PHIL 338: Philosophy, Race, and Gender

PHIL 338-003: Philosophy, Race, and Gender
(Spring 2025)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Krug Hall 209

Section Information for Spring 2025

This course examines how concepts of gender, sexuality, and race structure key philosophical ideas and put such ideas into question. We will explore some of the intersections between philosophy, gender, sexuality, and race from a decolonial perspective.  We will examine how supposedly universal ideals of reason, knowledge, and objectivity were produced in ways that relied on gendered and racialized patterns of exclusion in ways
that reveal the epistemic dimensions of coloniality. For Spring 2025, we will pay particular attention to Latin-American, Latinx, Black, and Indigenous feminisms and gender theories, with an emphasis on decolonial approaches to feminism and queer philosophy. Together, we will explore how this work opens possibilities for thinking differently about the worlds we inhabit and the earth we share.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Examines how concepts of gender, sexual difference, and race structure key philosophical ideas and put such ideas into question. Analyzes the ways in which patriarchal, colonial and racialized structures intersect to produce concepts of the human, the subject, and the ‘Other’. Explores alternative approaches to subjectivity, sexuality, the body, and knowledge drawn from feminist philosophy, queer theory, and philosophies of race and decoloniality. Offered by Philosophy. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: 3 hours of PHIL or Permission of Instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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