Syllabus
1. 3 October: Introductory class
- Introduction to class` requirements
- To secure your spot in the class: Read the texts for the first class and write an essay in which you apply the analytical tool from the text to a particular empirical case (heated issues, public debates, etc.). Please send your essays (+ 3 questions for the class) to my e-mail address eva.svatonova@ff.cuni.cz by Sunday (9 October). 2. 10 October: Theoretical framework: Conceptualizing Opposition and Oppositional Dynamics
Roggeband, C. (2017) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Making Sense of Opposition to Feminisms from a Social-Movement Perspective. In Verloo, M.: Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe, New York & London: Routledge, p. 19 – 37.
Delap, Lucy (2005). Feminist and anti-feminist encounters in Edwardian Britain. Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 2005, Vol.78 (201), p.377-399 3. 17 October: Womanhood and Nationalism
Davis, N. Y. (1997) Chapter 2: Women and the Biological Reproduction of the Nation. In Davis, N.Y.: Gender & Nation, London: SAGE.
Malečková, J. (2016). The Importance of Being Nationalist. In Jusová, I. & Šiklová, J.: Czech Feminisms. Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 46 – 59. 4. 24 October: Suffrage
Rubio-Marín, Ruth. 2014. ‘The achievement of female suffrage in Europe: on women’s citizenship.’ pp. 4-34.
Bush, J. (2007) British women`s anti-suffragism and the forward policy, 1908 – 1914, Women`s History Review, 11:3, 431 – 454. 5. 31 October: Feminism and Race
Davis, A. (1981). Chapter 4: Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement. In Angela Davis: Women, Race & Class, Penguine books, pp. 61 – 75.
Davis, A. (1981). Chapter 7: Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism. In Angela Davis: Women, Race & Class, Penguine books, pp. 97 – 112.
Zakaria, R. (2021). In the Beginning, There were white women. In Rafia Zakaria: Against White Feminism, Penguin Books, pp. 13 – 27. 6. 7 November: Black feminism and Intersectionality.
The Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977), Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2014), 271-280, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24365010.pdf.
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, pp. 1241 – 1299. 7. 14 November: Gender and Gender studies
Delphy, Christine. 1993. ‘Rethinking Sex and Gender.’ pp. 1-9.
Scott, J.W. (1986). Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis. The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1053 – 1075.
Meyerowitz, J. (2008). A History of ”Gender”. The American Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 5, pp. 1346 – 1356. 8. 21 November: Anti-gender Movement
Paternotte, D. & Kuhar, R. (2017). “Gender ideology” in movement: Introduction. In Roman Kuhar & David Paternotte: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe. Mobilizing against Equality, London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 1 – 22.
Graff, A. & Korolczuk, E. (2022). Introduction: The Demonization of ”Gender” and the Crisis of Democracy. In Graff, A. & Korolczuk, E.: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment.
Buss, D. & Herman, D. (2003). Introduction. In Doris Buss & Didi Herman: Globalizing Family Values. The Christian Right in International Politics, University of Minnesota Press.
Buss, D. & Herman, D. (2003). Chapter 6: The Gender Agenda: Women`s Rights, Radical Feminism, and Homosexuality. In Doris Buss & Didi Herman: Globalizing Family Values. The Christian Right in International Politics, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 100 – 128.
Optional:
Butler, J. (2021). Why is the idea of `gender` provoking backlash the world over, The Guardian, Online: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash 9. 28 November: Queer Theory – identity politics?
Fausto-Sterling, A. (1994). ‘The Five Sexes: Why males and females are not enough.’ pp. 20-24.
Lorber, J. (2006). Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Categories’. pp. 448-452.
Risman, B. (2009). ‘From Doing to Undoing: Gender as We Know It.’ pp.81-84.
Wilchins, R. (2004). ‘Butler and the Problem of Identity.’ pp.123-139.
Butler, Judith. 2012. Your Behavior Creates Your Gender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRw4H8YWoDA 10. 5 December: Feminism and Neoliberalism
Fraser, N. (2013) Feminism, capitalism, and the cunning of history. New Left Rev 56: 97 – 117.
Ghodsee, K.R. (2021). The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: The Curious Tale of Feminism and Capitalism in Eastern Europe. In Katharina Bluhm et al. (eds.) Gender and Power in Eastern Europe. Changing Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity in Power Relations, Springer, pp. 15 – 24.
Graff, A. (2021) Blaming Feminists Is Not Understanding History: A Critical Rejoinder to Ghodsee`s Take on Feminism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism in Eastern Europe, pp. 25 – 34.
Optional:
Faludi, S. (2013). Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not. Online: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/facebook-feminism-like-it-or-not 11. 12 December: Family abolitionism
Lewis, Sophie (2022, upcoming). Abolish the Family. A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. Verso. 12. 19 December: Feminist West, backward East?
Farris, S. (2017). Introduction: In the Name of Women`s Rights. In Sara R. Farris: In the Name of Women`s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism, Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 1 – 21.
Scott, J.W. (2018). Introduction: The Discourse of Secularism. In Joan Wallach Scott: Sex and Secularism, pp. 1 – 30.
Mohanty, C.T. (1984). Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. Boundary 2, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 333 – 358. 13. 2 January 2023: Futures of Feminism: Is there a feminist “we”?
Graff, A. & Koroloczuk, E. (2022). Counteracting anti-gender movements. Toward a populist feminism? In Graff, A. & Korolczuk, E. Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment.
Lépinard, E. (2020). Conclusion: Revisiting the “We” of Feminism. In Éléonore Lepinard: Feminist Trouble. Intersectional Politics in Postsecular Times, Oxford University Press, pp. 234 – 250.
Mohanty, C. T. (2003). “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles. Signs, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 499 – 535.
Annotation
Lately, scholars, activists and journalists all around the world began noticing, describing and interpreting a global wave of mobilizations against gender equality and/or sexual citizenship and against scholarship dealing with sexual and gender diversity. Such efforts materialized, for instance, in ban of abortion in Poland or the reversal of Roe vs.
Wade by Supreme Court in the US. This course focuses on anti-feminism as an important source in political debates on gender equality.
It offers an introduction into key literature and analytical tools for understanding the recent development and its historical background. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature from gender studies, political science and sociology, the course aims at examining the trajectories and development of interactions between feminist and anti-feminist movements through historical and relational lenses.