Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia

We start by acknowledging that sex- and gender-based social organization is pervasive and, further, that its prominence and persistence is reflected in sex- and gender-conscious research across the humanties, social sciences, visual studies and the arts. In this course, we will survey influential theoretical approaches to sex and gender such as socialist feminism, theories of sexual difference, queer studies, de-colonial feminism, and psychoanalytic feminism, and explore the way in which aesthetic practices have challenged sexist biases in society. Through this prism, we will revisit some of the most important concepts developed by classical political theory and philosophy.

• Bottici, C. “Imaginal politics,” Thesis Eleven 106, (2011), pp. 56-72

• De Beauvoir, S. 2011, The Second Sex (New York: Vintage), pp. 3-20 (intro), 159-170 (myth), 279-295 (lived exp).

• Bell Hooks, 1999, “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression,” in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Cambridge: South End Press), pp. 18-33

• Lugones, M. 2016, “The Coloniality of Gender,” in Wendy Harcourt (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave), pp. 13-33

• Bottici, C. 2022, Anarchafeminism, London: Bloomsbury, Intro + Chap 6, 7: pp1-24, pp. 154-223

• Butler, J. 1993, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination,” in Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York, Routledge), pp. 307-320

• Preciado, P. 2013, “Introduction,” “The Pharmacopornographic era,” and “Technogender,” in Testo Junkie (New York: Feminist Press), pp. 23-54, 99-129

• Morton, T. 2010, “Queer Ecology,” PMLA 125(2), 2010, pp. 273-282

• Irigaray, L. 1985, This Sex Which Is Not One (New York: Cornell University Press), pp. 23-33

Lectures, 36 hours (6 CFU). with the aid of slides.

• One final paper (5,000-6,000 words). Deadline: 15 May. Results: 30 May. After this deadline it will no longer be possible to receive a grade on a final paper.

• If preferable, an oral examination with Prof. Pietro Kobau is possible (see relative “appelli”).

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