Module PHL2041 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2041: Feminist Philosophy: Gender, Race and Class
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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:
- Developments in 20th Century and current Feminism
- Feminist Epistemology
- Sex and Gender
- Men Doing Feminism
- 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 lectures |
| Guided independent study | 55 | 11 x 5 hours weekly reading and working through assigned articles and books |
| Guided independent study | 36 | Writing reading reports, preparing presentation |
| Guided independent study | 37 | Independent research and writing of 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.
Basic readings include the following sources:
- Angela Davis, Women Race and Class, 1981
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble 1990
- Nancy Fraser, Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics (1996).
- Carol Gilligan: In A Different Voice (1982), Harvard University Press.
- Patricia Collins Hill and Sirma Bilge (2016),Intersectionality,
- Donna Haraway: Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective (1988), Signs Vol. 14.
- bell hooks (1984) Feminist Theory from Margin to Center, South End Press
- Michael S. Kimmel (1998), Men Doing Feminism
- Mohanty, C., Russo, A. and Torres, L. (1991) Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
- Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding (eds.): Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural Postcolonial and Feminist World (2000), Indiana University Press.
