Does body have a history? How do we write history of body and embodiment? The goal of this seminar is to introduce different approaches to the issue of body, that are being debated in the contemporary social sciences and historiography. Hence, students will have the chance to get familiar with various research traditions, including the history of science and medicine, gender history, studies of race and racism, sexuality and disability. The scope of the seminar is transnational and transhistorical, offering an insight into different historical periods as well as different regions of Europe, from the Medieval France to the 20 th -century Czechoslovakia. Within this wide frame, we will address various issues such as body symbolism, body politics, politics of bodily difference, sexuality, the question of ab/normality and the history of beauty ideals. The aim of the seminar is to offer basic orientation in the current history of body and also to develop and refine reading and discussion skills of all participants.

Does body have a history? How do we write history of body and embodiment? The goal of this seminar is to introduce different approaches to the issue of body, that are being debated in the contemporary social sciences and historiography. Hence, students will have the chance to get familiar with various research traditions, including the history of science and medicine, gender history, studies of race and racism, sexuality and disability. The scope of the seminar is transnational and transhistorical, offering an insight into different historical periods as well as different regions of Europe, from the Medieval France to the 20 th -century Czechoslovakia. Within this wide frame, we will address various issues such as body symbolism, body politics, politics of bodily difference, sexuality, the question of ab/normality and the history of beauty ideals. The aim of the seminar is to offer basic orientation in the current history of body and also to develop and refine reading and discussion skills of all participants.

Lecturer: Filip Herza

Requirements:

- regular participation (3 absences allowed)

- group presentation

- final discussion

Throughout the course of the semester we'll be reading and discussing selected chapters from: 

PROGRAME:

3.10. introduction

10.10. Victorian Sexuality I. Introduction (27-42) Jia Yi Huang, Susanna Salla Virtanen, Nana

17.10. Victorian Sexuality II. Femininity and Masculinity, Birth control, Childhood (47-64) Eva Gaudet, Anna Gilliland, Juanita Ilona Wilemsen

24.10. Victorian Sexuality III. Social and Legal Regulations of Prostitution (100-114) Sophie Monteil, Anna Davis, Maya Lea Wood

31.10. Victorian Sexuality IV. Construction of Homosexuality (119-125, 134-142) Anna Chejnová, Petra Smutná, Edita Korshynska

7.11. 1^st half of the 20^th Century. Population policy and Eugenics (158-176) Polina

14.11. 1^st half of the 20^th Century. Sexology and Sexual reforms (182-195) Barbora Němcová, Nina Brestovanská, Anne

21.11. 1^st half of the 20^th Century. Towards a Conservative Modernity (254-269)  Natálie Lisnerová, Arzum, Karlijn

28.11. dismissed

4.12. 2^nd half of the 20^th Century. The State and Sexuality (after WWII) (296-297, 301-306, 306-313) Marie Sophie Josepha Kassing, Tereza Fišerová, Karolina Vojtenko

12.12. 2^nd half of the 20^th Century. The 1960s transition (321-338) Marie Martina Pawlik, Oktawia Barnabas, Anastasia Brunets

19.12. 2^nd half of the 20^th Century. Personal politics and moral conservativism (1970s) (Chapters: Second-wave feminism, The Thatcherite experiment, The AIDS crisis) Barbora Kyselová, Tereza Kamarýtová, Polina 

2.1. holiday

9.1.  Recent developments. A New World? (chapters: introduction 391-395, Intimacy 395-398, Families 398-402, Gender revolution 402-405, Values 415-417) Magdalena Matoušková, Veronika Dostálová, Veronika Marková, Edita Wojtkowska