Gender and Being Human.

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The feminist movement has been among the most significant intellectual and cultural movements in the United States in the last century, and the last several decades have seen the conversations re-ignited with new questions about the nature of gender more broadly. This course will focus on classic philosophical questions about the nature of human beings, with specific focus on the relevance of various answers to our understanding of gender. We will read both classic philosophical texts and contemporary feminist and gender theorists. We will look particularly at the history of how feminism has developed in the United States since the Seneca Falls Convention and how it has contributed to more recent discussions of gender, but we will do so in explicit dialogue with perennial philosophical debates about what it means to be human.