Program Overview

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

The Introduction to Feminist Philosophy course is a comprehensive exploration of feminist thought and its application to various philosophical disciplines.

Course Details

• Course Number: HS 551
• Credit: 6
• Discipline Type: Philosophy

Course Outline

1. Critical Interrogation of Philosophical Methodology from a feminist perspective.
2. Feminist Epistemology: Rethinking the Reason/Emotion Binary, Standpoint epistemology, and Epistemologies of ignorance.
3. Feminist Metaphysics: Retrieving the Body, the metaphysics of sex and gender.
4. Feminist Moral Philosophy: Ethics of Duty versus Ethics of Care, Vulnerability and Moral Agency, Relational Autonomy.
5. Feminist Socio-Political Philosophy: Care versus Justice, Affect and Politics, Perspectives on Empowerment and Political Agency.

References

1. Bailey, Alison and Cuomo, Chris (eds). 2008. The Feminist Philosophy Reader, Boston: McGraw Hill.
2. Beauvoir, Simone de. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. 2010 (First published in 1949). The Second Sex. London: Vintage.
3. Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge.
4. Held, Virginia. 2006. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Held, Virginia & Oberbrunner, Carol W (ed.). 1995. Justice and Care: Essential Readings in Feminist Ethics. Colorado: Westview Press.
6. Narayan, Uma and Harding, Sandra (eds). 2000. Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
7. Sullivan, Shannon and Tuana, Nancy (ed.). 2007. Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. New York: State University of New York Press.
8. Witt, Charlotte (ed.). 2011. Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self. New York: Springer.