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.