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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The First Wave 1. John Stuart Mill: On the Subjugation of women 2. Mary Wollstonecraft 3. Suffragettes: Seneca Falls Convention 4. Interuption: Stella Browne, Margaret Sanger The Second Wave 5. Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex 6. Betty Friedan 7. Kate Millet, Julliet Mitchel 8. Black Feminism (Combahee river manifesto) + Intersectionality (Kimberlee Crenshaw) 9. Gender: Julie Delphy Third Wave 10. Queer Theory: Judith Butler - Gender Trouble 11. Postfeminism: McRobbie 12. Blacklash: Susan Faludi 13. Feminism for the 99%: Nancy Fraser (Second Wave Feminism and Neoliberalism, Manifesto)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to look at the historical development of thinking about womens rights. We will begin with classic texts from the mid-19th century to the present. Students will have an overview of all waves of the feminist movement and how its theses and demands have evolved. We will look not only at how the different waves of feminism differed from each other, bud also how the factions within the feminist movement itself differed from each other. Most of the texts we will read will be from the Anglo-American milieu, but we will confront them with the Central European experience.
Upon completion of the course, students will have a basic understanding of how discourses and policies on domestic vilence have evolved. Students will become familiar with the classic texts that have been central to defining the issue and will be introduced to the content of documents that aim to protext victims of domestic violence and will be encouraged to thing critically about them. The seminar will take the form of a discussion in which he participants will be responsible for the content of the debate. Thus, during the seminar, students will practice the ability to epress their own perspectives in the context of academic debates.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
- Active attendance - Active participation in seminar discussions - Reading assigned texts in English - Submitting questions in the assigned literature
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Recommended literature
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Beauvoir, Simone. Druhé pohlaví. 1949.
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Davis, N. Y. Women and the Biological Reproduction of the Nation.. London, 1997.
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Fauldi, Susan. Backlash. Crown Publishing Group, 1991.
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Firestone, Shulamit. The Dialectic of Sex. 1970.
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Mill, J. S. Poddanství žen. in Libora Oates-Inruchová (1998) Dívčí válka s ideologií. Klasické texty feministického myšlení, str. 28-37. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998.
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Scott, J. W. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.. The American Historical Review, 1989.
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Teele, Dawn Lagan. Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Womens Vote. Princenton University Press, 2018.
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Wollstonecraft, M. Obhajoba ženských práv. in Libora Oates-Inruchová (1998) Dívčí válka s ideologií. Klasické texty feministického myšlení, str. 20-26. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998.
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