Queer Theory

4 Maio 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

The Faculty being shut down, there was no class. 
As stated before, the students were advised to follow the MOOC “Queering identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identities” at Coursera to replace this class. 

Filipa Matta, who should have made the presentation and discussion of the article of Jonathan Kempe, “Queer Past, Queer Present, Queer Future”, Graduate Journal of Social Science, 6-1, 2001, pp. 3-23, annulled her enrolment in this class. 

LGBTIQ+ and Sexuality Studies

27 Abril 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

The Faculty being shut down, there was no class.
As stated before, the students were advised to follow the MOOC “Queering identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identities” at Coursera to replace this and next week's class.

Susana Crespo, who should have made the presentation and discussion of the article of Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality”, in H. Abelove; M. A. Barale; D. M. Halperin, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, New York, Routledge, 1994, pp. 143-178, sent me her written presentation in April 2. 

Oral presentation of the students' projects for the final essay

20 Abril 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

As the Faculty is shut down, this class did not take place.

Women’s Associativism at the turn of the 20th century

6 Abril 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

As the Faculty was shut down, Prof. Anne Cova could not give her scheduled lecture, but her PowerPoint will be uploaded in the e-learning platform. 

Students were advised to read Professor  Cova’s article  “The National Councils of Women in France, Italy and Portugal: Comparisons and Entanglements, 1888-1939”, in Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug (eds.), Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders, Berghan Books, 2014, pp. 46-76. 

Maria de Siqueira, who was scheduled to present and debate this article, should have sent me her written presentation on 30 March. 

References (Anne Cova’s articles): 

«Legal Position of Women in Portugal: The Case of the Standing Committee on Legislation of the National Council of Portuguese Women (CNMP), 1914–1947», in Sara L. Kimble and Marion Rowekamp (Eds), New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 376-393. 

«Feminisms and Associativism: the national councils of women in France and Portugal, a comparative historical approach, 1888-1939», Women’s History Review, vol. 22, nº1, 2013, pp. 19-30. 

“Mulheres e globalização: os conselhos nacionais de mulheres (Brasil, França, Itália e Portugal, 1888-1939)”, in Isabel Lousada, Maria José Gonçalves (Eds.), Women, Science and Globalization: What’s Up?, Lisboa, Minerva, 2012, pp. 97-120. 

 “International Feminisms in Historical Comparative Perspective: France, Italy and Portugal, 1880’s-1930’s”, Women’s History Review, vol. 19, nº4, September 2010, pp. 595-612. 

"O associativismo das mulheres. Uma abordagem comparativa, França e Portugal (1900-1918)" in José Vicente Serrão, Magda de Avelar e Ferreira Pinheiro, Maria de Fatima Sá e Melo (Orgs.), Desenvolvimento económico e mudança social. Portugal nos últimos dois séculos. Homenagem à Miriam Halpern Pereira, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009, pp. 333-348.  

“Mulheres e associativismo em França, Itália e Portugal (1888-1939)”, in Manuel Villaverde Cabral, Karin Wall, Sofia Aboim e Filipe Carreira da Silva (dir.), Itinerários. A investigação nos 25 anos do ICS, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2008, pp. 583-602. 

Men's Studies

30 Março 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

As the Faculty was shut down, this class could not take place.  The PPT concerning this class will nevertheless be put in the e-learning platform: The origins of Men’s Studies. Feminism and the anxiety about Men’s Studies. Types of Men’s Studies: the mythopoetic movement; men’s rights lobby; pro-feminist Men’s Studies. Hegemonic masculinity. Toxic masculinity. Protest masculinity. Men’s studies today. 

Students were advised to read the article of John Tosh, “The History of Masculinity: An Outdated Concept?”, in John Arnold and Sean Brady (eds.), What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 17-34.  

Emiliano Santos, who was scheduled to present and debate this article, will send me his written presentation on 9 April.  

References: 

Adams, R. e D. Savran (eds.), The Masculinity Studies Reader, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2002.  

Connell, R., Gender and Power, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1987.  

Connell, R., Masculinities, Cambridge, Polity, 1995 (2nd ed., 2005).  

Donaldson, M. “What is hegemonic masculinity?” Theory and Society, 22 (1993), pp. 643-657. 

Downs, L. L., Writing Gender History, London, Hodder Arnold, 2004. 

Traister, B. “Academic Viagra: The Rise of American Masculinity Studies,” American Quarterly, 52/2 (June 2000), pp. 274-304.