Issues in Gender Studies (II)

Pre-requisites: Passed exam in Introduction to Gender Studies.

Course objectives: Introducing students to the newest developments and directions of theoretical thought and in feminist activism, globally and locally, with a special examination of feminism and the social position of women in Serbia.

Course description: Modern feminism, especially in countries in transition. Feminism and Womens issues in Serbia.

Learning Outcomes: Enabling students to conduct independent work, critical thinking and awareness of the specific position of women and of feminist activism.

Literature/Reading:

• Benhabib,S.(1992): Feminism and Question of Postmodernism, Cambridge, Polity Press Bailey,C.(1997): Making Wives and Drowning Lines... , in: THe Third Wave Feminism, Summer, Vol.12, NO.3
• Cockburn, Cynthia (2001): Živeti zajedno ili živeti odvojeno, Medika, Zenica Hyndmen J., GIles W.: Sites of VIolence. Gender and Conflict Nikolić-Ristanović, Vesna (2005): Žene,nasilje,rat, Bgd.
• Nikolić-Ristanović, Vesna (1996): Žene Krajine, rat, egzosus, izbeglištvo, Bgd. Molyneaux, Maxine (1998): Analysing Women’s Movement, Development and Change, NO.29.
• Morokvasic-Muller, Mirjana (2000): Crossing BOrders and Shifting BOundaries, VOl.I, Gender on the MOve, International Women’s Unversity Phillips A.,Barett M.(1992): Destabilizing Theory, Stanford
• Watson Peggy (1997): Civil Society and POlitics of DIfference in Eastern Europe, Routledge