General entry requirements + English 6

The purpose of this course is that the students will develop and deepen their knowledge on gender and sports as well as gender from an international perspective. The student will also develop their academic writing.

During the first part of the course gender and sport in relation to participation and international perspectives are studied. During the second half of the course, the student will concentrate on an athletes’ sporting life in order to analyze their destiny in relation to the gender order of that time and place.

On completion of the course, the student will be able to

• broadly describe participation and sports activities through a gender perspective and making international comparisons

• broadly describe research on gender and sports

• discuss an individual destiny in relation to the structures in society

• write a shorter essay

The course consists of a variation of learning activities that can include lectures, seminars, web-based discussions and studies on your own. The course depends on active participation where the students contribute with their own experiences, reflections and perspectives. The students are also expected to take own initiatives regarding learning activities.

All the learning outcomes will be examined individually and in three written examinations.

The criteria for Pass and Pass with Distinction are clarified by the examiner at the start of the course.

Compulsory literature

Connell, Raewyn. (2020). Gender – In world perspective. 4. uppl. Cambridge: Polity Press, 208 s.

Hovden, Jorid, och von der Lippe, Gerd. (2019). The gendering of media sport in the Nordic countries. Sport in Society 22(4): 625-638.

Jeanes, Ruth; Spaaij, Ramon; Farquharson, Karen; McGrath, Georgia; Magee, Jonathan; Lusher, Dean och Gorman, Sean. (2021). Gender relations, gender equity, and community sports spaces. Journal of Sport & Social Issues 45(6): 545–567.

Kaelberer, Matthias. (2018). Gender trouble on the German soccer field: can the growth of women’s soccer challenge hegemonic masculinity? Journal of Gender Studies 28(3): 342-352.

Lucas-Carr, Cathryn och Krane, Vikki. (2012). Troubling sport or troubled by sport. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education 6(1): 21-44.

Pullen, Emma och Silk, Michael. (2019). Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic. Cultural Studies 34(3): 466-488.

Ratna, Aarti och Samie, Samaya F. (2018). Race, gender and sport. The politics of ethnic ‘other’ girls and women. London: Routledge, 244 s.

Sartore-Baldwin, Melanie L. (red.). (2013). Sexual minorities in sports. Prejudice at play. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 160 s.

Tjønndal, Anne. (2017). ‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54(2): 131-150.

Toffoletti, Kim. (2014). Iranian women’s sports fandom: Gender, resistance, and identity in the football movie offside. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 38(1): 75-92.

A biography of a sportswoman or sportsman.

In addition to this literature, additional literature of a maximum of 200 pages.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text