk uploaded to YouTube 6 March 2019)
”Sex is binary – scientists speak up for the scientific reality of biological sex,” fairplayforwomen.com, 14th February 2020 https://fairplayforwomen.com/scientistsspeak/
Kezzler, Liz: ”Love is a word, not a sentence,” short story from edited by Amnesty International UK: Here I Stand, Walker Books, 2017.
Baldwin, James: ”Guilt, Desire and Love, ” (poem from 1983)
Excerpt from: Masahun D. Simon: "James Baldwin's sexuality - complex and influential." NBC News, February 7, 2017. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/james-baldwin-s-sexuality-complicated-influential-n717706
Excerpt from : “James Baldwin” from Biography.com, updated May 3, 2021.
https://www.biography.com/writer/james-baldwin
”Sexual orientation? Gender identity? What’s the difference,” YouTube video, Plan International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63Xn--i13o
Noor, Poppy: ”So your friend came out as binary: here’s how to use pronouns they/them, Life and Style – The Guardian Jan. 14, 2020 . https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/janelle-monae-non-binary-pronouns-they-them
Cahill, Jennifer Fumiko: ”Why I Will Not be Using Your Preferred Pronouns.” (Opinion piece), Northcoast Journal, February 14, 2019
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/why-i-will-not-be-using-your-preferred-pronouns/Content?oid=13044445
Sex Education, Season 3, Episode 3, Netflix TV series
Nazemian, Abdi, Only this Beautiful Moment, Little Tiger, UK, 2023, chapters 1-3 (CH 1:MOUD (21 sider), CH 2: SAEED (25 sider), CH 3: BOBBY (23 sider)
Haddad, Simha: "Queer author Abdi Nazemian on anti-LGBTQ+ book bans & outing", Los Angeles Blade, October 15, 2023 https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/10/15/queer-author-abdi-nazemian-on-anti-lgbtq-book-bans-outing/
“What is Gender?” definition provided by Canadian Institutes of Health Research https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html
“Consent,” The Wisconsin State Statute 940.225 definition of consent as presented on the University of Wisconsin OSHKOSH homepage https://www.uwosh.edu/wellness/prevention/consent/
Supplerende materiale:
“Signe Molde på udebane: Præsidentvalg og pornobøger” afsnit 1:2 og 2:2. (Overlap med American Politics)
"Queer theory" fra https://guides.library.illinois.edu/queertheory/background
"Queer theory " fra Clausen & Kaalund: Distorted Mirrors, Gyldendal, 2019.
Methods and rhetorical tools: The rhetorical pentagon, Toulmin’s model of argumentation + power point on different types of arguments. Style of language. Written vs spoken language, analysis of fiction (short stories and poems)
Analytical essay – non-fiction (analysis of ”The way we think about biological sex is wrong”, korrekt inddragelse af citater, structure in essays, writing an introduction for a non-fiction essay
How to read poems.
How to read a short story/The CAIP approach
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