Module PHL2027 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2027: Feminist Philosophy
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- The beginnings of feminist theory in the 18th and 19th Century
- The developments in 20th Century and current Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
- Theories of Difference
- Standpoint Theory
- Feminist Ethics
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour lectures |
| Scheduled learning activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour seminar |
| Guided independent study | 66 | 6 x 11 hrs weekly reading and working through assigned articles and books |
| Guided independent study | 20 | Preparing presentation and handout |
| Guided independent study | 42 | Independent research and writing of course essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
The reading list and seminar texts for the course can be found on the ELE page. Basic readings include the following sources:
- Angela Davis: Women, Race and Class, 1983
- Sandra Harding (ed): The feminist theory standpoint reader: Intellectual and political controversies (2004) New York: Routledge
- Harriet Taylor-Mill: The Enfranchisement of Women, (1851), in: Ann Robson: Sexual Equality, A John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and Helen Taylor Reader (1994), Toronto University Press. See reference at http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/awrm/doc15.htm .
- Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) online at: http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/wollstonecraft1792.pdf .
- A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Alison Jaggar and Iris M. Young (eds), Blackwell, Cambridge, 1998
- Nancy Fraser, Fortunes of Feminism, Verso 2013
And sections/chapters from
- Judith Butler ‘Gender Trouble
- Tom Digby (ed) Men Doing Feminism, Routledge 1998
- Sandra Harding: Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophy of Science and Technology (2009)
- Carol Gilligan: In A Different Voice (1982), Harvard University Press.
- Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser: Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (Thinking Gender) (1995), Routledge.
- Cressida Heyes, Feminist solidarity after queer theory: The case of transgender, Signs, Summer 2003, 28(4), pp. 1093-1120
- Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding (eds.): Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural Postcolonial and Feminist World (2000), Indiana University Press.
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
