The Fragmented Self: Philosophy of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Disability

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course, cross-listed between the philosophy department and the gender studies program, invites students into an in-depth theoretical exploration of the self as seen through the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and disability. Engaging with the foundational texts in queer studies by philosophers such as Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, Eve Sedgwick, Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, and José Esteban Muñoz, etc., the course is designed to challenge and expand students' philosophical understanding of the self by introducing essential theoretical tools such as intersectionality, body, affect, disidentification, gender performativity and queer temporality, etc.. This course welcomes all students from historically underrepresented, minoritarian, marginalized groups.