Syllabus
Introduction
Wages against Housework (Silvia Federici)
Material Conditions for Artistic Production (Virgina Woolf, Linda Nochlin, Audre Lorde)
Socialist Internationalism and Feminism (Kristen Ghodsee, Monika Talarczyk and Magda Lipska, Alena Alamgir, Christina Shwenkel)
Eastern European Women and Post-Socialist Condition (Agata Pyzik, Barbara Einhorn, Marina Grzinić)
Intersectional Feminism (Ethel Brooks, Audre Lorde, bel hooks, Sara Ahmed)
Glitch feminism and Cyberfeminism (Donna Haraway, Legacy Russell, Braidotti Rosi)
Feminist killjoy (Sara Ahmed, bell hooks)
Queer Phenomenology (Sara Ahmed and Butler Judith, Jack Halberstam)
Speaking from the Periphery (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Preciado)
Reproductive Rights and Family Abolition (Ewa Majewska, Sophie Lewis)
Conclusions
Annotation
The aim of the course is to offer a cross-section of key feminist texts with reference to and in dialogue with artistic production and the development of the visual arts. The course aims to introduce students to the critical themes addressed by the feminist movement of the 20th and 21st centuries to the present day.
The course is based on the reading and discussion of texts, which will be supplemented in class with examples from 20th and 21st century art and curating.