Women and Gender in Art History

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

 As the Faculty was shut down, this class could not take place. The students were sent home to follow the MOOC “Queering identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identities” at Coursera and send their answers to a Quizz I prepared for them until 27 March.  

They were also advised to read the following article concerning the subject of this class: Linda Nochlin, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" ARTnews, January 1971, pp. 22-39, 67-71.  
 

Ana Sofia Louro, who was expected to present this article in class and discuss it with me and her fellow students, will send her written presentations on 26 March. 

References: 

COLLINS, Judith and Elsbeth Lindner (ed.), Writing on the Wall. Women Artists on Women Artists, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1993. 

NOCHLIN, Linda and Maura Reilly, Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2015. 

TRASFORINI, Maria Antonieta, Nel Segno delle Artiste. Donne, professioni d’arte e modernità, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007. 

TRASFORINI, Maria Antonieta (ed.), Donne d’Arte. Storie e generazioni, Roma, Meltemi, 2006. 

TRASFORINI, Maria Antonieta (ed.), Arte a Parte. Donne artiste fra margini e centro, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2000. 

VICENTE, Filipa Lowndes, A arte sem história. Mulheres e cultura artística (séculos XVI-XX), Lisboa, Babel, 2012. 

The challenges of Poststructuralism, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism

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

As the Faculty was shut down, this class could not take place. The students were sent home to follow the MOOC “Queering identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identities” at Coursera and send their answers to a Quizz I prepared for them until 27 March. 

They were also advised to read the following articles concerning the subject of this class:  Joan Hoff, “Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis”, Women's History Review, 3-2, 1994, pp. 149-168 and Nancy Partner, “No Sex, No Gender”, Speculum, v. 68, nº1-2, 1993, pp. 419-443. Nora Mathe and Lilian Alencar, who were expected to present these articles in class and discuss them with me and their fellow students, will send their written presentations on 23 March. 

References: 

Victoria Bonnel & Lynn Hunt, Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, Berkeley, 1999. 

Antoinette Burton, “Thinking Beyond the Boundaries: Empire, Feminism and the Domains of History”, Social History, v. 12, nº1, 2001, pp. 60-71. 

Laura Dee Downs, “If “Woman” is Just an Empty Category, Then Why Am I Afraid to Walk Alone at Night? Identity Politics Meets the Postmodern Subject”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 1993, pp. 414-437.   

Patrick Joyce, “History and Postmodernism”, Past and Present, 133, Nov. 1991. 

Clare Midgeley, Gender and Imperialism, Manchester, 1997. 

Kevin Passmore, “Postructuralism and History”, in Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner & Kevin Passmore (eds.), Writing History: Theory and Practice, London, 2003, pp. 118-140. 

Turning to gender

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

The difference between Sex and Gender. The criticism to the invariant character of Sex and the concept of Biology. The gendered human body according the Greeks, the Roman and in medieval times. Thomas Laqueur’s “one sex theory”. The impact of the Renaissance and the changes brought by the Scientific Revolution.  The representations of the human skeleton in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sexual differences and racial differences. 

Presentation by Inês Olaia, and discussion of the article of Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075. 

References: 

BOCK, Gisela, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, Gender & History, 1-1, 1989, pp. 7-30. 

DOWNS, Laura Lee. Writing Gender History. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004.  

SCOTT, Joan Wallach, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075.  

SCHIEBINGER, Londa, “Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy”, in Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur (ed.), The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987, pp. 42-82. 

SCHIEBINGER, Londa, The Mind has no Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1991. 

From History as a Science to Women’s and Gender History 2

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

The years 1960s: the emergence of Women’s History. The contributory or accumulation phase.  Achievements and impasses in women’s history. The turn to gender. Effects of the introduction of the concept of gender. The situation in Portugal. 

Presentation (by Ana Moreira and Nikolina Barisic) and discussion of the articles of Joan Kelly, ‘Did Women Have a Renaissance?’, in Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz (eds), Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1977, pp. 137–164 and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, ‘Do Women Need the Renaissance?’, Gender & History, 20-3, 2008, pp. 539–557. 

References: 

DOWNS, Laura Lee. Writing Gender History. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004. 

SCOTT, Joan Wallach, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075. 

SMITH, Bonnie. The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1998. 

TAVARES, Manuela. Feminismos. Percursos e desafios (1947-2007). Alfragide: Texto, 2010. 

THÉBAUD, Françoise. Écrire l’histoire des femmes.  2e ed. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2001. 

VAQUINHAS, Irene. Impacte dos estudos sobre as mulheres na produção científica nacional – o caso da História. Ex-aequo, 6, 2002, pp. 147-174. 

Feminism(s): The Four Waves

17 Fevereiro 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

Origins and foundations of second-wave feminism. Liberal, radical and cultural feminism. The backlash and the critique of second-wave feminism. Third-wave feminism: girl power, riot grrrls and guerrilla girls. #MeToo and fourth-wave feminism.

Presentation (by Rayssa Neves) and discussion of the article of Stacy Gillis & Rebecca Munford, “Genealogies and generations: the politics and praxis of third wave feminism”, Women's History Review, 13:2, 2004, pp. 165-182.

References:

BURKETT, Elinor and Laura Brunell, “Feminism”, Encyclopaedia Britannica, online: https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism

DEAN, Jonathan, “Who’s Afraid of Third Wave Feminism? On the Uses of the ‘Third Wave’ in British Feminist Politics”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11-3 (2009) pp. 334-352.

MANN, Susan Archer and Douglas J. Hufmann, “The Decentering of Second-Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave”, Science & Society, 69-1 (2005) pp. 56-91.

TONG, Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, London/N.Y., Routledge, 1989.