Philosophical Perspectives on Woman
Philosophical reflections on being a woman. Topics such as womanhood, representations of women, self-respect, oppression, affirmative action, sexism, and racism.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand and articulate a deeper awareness of philosophical problems and answers to questions regarding conceptions of and experience of being a woman.
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Philosophical reflections on being a woman. Topics such as womanhood, representations of women, self-respect, oppression, affirmative action, sexism, and racism.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand and articulate a deeper awareness of philosophical problems and answers to questions regarding conceptions of and experience of being a woman.
This course provides an overview of feminist philosophy beginning with Enlightenment liberal feminism and addressing a variety of topics feminist philosophy has explored up through the present. It will focus on the complicated place of "women" in what we now call "identity politics." What those words in quotes even mean is unsettled and worth exploring philosophically, and we'll do that. How have sex and gender been created and defined as social, economic, and political constructions? How is that construction complicated by race, social class and other contested constructions? What difference do bodies make? How are women's (contested, plural) identities as women potentially sources of liberation, oppression, solidarity and/or antagonism?
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