Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. Introduction: Gender Studies
2. The origins and evolution of patriarchy
3. Antecedents and early "theorists" (17th and 18th-centuries):
Anne Bradstreet: “The Prologue”
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations"
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams”
Belinda: "The Petition of an African Slave"
4. The nineteenth century: Political writings on women's condition, social relations, and identity configurations
Sarah Grand: "The New Aspect of the Woman Question"
Fanny Fern: newspaper articles (selection)
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
5 The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Susan Glaspell: “Trifles”
Mina Loy: “Feminist Manifesto”
Zora Neale Hurston: “Sweat”
6. The twentieth century (II). The Women's Liberation Movement and Second Wave Feminism:
Betty Friedan: “The Problem that Has No Name”
Adrienne Rich: Of Woman Born (extract)
Gloria Steinem: “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”
"No More Miss America"
Charlotte Bunch: "Lesbians in Revolt"
The Combahee River Collective: "A Black Feminist Statement"
Norma Alarcon: "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism"
7. 21st-century Feminism and the LGTB collective:
Miriam David: "Femifesta?A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st-century"
Angie Fee: Transgender Identities: Within and Beyond the Constraints of Heteronormativity
8. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Mitsuye Yamada: “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman”
Gloria Anzaldúa: “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”
Toni Morrison: “Sweetness”
Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”
Sandra Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek”
Leslie Marmon Silko: “Lullaby”
Linda Hogan: “Crow”
Amy Tan: “Alien Relative”
Hisaye Yamamoto: “Seventeen Syllables.”
Helena Mª Viramontes: "The Moths"
2. The origins and evolution of patriarchy
3. Antecedents and early "theorists" (17th and 18th-centuries):
Anne Bradstreet: “The Prologue”
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations"
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams”
Belinda: "The Petition of an African Slave"
4. The nineteenth century: Political writings on women's condition, social relations, and identity configurations
Sarah Grand: "The New Aspect of the Woman Question"
Fanny Fern: newspaper articles (selection)
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
5 The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Susan Glaspell: “Trifles”
Mina Loy: “Feminist Manifesto”
Zora Neale Hurston: “Sweat”
6. The twentieth century (II). The Women's Liberation Movement and Second Wave Feminism:
Betty Friedan: “The Problem that Has No Name”
Adrienne Rich: Of Woman Born (extract)
Gloria Steinem: “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”
"No More Miss America"
Charlotte Bunch: "Lesbians in Revolt"
The Combahee River Collective: "A Black Feminist Statement"
Norma Alarcon: "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism"
7. 21st-century Feminism and the LGTB collective:
Miriam David: "Femifesta?A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st-century"
Angie Fee: Transgender Identities: Within and Beyond the Constraints of Heteronormativity
8. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Mitsuye Yamada: “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman”
Gloria Anzaldúa: “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”
Toni Morrison: “Sweetness”
Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”
Sandra Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek”
Leslie Marmon Silko: “Lullaby”
Linda Hogan: “Crow”
Amy Tan: “Alien Relative”
Hisaye Yamamoto: “Seventeen Syllables.”
Helena Mª Viramontes: "The Moths"
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