Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. Gender Studies: An Introduction.
2. Antecedents and early theorists:
Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”
Lady Mary Chudleigh’s “To the Ladies”.
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations"
Sarah Kemble Knight: "The Journal"
3. The Enlightenment: Women’s rights and political writings:
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (extract)
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams.”
Belinda: "The Petition of an African Slave"
4. The nineteenth century (I): Political discourses about women's condition:
John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (chapter 4: "What Good Would Reform Do?").
Sarah Grand: "The New Aspect of the Woman Question"
Ouida: "The Woman Question"
5. The nineteenth century (II): Social relations, women’s subjectivity and identity:
Fanny Fern: newspaper articles (selection)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
6. The nineteenth century (III): Gender and race:
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sarah Winemmucca's Life among the Paiutes (extract)
Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South
7. The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”
Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto”
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”
Zitkala-Sa's The School Days of an Indian Girl (extract)
8. The twentieth century (II). The Women's Liberation Movement:
Betty Friedan’s “The Problem that Has No Name”
Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born (extract)
Fay Weldon’s “In the Great War”
Gloria Steinem: “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”
9. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Lullaby”
Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”
Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables.”
Helena Mª Viramontes: "The Cariboo Café"
2. Antecedents and early theorists:
Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”
Lady Mary Chudleigh’s “To the Ladies”.
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations"
Sarah Kemble Knight: "The Journal"
3. The Enlightenment: Women’s rights and political writings:
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (extract)
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams.”
Belinda: "The Petition of an African Slave"
4. The nineteenth century (I): Political discourses about women's condition:
John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (chapter 4: "What Good Would Reform Do?").
Sarah Grand: "The New Aspect of the Woman Question"
Ouida: "The Woman Question"
5. The nineteenth century (II): Social relations, women’s subjectivity and identity:
Fanny Fern: newspaper articles (selection)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
6. The nineteenth century (III): Gender and race:
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sarah Winemmucca's Life among the Paiutes (extract)
Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South
7. The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”
Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto”
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”
Zitkala-Sa's The School Days of an Indian Girl (extract)
8. The twentieth century (II). The Women's Liberation Movement:
Betty Friedan’s “The Problem that Has No Name”
Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born (extract)
Fay Weldon’s “In the Great War”
Gloria Steinem: “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”
9. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Lullaby”
Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”
Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables.”
Helena Mª Viramontes: "The Cariboo Café"
