Universität Wien

129007 AR Theory (MA) (2013W)

Feminist Criticism and Theory from Virginia Woolf to the Present

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

The aim of this seminar is to familiarise its participants with the different historical traditions and methodologies in the study of gender, sexuality and culture. Virigina Woolf will be described as the most influential early voice in the English-speaking tradition, who sketched the agenda for later scholars when she argued for the importance of the following topics of investigation: the (male and female) artist’s need for economic independence, gendered methods of education, a gendered division of the public sphere, uncovering a history of women writers, valorisation of women writers’ choice of “important” topics, and recognition of women writers’ stylistic experiments.

The seminar will offer a contextualised discussion of representative texts by some of the most important critics of the last hundred years. We will discuss the challenges to patriarchal hegemony formulated by second-wave feminism in the 1970s and we will analyse poststructuralist engagements with psychoanalysis and textuality in an attempt to expose and subvert the linguistic practices which determine gendered experience. An important emphasis of the seminar will be on postcolonial arguments about the multiple subjection of non-Western women (by means of race, class and gender). This means that we will discuss issues of race, migration and cultural hybridity, and we will investigate the premises of mainstream definitions of heterosexuality as the cultural norm. In the final part of the seminar, we will examine emerging directions in the study of visual culture, in the investigation of the emotions, and in recent developments in science and technology.
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max. 25 participants
Language: English

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  • Monday 07.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 14.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 21.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 28.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 04.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 11.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 18.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 25.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 02.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 09.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 16.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 13.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Saturday 18.01. 08:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 20.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Monday 27.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

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Studium: MA 844;
Code/Modul: MA3;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0192

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