This unit comprehensively examines the history and philosophy of thinking about gender as it emerges from eighteenth century liberal humanism to current neoliberalism. It is thematically developed around the ways in which both gender and feminism have been central to the construction and articulation of modernity. Students read key texts by Western theorists such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf, as they chart the emergence and diversification of modern feminist philosophy, with reference to eminent thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminists, Bell Hooks, Donna Haraway, Gloria Anzaldua, Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz. In... -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Chantal Bourgault
Prerequisites: any Level 2 unit in Gender Studies