26015 - Women's Movements Worldwide - I Movimenti delle Donne nel Mondo

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Docente: Sara Delmedico
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Learning outcomes

The student possesses an in-depth knowledge of feminist historiography and of the origin of women's history in different cultural contexts. He acquires methodological tools that will allow him to research autonomously in these areas.

Course contents

This module deals with the history of women and gender relations in the contemporary age. Through lectures and critical reading of original sources, the course aims to trace the path to women’s emancipation and the construction of female citizenship by analysing the social, political and economic level. The practices and theories, changes and continuities of historical women’s associations throughout the waves of feminism and its many facets will be examined in the framework of the national and transnational experiences.

Readings/Bibliography

Bonnie Smith (ed.), Global Feminism since 1945 (Routledge, 2000).

Maud Anne Bracke, Women and the Reinvention of the Political: Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983 (Routledge, 2014).

Nancy Fraser, Fortunes of Feminism (Verso, 2013).

Perry Willson, Women in Twentieth Century Italy (Palgrave, 2009).

Teaching methods

-Lectures

-Seminars with discussion and critical analysis of documents.

Assessment methods

-Attending students

Oral examination on 1 book from the reading list + 1 written paper (the topic should be approved by the professor)

-Not attending students

Oral examination on 2 books chosen from the reading list.

 

Office hours

See the website of Sara Delmedico