Feminism and Art History - YMGS654

• Title: Feminism and Art History
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 30 (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: 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.
• Teacher(s): Denisa Tomková, M.Sc., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. If a course is shared, BA students may register for the bachelor’s version of the course, identified by a course code beginning with “YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBAJ246, YBLO001

Annotation

The aim of the course is to provide an overview of key feminist texts with reference to artistic creation and the development of visual art and in dialogue with them. The course aims to familiarize students with critical issues addressed by the feminist movement from the 20th and 21st centuries to the present. The course is based on reading and discussing texts, which will be supplemented in class with examples from 20th and 21st century art and curatorship. The course will introduce feminist themes such as: the male gaze, wages for domestic work, the visibility of female artists in art history, feminist curating, art studios, intersectional feminism, witch-hunt, glitch feminism, cyberfeminism, and feminist killjoy. How does contemporary art respond to these political programs and how does it offer alternative or emancipatory narratives?

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (23.01.2026)

Course completion requirements

Bachelor’s Students - 4 credits Class attendance (maximum 2 absences), active participation in discussions, reading of required readings. Final assignment: A critical summary of 5 selected lectures from the semester.

- credits without a grade

Master’s Students - 6 credits Class attendance (maximum 2 absences), active participation in discussions, reading of required readings. Final assignment: A critical summary of 5 selected lectures from the semester. Final written exam.

- credits with a grade

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (23.01.2026)

Syllabus

23.2 Introduction

2.3 Women Artists

9.3 The Male Gaze

16.3 Wages Against Housework

23.3 !Women Art Revolution

30.3 Feminist Curating

6.4 Public Holiday

13.4 Gallery Visit

20.4 Witch-hunt and Women

27.4 Intersectional Feminism

4.5 Glitch and cyberfeminism

11.5 Feminist Killjoy

18.5 Conclusion

Last update: Tomková Denisa, M.Sc., Ph.D. (03.02.2026)