Modalità d'esame
<p>seminar format for PhDs and both seminar and written format for master students.</p>
Note modalità di esame
<p>Evaluation based on active participation in class and discussion of readings.</p>
Prerequisiti
Open to all PhD and master students
Programma insegnamento
The course aims at exploring what does it mean to do feminist political research, how it improves rigor, ethics, and transformative impact of social and political research, and how to apply feminist theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches to political research. It discusses a variety of feminist approaches for doing political analysis -women, gender, intersectionality, deconstruction, and post-deconstruction- and their respective contributions and limitations, applying them to key concepts (power, agency and institutions) and substantive issues in political analysis (polity, politics and policy). It addresses the challenges and joy of doing feminist political research.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Ackerly, Brooke and Jacqui True. 2011. Doing Feminist Research in Political & Social Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ackerly, Brooke and Jacqui True. 2018. With or Without Feminism? Researching Gender and Politics in the 21st century. European Journal of Politics and Gender 1(1-2): 259-78, DOI: 10.1332/251510818X15272520831210
Ahrens, Petra, Barbara Gaweda, Valentine Berthet, Johanna Kantola, and Cherry Miller. 2024. Friends, Experts or Witches: Doing Feminist Research in Challenging Political Contexts. European Journal of Politics and Gender XX(XX): 1–24, DOI: 10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000039
Berthet, Valentine, Barbara Gaweda, Johanna Kantola, Cherry Miller, Petra Ahrens and Anna Elomäki. 2023. Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments: Experiences and Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cooke, Jennifer and Line Nyhagen eds. 2025. Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies. Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities. London: Routledge.
Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Ithaca: Cornell.
Kantola, Johanna and Emanuela Lombardo. 2017. Gender and Political Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Mendoza, Breny. 2012. The Geopolitics of Political Science and Gender Studies in Latin America. In Jane Bayes ed. Gender and Politics: The State of the Discipline. Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 33-58.
Verloo, Mieke ed. 2007. Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe. Budapest: CEU.