History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy History of Modern Philosophy Trends in Contemporary Philosophy Metaphysics Moral Philosophy Basic knowledge of history, history of literature and art is also required.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the very broad and controversial field of Gender Studiesl. Above all, it will seek to provide the students with the necessary information to enable them to participate with competence in the open public debate about the problems of inequality, exclusion and violence. It is therefore essential to know the twofold genealogy: -1 the images of women that dominate the patriarchal, sexist or misogynist realm and -2 the responses from what we call proto-feminist, feminism itself, since the apology to the vindication, and the most relevant contemporary reviews. As for the skills that students must come to acquire, we can highligh: 1. the ability to identify and properly contextualize conceptual problems, ambiguous notions, and fallacious arguments. 2. analytical skills that the student must master in order to propose new problems and questions, counterclaims, or new perspectives in Gender . 3. specific skills, especially reading in depth, and perspective (as in the hermeneutics of suspicion). 4. the ability to pose problems, and defend arguments, or thesis in papers and oral presentations.

Since this is an introductory course in Gender Studies, its contents must focus on the most basic elements that make up the canon. But at the same time, since it is at the 4th year, it is possible to have a program that presupposes some knowledge in the field of philosophy, moral philosophy, literature and the arts. Thus, the course is organized around four main headings: 1. Sex and Gender: Nature and cultural constructions. 1a. Gender and patriarchy. 1b. The origins of misogyny in the premodern world. 1c. The first defenses of women. 2. Equality and Difference: The homogeneous, the heterogeneous and fear to mixing. 2a. The origins of the feminist revolution. 2b. The invention of gender or equality. 2c. Sex claim or the idea of difference. 3. Sex, gender and sexual identity. 3a. The social construction of masculinity. 3b. Queer theory. 3c. Sexual identities. 4. Multiple Subjectivities and the ¿intersectional condition¿ 4a. Intersectionality 4b. Black Feminism 4c. Anticolonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial theory. READINGS: The basic reading. The readings below are required and will be discussed at the seminars. Plato: Republic, Book V. Aristotle: Politics, Book I. S. Agacinski: Metaphysics of the Sexes. M. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women. S. de Beauvoir: The Second Sex. A. Rich:Compulsory Heterosexualíty and Lesbian Existence M. Witig: The Straight Mind and Other Essays. L. Irigaray: El cuerpo a cuerpo con la madre. El otro género de la naturaleza. M.M. Foucalult:The History of Sexuality J. Butler: Gender Trouble. M. Lugones:Towards a Decolonial Feminism

The teaching methodology will include: (1) Lectures, where the concepts students must acquire will be presented and contextualized. To facilitate their learning, basic reference texts and a series of specific readings will be provided for each session. (2) Seminars, where the work will be organized so that each week a group (speaker) will commit to presenting and leading the discussion around a text, raising topics of interest and asking relevant questions. The rest of the class, who must come prepared with relevant questions about the same text, should contribute to the discussion with new questions, analyses, answers, etc. (3) A question will emerge from each of these seminars and will be addressed in a short individual essay. Each student must submit two essays (to be done in class).