GENDER STUDIES
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: STEFANIA ARCARAExpected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) The objective of the course is the acquisition of the knowledge and comprehension of the theories that have transformed the notion of gender in relation to other notions such as sex and sexuality, difference and differences, the body, subjectivity and identity. 2) The Course intends to enhance new theoretical and critical abilities by drawing on feminist epistemology whose perspectives can be profitably employed in the production of new knowledge. The notion of gender will be used as a tool to focus on the interconnections between self and other, culture and society, the social and symbolic dimensions as well as several aspects of representation. 3) Students of Gender Studies will investigate not just “the condition of women” as subjects and objects of enquiry, the relationships between men and women, or same-sex relationships, but they will learn how to recognize and exercise independent judgement on issues and conceptual categories relating to subjects and phenomena of the social and cultural imaginary. 4) Students will be able to describe social phenomena and artistic and literary representations from the point of view of gender, using the vocabulary and the concepts developed by philosophical and political theories in the field of Gender Studies. 5) The objective of developing and refining the students’ learning capacity with regard to gender theories and gender analysis of social and cultural phenomena will be achieved through workshop activities and the active participation of students in the classroom. |
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Textbook Information
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| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
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Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General introduction to feminism | Woolf |
| 2 | women and writing | Woolf |
| 3 | Analysis of Woolf's A Room of One's Own | Woolf |
| 4 | De Beauvoir's theory | De Beauvoir |
| 5 | Analysis of De Beauvoir's Preface to The Second Sex | De Beauvoir |
| 6 | The 1970s, Italy: Lonzi and Wages against Housework | Ardilli, introduction; Lonzi, Federici |
| 7 | The 1970s, USA | Redstockings, Radicalesbians, Combahee River Collective |
| 8 | French materialist feminism | Wittig |
| 9 | French materialist feminism | Delphy, Guillaumin |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
There will be an (optional) written in-progress test with multiple-choice and open-ended questions on the course topics. Those who pass the written in-progress test will be examined orally on an essay of their choice from those scheduled for each of the two modules. The final mark will be the result of the average of the two partial marks (of the written test and the oral examination).
The written examination will be conducted in English for those enrolled in the Master's degree programme in Foreign Languages; in Italian for those enrolled in all the other courses.
The assessment of the oral examination will take into account the candidate's mastery of the contents and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical property (both in Italian and in English), as well as his/her ability to argue. For those who take the written in-progress test, the final mark will be the result of the average of the two partial marks.
The oral test will be held in English for those enrolled in the Master's degree course in Foreign Languages; in Italian for those enrolled in all the other courses.
The learning assessment may also be conducted online, should the conditions require it.