Politics
Gender and Politics in Africa
Module POC3144 for 2022/3
Module POC3144 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3144: Gender and Politics in Africa
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While the precise content will vary from year to year, it is expected that the module will include lectures on the following themes:
- Africa, Feminist theory and Politics
- Women, Peace and Security
- Masculinity and Militarism
- Production of Terror and Other
- Gendered Empowerment and Development
- Social Reproduction Theory
- Land Reform and Governance
- Queer, Citizenship and Sexualities
- Informality in Politics and Governance
- Violence, Civil War and Genocide
- Gender and Diaspora
- Motherhood, Heterosexuality and Nation-Building
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminar |
Guided Independent Study | 65 | Private study, reading and preparing for seminars (approx. 6 hours of private study per seminar) |
Guided Independent Study | 28 | Researching and writing Critical Literature Review |
Guided Independent Study | 30 | Researching and writing essay |
Guided Independent Study | 5 | Preparing formative presentation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
- Amadiume, Ifi. 1987. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Introduction, available online at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5f3OFZFYYz4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=fals