Portuguese 597RA - ST-History,GenderRel,Affection

This course aims to promote a transdisciplinary debate, within the analytical perspectives of gender studies, feminist epistemology, and historical narratives, about the notions of " love(s)", "pleasures", and " violences" constructed in Western literature considered " best-seller" for women, and usually written by women, in order to understand how the ways of living and feeling among people were constructed from this so-called "new" literature: the chick-lit. In this "chick-lit" literature, whose target audience are women, it is necessary to think about the cultural and social heritages of these writings and their influence in the contemporary world, showing the various power games in the relations between genders; the networks of power; social authorizations; moral interdictions; various silences and possible forms of resistance.