PHIL 165: Philosophy and Feminism
                      Spring, 1993


WELCOME

Instructor:  Joyce Carpenter
        Office:  22B Glebe, #201
        Phone:   792-7810
        Office Hours:  1-2 Wed; 9-10 Fri; and T/Th afternoons by appt


Course Structure:  We will look at three different societies, with a special
emphasis on the values of each.  Two of these worlds are fictional one is
the real world we live in. Some of the topics we will discuss include:
sex roles, the nature of sex oppression, the influence of the media on body
images and self-esteem, the use of values to structure social institutions.
  I hope the class will conduct this investigation through discussion
(although there will be times when I will spend some time explaining stuff).

Course Requirements:

The students are expected to do the assigned readings from the following texts:
        Gilman, Herland
        Wolf, The Beauty Myth
        Bartky, Femininity and Domination
        Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
        Photocopy Text (noted as PT below)
                available from Digitz, on Wentworth between King & Meeting Sts.

Course Grades will be based on:
        weekly writing assignments: 20%
        papers: 40% total
        two exams: 20% each

  I will take attendance in order to learn names and to decide borderlinderline
  grades. I hope you will come to class willingly.

 Weekly Writing Assignments: For each reading I will ask you to write a
 summary/response/analysis.  These will be due on the date the reading
 is assigned, howerever, I will collect randomly.  If something is not
 done when collected, it will get NO CREDIT. (Which is to say they will
 not be accepted late).

 Papers: There will be two short papers (3 pages each) and one longer
 paper (5 pages)  I will announce the topics and due dates shortly, in
 the meantime some general instructions on writing philosophy papers are
 attached.

  Exams: There will be two exams of equal weight (one given during classtime
  and one during finals week).
  These will be a combination of multiple choice of other "objective"
  questions, short answer questions, and essay questions.

                   PHIL 165 - Spring, 1993
                        Weekly Schedule

1/8: Intro to Course

Week of 1/11:   Mainardi (PT)
                Jackson, vii-9 (PT)
                Herland, Chapters 1-6

Week of 1/18:   Herland, Chapters 6-12
                Frye, Sexism (PT)

Week of 1/25:   Wolf, pages 9-57
                Jackson, 31-40 (PT)

Week of 2/1:    Hall and Sandler (PT)
                Bartky, pp. 88-98

Week of 2/8:    Hooks, (PT)
                Wolf, 59-106

Week of 2/15:   Boston Wm's Health Book Collective (PT)
                Wolf, 131-178
                Herman (PT)

Week of 2/22:   Wolf, pages 179-217
                Silverstein, etal (PT)

Week of 3/1:    Bartky, Chapter 5

Week of 3/8:    SPRING BREAK

Week of 3/15:   Bartky, chapter 2 and chapter 3
                Frye, Oppression (PT)

Week of 3/22:   Bartky, Chapter 7

Week of 3/29:   Jaggar (PT)
                King (PT)

Week of 4/5:    Atwood

Week of 4/12:   Atwood

Week of 4/19    Bartky, chapter 1
                Wolf, 270-291

Final Exams:
        165.001: April 30 (Friday) 9:30-11:30
        162.002: April 29 (Thursday) 9:30-11:30


ALL OF THE ABOVE IS SUBJECT TO REVISION AT THE INSTRUCTOR'S DISCRETION


PHIL 165: Spring 1993

                           Photocopy Text


Mainardi, Pat. "The Politics of Housework."  In Feminist Frameworks, Alison M.
 Jaggar and Paula Rothenberg Struhl, eds.
 New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978. pp. 33-38.

Jackson, Donna. How to Make the World a Better Place for Women in Five Minutes
 a Day. New York: Hyperion.1992. pp. vii-xi, 2-9, 31-40.

Frye, Marilyn. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Freedom, CA:
 The Crossing Press, 1983.
"Oppression" 1-16; "Sexism" 17-40.

Hall, Roberta M. and Bernice R. Sandler. "The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One
 for Women." Washington:
Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges,
 1982. pp. 1-22.

hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: from margin to center. Boston: South End Press,
 1984.  "Educating Women: A Feminist Agenda" pp. 107-115.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. New York:
 Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
1984.  "Violence Against Women" 131-150.

Herman, Dianne.  "The Rape Culture." In Changing Our Power: An Introduction to
 Women Studies, Cochran, Langston, and Woodward, eds.
 Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1988, pp. 260-273.                pp.

Silverstein, Perdue, Peterson, and Kelly. "The Role of the Mass Media in
 Promoting a Thin Standard of BodilyAttractiveness for Women."  Sex Roles 14
 (1986), 519-532.

Jaggar, Alison.  "Political Philosophies of Women's Liberation."  In Feminist
 Frontiers: Rethinking Sex,Gender and Society.  Laurel Richardson and Verta
 Taylor, eds. N.Y.: Addison-Wesley, 1983. pp. 322-329.

King, Ynestra. "Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and Nature/Culture
 Dualism." InGender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and
 Knowing.  Alison M. Jaggar and Susan R. Bordo, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers
 University Press, 1989. 115-141.