GEN102 History of Women's and Feminist Movement

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martina Kampichler, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petra Zářecká (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Division of Gender Studies – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Thu 18:00–19:30 P52
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to give students an overview of the historical development of the women’s movement and of the most important topics of feminism and women's activism. It is divided into three topical areas, dealing with the first and the second wave of feminism as well as the current Czech context. The course mainly concentrates on examples from the Czech and Anglo-American context (because of its importance for the development of today’s feminist and gender discourse).
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to explain the forming of the women's movement as a social movement and give information about the major women thinkers, whose ideas formed a kind of vanguard for the later organized movement. They understand the periodization of women's activism in the form of waves, are able to differentiate and describe the major topics, organizational specifics and selected key persons, who influenced women's activism of the first and the second wave in the Anglo-American and Czech context. Furthermore, students have an overview of the basic literature concerning the topic and are able to use it independently as well as research supplementary sources of information.
Syllabus
  • 1. Course introduction.
  • 2. Defining selected key terms of the course.
  • The first wave of the women's movement.
  • 3. Vanguards or the making of the modern women. Gender history vs. women’s history.
  • 4. Legal equality. Women’s suffrage. Education.
  • 5. The Czech lands in the 19. century. Czechoslovakia: the First Republic.
  • 6. Women's space, representation and self-expression. Anti-feminism and the cult of domesticity.
  • 7. Women and the Second World War and in times of state socialism.
  • The second wave of the women's movement
  • 8. Women’s liberation, sexuality and reproduction.
  • 9. Activism, the peace movement and the origins of the global women’s movement.
  • The Czech republic after 1989
  • 10. The developments in the 1990s – Media, academy and activism.
  • 11. The development and current situation of women's NGOs.
Literature
  • Dívčí válka s ideologií :klasické texty angloamerického feministického myšlení. Edited by Libora Oates-Indruchová, Translated by Hana Hájková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998, 304 s. ISBN 80-85850-67-2. info
  • BOCK, Gisela. Ženy v evropských dějinách : od středověku do současnosti. Translated by Alexej Kusák. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007, 381 s. ISBN 9788071064947. info
  • ABRAMS, Lynn. Zrození moderní ženy : Evropa 1789-1918. Translated by Eva Lajkepová. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005, 367 s. ISBN 8073250608. info
  • PUGH, Martin. Women and the women's movement in Britain : 1914-1999. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000, xii, 387. ISBN 0333732650. info
  • NEUDORFLOVÁ, Marie L. České ženy v 19. století :úsilí a sny, úspěchy i zklamání na cestě k emancipaci. Praha: Janua, 1999, 446 s. ISBN 80-902622-2-8. info
Teaching methods
The course is organized in the form of lectures and seminar discussions. The students hand in regular course work dealing with the course reading, based on which they learn key points from as well as working individually with the course literature. Lectures, seminar discussions and feed back to the regular course work complement and deepen as well as help the students to understand and link the presented information. The final paper, (written in groups) gives students the opportunity to deal with one of the course topics (according to their own choice) in more detail. They train targeted research of additional literature as well as its use and structured processing.
Assessment methods
During the semester it is necessary to hand in 5 short assignments (in the form of research, abstracts etc. - cf. the course syllabus) dealing with the course readings. Each assignment is worth 5 points (all in all 25 points). A written exam will be held at one of the course sessions by the end of the term, with questions related to the lectures as well as the relevant literature for to the lectures, mainly dealing with important specifics, key persons and texts of the first (Czech and Anglo-American context) as well as the second wave (Anglo-American/European non-socialist context) of the women's movement. From the test students might obtain 25 points. The last assignment is writing the final paper (approx. 2000 words) in groups of approx. 4 students. The aim of the paper is to discuss in more detail one of the courses central topics. This paper is worth 50 points.
For successfully completing the course students need a minimum of 60 points (out of 100).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Určeno pouze pro studenty a studentky oboru Gender studia.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017.
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