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AS/PHIL2500 3.0 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Winter 2009

Slides for  introductory lecture

Slides for Mary Astell lecture

slides for Mary Wollstonecraft lecture (March 12th)

slides for JSM & HTM lecture (Early Essays on Marriage & Divorce)

slides for HTM lecture (The Enfranchisement of Women)

slides for JSM lecture (The Subjection of Women)

slides for Woolf lecture (April 9th)

slides for Woolf lecture (April 12th)

slides for Beauvoir lecture (April 23rd)



Select Secondary Sources

Mary Astell:

Alice Sowaal, Mary Astell entry.  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2008)  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/astell/ 

Mary Wollstonecraft:

Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Ruth Roach Pierson, “Two Marys and a Virginia: Historical Moments in the Development of a Feminist Perspective on Education,” in Women and Education, Jane Gaskell and Arlene McLaren (eds.).  (Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd, 1987).

Harriet Taylor Mill & John Stuart Mill:

Adam Gopnik, “Right Again: The passions of John Stuart Mill.” New Yorker, October 6, 2008.  http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopnik

Jo Ellen Jacobs,  “The Lot of Gifted Ladies is Hard”: A Study of Harriet Taylor Mill Criticism.  Hypatia, Vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 132-162.

Virginia Woolf:

Barbara Andrew, "The Psychology of Tyranny: Wollstonecraft and Woolf on the Gendered Dimension of War," Hypatia, Vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 1994).

Louise DeSalvo, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. (NY: Ballatine Books, 1989).

Phyllis Rose, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf.  (NY: HBJ Publishers, 1978).