Department of History - Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece
Academic year 2022-2023, Easter Semester
Faculty: Katerina Dalakoura, Associate Professor
The aim of the seminar was the undergraduate students to be familiar with the history of feminism in Europe, and the relationship between feminism and politics in the inter-war period. The construction and contents of the seminar partly drew from the ongoing research in the "Feminisms and Politics in the Interwar Balkans (1923-1939)" funded project. The students studied relevant literature to understand the multiplicity of the definitions of "feminism"/"feminisms" and the changing conceptualization of the concept of the "political" in the course of the development of women's and gender history and the history of the feminism. The seminar focused on the feminist movement in the interwar period in Europe and in Greece in particular. As examples of the relationship between feminist organizations and the active politics of the time, the cases of the Little Entente of Women and the Balkan Conferences were studied. The students' papers drew on the above themes as well as on the activity of celebrated feminist-activists of the period. Eighteen students participated in the seminar and their papers were research papers.
