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Feminism - Smash the Patriarchy
This course will evolve around the concept of feminism in a broad sense. The weight of the course will be on literature both fiction and nonfiction and particularly feminist criticism with which we will apply different angels. We will also cover the history of feminism, four waves, in both British and American context.
Key elements:
Google site with material: https://sites.google.com/apps.odder-gym.dk/lh-feminism/start
Introduction to Feminism and feminist criticism
What is a Feminist?, Written by Sisterhood, 2013
Martha Rampton: "Four Waves of Feminism" article, 2008
The campaign for Women's suffrage, British Library Learning, 2018
Feminist (fiction) literature:
The Story of an Hour (short story) by Kate Chopin, 1894
Angela Carter: (short story) "The Company of Wolves" 1979
Lady Lazarus (poem) by Sylvia Plath, 1962
Daddy (poem) by Sylvia Plath, 1962
The Color Purple (novel, extract) by Alice Walker, 1982
The Handmaid's Tale (novel) by Margaret Atwood, 1985
Feminist non-ficiton:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (manifest, extract) by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
Ain't I a Woman (speech) by Sojourner Truth, 1851
The Subjection of Women (debate essay, extract) by John Stuart Mill, 1869
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: TED talk "We should all be Feminists". 2017
Freedom or Death (speech, extract) by Emmeline Pankhurst, 1913
A Room of One's Own (essay, extract) by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Supplementary material:
Pink Pill Podcast, episode 12, "Gender violence and Marital Rape", 2025
Comical postcards/posters from the British Suffragette movement (ca 1840's)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, film by Kenneth Branagh, 1994
Layney Molnar: a collection a various cartoons commenting on female and/or feminist issues.
Illiza Shlesinger: Stand up comedy show "Confirmed Kills" 2016
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