PL 337 - Philosophy and Feminism

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: PL 201 and one additional PL 200-level course. Treats analyses of oppression, conceptions of agency and autonomy, and accounts of the relationship between politics and social reality developed from several feminist philosophical perspectives. Taken together, the course texts challenge students to approach issues in moral and political theory in light of an understanding of how power dynamics involving gender function across cultural-historical contexts. IG