Content (Syllabus outline)

Ideological philosophy of scientists and the policy of knowledge selection:

• Was Marx a Marxist, Darwin a Darwinist, and Virginia Woolf a feminist?
• How to read and analyse the material read and understand the unwritten
• Sources and “sources,” and where is experience?
• What to do with feelings

History: where do we come from?

• The social status of women today
• Today originates in yesterday
• There is no women’s issue
• Ideological and political premises of the study

Identity or concepts of sex roles:

• Equality and justifications of differences
• From private to public and political
• Battles, retreats, victories, and defeats

We need bread and roses, too!

• Doctors, instructors, professors, and directors
• Cleaners, cooks, and housewives
• Universality of rights and cultural relativism

What do I want to be?

• Perspectives of observers and perspectives of the observed
• Sex roles as social roles of performance
• Which is the right one?

Migration: where are we going?

• The female migrant as a metaphor for woman
• Women with two or more homes, without a home, from nowhere, from here and there, and from neither here nor there
• Feminization of migrant flows
• Global women

Readings

• A History of Women in the West I-IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
• Vode, Angela. 1998. Spol in upor, (Zbrana dela Angele Vode, knj. 1), (Knjižna zbirka Krt, 109). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Krtina.
• – – . 1999. Značaj in usoda, (Zbrana dela Angele Vode, knj. 2), (Knjižna zbirka Krt, 110). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Krtina.
• – – . 2000. Spomin in pozaba, (Zbrana dela Angele Vode, knj. 3), (Knjižna zbirka Krt, 111). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Krtina.
• Milharčič Hladnik, Mirjam. 1995. Šolstvo in učiteljice na Slovenskem (Zbirka Sophia 5). Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.
• Milharčič Hladnik, Mirjam, Žagar, Igor Ž. 1996. Nekaj izhodiščnih prizadevanj za odpravo seksistične rabe jezika. V: Spol: Ž. Ljubljana: KUD France Prešeren: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – ISH.
• Žnidaršič, Sabina Ž. 2001. Ora et labora – in molči ženska!, pregled demografije dežele Kranjske in pridobitnosti žensk v desetletjih 1880-1910. Ljubljana: cf.
• Accati, Luisa. 2001. Pošast in lepotica, Oče in mati v katoliški vzgoji čustev. Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis.
• Vidmar, Ksenija H. ur. 2001. Ženski žanri – spol in množično občinstvo v sodobni kulturi. Ljubljana: Zbirka Dokumenta, ISH.
• Woolf, Virginia. 2001. Tri gvineje. Ljubljana: Lila zbirka, cf.
• – – . 1999. Lastna soba. Ljubljana: Lila zbirka, cf.
• De Beauvoir, Simone. 2000. Drugi spol, 1. in 2. del. Ljubljana: Delta.
• Muser, Erna, Zavrl, Vida ur. 1971. FKL Žensko koncentracijsko taborišče Ravensbruck. Ljubljana: Partizanska knjiga.
• Stanley, Liz. 1995. The Auto/biographical I, The theory and practice of feminist auto/biography. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press.
• Irigaray, Luce. 1995. Jaz, ti, me, mi. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče.
• Bahovec, Eva D. ur. 1992. Vzgoja med gospostvom in analizo. Ljubljana: KRT.
• – – . 1993. Od ženskih študij k feministični teoriji, Ljubljana: Časopis za kritiko znanosti.
• Molek, Mary. 1976. Immigrant Woman. Delaware: Dover.
• Planinsek Odorizzi, Irene M. 1978. The Footsteps Through Time, Washington: Washington Landmark Tours.
• Drakulić, Slavenka. 2002. Kot da me ni, Ljubljana: Aleph.
• Pizan, Christine de. 1999. Mesto dam, Ljubljana: Delta.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1992. Zagovor pravic ženske, Ljubljana: Krt.
• Zaviršek, Darja ur. 1996. Spolno nasilje. Feministične raziskave za socialno delo, Ljubljana: Visoka šola za socialno delo.

Objectives and competences

To familiarize students with the role of woman in Slovenian society from the historical, theoretical, and analytical perspectives within the comparative context of Europe and beyond. To provide students opportunities for individual research and theoretical projects through the selection of course literature and work methods in lectures and in discussion classes. To assist in enriching the still insufficient corpus of knowledge on the role of woman in Slovenia.

Intended learning outcomes

Students use the knowledge acquired in the course to write a piece of academic writing that can serve as a draft of a dissertation chapter or a research article.

Assessment

Long written assignment (60 %), presentation (20 %), final examination (written/oral) (20 %).