PHIL 380

Fall 2004 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

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Credit: 3 hours.

(PHIL 280) Philosophical examination of positions taken on some issue of current concern, e.g., human sexuality, death and dying, feminism, race, intelligence, war, and sociobiology. See Schedule for current topics.

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PHIL 380 class schedule data for fall 2004
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39417	Lecture	A	1:00PM -2:20PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Abramson, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/04-12/10/04 Section Info: Feminism: Part I--Second Wave Philosophical Feminism The phrase, "the second wave of feminism", refers to a movement in North American politics, usually dated to the late 1960s or early 1970s and the push for the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. But it is not just feminist politics that has a history, and comes in waves. Philosophical thought about feminism has also had a second wave, dating roughly to the same time as the second wave of feminism in politics. It's now been almost forty years since the beginning of the second wave of philosophical feminism, and in every decade, there has been a distinct set of questions concerning feminism on which philosophers have tended to focus. This course is an investigation of the history of philosophical feminism of the second wave. Our concern will be not only to discuss the truth of, and the mistakes in, the work of feminist philsophers in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but also to understand how the very questions philosophers have asked about feminism evolved over those decades. Accordingly, the readings and class discussions for the course are organized by decade. We will occasionally pause to set our philosophical readings in a larger social and political context by discussing the philosophical texts in light of more explicitly political texts, and at one point, in light of a film. Note to students: This course is the first part of a two part series. Next semester, in the second part of the series, we will take a look at what is sometimes now referred to as the "third" wave of feminism in the philosophical context--i.e. philosophical feminism from the last five years or so. Students registered for this course are encouraged, but by no means required, to take part 2 of the series and vice versa.