Course detail

Feminist Seminar 2

FaVU-FEMS2Acad. year: 2020/2021

Lecture and seminar series Feminist seminar 2 follows the pluralist notion of feminism introduced in Feminist seminar 1 and presents further topics concerning the emancipation of women and social justice issues.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will further their acquaintance with feminism and expand their knowledge of feminist issues.

Prerequisites

A keen interest in feminism and social justice issues. Feminist seminar 1 participation or the knowledge of feminist theory covered by Feminist seminar 1 curriculum. Willingness to read in English.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures and seminar sessions. Each lecture will introduce one feminist issue via engagement with related texts, the subsequent seminar will facilitate discussion about thoughts introduced in the lecture. In preparation for the lecture students will be required to read one of recommended texts. One of the sessions will be covered by a presentation of a guest lecturer from the field of feminist studies.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credits awarded on the basis of home preparation (reading of recommended texts) and lecture and seminar participation. In case of a number of absences: writing a paper on one of the feminist issues discussed in seminars.

Course curriculum

1. Intersections of Struggles Against Oppression — gender, race and class inequality, heteronormativity, ableism, ageism, environmental violence, colonizing and extractivism, subjects of feminism/feminisms, forms of social relations hospitable to diversity and difference.
2. Health and Care, Illness and Disability — self-help communities, production and circulation of knowledge about sexual and reproductive health technologies (DIY, DIWO and DITO, knowledge commons, open source, self-experimentation, biohacking), biopower and the production of health and disease, exposed bodies, disability and ableism, crip, epistemology of pain, leaky bodies, networks of support.
3. Prostitution and Pornography — sex as work and „pornification“ of work, sexuality and the politics of representation, obscenity and codes of visibility.
4. Transfeminism and Gender Abolitionism — cis/trans, expanding the definition of gender justice, proliferation of bodily/sexual difference, let a hundred sexes bloom, antinaturalism, technomaterialism and gender abolitionism in xenofeminism, xenohospitality, trans health.
5. Feminist Practice — feminist principles in individual, collective and institutional practice, feminism and academy, art world and feminism.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course aspires to initiate a debate about social justice issues and the ways of their addressing in art, theory and activism.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Compulsory attendance (80%).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Lecture

5 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Lenka Veselá, M.A., Ph.D.

Seminar

8 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Richard Fajnor

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Feminist Seminar 2

Type of course unit