Sumários
Revision for exam
8 Janeiro 2025, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Today's class was dedicated to the revision of the main concepts of each chunk of the program in view of the final exam.
Queer ecofeminism + Beyond the gender binary
20 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
We finished our discussion on Gaard's text on queer ecofeminism and drew some conclusions about ecofeminist approaches. We also looked at some passages of Alok Vaid-Menon's text "Beyond the gender binary" + video on YouTube (Performance of "Trans/generation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLPwZZjMqyI).
Queer ecofeminism/1
18 Dezembro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Today we discussed the theoretical premises of Gaard's argument on queer ecofeminism, namely her use of Plumwood's critique of classical logic in order to introduce the further binary structure heterosexism vs. queer, based - according to her - on erotophobia and the naturalization of sexuality, something that we also see reflected in various historical contexts (the development of Christianity, witch-hunting, colonization, etc.).
Simone de Beauvoir
23 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Chiara Nifosi
We discussed the main topics of today's reading, Simone de Beauvoir's introduction to The Second Sex, namely the idea of women's biological destiny, the process of othering in the context of a master-slave relationship to men, the existentialist approach and terminology used by de Beauvoir to frame her discourse on gender-based oppression (the original mitsein, immanence and transcendence).