Feminist Ethics of Care and Politics

This seminar provides opportunities to synthesize and deepen understandings of feminist ethics of care scholarship and gender-related issues through intensive reading, writing and discussion. Throughout the semester, we will engage with theories, conceptual developments, debates, as well as epistemological and methodological issues, which chart the development of feminist ethics of care research.  In the process, we will critically interrogate the different intellectual traditions that have shaped debates and issues within feminist politics and practices. We will examine these traditions from an explicitly interdisciplinary perspective, highlighting contributions made by feminist scholars from performance studies, philosophy, communications, arts, anthropology, etc.