Temas Subtemas
1.- INTRODUCTION TO BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHTs.
In this first section we provide an Introduction to the Course.
Why Black Feminist Thought?
In which ways is it ideologically different from Western feminisms?
When do we hear the first (black) feminist voices?
What kind of message do they send?
Are there any differences and/or similarities?
Is there an "informed" audience?
1.1. Pioneer Feminists (Sojourner Truth and Maria Stewart)
1.2. Western Feminist Voices (Woolf, Olsen, Friedan, Eagleton).
1.3. Examples of Black Women's resistance/rejection of the term "feminist."
2.- BLACK FEMINIST SISTERHOOD AND WOMANISM. 2.1. Civil Rights Movement and Black Women's marginal position.
2.2. Mixed Relations.
2.3 Crossing the (color) line.
3.- BLACK BLUES WOMEN AND FEMINISMS 3.1. Black Feminists from Margins to Center.
4.- SEXUAL OPTIONS and BLACK HOMOPHOBIA. 4.1. LGBTI Discourses.
4.2. African American Lesbians, Gays, and Transexuals in Literature, Media and Film.
5.- AFROPOLITANS AND FEMINISMS IN THE DIASPORA. 5.1. New Cosmopolitan Voices.
5.2. Modernity versus Tradition.
5.3. Women/Mothers as Victims and Victimizers.