Feminist Political Theory - YMGS614

• Title: Feminist Political Theory
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2023)

The course covers three major topics of feminist political-theoretical thinking: the feminist challenge of foundational categories (public/private, state), democracy, and the state of feminist movements and political action today. Besides explaining the most important strands of feminist political theorizing in the past 30 years, the course aims at critical understanding of recent happenings and their theoretical redescription. The course is taught seminar-style, i.e. it consists mainly of the discussion of assigned readings and other materials. Formal lecturing will be kept to a minimum.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2023)

Course schedule and mandatory readings

Week 1 (February 13, 2023) Introduction

No mandatory readings.

 

Week 2 (February 20, 2023) Private/public divide

Okin, S. M. (1982). Women and the making of the sentimental family. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 11(1), 65-88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265043

 

Week 3 (February 27, 2023) Feminist democratic theory

Dietz, M. (2002). Turning operations : feminism, Arendt, and politics. Routledge. Chapter 1: Context is all : reconsidering feminism and citizenship, pp. 21 – 42.

 

Week 4 (March 6, 2023) Democratic representation

Phillips, A. (1998). Democracy and representation : or, why should it matter who our representatives are? In A. Phillips (Ed.), Feminism and politics (pp. 224 – 240). Oxford University Press.

 

Week 5 (March 13, 2023) Democratic argumentation

Norval, A. J. (2007). Aversive democracy : inheritance and originality in the democratic tradition. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2: Democratic argumentation: rhetoric and imagination, pp. 56 – 104.

 

March 13, 2023 in class Reaction paper topics assigned

March 19, 2023 23:59 Reaction paper deadline

 

Week 6 (March 20, 2023) Choice feminism and depoliticization

Ferguson, M. L. (2010). Choice feminism and the fear of politics. Perspectives on Politics, 8(1), 247-253. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1537592709992830

 

March 26, 2023 23:59 Reaction paper – deadline for peer feedback

 

Week 7 (March 27, 2023) Anti-gender movements and the crisis of liberal democracy

Kováts, E. (2017). The emergence of powerful anti-gender movements in Europe and the crisis of liberal democracy. In M. Köttig, R. Bitzan, & A. Petö (Eds.), Gender and far right politics in Europe (pp. 175-189). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6_12

 

Week 8 (April 3, 2023) Anti-gender movements and the crisis of liberal democracy – contd.

We will discuss case studies from our respective countries. Please, pick an article you would like to read from the recommended literature.

Week 9 (April 10, 2023) Easter Monday

 

Week 10 (April 17, 2023) Violence and self-defense

Dorlin, E. (2022). Self-defense : a philosophy of violence. Verso. Chapter: Reprisals, location 2552 – 2968.

 

Week 11 (April 24, 2023) Democracy in the political present

Lorey, I. (2022). Democracy in the political present : a queer-feminist theory. Verso. Introduction, pp. 50 – 277, Chapter 6: Presentist democracy, location 2239 – 2748.

 

Week 12 (May 1, 2023) Labor Day

Week 13 (May 8, 2023) Victory Day

 

May 14, 2023 23:59 Final research paper – abstract submission deadline

 

Week 14 (May 15, 2023) Feminist strike and feminist internationalism

Gago, V. (2020). Feminist International : how to change everything (L. Mason-Deeze, Trans.). London & New York: Verso. Chapter 1: #WeStrike : toward a political theory of the feminist strike, pp. 9 – 56; Chapter 6: The Feminist International, pp. 181 – 210.

 

May 20, 2023 23:59 Final research paper – deadline for peer-feedback on abstracts

 

Syllabus can be subject to change during the semester.