Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Module Offerings
6210CRIM-SEP-MTP
Aims
This module aims:
1. To develop student engagement with critical sex/gender questions in relation to violent interpersonal crime.
2. To engage in and explore Foucauldian discourse analysis and regimes of power, truth and knowledge via critical examples of
discursive practice.
3. To critically analyse legal responses to violence against women.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Articulate a systematic understanding of the discursive production of knowledge about sex, violence and crime.
2.
Critically assess and apply critical discourse analysis to a broad range of contexts relating to violence against women.
3.
Apply a critical understanding of legal responses to violence against women and critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of law reform as a strategy against interpersonal violence.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
The syllabus is constructed around the research expertise of the module teaching team and may include as indicative topics: The discursive construction of sexed violence; Competing narratives of theorising sexed violence; Foucauldian discourse analysis and the application of this method; Violence Against Women Policy and Practice; Law Reform as Feminist Strategy; Rape and Rape Law Reform; Narrating Violence and Intersectional Analysis.
The syllabus is constructed around the research expertise of the module teaching team and may include as indicative topics: The discursive construction of sexed violence; Competing narratives of theorising sexed violence; Foucauldian discourse analysis and the application of this method; Violence Against Women Policy and Practice; Law Reform as Feminist Strategy; Rape and Rape Law Reform; Narrating Violence and Intersectional Analysis.
Module Overview:
This module will increase your ability to critically discuss sex/gender questions in relation to violent interpersonal crime. You will engage in and explore Foucauldian discourse analysis and regimes of power, truth and knowledge via critical examples of discursive practice. You will use this knowledge to critically analyse legal responses to violence against women.
This module will increase your ability to critically discuss sex/gender questions in relation to violent interpersonal crime. You will engage in and explore Foucauldian discourse analysis and regimes of power, truth and knowledge via critical examples of discursive practice. You will use this knowledge to critically analyse legal responses to violence against women.
Additional Information:
This module explores and analyses various approaches to, representations of and responses to sexed violence. We question the multiple meanings of ‘sex’, ‘gender’, ‘violence’ and numerous other conceptualisations in order to disrupt popular or common sense understandings of sexed crimes. By examining the role played by culture, ethnicity and sexuality in legal translations of various forms of violence against women, the module raises questions about the violence of law, especially its androcentrism, ethnocentrism and heterosexism.
This module explores and analyses various approaches to, representations of and responses to sexed violence. We question the multiple meanings of ‘sex’, ‘gender’, ‘violence’ and numerous other conceptualisations in order to disrupt popular or common sense understandings of sexed crimes. By examining the role played by culture, ethnicity and sexuality in legal translations of various forms of violence against women, the module raises questions about the violence of law, especially its androcentrism, ethnocentrism and heterosexism.