| Uitgebreide vaknaam |
Feminist Ontology |
| Leerdoelen |
To understand the different ways the question ‘what is a woman?’ has been approached and answered in the history of feminist thought and how those answers give rise to differing programmes of feminist liberation. To gain knowledge of key concepts within feminist philosophy, such as the notion of woman as Other (and the different ways this has been interpreted), the idea of gender performativity and the sex/gender distinction. To better understand how contrasting approaches to female identity respond and relate to one another, and to examine central issues in feminist philosophy related to questions of identity, such as the body, oppression and complicity. |
| Omschrijving |
This course will focus on the issue of female identity and the question ‘what is a woman?’ From Simone de Beauvoir to the present day, feminist theorists have posed this question and sought to answer it through various means, including phenomenological analyses of the situation of woman, the development of metaphysical accounts of gender, appeals to arguments from social construction, and analyses of oppressing factors that have been thought to universally characterise female experience. The aim of this course will be to examine different answers that have been given to the question ‘what is a woman’ and look at ways in which we can conceive of female identity as something that has been identified as both liberating and restricting. |
| Uren per week |
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| Onderwijsvorm |
(Lectures/seminars (mixed course format))
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| Toetsvorm |
(Final Exam)
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| Vaksoort |
bachelor
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| Coördinator |
dr. C.E. Knowles
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| Docent(en) |
dr. C.E. Knowles
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| Verplichte literatuur |
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| Additional texts will be made available online |
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| Feminisms ed. Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires |
Oxford University Press, 1997 (ISBN 0192892703 of) |
9780192892706 |
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| Entreevoorwaarden |
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| Opmerkingen |
Feminisms: this is a useful course reader to have, but only chapters 32, 38, 40 and 48, will be assigned as essential course reading |
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