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Academic Year 2001/2002
Women in Political Thought
GOVT 392 SP
This course analyzes women's relation to nature, culture and politics in western political thought. What are women's capacities for freedom, power, care, and citizenship, and how do women uphold, subvert or transform
the political community? Readings
from classical, renaissance and modern times are included.
MAJOR READINGS
Hannah Arendt, THE HUMAN CONDITION Plato and Aristotle, selections Hanna Pitkin, FORTUNE IS A WOMAN Niccolo Machiavelli, selections Mary Shanley & Carol Pateman, eds., FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS AND POLITICAL
THEORY John Stuart and Harriet Mill,
selections Simone de Beauvoir, THE SECOND SEX Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, selections Carol Gilligan, IN A DIFFERENT VOICE Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, selections Seyla Benhabib & Drucilla Cornell, eds.,
FEMINISM AS CRITIQUE
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One short paper and class presentation, based on the reading for class; one term paper (15 to 20 pages) on a topic of your choosing.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to
the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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