The course objective is to familiarize the student with the central issues and discussions on gender and sexuality as a specific field of enquiry (Gender Studies).
The course is organised around three axes that articulate the most relevant aspects of traditional feminist/women¿s studies and, in the last section, we will consider the recent theoretical contributions.
Program
1. Exclusion: a genealogy.
Plato: The Republic. Book V
Aristotle: Politics Book I
2 On equality and its traps
Wollstonecraft, M.: Vindication of the Rights of Women
De Beauvoir, S.: The Second Sex
3. On Difference
Irigaray, L: Je, tu, nous: Towards a Culture of Difference.
Braidotti, R: Patterns of Dissonance.
4. Overcoming gender
Haraway, D: Simians, Cyhorgs and Women. The Reinvention ofNature
Butler, J: Gender Trouble.