Interpretation of Philosophical Texts - YMGS504

• Title: Interpretation of Philosophical Texts
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• 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: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (08.09.2020)

The course involves close reading of canonical texts of feminist thinking and feminist philosophy. It aims to familiarize students with strengths and weaknesses of discussed theories with respect to their historical-political conditions, while emphasizing the virtues of philosophical and theoretical thinking in general. The course aims to help students acquire sound skills in the comprehension of complex philosophical and theoretical ideas. Topics 1. Reading philosophical and theoretical texts 2. Declaration of human and civic rights, Olympe de Gouge 3. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft and liberal feminism in the 19th century 4. Friedrich Engels and 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. Betty Friedan and liberal feminism in the second half of the 20th century 8. Kate Millett and radical feminism in the second half of the 20th century 9. Wages against housework and marxist and socialist feminism in the second half of the 20th century 10. Combahee River Collective and critiques of heteronormativity and whiteness in feminism in the second half of the 20th century 11. Michel Foucault and poststructuralist approaches to power 12. Judith Butler 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. (12.10.2022)

Mandatory literature:

BEAUVOIR, S. d. (2009 / 2011). The Second Sex (C. Borde & S. Malovany-Chevallier, Trans.). Vintage. Selected chapters.

BUTLER, J. (1999/1990). Gender Trouble. New York & London: Routledge. Selected chapters.

MILLETT, K. (2016/1969). Sexual Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. Selected chapters.

 

Recommended literature:

OFFEN, K. European Feminisms, 1700 - 1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8047-3420-2. Selected chapters.

VETTERLING-BRAGGIN, M., ELLISTON, F. A., ENGLISH, J. (eds.) Feminism and Philosophy. Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1977. ISBN 0-8226-0335-7. Selected chapters.