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POL2024H1F L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL432H1F L0101
Feminist Theory: Challenges to Legal and Political Thought
Themes
Feminist political thought challenges the core concepts of political theory, but its history is intertwined with the major strains of political thought, including liberal, republican, Marxist and radical traditions. Feminist political thought thus provides an important vantage point from which to think critically about the nature and limitations of key political concepts such as rights, equality, identity, and agency as well as the nature of politics itself. Feminism, however, is not unified nor are its intellectual contributions short-lived. The tradition of feminist political thought continually raises questions with regard to the boundaries, agendas and subjects of exclusionary political ideologies and practices. In turn, it poses these questions itself – its own identity and power relations. This course will explore the variety of feminisms emerging out of women’s struggles for political inclusion as well as more recent feminist theoretical challenges to the category of woman, identity politics, and rights-centered political discourse.
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November 14, 2023
Congratulations to Madalyn Hay, a recipient of a 2023-2024 Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellowship. Madalyn, one of our doctoral students, holds a BAH in Contemporary Studies and Classics from the...
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to alumna Meaghan Williams, a recipient of the 2022-23 Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence, the highest academic honour available to graduate students in Canada. Awarded annually by the Office of the...
June 14, 2021
Great news from the Canadian Political Science Association, which held its annual awards ceremony (online) over the weekend of June 12 & 13: Professor Stefan Rencken’s book "Private Governance and Public...
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to two political science alumni now teaching at U of T who have both won Superior Teaching Awards! Igor Shoikhedbrod and Khalid Ahmed will be celebrated on May 5th at...
August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...