Section outline

  • The course aims to familiarize students with fundamental concepts and argumentation of feminist thinking. The focus is mainly on first-wave and second-wave feminist theories and their interconnections with dominant ideologies of 19th and 20th centuries – liberalism and socialism. Furthermore, it focuses on theoretical contributions of second-wave radical feminism and the fundamental poststructuralist theories. The goal of the course is to clarify various theoretical explanations of the causes of gender inequality and their normative groundings.