PHIL 2500 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

An introduction to feminist philosophy with an emphasis on feminist philosophers of colour.

Week 12: Class 2: Gloria Anzaldua on Speaking in Tongues

This is the last lecture for PHIL 2500 on Gloria Anzaldua's article "Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers".

03-31
22:35

Week 12-Class 1 Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Grammar of Animacy

This is the lecture on Robin Wall Kimmerer's article "A Grammar of Animacy" in Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 128-34.

03-30
28:11

Week 10: Class 2: Jennifer Nash and Black Feminist Love-Politics

This is part 1 and part 2 of the lecture on Jennifer Nash's article: Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality (2011 Meridians, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 1-24).

03-18
56:28

Week 9: Class 2: Elizabeth Brake, Subversive Weddings, and Amatonormativity

This is part 1 and part 2 of the lecture on Elizabeth Brake's article "Do Subversive Weddings Challenge Amatonormativity? Polyamorous Weddings and Romantic Love Ideals" (Analize Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies. New Series. Issue No. 11/2018).

03-10
52:31

Week 9: Class 1: bell hooks and loving men

This is the full lecture for the bell hooks' reading "Loving Men" the last chapter of her book The Will to Change: Men Masculinity and Love.

03-09
30:04

Week 8: Class 1: Adrienne Rich and Compulsory Heterosexuality

This episode includes part 1 and part 2 of the lecture on Adrienne Rich's article: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience.

03-03
01:09:45

Week 7: Class 2: Nancy Tuana on Female Orgasm

This episode includes part 1 and part 2 of the lecture on Nancy Tuana's "Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance"

02-24
51:02

Week 5: Class 2: Kristie Dotson and Epistemic Violence

This episode is part 1 and part 2 of the lecture on Kristie Dotson's article "Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing" (2011).

02-11
45:16

Week 5: Class 1: Nora Berenstain on Epistemic Exploitation

This episode includes Part 1 and Part 2 on Nora Berenstain's article "Epistemic Exploitation" (2016)

02-08
41:08

Week 4: Class 2: Briana Toole and Standpoint Epistemology

This episode covers Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on Briana Toole's article "From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression" (2019).

02-02
59:29

Week 4: Class 1: Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman "Have We Got A Theory For You!"

This episode includes Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on Maria C Lugones' and Elizabeth Spelman's article "Have We Got A Theory For You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for 'the Woman's Voice'" (1983). In memory of Maria Lugones who passed away July 2020.

02-02
56:13

Week 3: Class 2: bell hooks and sisterhood

This is Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on bell hooks' article "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Between Women"

01-31
50:07

Week 3: Class 1: Bonita Lawrence and the Regulation of Native Identity

This is the extra lecture on Bonita Lawrence's article "Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview"

01-31
33:12

Week 2: Class 2: Kimberle Crenshaw and Intersectionality

This is Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on Kimberle Crenshaw's article "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics"

01-31
46:29

Week 2: Class 1: Christine Overall and Aspirational Gender

This is Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on Christine Overall's article "Trans Persons, Cisgender Persons, and Gender Identities"

01-31
50:24

Week 1: Class 2: Simone de Beauvoir and the Introduction to The Second Sex

This includes both Part 1 and Part 2 of the lecture on Beauvoir's Introduction to The Second Sex

01-31
56:07

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