Gender in Context: Power, Culture & Daily Resistance
From glass ceilings to quiet revolutions—how far have we really come? Explore feminist thought through everyday life, resistance, and identity across work, family, media, and education.
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This course offers a reflective and accessible entry point into feminist thought, inviting learners to explore how power, identity, and resistance play out across work, family, media, and education. It’s designed for adult learners engaging for personal growth and does not require prior academic study.
What will we cover?
• Work, Power & Emotional Labour
• Survival & Resistance: Women, Violence & the Law
• Family, Care & Coercion
• Beauty, Power & the Male Gaze
• Gender, Learning & Global Disparities
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
Identify key feminist concepts and apply them to everyday contexts
Reflect on how gender intersects with power, culture, and resistance
Analyse media, policy, and personal experience through a gendered lens
Engage in respectful dialogue around sensitive and complex issues
Recognise how gendered dynamics shape work, care, and education globally
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is suitable both for newcomers to the subject and for those who have some background knowledge. You will need a good grasp of English to keep up with the course. An ability and willingness to explore relevant shared resources will increase what you get out of the course.
However, as with most of our history, politics and current affairs courses, an open mind and a respectful willingness to listen to and think about views with which you do not always agree are more important than specific levels of skills.
Given the sensitive nature of some of the topics the course will explore, we also expect everyone to engage group and class discussions with respect and the willingness to learn from others.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You’ll be taught through tutor-led discussion, interactive lecture, short readings, visual prompts, pair work and group discussion or collaborative reflection. Some sessions may include relevant extracts, articles, or video or media clips or podcasts, case studies, and creative exercises. Optional journaling or reading or watching videos for engagement between course sessions, but no formal homework or assessments.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No, apart from note-taking materials.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
HPC278 Our world(s): memories by women
HMI31 Black British Studies: ethnicity, race and society
HMI57 Black British Studies:politics, power and intersectionality
Michele Scott is an experienced Criminologist and Sociologist who has taught in a range of colleges, such as City of Westminster and Universities such as Birkbeck, LSE and London Metropolitan University as a Lecturer on courses such such as the Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity as well as Black Studies, Law, Justice and Society, Criminal Justice and Criminological courses. Michele is also an advocate for neurodiverse and SEND children. She also attained a wealth of voluntary experience surrounding supporting the needs of the parents of neurodiverse children. Alongside, neurodiverse children themselves and schools in attaining EHCPs for neurodiverse children. As well as ensuring their needs are effectively met within these educational establishments.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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