Philo 25: Feminist Philosophical Texts Syllabus
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERISTY
BAGUIO CITY
SCHOOL OF TEACHER EDUCATION AND LIBERAL ARTS
GRADUATE SCHOOL PROGRAM IN PHILOSOPHY:
Master of Arts in Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
Prepared by: Atty. Mark Gil J. Ramolete, MA Philos, LLM
Philo 25: Feminist Philosophical Texts
Course Description
Feminism is a movement or a frame of mind which takes a multi-disciplinary approach to sex and gender imbalances understood through social theories and political activism. In the course of humanity’s story, feminism has evolved from the critical examination of imbalances between the sexes to a more nuanced focus on the social and performative constructions of sexuality and gender.
The campaigns on reproductive rights, domestic violence, gay marriage, and workplace issues such as family, medical leave, equal pay, sexual harassment and discrimination are areas of concern or focus of feminist political activism.
Where any form of stereotyping, objectification, infringements of human rights, or gender or sexuality based oppression occurs, there exist a feminist issue.
Course Objectives:
Feminist theory seeks to inquire into gender imbalances and to effect change in areas where gender and sexual politics create power imbalances, hence, intellectual and academic interpolations of these power imbalances would seek to enable the learners in this course to go into the world aware of injustices and to work toward changing unhealthy gender dynamics in any scenario.
Course Outline:
1. What is feminism?
2. 7 Things the Word "Feminist" Does Not Mean
3. The 4 Waves in the Feminist Movement
4. Pedagogical Mechanisms at Play in a Disciplinary Society
Note: Approximately 25 hours to be devoted on nos. 1-4, including the Midterm Examination
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5.Metaphysical Cannibalism
6.Gender Trouble
7. Women and Cultural Universals
8. Objectification
9. Other related reading materials to be included in the duration course as need arises
Note: Approximately 25 hours to be devoted on nos. 5-8, including the Final Examination
Course Requirements:
1. Quizzes
2. Exams
3. Recitations
4. Short Papers (TBA)
5. Final paper (TBA)
Computation of Grades:
50% - Class Standing
50% - Major Examination
References:
1. Ti-Grace Atkinson, Radical Feminism, (New York, May 1969).
2. Judith Butler, Psychic of Life Power, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997).
3. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (Feminism and the Subversion of Idenity, (Great Britain: Routledge, 1999).
4. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, (New York: Random House, Inc., 1977).
5. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley, (New York: Penguin Books, 1984).
6. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure, trans. Robert Hurley, (New York: Penguin Books, 1984).
7. Luce Irigaray, Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference, trans. Alison Martin (New York: Routledge, 1993).
8. Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. By Gillian C. Gill, (New York: Cornell University Press, 1992).
9. Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
10. Mark Gil J. Ramolete, A Feminist Discourse on Sexuality and the Reality of a Repressed Sexuality towards a Valorized Kabuuan, (Baguio City, Philippines: Saint Louis University, 2007).
Electronic References:
1. Suzannah Weiss, 7 Things the Word "Feminist" Does Not Mean, 06 July 2016, retrieved from https://www.bustle.com/articles/170721-7-things-the-word-feminist-does-not-mean. See as well this other link https://www.bustle.com/articles/74718-are-you-a-feminist-take-this-quiz-to-find-out-once-and-for-all
2. Martha Rampton, Four Waves of Feminism, 25 October 2015, retrieved from https://www.pacificu.edu/about/media/four-waves-feminism
3.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi at TEDxEuston, We Should All Be Feminists, 12 April 2013,
, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc. See this other link for additional videos
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists
4. Are you a feminist? Take the online quiz. Follow this link http://www.gotoquiz.com/are_you_a_feminist_5
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