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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Credits: 1-6
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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