WSTD 507 - Feminist Theory

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Staff. The course has four foci: I. The French intellectual background of the 1960's and how feminists theory in Europe and America has appropriated, criticized and reinterpreted the prevailing trends of the period. II. The contention that each gender possesses psychological characteristics traditionally considered as the prerogative of the opposite gender. III. The emphasis on a female specificity. IV. The emphasis on cultural determinism, an endeavor which usually involves a criticism of III, whose various manifestations are sometimes hastily lumped together under the term "neoessentialism".

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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