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. 

Course contents

Women and Feminists: Individuality, Aggregations, Reflections, and Informal and Formal Movements from Women's Liberation to the Agitation of the New Generations

In AY 2019/20 the course on Ethics and Politics, now in its 15th edition, will introduce gender studies to students of both sexes and to the community at large thanks to an agreement between the University of Bologna and the Orlando Association, which manages the city's Centre for Women.

The course will be held in the former Convent of Santa Cristina della Fondazza, where several university departments are located, as well as the Centre for Women. Its purpose is to underscore the distinguishing traits of women's thought and action in Italy from the anti-Fascist resistance to movements, like "Non Una di Meno," that promote global mobilization in a variety of ways, including by calling for strikes. What emerges from this survey is a fabric interwoven with the relations and forms of subjectivity promoted by women, as well as with their cultural and scholarly production and their effort to advance the law.

The course will include lectures on the history, thought, and law pertaining to affective, intellectual, working, and social relationships among women. Figures and movements of feminism will be presented that have changed mindsets and lives, to which end the course will be inviting female jurists, historians, literati, political scientists, and experts in other pertinent fields.

Investigating the question of what has changed in womens' lives in Italy makes it necessary to close some knowledge gaps, without neglecting the diversity among the women who are speaking out against the structural and contingent violence that strikes them (and others as well), a diversity that can be seen in their means of action, their cultural background, and the freedoms they have advocated for over the years they have devoted to these issues.

Class will be held on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5 to 7 PM, from October 7 to November 25, 2019, in Room 5 of the Convent of Santa Cristina in Piazzetta Morandi 2.

Calendar

October

Momenti di parola e di libertà femminile

Lunedì 7 Saluto della Delegata del Rettore per le Pari Opportunità, Rita Monticelli. Presentazione del corso Carla Faralli, Raffaella Lamberti; Resistenza alla guerra, diritti universali, diritti delle donne, Dianella Gagliani.

Martedì 8 Il “Secondo Sesso” di Simone de Beauvoir e la sua ricezione in Italia, Vincenza Perilli.

Lunedì 14 Una stagione preziosa della letteratura femminile in Italia: Dal Quaderno proibito alla Libellula, Alba de Cespedes, Elsa Morante, Amelia Rosselli, Maria Luisa Vezzali.

La rottura femminista

Martedì 15 Le parole e i corpi. Uno sguardo femminista dagli anni settanta a oggi, Maria Luisa Boccia.

Lunedì 21 Potenzialità e ostacoli delle pratiche femministe dal 1968 a oggi, Lea Melandri.

Martedì 22 Il settantasette e il femminismo, Deborah Sannia.

Lunedì 28 Molte donne un pianeta: i forum mondiali delle donne nel ventennio ONU, Città del Messico, Nairobi, Pechino, Bianca Pomeranzi.

Nel nuovo secolo

Martedì 29 Le violenze maschili contro le donne e il diritto: tra impunità e femminismo punitivo, Maria Virgilio

November

Lunedì 4 Crisi e trasformazioni globali. Culture Politiche e diritti sociali, Mariuccia Salvati

Martedì 5 Convivenza: donne migranti e richiedenti asilo, Loretta Michelini.

Lunedì 11 I movimenti di donne degli anni duemila, Federica Giardini, Angela Balzano.

Martedì 12. Movimenti transfemministi e queer: corpi, generi, tecnologie, Stefania Voli.

Lunedì 18 Appunti di femminismo digitale, Marzia Vaccari

Martedì 19 Passaggi, fratture, re-invenzioni: la vicenda dei Centri delle donne, Elda Guerra.

Lunedì 25 Transversal Politics: per un femminismo individuale e plurale, conversazione di Stefania Minghini Azzarello con Raffaella Lamberti.

Readings/Bibliography

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

https://eticapoliticadigenere.wordpress.com

Tutor Valeria Stabile, valeria.stabile2@unibo.it 

 

The readings for the course are available on loan or for consultation at the Women's Library, located in the former Convent of Santa Cristina, which can be accessed from either Via del Piombo 5 or the Cloister of Santa Cristina.

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