Calendar

SES #TOPICS
1Introduction to the course
2What is feminist theory?
3Suffrage and equality
4

Materialist feminism

Guest lecturer: Anne McCants, Professor, History Department, MIT

5Feminism and difference
6Power and identity
7Sexuality and gender
8

Embodied knowledge

Guest speaker: Ian Smith, Student Activist, MIT

9

Pornography, rape, and the politics of consent

Guest speaker: Rae Langton, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy Department, MIT

10

Gender and the welfare system

Guest speaker: Andrea Campbell, Professor, Political Science Department, MIT

11Gender and militarism
12Final presentations
13Identities and global feminism
14Third wave feminism and wrap-up discussion