Understanding Gender & Gender Performances: A Feminist Introduction
A clear, politically grounded introduction to how gender is shaped, enforced and challenged.
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Course language
This course is taught entirely in English.
Choose the language you want to learn in, it is available in:
English
العربية
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Learning goals
- Distinguish between sex, gender and gender performance.
- Recognise how culture, institutions and power shape gender norms.
- Identify how stereotypes reinforce hierarchy and inequality.
- Apply an intersectional lens to everyday and professional contexts.
- Distinguish equality language from justice-oriented analysis.
- Assess the political use of gender narratives.
- Analyse gender with greater clarity, care and confidence.
Course description
This course introduces sex and gender, gender as performance, stereotypes, so-called tradition, intersectionality, feminist approaches to justice and the political use of gender. Using clear language without oversimplification, it provides practical frameworks for analysing how gender norms are formed, enforced and challenged across everyday, professional and institutional contexts.
Requirements
- No prior knowledge of gender studies or feminist theory is required.
- An internet-connected device.
- Time to complete the recorded short course.
Course curriculum
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Dr Nof Nasser-Eddin
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, CTDC | Psychotherapy-Informed Educator & Academic | Building People-Centred Organisations & Ventures
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Dr Nour Abu-Assab
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, CTDC | Academic, Educator, Mentor & Entrepreneur | AI-Enabled Learning Innovation & Organisational Systems Design
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An online academy for professional training, taught in English and Arabic. Courses are self-paced, and every one of them states the language it is taught in.
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