Feminism and the Enviromental Movements - YMG158

• Title: Feminism and the Environmental Movements
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 2/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (25); summer:unknown / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Michal Pavlíček (25.08.2015)

This course introduces students to the intersection of feminism and the environmental movement. Together we explore why feminism grounds itself in a deep concern for the environment as well as the link between feminist theory and the current environmental crisis. We survey the background and history of the movement as well as its contemporary diversity. In addition, this course investigates the origins of the current environmental crisis in Western science, philosophy and religion and devotes considerable time to the following topics in ecofeminist thought: politics, responsible citizenship, economics, materialism, ethics, animals, vegetarianism and religion. While examining various feminist critiques of this situation, we concentrate mostly on feminist solutions to the crisis.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D. (25.02.2020)

The examinations are: an in-class mid-term (35%), final paper (40%)  and class attendance/participation (25%).