History of Feminist Thinking - YMGS500

• Title: History of Feminist Thinking
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.; Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students
• Is complex co-requisite for: YMFA32, YMFH003, YMFH015, YMFH018, YMFH032, YMFH033, YMFH040, YMFH046, YMFH103, YMFI509, YMFPR13, YMFPR171, YMGS231, YMGS632, YMGS645, YMHA1LS2, YMHA1LS21, YMHA44, YMH0222, YMH037, YMH045, YMH051, YMH052, YMH1222, YMH137, YMH145, YMH151, YMH152, YMH545, YMH550, YMH557, YMN0HHR, YMN141, YMN157, YMN221, YMO263, YMPV018, YMSKA32, YMSKA41, YMSKA51, YMSKA52, YMSKA54, YMSKA57, YMSKA58, YMSKE002, YMSKE017, YMSMK007P, YMSMK032PV, YMSMK035PV, YMSMK051PV

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (05.10.2021)

The course aims to familiarize students with fundamental concepts and argumentation of feminist thinking. The focus is mainly on clarifying the commonalities and differences in first-wave and second-wave debates. Therefore the interconnections with dominant ideologies of 19th and 20th centuries – liberalism and socialism – are explored in detail. Furthermore, it focuses on theoretical contributions of second-wave radical feminism as it analyzed and conceptualized existing gender order. The last segment of the course aims to provide students with a framework for understanding the performativity of gender as well as to recapitulate various understandings of gender as they were discussed in the course. The course aims to elucidate various theoretical explanations of the determinants of gender inequality and their normative underpinnings. Topics 1. Feminism, feminist thinking, feminist theories 2. Enlightenment feminism and French Revolution 3. Liberal feminism in the 19th century 4. Socialist feminism in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century 5. National feminist canons and their decolonization 6. Simone de Beauvoir 7. Liberal feminism in the second half of the 20th century 8. Radical feminism in the second half of the 20th century 9. Marxist and socialist feminism in the second half of the 20th century 10. Critiques of heteronormativity and whiteness in feminism in the second half of the 20th century 11. Poststructuralist approaches to power 12. Gender as performative 13. Gender as theoretical concept

Descriptors

Last update: Mgr. Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (10.09.2020)

Povinný předmět studijního programu Genderová studia. Zápis možný pouze pro domovské studující - provádí jej tajemnice programu.

This is a mandatory course of the Gender Studies study programme. Only students of the programme can attend it - registration is administered by the Secretary.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (03.10.2023)

Mandatory literature:

BRYSON, V. Feminist Political Theory. An introduction (2nd ed.). London: Palgrave Macmilan, 2003. ISBN 0-333-94568-9. Selected chapters.

TONG, R. Feminist Thought. A More Comprehensive Introduction. Philadelphia: Westview Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8133-4841-4. Selected chapters.

 

Recommended literature:
BOCK, G. (2002). Women in European History (A. Brown, Trans.). London: Wiley. ISBN 978-0631191452. Selected chapters.

NAGL-DOCEKAL, H. (2004). Feminist Philosophy (K. Vester, Trans.). London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0813365718. Selected chapters.