Feminist Studies

Code:

MEAAM008

Acronym:

EF

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEAA	5	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	8	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The aim of this seminar is to debate the question of sexual difference as a social construction, showing the way it influences literary production and, in that sense, to study the importance of Feminist Studies and of Queer Theory for an understanding of the poetic phenomenon (in its broader sense).

Program

Entering the academy in the Anglo-American space in the end of the 1970’s, Feminist Studies provided new approaches to the literary text and a new understanding of the aesthetic phenomenon. Its constitution as a discipline emerged from the feminist movements of the so called Second Wave, which, on their turn, carried on the social and political action of the feminist movements of the First Wave. However, if the feminists of the First Wave insisted on the need for equality, the feminists of the Second Wave insisted on the issue of difference. From the 90’s on, the Third Wave will propose the deconstruction of differences, and even of the very notion of identity. In order to show the pertinence of these perspectives, we shall focus on the reading and discussion of the most significant feminist theoretical texts (First, Second and Third Waves) and of Queer Theory, and on the analysis of poems and short stories.

Mandatory literature

Macedo, Ana Gabriela, org; Género, identidade e desejo: antologia crítica do feminismo contemporâneo., Cotovia, 2002
Weed, Elizabeth e Naomi Schor, eds; Feminism Meets Queer Theory, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002.
Braidotti, Rosi; Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory , New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Woolf, Virginia; A Room of One's Own, London: Penguin , 1945 [1928]

Evaluation Type

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	36,00
	Total:	-	0,00