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  • Annotation

    The focus of the course is on close reading of canonical texts of feminist thinking and feminist philosophy. It familiarizes students with advantages and limits of discussed theories with regard to historical-political events, while it stresses the specific benefits of philosophical thinking in particular and theoretical thinking in general. The goal of the course is to enhance the ability to understand complex philosophical and theoretical texts and arguments.

  • 1. Reading methods and interpretative approaches to philosophical and theoretical texts

  • 2. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen, Olympe de Gouge

  • 3. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft and other liberal-feminist thinkers in the 19th century

  • 4. Friedrich Engels and other socialist-feminist thinkers in the 19th century

  • 5. Feminist philosophers and thinkers on a global scale

  • 6. Simone de Beauvoir

  • 7. Betty Friedan and other liberal-feminist thinkers in the second half of the 20th century

  • 8. Kate Millett and other radical-feminist thinkers in the second half of the 20th century

  • 9. Wages for Housework and other Marxist-feminist and socialist-feminist thinkers in the second half of the 20th century

  • 10. Combahee River Collective and other critics of heteronormativity and whiteness in the feminism of the second half of the 20th century

  • 11. Michel Foucault and other poststructuralist theories of power

  • 12. Judith Butler

  • 13. Fundamental philosophical and analytical gender theories