Philosophy 260 - Feminist Philosophy

(Offered as SWAG 260 and PHIL 260) The course will introduce concepts that feminists and queer theorists have developed in continental philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism. It will further explore feminist philosophies of sexual difference developed primarily in the French feminist tradition. We will address the role of the lived body in feminist and intersectional theories of gender, sexuality, and identity; the relation between self and other; the situatedness of subjectivity; and the meaning of sexual difference. We will study texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Luce Irigaray, Adriana Cavarero, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, and Sara Ahmed, among others. In addition to original philosophical texts, we will use a variety of interdisciplinary materials, such as film, literature, art, personal narratives, medical texts and empirical studies to approach the themes at hand.

Fall semester. STINT Fellow Käll.