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180089 SE Contemporary Feminist Philosophy (2022S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 14.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 21.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 28.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 04.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 25.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 02.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 09.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 16.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 23.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 30.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 13.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 20.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 27.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar introduces students to central debates in feminist philosophy. We will focus on the themes of agency, resistance, and knowledge.

Attendance is mandatory. Students are expected to prepare for sessions by reading and uploading brief reading responses 24 hours before the seminar. Students are expected to actively participate in discussion.

Students will write a short final paper (maximally 2000 words). Students will be provided with a list from which an essay topic can be chosen.

One of the final sessions will be reserved for a peer-feedback session on final papers. In advance of that session, students will be required to upload a draft of their paper.

Assessment and permitted materials

Reading responses, active class participation, final paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular attendance is required.

The final grade will be a weighted average of the following components:
Reading responses (30%)
Active participation in discussion (30%)
Final paper (40%)

Successful completion of the course requires an overall grade of at least 4. All missing contributions will be graded with 0.

Examination topics

All readings discussed in the seminar.

Reading list

Iris Marion Young, “Five Faces of Oppression”
Clare Chambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice. Penn State, 2007. Chapters 1 and 2.

Serene Khader, Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment. Oxford University Press, 2011. Introduction and Chapter 1.
Uma Narayan, ‘The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist’ in The Feminist Standpoint Reader, Routledge, 2004.
Catharine MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State. Chapters 6 and 7.
Rae Langton, ‘Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts’, Philosophy Public Affairs Vol. 22, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 293-330.
Marilyn Fry, The politics of reality: Essays in feminist theory, Crossing Press 1983, Chapter 1.
Sandra Lee Bartky, 'Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.
Patricia Hill Collins, 'Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought', Social Problems Vol. 33, 1986.
Ishani Maitra, 'Subordinating Speech', Maitra & McGowan (Ed.), Speech and Harm: Controversies over Free Speech, Oxford 2012.
Charles Mills, 'White Ignorance', Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, Oxford 2017.
Helen Longino: 'Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science'
Nancy C.M. Hartsock: 'The feminist standpoint: Developing the grounds for a specifically feminist Historical Materialism'
Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, Oxford 2007.

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