{"id":11306,"date":"2025-06-09T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11306"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:51:16","slug":"feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/summer-2022\/feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Philosophy and Women&#8217;s Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Feminist Philosophy and Women&#8217;s Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#iman-al-ghafari-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IMAN AL-GHAFARI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of my course is to provide participants with a general introduction about the feminist philosophy and a comprehensive knowledge about women\u2019s poetry. \u201cWhat it means to be a female poet in a male-dominated poetic tradition\u201d is a key question in this course which reveals the challenges that usually face most women in patriarchal societies. The social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of sex and gender will be addressed. The course engages with key theoretical debates in the field, such as the queer theory; and the philosophical, sociological, and feminist conceptualization of gender, sex, and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on introducing the main feminist theories. Reference will be made to selected theoretical texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Nancy Chodorow, Alicia Ostriker, Judith Butler, Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Jukia Kristeva, Mary Daly, Gayatry Spivak and Monique Wittig. The second part contains an analysis of women\u2019s poetry in various socio-political contexts. This part explores women\u2019s poetic voices and their different races, ages, sexualities and cultural backgrounds. My focus will be culturally diverse. Hence, I will read and analyze a wide selection of poems written by various female poets (please check the reading list at the end). The two parts intersect and intertwine within the context of the course. A connection will be made between the feminist theories and the way they can be used to re-read women\u2019s poetry from feminist and cross-cultural perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This informative and analytical course sheds a thorough light on women\u2019s poetry from a feminist and a lesbian perspective and explores the development of the concept of gender and how it was first used as a means of liberating the female sex in modernist contexts to be later re-interpreted in a manner that turns it into a socio-political means of subduing the female sex and erasing lesbian voices. In other words, it provides tools to increase awareness of the problems that continue to face many women worldwide and to recognize some of the limitations of both modernist and postmodernist discourses.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry-syllabus-S22.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry-syllabus-S22.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4d22568b-863a-45b0-a43f-2d6051a7c77d\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry-syllabus-S22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feminist-philosophy-and-womens-poetry-syllabus-S22<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">25.04.22 &#8211; 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