Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. Introduction: Gender Studies. The origins and evolution of patriarchy.
2. Antecedents in the 17th and 18th-centuries:
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams.”
3. The nineteenth century: women’s condition, identity and race configurations.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening. (seminar with questions)
Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors (1892) (presentation)
Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?” (class discussion)
Angela Davis: "The meaning of emancipation according to Black women" (chapter 5 of Women, Race, and Class): class discussion
4. The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Mina Loy: “Feminist Manifesto”
Marie Jenney Howe: “Feminism” (1914)
Susan Glaspell: “Trifles”
5. The twentieth century (II). The 1950s and Second Wave of Feminism (1960s-1970s):
Betty Friedan’s “The Problem that Has No Name”, from The Feminine Mystique (presentation)
“No More Miss America” (1968) (class discussion)
Robin Morgan: “Goodbye to All That” (Rat, 1970) (presentation9
6. The twentieth century (III). From the 1970s to the 1990s: The challenge of white mainstream feminism and Identity Politics.
Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born: “Anger and Tenderness” (pp. 21-40)
Charlotte Bunch: “Lesbians in revolt” (1972)
Adrienne Rich: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)
The Combahee River Collective: “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977) (pp.1-11)
Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness” (chapter 7) (1987)
Audre Lorde: “The Uses of Anger” (1981)
Bell hooks: Ain’t I a Woman (1982): “Introduction” (pp. 1-14)
“Riot Girrrl Manifesto” (1992) (class discussion)
7. 21st-century Feminism, Queer theory and the LGTB collective:
Angie Fee: Transgender Identities: Within and Beyond the Constraints of Heteronormativity: pp. 319-336 stories
Sarah Ahmed: “A Killjoy Manifesto”(2017)
Noelle Chaddock: Antagonizing White Feminism, pp. xi-xvii (2020)
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot, pp. ix-xviii (2020)
Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts (2015) (extract, presentation)
8. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Zora Neale Hurston: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Linda Hogan: “New Shoes” and “Crow”
Toni Morrison: “Sweetness”
Sandra Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek”
Leslie Marmon Silko: “Lullaby”
Hisaye Yamamoto: “Seventeen Syllables”
Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”
Yiyun Li: “A Flawless Silence”
2. Antecedents in the 17th and 18th-centuries:
Margaret Cavendish: "Female Orations
Abigail Adams: “Letter to John Adams.”
3. The nineteenth century: women’s condition, identity and race configurations.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening. (seminar with questions)
Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors (1892) (presentation)
Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?” (class discussion)
Angela Davis: "The meaning of emancipation according to Black women" (chapter 5 of Women, Race, and Class): class discussion
4. The twentieth century (I): First Wave of Feminism
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Mina Loy: “Feminist Manifesto”
Marie Jenney Howe: “Feminism” (1914)
Susan Glaspell: “Trifles”
5. The twentieth century (II). The 1950s and Second Wave of Feminism (1960s-1970s):
Betty Friedan’s “The Problem that Has No Name”, from The Feminine Mystique (presentation)
“No More Miss America” (1968) (class discussion)
Robin Morgan: “Goodbye to All That” (Rat, 1970) (presentation9
6. The twentieth century (III). From the 1970s to the 1990s: The challenge of white mainstream feminism and Identity Politics.
Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born: “Anger and Tenderness” (pp. 21-40)
Charlotte Bunch: “Lesbians in revolt” (1972)
Adrienne Rich: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)
The Combahee River Collective: “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977) (pp.1-11)
Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness” (chapter 7) (1987)
Audre Lorde: “The Uses of Anger” (1981)
Bell hooks: Ain’t I a Woman (1982): “Introduction” (pp. 1-14)
“Riot Girrrl Manifesto” (1992) (class discussion)
7. 21st-century Feminism, Queer theory and the LGTB collective:
Angie Fee: Transgender Identities: Within and Beyond the Constraints of Heteronormativity: pp. 319-336 stories
Sarah Ahmed: “A Killjoy Manifesto”(2017)
Noelle Chaddock: Antagonizing White Feminism, pp. xi-xvii (2020)
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot, pp. ix-xviii (2020)
Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts (2015) (extract, presentation)
8. Gender, race and multiculturalism in the 20th-century:
Zora Neale Hurston: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Linda Hogan: “New Shoes” and “Crow”
Toni Morrison: “Sweetness”
Sandra Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek”
Leslie Marmon Silko: “Lullaby”
Hisaye Yamamoto: “Seventeen Syllables”
Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”
Yiyun Li: “A Flawless Silence”
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