Course Agenda
Week One: History of the Women’s Movement
- The formation of the concept of feminism – Nayereh Tohidi
- Enlightenment movement, modernity and feminism – Nayereh Tohidi
- Feminism, theory and practice – Nayereh Tohidi
- Women’s movement, first and second wave – Nayereh Tohidi
- Women’s movement, third wave – Nayereh Tohidi
- Fourth wave of feminism – Fatemeh Shayesteh
Week Two: Feminist Theories۱
- Marxist feminism
- Revolutionary feminism
- Black feminism
- A look at the theoretical tradition of intersectionality in gender studies
- An introduction to postcolonial feminist studies
Week Three: Feminist Theories۲
- Human rights and gender
- Critique of Islamic feminism
- Iranian women’s view of violence against women in Iran and the UK
- Feminism and psychoanalysis
- Posthumanist feminism
Week Four: Masculinity
- Critical studies of masculinity
- Migration and masculinity
- Iranian immigrant men
- Masculinity in Afghanistan
- Masculinity, gender and sexual violence
Week Five: History of Sexuality
- Foucault’s historiography of sexuality
- Historiography of sexuality in Iran
- Gender in the late Qajar period and Pahlavi period
- Same-sex relationship in Persian literature
Week Six: Queer movement and theory
- An introduction to the history of the queer movement in the West
- An introduction to queer theory
- Representation of queer society in literature (English)
- Iranian queer non-movement
- Epistemology of trans-European queer
- Queer Diaspora
Week Seven: Gender in daily life
- Investigating the social relations of gender among the Kurdish political forces in Iran from the Iranian revolution to the late 1980s: Komala
- Fourth feminism wave in Iran
- Queer social media
- Gender in the textbooks of Iran and Afghanistan
- The emergence of a new problem of sexuality and family in Iran
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