Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3217: Feminist Political Theory

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

 

Simone de Beauvoir (1949) The Second Sex

Iris Marion Young (1990) Justice and the Politics of Difference

Judith Butler (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Nira Yuval-Davis (2015) The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations

Jennifer Nedelsky (2012)  Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law

Carol Pateman (1988) The Sexual Contract

Nancy Fraser (1997) Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the ‘Postsocialist’ Condition

Susan Moller Okin (1999) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Miranda Fricker (2007) Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing

Virginia Held (2006) The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global

Saba Mahmood (2005) The Politics of Piety

Bell Hooks (2009) Belonging: A Culture of Place