Feminism(s): How far (back) can we go?
10 Fevereiro 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
What is Feminism? Origins and definitions. Proto-feminists in the Ancient World (Sapho, Hypatia) and the Middle Ages (female mystics, Christine de Pisan). First-wave feminisms: Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill. The Suffrage movement. Women’s right to vote in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Presentation (by Rute Gomes) and discussion of the article of Joan Kelly, “Early Feminist Theory and the Querelle des Femmes, 1400-1789”, Signs, 8-1, 1982, pp. 4-28.
References:
ANASTÁCIO, Vanda, «Notes on the Querelle des femmes in eighteenth-century Portugal», Portuguese Studies, 31-1, 2015, pp. 49-61.
COVA, Anne, “O conceito de feminismo numa perspetiva histórica”, in Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva e Anne Cova (org.), Estudos sobre as mulheres, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1998, pp. 157-176.
CRAWFORD, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928, London, UCL Press, 1999.
KELLY, Joan, “Early feminist theory and the Querelle des Femmes”, Signs, 8-1 (1982) pp. 4-28.
MAGAREY, Susan, Passions of the First Wave Feminists, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2001
OFFEN, Karen, “Sur l’origine des mots “féminisme” et “féministe”, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 34-3 (1987) pp. 492-496.
TONG, Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, London/N.Y., Routledge, 1989.