Feminist Thought
POLS 341/WOMS 401
E-mail: brunell@gonzaga.edu
Unit
1: Feminist Theories, Methods and
Epistemologies
Definitions of Feminism and Feminist Theory
Essence vs. Social Construction
Feminist
Method, Feminist Epistemology
In a Different
Voice: Towards a Feminist Ethics
Functionalism,
Conservatism
Conservatism,
Nature, Sex and Biological Difference
Feminist
Critiques of Bio-determinism
Feminist Critiques of Motherhood
From Biology to
Ethics: Ruddick on the Experience of Mothering
Unit
2: Liberalism
Liberalism
in First Wave Feminism in the US
Liberalism
in Second Wave Feminism in the US
Liberalism
and Contemporary Conservative Feminism
MacKinnon's
Critique of Liberalism
Rape/Pornography:
Coercion, Torture and Consent
Unit
3: Marxism and Feminist Uses and
Critiques of Marxism
Karl
Marx: His Life and Mode of Analysis
Marxism: The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich
Engels: On the Origin of the
Family, Private Property and the State
Unit 4:
Existentialism/Post-Structuralism/Sexuality
MacKinnonŐs
Critique of Postmodernism
Unit 5: Radical
Feminism
Radical Feminism
Mary Daly
Introduction
On
Christianity
On Patriarchal Sado-Rituals
Global Radical
Feminism: MacKinnon's Are Women Human?
Notes to Chapter 1, "On Torture"
Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian
Existence
Unit 6: The Third Wave and Global Feminism
MacKinnon's
Are Women Human?
Notes to Introduction