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Knowledge of philosophical gender theories from the history of philosophy to the present; competence to analyse and to compare these.

Conceptions of gender have been highly influenced by philosophical contributions. We will look at these from the viewpoint of a history of ideas and provide a survey of conceptions of womanhood and mainhood and of the attribution of social and political roles due to gender in these writings.

Contributions of the following philosophers will be presented and discussed: Platon, Aristotle, Aquinas, Marie le Jars de Gournay, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler.

lecture, discussion, video

written examination

Doyé, Sabine/Heinz, Marion/Kuster, Friederike (Hg.) 2002: Philosophische Geschlechtertheorien. Ausgewählte Texte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Reclam.

Additional literature will be announced in class.