Feminism and Art History - YBAJ246

• Title: Feminism and Art History
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Denisa Tomková, M.Sc., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Is incompatible with: YMGS654, YBLO001

Annotation

English

The aim of the course is to offer a cross-section of key feminist texts with reference to and in dialogue with artistic production and the development of the visual arts. The course aims to introduce students to the critical themes addressed by the feminist movement of the 20th and 21st centuries to the present day. The course is based on the reading and discussion of texts, which will be supplemented in class with examples from 20th and 21st century art and curating.

Last update: Kučabová Veronika, Bc. (04.01.2024)

Course completion requirements

English

class attendance, active participation in discussions, reading of required readings and a maximum of 2 absences

Last update: Kučabová Veronika, Bc. (04.01.2024)

Literature

Obligatory:

• Silvia Federici. Wages Against Housework. : Falling Wall Press and the Power of Women Collective, 1975, s. ISBN .
• Linda Nochlin. Why Have Been No Great Women Artists? . In ARTNews. (1971): -.
• Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches. : Crossing Press, 2007, s. ISBN .
• Sara Ahmed. Living a Feminist Life. : Duke University Press.
  

  , 2016, s. ISBN .

• Sara Ahmed. Queer Phenomenology. : Duke University Press, 2006, s. ISBN .
• Ewa Majewska. Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common. London: Verso, 2021, s. ISBN .
• Angéla Kóczé, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović and Enikő Vincze. Introduction: Romani Feminist Critique and Gender Politics. In Angéla Kóczé, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović and Enikő Vincze. A Reflexive History of the Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe. . : Routledge, 2019, s. -. ISBN ..
• Legacy Russell. Glitch Feminism. London: Verso, 2020, s. ISBN .

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (11.02.2024)

Syllabus

1. Introduction

2. Wages against Housework (Silvia Federici)

3. Material Conditions for Artistic Production (Virgina Woolf, Linda Nochlin, Audre Lorde)

4. Socialist Internationalism and Feminism (Kristen Ghodsee, Monika Talarczyk and Magda Lipska, Alena Alamgir, Christina Shwenkel)

5. Eastern European Women and Post-Socialist Condition (Agata Pyzik, Barbara Einhorn, Marina Grzinić)

6. Intersectional Feminism (Ethel Brooks, Audre Lorde, bel hooks, Sara Ahmed)

7. Glitch feminism and Cyberfeminism (Donna Haraway, Legacy Russell, Braidotti Rosi)

8. Feminist killjoy (Sara Ahmed, bell hooks)

9. Queer Phenomenology (Sara Ahmed and Butler Judith, Jack Halberstam)

10. Speaking from the Periphery (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Preciado)

11. Reproductive Rights and Family Abolition (Ewa Majewska, Sophie Lewis)

12. Conclusions

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (08.01.2024)