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AS/PHIL2500.0 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Winter 2009

course director: Hilary E. Davis

Course Description:

This course will provide a critical introduction to modern Anglo-American feminist philosophy.  We will focus on the following feminist philosophers  -- Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone – and will conclude with some examples of Third Wave feminist philosophy.   We will begin by considering how feminist philosophy developed out of classical social and political theory, where the primary issue was to discern a place for woman in a man's world.  Throughout the course we will also ask:  How does a focus on sex and gender change how we do philosophy?  Why is such a focus necessary?  Why is feminist philosophy still important in 2009?

When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30am-1:00pm

Where:  203 North Ross
Looking for an interesting philosophy course for the summer? 
There are spaces still available for Philosophy of Education (AK/PHIL 2150)


Final Exam
Friday, May 29th
noon - 3pm
Curis Lecture Hall M


Schedule Changes

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•Class 16
•Tuesday, April 28 Simone de Beauvoir
•Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.  (trans. & ed.) H. M. Parshley.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.  Book Two, Part IV: The Formative Years.
 
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•Class 17
•Thursday, April 30 Simone de Beauvoir
•Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.  (trans. & ed.) H. M. Parshley.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.  Book Two, Part V: Situation
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•Class 18
•Tuesday, May 5 Simone de Beauvoir
•Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.  (trans. & ed.) H. M. Parshley.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.  Book Two, Part VI: Justification, Part VII: Toward Liberation and Conclusion.
•***FILM: Simone de Beauvoir***

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Professor Davis' office hours:
Thursdays, 4:30-6:30pm