This course aims to offer an overview of contemporary feminist perspectives and their intricate relation to literature focusing on poststructuralist feminist theories with references to psychoanalytical ideas by Lacan and post-Lacanian theorists, poststructuralist ideas by Derrida, Foucault, Butler, Kristeva and Irigaray. Against the background of these philosophers,  the course will explore some of the key theoretical debates in feminisms concerning sex/gender relationships, women's agency in the feminist narratives of liberation, feminist epistemology, epistemic privilege or standpoint theories, the postcolonial critique of Western feminism, whether it is possible to transgress its boundaries, the intricate relation between heterosexual liberation, lesbian liberation, and transgender liberation, between women and empowerment, between mainstream discourse and theories of masculinity, between feminisms and nature. On the other hand, the students will be expected to read literary texts reflecting, preblematizing or deciphering the feminist perspectives covered in the class.