This course is an introduction to some issues in contemporary feminist philosophy. It’s available to first-year undergraduate philosophy students, and subsidiary students from other departments. The topics covered are:
- Justice, oppression and privilege
- Gender and evolutionary psychology
- Feminine appearance – Bartky and the Panopticon
- Anorexia
- Pornography and silencing
- Treating things as people
- Hermeneutic injustice
- Reforming language
- Cultural relativism and the notion of ‘a culture’
- Universal goods and epistemic caution
