26015 - Women's Movements Worldwide - I Movimenti delle Donne nel Mondo

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Elena Musiani
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
  • Language: Italian
  • 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

The module deals with the history of women and gender relations in contemporary times. Through lectures and critical reading of original sources, the course aims to develop the emancipation process and construction of female citizenship on both a social and then political level. Still in keeping with a comparative perspective, the module will address women's emancipation movements in and outside Europe; the theme of women’s education and women in the workplace; periods of discord and unity; the struggle to acquire the main political and social rights; the question of memory.

Special attention will be on gender teaching: languages and stereotypes.

Readings/Bibliography

a. Frequentanti:

1) Appunti

2) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

  • Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea: dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006.
  • Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Roma-Bari, Laterza. Un volume a scelta tra quelli della collana.
  • P. Willson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

  • Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy. 1470-1900. Prescribing and Describing Life, Helena Sanson, Francesco Lucioli (eds.), Paris Classiques Garnier, 2016.
  • Elda Guerra, Storia e cultura politica delle donne, Bologna, Archetipolibri, 2008.
  • Genere e storia: percorsi, a cura di Cesarina Casanova e Vincenzo Lagioia, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2014.
  • Katherine Mitchell, Helena Sanson, Women and gender in post-unification Italy, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013.
  • Non solo rivoluzione: modelli formativi e percorsi politici delle patriote italiane, a cura di Elena Musiani, Roma, Aracne, 2013.
  • Women’s Education in Southern Europe. Historical Perspectives (19th–20th centuries), a cura di Antonella Cagnolati, Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano, vol. II, Roma, Aracne, 2018

b) NON Frequentanti

1) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

  • Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea: dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006.
  • Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Roma-Bari, Laterza. Un volume a scelta tra quelli della collana.
  • P. Willson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.

2) Claudia Pancino, Storia sociale: metodi esempi strumenti, Venezia, Marzilio, 2003.

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

  • Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy. 1470-1900. Prescribing and Describing Life, Helena Sanson, Francesco Lucioli (eds.), Paris Classiques Garnier, 2016.
  • Elda Guerra, Storia e cultura politica delle donne, Bologna, Archetipolibri, 2008.
  • Genere e storia: percorsi, a cura di Cesarina Casanova e Vincenzo Lagioia, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2014.
  • Katherine Mitchell, Helena Sanson, Women and gender in post-unification Italy, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013.
  • Non solo rivoluzione: modelli formativi e percorsi politici delle patriote italiane, a cura di Elena Musiani, Roma, Aracne, 2013.
  • Women’s Education in Southern Europe. Historical Perspectives (19th–20th centuries), a cura di Antonella Cagnolati, Antonio Fco. Canales Serrano, vol. II, Roma, Aracne, 2018

Teaching methods

Lectures

Seminars and critical analysis of documents.

Office hours

See the website of Elena Musiani

SDGs

Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.