The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents

CONFUCIAN FEMINISM:
A FAMILY- AND CARE-BASED FEMINIST THEORY

Date: November 15, 2024
Location: Sakamaki C-308
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm

Everyone is welcome to attend!

This nook offers a hybrid feminist theory based on distinctive Confucian concepts – such as ren 仁, xiao 孝, you 友, li 禮, and datong 大同 – to interrogate the issue of gender oppression and to envision gender liberation. However this is not just a historical study of the intersection between Confucianism and women’s lives; instead this is a forward:-looking, inventive project that theorizes Confucian philosophy in a feminist fashion. Confucian feminism, although its theoretical root is in the Confucian textual tradition, is intended to be an inclusive, transcultural, and transnational feminist theory that offers an ethically satisfying life and a liberating future for women anywhere and everywhere.