Feminist Philosophy Reading Group (MT 2017)

Feminist Philosophy Reading Group

Meeting times: Thursday, 9 to 10:30 am, Ryle Room.

Readings for Michaelmas Term 2017

1. Week One: Introductions; Haslanger, Sally. “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)” Hypatia, 23:2 (2008) 210-223. 
2. Week Two: Jenkins, Fiona. “Epistemic Credibility and Women in Philosophy” Australian Feminist Studies 29:80 (2014) 161-170.
3. Week Three: Alcoff, Linda. "Visible identities: Race, Gender, and the Self." Vol. 10. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; Chapter 5, The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory, and Chapter 6, The Metaphysics of Gender and Sexual Difference.
4. Week Four: Woollard, Fiona. "Motherhood and Mistakes about Defeasible Duties to Benefit." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2016).
5. Week Five: Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing USA (2015); Chapter 1, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Chapter 2, The Rape of Animals, The Butchering of Women.
6. Week Six: Anderson, Scott A. "Prostitution and Sexual Autonomy: Making Sense of the Prohibition of Prostitution." Ethics 112.4 (2002): 748-780.
7. Week Seven: Frye, Marilyn. "Oppression. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory." Reprinted in V. Taylor, N. Whittier, and L. Rupp (Eds.) Feminist Frontiers (1983); Lorde, Audre. "The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House." Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader 25 (2003): 27. 
8. Week Eight: Bartky, Sandra. "On Psychological Oppression." Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10.1 (1979): 190-190; McIntosh, Peggy. "White Privilege and Male Privilege." The Teacher in American Society: A Critical Anthology 121 (2010).