New feminist theories 3002-KON2020K42-OG

The course will offer an introduction to the contemporary research fields related to feminist studies. It will seek to critically present a variety of perspectives conceptualised within feminist thought in order to examine the polemical and dialogical relationship between classic feminist theories and its modern reinterpretations. The seminar will familiarise students with such issues as, among others, feminist epistemology, concepts of local and transnational feminism, feminist perspectives on power, feminist practises of resistance, as well as nonheteronormative, queer and ecological approaches within the feminist movement. Each meeting will be complemented by references to the history of Anglo-American and Polish feminism with the purpose of organising knowledge concerning the program of particular feminist waves, and characterizing specific concepts growing up in their framework.

The preliminary list of literature:
• bell hooks, Theory as Liberatory Practice, „Yale Journal of Law and Feminism” 1991, nr 4 (1), s. 1-12.
• Adrienne Rich, Notes Toward a Politics of Location, [w:] A. Rich, Blood, bread and poetry: selected prose, 1979-1985, Virago 1986, s. 210-231.
• Linda Alcoff, The Problem of Speaking for Others, „Cultural Critique” 1991, nr 20 (20), s. 5-32.
• Chandra Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, „Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism”, Duke University Press 1984, nr 12 (13), s. 333-358.
• Maria Lugones, Toward a Decolonial Feminism, „Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy” 2010, nr 25 (4), s. 742-759.
• Joanna Mizielińska, O kategorii kobiet w myśli feministycznej, [w:] J. Mizielińska, Płeć, ciało, seksualność. Od feminizmu do teorii queer, Kraków 2007.
• Ewa Majewska, Słaby opór. Siła bezsilnych, [w:] E. Majewska, Tramwaj zwany uznaniem. Feminizm i solidarność po neoliberalizmie, Warszawa 2017, s. 25-43.
• Monika Baer, Pułapki tożsamości: kilka uwag o kategoriach płci w narracjach gender studies, „ER(R)GO. Teoria–Literatura–Kultura” 2004, nr 2 (9), s. 119-132.
• Leila Rupp & Taylor Verta, Forging Feminist Identity in an International Movement: A Collective Identity Approach to Twentieth Century Feminism, „Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society” 1999, nr 24 (21), s. 363-386.
• Monique Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman. [w:] M. Witting, The straight mind and other essays, Boston 1981, s. 9-21.
• Rebecca Solnit, Najdłuższa wojna, [w:] R. Solnit, Mężczyźni objaśniają mi świat, przeł, A. Dzierzgowska, Kraków 2017, s. 25-49.
• Judith Butler, Ciała w porozumieniu i polityka ulicy, przeł. E. Mikina, „Magazyn Sztuki” 2012, nr 2 (1), s. 28-47.
• Justyna Struzik & Greta Gober, Feministyczna transnarodowa diaspora w działaniu. Przypadek Czarnego Protestu. „Praktyka Teoretyczna: Feminist Movements in Central and Eastern Europe” 2019, nr 4, s. 129-152.
• Gayle Rubin, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality, [w:] Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. red. C. S. Vance. Londyn 1992, s. 267-293.
• Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life, rozdz. 3 (Living the Consequences), Duke University Press 2017, s. 213-235.
• Gloria Anzaldua, La Frontera: The New Mestiza, rozdz. 3, Spinsters/AuntLute, San Francisco 1987, s. 25-39.
• Mimi Marinucci, Notes Toward a Queer Feminism, rozdz. 4 (Queer Feminism), [w:] M. Marinucci, Feminism is Queer: The intimate connection between queer and feminist theory, Zed Books Londyn & Nowy Jork 2010, s. 105-115.
• Rosi Braidotii, Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism, [w:] Anthropocene Feminism, red. R. Grusins, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & Londyn 2017, s. 21-49.
• Donna Haraway, Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble, [w:] Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, red. E. Gan, A. Tsing, H. Swanson, N. Bubandt, University of Minnesota Press 2017, s. 25-51.