Dec 21, 2024  
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PHL 300 - Philosophy of Sex & Power

Credits: 3

This course thinks critically about the relation between sex, gender, and power, asking questions such as: who or what decides what I desire? How is sex used as an instrument of oppression? How can sex be used as a form of liberation? What is the difference between sex and gender? When we speak of sex, we may mean the biological aspect of our existence, the social construction of our bodies, the hidden desires that form our psyche, and/or the erotic activity of having sex. Reading key texts in feminist thought, philosophy of sex and gender, and queer theory, this course examines the ways that sites of power construct definitions of sex and gender, and how these constructions inform other interstices of identity such as sexuality, race, and religion.
Also Listed as: WGS 300  


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