GEN502 History of Women's and Feminist Movement

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martina Kampichler, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Porkertová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Sat 20. 9. 9:00–10:15 exP21, Sat 18. 10. 9:00–10:15 exP21, Sat 29. 11. 9:00–10:15 exP21
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
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Course objectives
The aim of this course, which is taught on Bachelor’s level, is to give a general overview of the historical development of the women’s movement and feminism – mainly from a topical point of view. The course concentrates on examples from the Czech as well as the Anglo-American context (because of its importance for the development of today’s feminist and gender discourse). 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 first area presents the main topics of the women’s movement’s first wave, also including basic approaches of women’s history as well as examples of women thinkers, who were active before the women’s movement formed as a social movement, however constituted a kind of vanguard for this later movement. The course moves on dealing with the context, forms and central topics of the second wave, mainly of the English as well as Western European women’s movements. The final topical area presents the developments in the Czech context after 1989. After successfully completing the course, students will have a basic knowledge of feminism and the women’s movement and their central topics as it developed in the Anglo-American as well as European context as well as of key personalities and works that influenced this development.
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
Assessment methods
Students work individually with the study materials based on the instructions given during the three consultations (contact day) as well as provided via mail or on the information system of the MU (IS MU).

Terms for successful course completion:

Regular course work in the form of 5 short assignments related to the course readings.
A written exam, with questions related to the main topics of the course and the related readings.
The elaboration of a final paper in groups of approx. 4 students. The aim of these papers is to engage in greater detail in one of the courses central topics.
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 Genderová studia.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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