| Course Title: Courses on Women and Gender: 'Une Philosophe, Qu'est-ce? Thinking with French Women Philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir to Catherine Malabou' |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course focuses on French women writers of philosophy. We start with the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, author of the founding text of second wave feminism, Le deuxième sexe. We'll consider écriture féminine with the French Feminism triad Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, as an antecedent of contemporary écriture inclusive. After exploring Barbara Cassin's project to define philosophical terms multilingually, we'll have a special focus on Catherine Malabou whose meditation on plasticity resonates with the gender fluidity of our time and whose recent study of anarchism offers a new critique of domination. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Carolyn Shread | 413-538-2150 | cshread@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 127 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two of the following courses: FREN-215, FREN-219, FREN-225. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 15 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Les inseparables Author: De Beauvoir, Simone Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9791031902746 Publisher: L'Herne, Paris |
Recommended | 30.00 |
| Title: La matrice de la race : généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la nation franç Author: Dorlin, Elsa Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: La Découverte |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Le Rire de la méduse et autres ironies Author: Cixous,, Hélène Copyright: 2010 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Galilée |
Recommended | 35.00 |
| Title: Se défendre : une philosophie de la violence. Author: Dorlin, Elsa Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: La Découverte |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Sexe, genre et sexualités : introduction à la théorie féministe. Author: Dorlin, Elsa Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: PUF |
Required | 15.00 |
| Title: Éloge du risque Author: Dufourmantelle, Anne Copyright: 2011 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Payot |
Recommended | 10.00 |
| Title: Puissance de la douceur, Author: Dufourmantelle, Anne Copyright: 2013 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Payot |
Recommended | 10.00 |
| Title: Le Féminisme ou la mort Author: Eaubonne, Françoise d? Copyright: 1974 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Horay |
Recommended | 25.00 |
| Title: Étrangers à nous-mêmes Author: Kristeva, Julia Copyright: 1988 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Fayard |
Recommended | 15.00 |
| Title: Speculum de l?autre femme Author: Irigaray, Luce Copyright: 1974 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Éditions de Minuit |
Recommended | 50.00 |
| Title: Ce sexe qui n?en est pas un Author: Irigaray, Luce Copyright: 1977 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Éditions de Minuit |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: La pesanteur et la grâce Author: Weil, Simone Copyright: 1947 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Plon |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Photo de famille : penser des vies intellectuelles d?un point de vue fémini Author: Claire and Dorlin, eds., Isabelle and Elsa Copyright: 2022 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Éditions de l?EHESS |
Optional | 25.00 |
| Title: French women philosophers: a contemporary reader: subjectivity, identity, a Author: Howells, Christina Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Routledge |
Optional | 150.00 |
| Title: Beyond French Feminism: Debates on Women, Politics and Culture in France 19 Author: Célestin, Dalmolin and de Courtivron, Roger Copyright: 2003 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Macmillan |
Optional | 100.00 |
| Title: Que faire de notre cerveau ? Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Bayard |
Recommended | 15.00 |
| Title: La Plasticité au soir de l?écriture. Dialectique, destruction, déconstructi Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2005 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Léo Scheer |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Changer de différence. Le Féminin et la question philosophique Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2009 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Galilée |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Ontologie de l?accident. Essai sur la plasticité destructrice Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2009 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Léo Scheer |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Métamorphoses de l?intelligence. Que faire de leur cerveau bleu ? Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: PUF |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Bibliothèque, Rivages |
Recommended | 20.00 |
| Title: Au voleur ! Anarchisme et philosophie Author: Malabou, Catherine Copyright: 2022 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: PUF |
Recommended | 30.00 |
| Title: Le bonheur, sa dent douce à la mort: Autobiographie philosophique Author: Cassin, Barbara Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Fayard |
Optional | 30.00 |
| Title: Vocabulaire européen des philosophies Le dictionnaire des intraduisibles Author: Cassin, Barbara Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Seuil |
Recommended | 40.00 |
| Title: Manifeste pour une democratie deviante: Amours queers face au fascisme Author: Spina, Costanza Copyright: 2023 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9782494567009 Publisher: editions trouble |
Recommended | 25.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Dear students, If you want to get ahead with the reading for this course, you can enjoy Simone de Beauvoir's posthumously published novella, Les inseparables. Please do not be alarmed by the price of all the books! All books required for this and every other MHC class will be available through the library course reserves, and I will put PDF of readings on Moodle - I just want to be sure that you have all of the books in our course available on paper in addition. Carolyn Shread |