JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Olympe De Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, Empiricism
30 Sep 2018
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Gender bender : feminism and queer theory as a challenge to. Question of who is a human: edmund burke, a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful 1757. Another essay by mary: between ideas and reality. Plato: women were allowed to rule in the republic, gap between these ideas and them being actualized. Simone de beauvoir: born paris france, 1908 --- died april 1986, paris, wrote book the second sex, philosopher, novelist, feminist. Key thinkers: luce irigaray - philospher, helen cixous - Julia kristeva critiques melancholy, depression: reading clarise lispector, concept of body and domesticity, visionary for these thinkers, wanted diff strategies of writing, cant think without language, language birth of consciousness, language needs to be investigated. From feminism to queer theory: with the continued radicalization of the concepts of the other feminist theory, shifted into queer theory.
