Course Description
The ethics of guiding human decision-making and behavior in personal, work, social, and political lives. Students will strengthen their understanding of historical and contemporary frameworks of feminist ethics and issues of justice, bodily autonomy, interdependence, multispecies entanglement, rights, privileges, and access to resources.
Athena Title
Ethics Bodies Gender Sex
Semester Course Offered
Offered fallOffered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn a range of feminist interdisciplinary approaches to ethics including, but not limited to ethics of care, ecofeminist ethics, intersectionality, transnational feminisms, feminist critiques of duty-centered frameworks, and consequentialism.
- Students will learn to read, compare, and analyze feminist perspectives on racialized constructions of gender, sex, and sexuality.
- Students will learn to critically examine practices and discourses in media, and culture related to bodies, gender, sex, race, and sexuality.
- Students will learn to analyze moral reasoning connected to gender, sex, sexuality in issues of health, reproductive justice, disability studies, and access to comprehensive health care, education, and resources.
- Students will learn to examine ethical dimensions of policies and decision-making related to gender, sex, and sexuality in a variety of contexts including workplaces, communities, landscapes, and how they are reflected in law and politics.
- Students will learn to assess how moral reasoning related to gender, sex, and sexuality impacts relationships, family dynamics, and connections with humans and nonhumans.
Topical Outline
- 1) Introduction and course overview of bodies, gender, sex, sexuality
- 2) Overview of feminist ethics frameworks
- 3) What is womanhood? Race, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
- 4) Constructions of Body and Beauty, Media, and Culture
- 5) Health, reproductive justice, allocation of resources, and access to comprehensive health care
- 6) Workplace, law, politics
- 7) Relationships, families, communities, connections with humans and nonhumans
