English

Not applicable.

Of all faculties

A keen interest in feminism and social justice issues.

Credits awarded on the basis of home preparation (reading of recommended texts) and lecture and seminar participation. In case of a number of absences: writing an essay on some of the issues discussed in the seminars.
Lectures and seminars take place at the premisses of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology every other week at designated times. Two absences are tolerated.

The course aspires to initiate a debate about social justice issues and how to address them in art, theory and activism.
Students will further their knowledge of feminist theory and gain insight into additional feminist issues.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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Gaard, Greta, and Lori Gruen. 1993. Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health. Society and Nature, 2, 1–35. (EN)
Hedva, Johanna. 2016. Sick Woman Theory. Mask Magazine, January 19. (EN)
Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson. 2010. Introduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies. In Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson, 1–47. Bloomington and Indiananapolis: Indiana University Press. (EN)
Preciado, Paul B. 2021. Can the Monster Speak? South Pasadaena: semiotext(e). (EN)

Alaimo, Stacy. 2016. Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. (EN)
Burns, Katelyn. 2019. The Rise of Anti-Trans “Radical” Feminists, Explained. Vox, September 5. (EN)
Clare, Eli. 2001. Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disabilty and Queerness. Public Culture, 13(3), 359–365. (EN)
Clare, Eli. 2017. Ideology of Cure. In Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, 3–20. Durham and London: Duke University Press. (EN)
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. 1973. Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness. New York: Feminist Press. (EN)
Eshun, Kodwo. 1998. More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books. (EN)
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1993. The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough. The Sciences, March/April. (EN)
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Halberstam, Jack. 2018. Toward a Trans* Feminism. Boston Review, January 18. (EN)
Hester, Helen, and Caroline Walters. 2016. Theorizing Fat Sex. Sexualities, 19(08), 893–897. (EN)
Hester, Helen. 2014. Pornographication and the Explosion of the Pornographic. In: Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (pp. 181—190). New York: SUNY Press. (EN)
Hester, Helen. 2018. What is Xenofeminism? In Xenofeminism, 6–32. Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press. (EN)
Chardronnet, Ewen. 2015. GynePunk, the Cyborg Witches of DIY Gynecology. makery, 30 June. (EN)
Chude-Sokei, Louis. 2016. Introduction. In The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, 1–15. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. (EN)
Kleeman, Jenny. 2020. Where the Magic Happens. In Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death, 5–27. Picador. (EN)
Lazard, Carolyn. 2013. How to Be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity. The Cluster Mag, January 16. (EN)
Merchant, Carolyn. 2016. The Scientific Revolution and The Death of Nature. Isis, 97, 513–533. (EN)
Mies, Maria. 2014. The Need for a New Vision: The Subsistence Perspective. InMaria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism, 297–324. London and New York: Zed Books. (EN)
Murphy, Michelle. 2004. Immodest Witnessing: The Epistemology of Vaginal Self-Examination in the U.S. Feminist Self-Help Movement. Feminist Studies, 30(1), 115–147. (EN)
Neimanis, Astrida. 2017. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London and New York: Bloomsbury. (EN)
Phillips, Rasheeda. 2015. Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice. The Afrofuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences. (EN)
Potter, Claire. 2016. Not Safe for Work: Why Feminist Pornography Matters. Dissent Magazine, Spring. (EN)
Preciado, Paul B. 2013. Pornpower. In Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, 255–317. New York: Feminist Press. (EN)
Preciado, Paul B. 2013. The Micropolitics of Gender in the Pharmacopornographic Era: Experimentation, Voluntary Intoxication, Mutation. In Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. New York: Feminist Press. (EN)
Segal, Lynn. 2015. Sexual Liberation and Feminist Politics. In Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. London and New York: Verso 2015. (EN)
Shotwell, Alexis. 2016. Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. (EN)
Smith, Molly, and Juno Mac. 2018. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers` Rights. London and New York: Verso. (EN)