- Docente: Sara Delmedico
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
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from Feb 14, 2025 to Apr 14, 2025
Learning outcomes
The student possesses an in-depth knowledge of feminist historiography and of the origin of women's history in different cultural contexts. He acquires methodological tools that will allow him to research autonomously in these areas.
Course contents
This module explores the history of women, gender relations, feminism and women’s movements in the contemporary age. Through lectures and critical reading of original sources, the course traces the evolution of feminist thought from its early foundations to the contemporary debates. Students are asked to examine how theories and practices responded to changing contexts, including industrialisation, capitalism and globalisation. The module critically analyses the path to women’s emancipation and the construction of female citizenship and how it has not been singular movement but rather a dynamic and ongoing phenomenon, whose changes and continuities have been, and still are, shaped by specific experiences of different communities and cultural environments. The many facets of feminism and of women’s movements will be examined by considering the national and transnational experiences, reflecting on the goals, achievements and ongoing challenges of today.
The module aims to foster critical thinking, cross-cultural awareness and commitment to engage with feminist ideas beyond academia.
Readings/Bibliography
Bonnie Smith (ed.), Global Feminism since 1945 (Routledge, 2000).
Maud Anne Bracke, Women and the Reinvention of the Political: Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983 (Routledge, 2014).
Nancy Fraser, Fortunes of Feminism (Verso, 2013).
Perry Willson, Women in Twentieth Century Italy (Palgrave, 2009).
Teaching methods
-Lectures
-Seminars with discussion and critical analysis of documents.
Assessment methods
-Attending students
Oral examination on 1 book from the reading list + 1 written paper (the topic should be approved by the professor)
-Not attending students
Oral examination on 2 books chosen from the reading list.
Office hours
See the website of Sara Delmedico