Sumários
6 - Feminisms: the 2nd, 3rd and 4th waves
22 Março 2023, 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 the fourth-wave feminism.
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 ou Ruth Phillips & Viviene E. Cree, 'What does the ‘Fourth Wave’ mean for teaching feminism in 21st century social work?', Social Work Education, 33-7, 2014, pp. 930-943.
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.
5 – Writing a Transnational Gender History of Women’s Activism in Southern Europe and Latin America (1888-1914)
15 Março 2023, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
Lecture by Anne Cova, from the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon: Writing Women’s and Gender History: fundamental references. The 1st Women’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. The foundation of the International Council of Women in 1888. Other national councils are founded in Northern American and European countries; southern countries follow later. Aims and composition of these councils. First leaders of these councils: aristocrats and elite women. The National Council of Portuguese Women (1914-1947): aims and history.
References:
Gisela Bock and Anne Cova, Écrire l’Histoire des femmes en Europe du Sud, XIXe-XXe siècles. Writing Women’s History in Southrn Europe, 19th-20th Centuries, Oeiuras, Celta, 2003.
Anne Cova, «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.
Anne Cova, “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.
Anne Cova, «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.
Anne Cova, “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.
Anne Cova (ed.), Comparative Women’s History, New Approaches, Boulder and NY : SSM and Columbia University Press, 2006.
Feminist Strike 8 March
8 Março 2023, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
There was no class because teacher and students went to the Feminist March 8 March
4. Gender in Art History
1 Março 2023, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
1 - Decades of interrogations: art history and feminist art practices in the 60' and 70' of the 20th century. Feminist approaches to art history since 1970. The 2007 turning point. 2 - Out of order: spaces and themes of feminine art production (16th-17th century). 3 - From exception to exclusion: the 18th century, the academies and women artists. 4 - On the road to professionalism: artistic identity in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century 5 - Artistici identity in the 19th century: the amateur, the worker, the masculine. 6 - The power to look: observed women, observing women. 7 - The "reserves" of Portuguese art history: problems and possibilities. 8 - Thinking the present: between national differences and the globalization of feminisms.
References:
BROUDE, Norma and Mary D. Garrard (eds.), The Power of Feminist Art. The American movement of the 1970s history and impact, Abrams, 1994.
CHADWICK, Whitney, Women, Art and Society, Thames and Hudson, 1990.
CHERRY, Deborah, Painting Women. Victorian women artists, Routledge, 1993.
NOCHLIN, Linda, “Why have there been no great women artists”, ARTnews, January 1971, pp. 22-39, 67-71]
PARKER, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses: Women, Art, and Ideology, Routledge, 1981.
VICENTE, Filipa Lowndes, A arte sem história. Mulheres e cultura artística, (sécs XVI-XX), Babel, 2011.
3. Feminisms: How Far (Back) Can We Go?
22 Fevereiro 2023, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues
What is Feminism? Origins and definitions. Women worthies in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages: Sapho, Hypatia, female mystics, etc. A medieval proto-feminist: Christine de Pisa). First-wave feminists: 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.
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.