Learning outcomes: The aim of the course is to provide students with an extended understanding of the role of material culture in shaping gender. Based on knowledge acquired from a variety of cultures, the course takes a critical approach to a distinction between people and things and suggests new ways of relating gender to the material world.
After successful completion of the course, students will be able:
a) to see material culture as a field of production of gender relations and social values rather than simply their reflection.
b) to approach gender through specific examples of material culture derived from fields such as consumption, clothing, technology and other.
General Competences:
Production of creative thinking beyond cultural stereotypes.
Understanding of the importance of material culture in the study of gender.
Respect for multiculturalism.
Experience in powerpoint presentations.
Search for analysis and synthesis of data both in bibliography and in fieldwork.
The course centers on the idea that the material world not only reflects gender but is dynamically involved in its production. The power of objects partly derives from the fact that that we often ignore them as inert mater of no consequence.
The course starts with an introduction to material culture and the basic concepts upon which any discussion on materiality is based. It then proceeds with the most prevalent theoretical approaches to material culture with gender-related examples drawn for the fields of consumption, clothing, technology, food and toys.
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Tilley, C., W. Keane, S. Küchler, M. Rowlands, P. Spyer (επιμ.) (2006) Handbook of Material Culture London: Sage
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Warnier, J.-P. (2001) ‘Α praxeological approach to subjectivation in a material world’ Journal of Material Culture 6(1): 5-24
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Related academic journals:
Journal of Material Culture
