36666 - Seminar: Ethics and Politics: a Gender Studies Perspective

Learning outcomes

The Seminar, organized in collaboration with the Orlando Association, is aimed to provide a critical gender perspective on some current cultural, philosophical, legal and socio-political practices. Its focus is on the geopolitical contexts of Europe and the Mediterranean area, with an interest in the features characterizing our technical and cognitive practices.

Course contents

The Seminar, titled "Women in Italy between XX and XXI Century", is aimed at identifying the peculiar traits of women's movements and feminist thought in Italy against the background of European and global phenomena. We will focus on the subjective positions of those concerned, as well as on gender relations, on the theoretical and scientific developments affecting women's issues, and on the way the law has evolved in Italy through the advocacy of women. The seminar will open with lectures on women's history and thought and on the role that legislation has played in women's lives and relationships in Italy. With the help of female historians, social scientists, literati, and political scientists, we will present the figures that loom large (such as Montessori, Banti, De Cespedes, Morante, Campo, Lonzi, Putino, and Melandri) and look inside the places where life is experienced (the family, study, and work environments). Innovation and scientific thought will be addressed by women who work in the natural, biological, and neurological sciences, drawing on the STEM database (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) that has been created to fight gender stereotyping, which undervalues the role of women in every area of STEM research. As in past years, the seminar will take account of the way that technology is changing and the impact of this development on our lives. The figures and historical junctures we want to focus on will be discussed by women professors and experts not only from Italy but also from Africa who have migrated here. Woven into the seminar are issues relating to birth, life, and death, which will be addressed in connection with the Italian legislation that spans from the 1970s to the present. We will also have women instructors and young researchers addressing the issues relating to life and death such as they present themselves in the current landscape.

 

October

8 Presentazione del corso Carla Faralli, Raffaella Lamberti; Il pensiero dell’esperienza femminista in Italia, Lea Melandri.

9 Il "passo lungo" delle donne. Maschi e femmine nelle trasformazioni socio-economiche del Paese, Arnaldo Spallacci; Presentazione della Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne, Simona Brighetti.

15 Storia di donne e di Femministe: il caso italiano, Elda Guerra.

16 Maria Montessori e il suo tempo, Valeria Babini.

22 Testimonianze di donne dai campi di concentramento e di lavoro nazisti. La memoria è unlavoro di cura, Paola Moretti.

23 Profughe nella guerra e nel dopoguerra del secondo conflitto mondiale, Giancarla Codrignani; Vite quotidiane di donne negli anni quaranta e cinquanta, Paola Patuelli.

29 Il femminismo degli anni settanta, Anna Scattigno; Il rapporto tra femminismo in talia e femminismo in Francia, Vincenza Perilli.
Alza il triangolo al cielo. Desideri, Corpi, Spazi delle donne in mutamento, a cura di Stefania Minghini Azzarello, consulenza scientifica Elda Guerra.

November

5 Cristina Campo, Raffaella Lamberti; Carla Lonzi e il suo tempo, Laura Iamurri.

6 Alba De Cespedes ed Elsa Morante, Maria Luisa Vezzali.

12 Angela Putino: pensiero ed esperienza, Laura Bazzicalupo.Martedì 13 Gruppo 100 Scienziate, Fondazione Bracco, Lo stato dei lavori, Patrizia Caraveo.

19 I movimenti LGBT, Elisa Arfini, Liana Borghi.

20 Il movimento femminista italiano e le lotte per l’aborto, Ilaria Santoemma; Riprodursi e non riprodursi nel paese dei teo-con, Angela Balzano; Carte e parole: lotte per l’aborto tra archivio e biblioteca, Deborah Sannia.

26 Donne migranti dal Mediterraneo all’Italia, Gabriella Rossetti; Relazioni e accoglienza di donne richiedenti asilo nella nostra provincia, Loretta Michelini - Mondo Donna, coordinano Rita Alicchio e Lucia Ferrante, Gruppo Mondialità Orlando.

27 Quadro delle vicende legislative egiuridiche in Italia riguardanti le donne Maria Virgilio, Susanna Mancini.

December

3 Bioetica e biodiritti a proposito di finevita, Carla Faralli.

Readings/Bibliography

For news, updates, information on speakers/presenters, supporting literature and teaching materials:

https://eticapoliticadigenere.wordpress.com

Teaching methods

The course consists in lectures, supported by multimedia tools. 

Assessment methods

The final exam can be either written or oral, depending on the student's choice: students will thus be asked to select a topic from the syllabus and either hand in a paper or make a presentation on that topic. In either case, the examination will be geared toward assessing the student's ability to engage critically with the current issues.

Teaching tools

All information about the course and any notice, as well as any supplementary material, will be made available online at https://iol.unibo.it/ or at https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/carla.faralli

Office hours

See the website of Carla Faralli