- Docente: Valentina Greco
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
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
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire critical knowledge of Feminist Historiography and History of Feminism (theories and methodologies) in an intersectional and comparative perspective.
Course contents
From feminism to transfeminism: histories, historiographies and methodologies.
What is feminism? What is transfeminism? How do they intertwine and /or diverge?
The course will provide a methodological introduction to feminist and transfeminist historiography, and to feminisms in historiography.
The history of feminist movements will be retraced in a wide chronological range from the early twentieth century to the contemporary times, with a particular critical attention to periodizations, categories and key words that defined them.
Readings/Bibliography
1) Sue Morgan, Writing feminist history: theoretical debates and critical practices in Sue Morgan (ed.), The Feminist History Reader, Routledge, 2006, pp. 1-37.
2) Nina Lykke, Feminist studies. A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing, Routledge, 2010, pp. 3-45.
3) Nancy A. Hewitt, No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, Rutgers University Press, 2010, pp. 15-118.
4) Susan Stryker, Transgender History, Seal Press, 2017 (revised edition), pp. 1-77.
5) Non attending students: a reading of your choice among the following three essays.
Attending students will discuss the following essays in class in a group work.
Finn Enke, Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Toward a Less Plausible History , TSQ, 5(1), 1 February 2018, pp. 9-29.
Jacob R. Lau, Transition as Decreation: A Transfeminist Phenomenology of Mixed/Queer Orientation in Max van Midde, Ludovico Vick Virtù, Olga Cielemęcka, Trans Materialities, Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, September 2018, pp. 2-43
Stefania Voli, Broadening the Gendered Polis: Italian Feminist and Transsexual Movements, 1979–1982, TSQ 3(1-2), 1 May 2016, pp. 235–245.
Teaching methods
Lesson; seminars; discussion in class.
Languages: English AND Italian.
Assessment methods
Active participation in class: 30%. By participation in class we mean the ability of the student to enter the debates, contributing with questions and/or elaborations of the topics proposed by the lecturer. This participation does not aim at testing students' specific preparation in the field, rather, they want to favor their ability to take part in discussions and their capability to discuss in group.
Final exam: 70%. The final exam will test the student's critical capability, his/her knowledge of the methodologies employed, her/his ability to combine theories with the analyses of the case studies chosen. The close reading of the texts aims at showing the student's critical ability, their knowledge not only of the texts but also of their context of creation together with the cultural politics that inform them. Students are requested to use an appropriate language, to be able to articulate their thought in English and Italian (high level) and to have an accurate knowledge of the bibliography chosen for the exam. Students are requested to analyse the five readings indicated in bibliography (about 300 pages).
Teaching tools
Short films; Web pages; Focus groups; Seminars; Documentary material.
Office hours
See the website of Valentina Greco