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Gender and Culture
Course Content
Introduction
Course Content, Expectations, Scheduling the Weekly Presentations
The Gendered Nature/Reason Divide
Alison Stone, Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Introduction: What is Feminist Philosophy?)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Introduction, Ch. IX: Dreams, Fears, and Idols, and Conclusion)
Reason, Emotions and Affectivity
Beth Lord, Spinoza’s Ethics (Section III: The Affects)
Sara Ahmed, Cultural Politics of Affects (Introduction: Feel Your Way)
No class due to Cumhuriyet Holiday (National Holiday)
Equality or Difference
Stone, Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Chapter 4: Sexual Difference)
Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference
Matter and Femininity
Plato’s Timaeus, The Idea of Khora
Elizabeth Grosz, Women, Chora, Dwelling
Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter (Part I)
The Question of the Subject of Feminism
Butler’s Gender Trouble (Section I)
Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider (“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” “Transformation from Silence to Action” and “Letter to Mary Daly”)
Writing and Subjectivity
Helene Cixous’ “The Laugh of Medusa”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (“Reclaiming the Erotic”)
Butler, Gender Trouble (Section 3: Subversive Bodily Acts)
Intersectionality
bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Epistemology
Joy Harjo, “Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience”
Intersectionality II
Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: (Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation)
Uma Narayan, “Contesting Cultures”
Dicle Koğacıoğlu, The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey
Zahra Ali, Islamic Feminisms (Section I
Ecofeminism & Post-humanism
Alicia H. Puleo, “What is Ecofeminism”
Carolyn Merchant, “The Scientific Revolution and The Death of Nature”
Rosi Braidotti, Post-Human (Ch.1: “Post-Humanism: Life beyond the Self” & Ch.2: “Post-Anthropocentrism: Life beyond the Species”)
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Educational Support for Disabled Students
If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and Bilgi Accessible Education Unit as early as possible in the term. Bilgi Accessible Education Unit will verify your disability and determine reasonable accommodations for this course. For more information, visit http://step.bilgi.edu.tr/en/ogrenci-destek-merkezi/bilgi-accessible-education-unit/
