Feminism, Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain for Venice students

Seminar times: Mondays, 0900-1100, FAB3.32 and Fridays, 0900-1100, FAB1.09

Seminar Programme:

Week 1	What is feminism? Competing definitions of feminism in the West Origins of the Victorian Women's Movement
Week 2	Feminism, Religion and Secularism, 1860-1914 Feminism and Imperialism, 1860-1914
Week 3	The Suffrage Movement, 1893-1918 Feminism, the family and the state 1914-1939
Week 4	'There's always been a women's movement in Britain?' Assessing decline, impact and social change 1918-1945 The birth of the Women's Liberation Movement
Week 5	Cultures of activism Wages for Housework?
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7	Sex, sexuality and Sex Work 1870-1930 The Sex Wars: Debates on Pornography and Sexual Violence
Week 8	Sexuality and Abortion Smash the Family
Week 9	Feminism, race and racism
Week 10	Transfeminism and the 'TERF Wars' 21st Century Feminism and Intersectionality