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SoSe 20: Feminist Political Philosophy

Lillian Cicerchia

Comments

This course will examine several philosophical accounts of gender. It will then critically assess liberal feminism from socialist and Black feminist perspectives in order to synthesize an analysis of class, race, and gender. Structural injustice: This course will examine fundamental debates in the philosophy of the social sciences as they pertain to understanding social structures, social groups, and structural explanation. It will then critically assess how the concept of structural injustice has been integrated into feminist, liberal, and republican political philosophy to address paradigmatic instances of social group oppression based on class, race, and gender. close

Suggested reading

Nancy Fraser, "The Feminism of the 1% has associated our cause with elitism" Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" (1988) and Undoing Gender (2004) Martha Nussbaum, "The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler (1999)" and "Women's Progress and Women's Human Rights" (2015) Susan Okin, Gender, Justice, and the Family (1989) Ann Cudd, "Is Capitalism Good for Women?" (2015) Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" (1851) bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman? (1982) Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) Karl Marx, Selections from Capital Vol. 1 with commentary Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage Between Marxism and Feminism" (1979) Iris Marion Young, "Socialist Feminism and the Limits of Dual Systems Theory" (1981) Patricia Hill Collins, Intersectionality Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger, Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (2017) Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women (1983) Cinzia Arruzza, "Functionalist, Determinist, Reductionist: Social Reproduction Feminism and its Critics” (2016) Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class (1983) Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto close