Syllabus
Mandatory literature:
BEAUVOIR, S. d. (2009 / 2011). The Second Sex (C. Borde & S. Malovany-Chevallier, Trans.). Vintage. Selected chapters.
BUTLER, J. (1999/1990). Gender Trouble. New York & London: Routledge. Selected chapters.
MILLETT, K. (2016/1969). Sexual Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. Selected chapters.
Recommended literature:
OFFEN, K. European Feminisms, 1700 - 1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8047-3420-2. Selected chapters.
VETTERLING-BRAGGIN, M., ELLISTON, F. A., ENGLISH, J. (eds.) Feminism and Philosophy. Totowa, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1977. ISBN 0-8226-0335-7. Selected chapters.
Annotation
The course involves close reading of canonical texts of feminist thinking and feminist philosophy. It aims to familiarize students with strengths and weaknesses of discussed theories with respect to their historical-political conditions, while emphasizing the virtues of philosophical and theoretical thinking in general. The course aims to help students acquire sound skills in the comprehension of complex philosophical and theoretical ideas. Topics
1. Reading philosophical and theoretical texts
2. Declaration of human and civic rights, Olympe de Gouge
3. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft and liberal feminism in the 19th century
4. Friedrich Engels and socialist feminism in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century
5. National feminist canons and their decolonization
6. Simone de Beauvoir
7. Betty Friedan and liberal feminism in the second half of the 20th century
8. Kate Millett and radical feminism in the second half of the 20th century
9. Wages against housework and marxist and socialist feminism in the second half of the 20th century
10. Combahee River Collective and critiques of heteronormativity and whiteness in feminism in the second half of the 20th century
11. Michel Foucault and poststructuralist approaches to power
12. Judith Butler
13. Gender as theoretical concept