COD 2006 - G303

Feminism and Gender Studies: a hands-on approach

Teachers willing to get better acquainted with feminist theory so as to gain further insight into literary texts and to use approaches which are sensitive to gender issues in their classrooms.

1 sessions, start: 16-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 August 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
Teachers willing to get better acquainted with feminist theory so as to gain further insight into literary texts and to use approaches which are sensitive to gender issues in their classrooms.
- Explore the current state of Feminist theory and Gender Studies. - Promote a hands-on approach to the use of feminist theory in the classroom. - Reflect on the pedagogical implications of using a gender-sensitive approach to literary texts in the classroom. - Suggest and develop different types of activities to be carried out in class.
- History and the current state of feminist theory. - The contribution of gender studies to revisionism and meaning construction and ownership. - Plurality of feminisms: schools within feminism and the many questions that each of them pose to literary texts: - Helen Cixous's Ecriture Feminine. - Toril Moi's Sexual Textual Politics. - Kristeva, Wittig and Millet's theories. Methodology: - Presentation and discussion of theoretical frameworks. - Analysis of the key questions that each branch of feminism asks when approaching a text. - Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on how to approach a text using such questions. - Reading of a short story through insightful questions (hands-on theory). - Generation of further possible activities by the group in the light of the model proposed in the workshop. Previous reading required - Texts available at ESSARP Kamala Das's "An Introduction"; "The Looking glass"; "The Old Playhouse" Virginia Woolf A Room of one's Own (extracts)
- Gilbert, S. & Gubar S. (1979) The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century literary Imagination. London: Blackwell. - Lovell, T. (1990) British Feminist Thought. New york: Blackwell. - Millett, K. (1969) Sexual Politics. USA & London: Oxford University Press. - Moi, T. (1999) What is a Woman? Oxford: Oxford University Press. - (1985) Sexual Textual Politics: Feminist Thought. England: Clays Ltd. - Showalter, E. (1977) A Literature of their own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. London: Blackwell. - (1993) Changing Subjects: The Making of feminist Literary Criticism, London & New York: Routledge. - Wallace, T. and March, C. (eds.) (1991) Changing Perceptions Writings in Gender and Development. Oxford: Oxfam.
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