Feminist Philosophies
Philosophy 251
- Schedule of Readings -
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Background Concepts |
Wednesday, January 20 |
(Introductory material; no reading) |
Friday, January 22 |
Excerpts from When Everything Changed, Gail Collins |
Monday, January 25 |
"The Women's Crusade," Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn |
Wednesday, January 27 |
"Five Faces of Oppression," Iris Marion Young |
Friday, January 29 |
"What If It's (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?" Elizabeth Weil |
Monday, February 1 |
"Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?" Sally Haslanger |
Wednesday, February 3 |
"Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master's House," Trina Grillo |
Friday, February 5 |
"Cross-Cultural Connections, Border-Crossings, and 'Death by Culture,'" Uma Narayan |
Monday, February 8 |
"The Problem of Speaking for Others," Linda Alcoff |
Wednesday, February 10 |
(Background concepts continued; no new reading) |
Friday, February 12 |
"The Second Sex (Introduction)," Simone de Beauvoir |
Monday, February 15 |
"Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings," Martha C. Nussbaum |
Wednesday, February 17 |
"Social Change on Behalf of Battered Women: Reforming the Criminal Justice System," Susan Schechter |
Friday, February 19 |
Excerpt from The Second Shift, Arlie Hochschild |
Monday, February 22 |
"Justice, Gender, and the Family," Susan Moller Okin |
Wednesday, February 24 |
"Why a Feminist Approach to Bioethics?" Margaret Olivia Little |
Friday, February 26 |
"Gender and the Biological Sciences," Kathleen Okruhlik |
Monday, March 1 |
(Okruhlik continued; no new reading) |
Wednesday, March 3 |
"Women and Public Housekeeping," Jane Addams |
Friday, March 5 |
"Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections," Carol P. Christ |
Monday, March 8 |
"Notes Toward a Feminist Maternal Peace Politics," Sara Ruddick |
Wednesday, March 10 |
"Moral Orientation and Moral Development," Carol Gilligan |
Friday, March 12 |
"Autonomy as Emotion," Niza Yanay and Beverly Birns |
SPRING BREAK |
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Monday, March 22 |
"Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophic, and Scientific Debate," Sandra Harding |
Wednesday, March 24 |
"Feminist Politics and Epistemology: The Standpoint of Women," Allison Jaggar |
Friday, March 26 |
"Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought," Patricia Hill Collins |
Monday, March 29 |
"The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist," Uma Narayan |
Wednesday, March 31 |
"Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination," Catherine MacKinnon |
Friday, April 2 |
"Desire and Power," Catherine MacKinnon |
Monday, April 5 |
"Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power," Sandra Lee Bartky |
Wednesday, April 7 |
(Film; no new reading) |
Friday, April 9 |
(Group discussion day) |
Monday, April 12 |
"Sex and Violence: a Perspective," Catherine MacKinnon |
Wednesday, April 14 |
(Film; no new reading) |
Friday, April 16 |
(Group discussion day) |
Monday, April 19 |
"Material Girl," Susan Bordo |
Wednesday, April 21 |
(Film; no new reading) |
Friday, April 23 |
(Group discussion day) |
Monday, April 26 |
Presentations; no reading |
Wednesday, April 28 |
Presentations; no reading |
Friday, April 30 |
Presentations; no reading |
Monday, May 3 |
Presentations; no reading |
Wednesday, May 5 |
Presentations; no reading |
Friday, May 7 |
Presentations; no reading |