WMST 300: Current Issues in Women and Gender Studies

WMST 300-002: Philosophy, Sex, and Gender
(Fall 2018)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Innovation Hall 207

Section Information for Fall 2018

This course explores how concepts of sex and gender structure key philosophical ideas and how philosophical ideas have shaped our concepts of sex and gender. A key aim of the course is to show how issues of sex and gender were not ‘added in’ to philosophy by feminist thinkers in the 20th century. Rather, philosophy’s key ideas have always been structured by ideas about (what we moderns call) sex, gender, and sexuality: sometimes obviously and explicitly, such as in the gendering of Rousseau’s political philosophy, and sometimes in more implicit but no less significant ways, such as in Descartes’ account of knowledge or his version of substance (mind/body) dualism.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 1-6

Study of selected topics central to contemporary women and gender studies. Topics vary but include subjects such as women and violence, women and international development, women's myth and ritual, LGBTQ topics, the history and politics of sexuality, psychoanalysis, and religion. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: WMST 200 or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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