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Tara Gilligan, visiting instructor of philosophy, will speak on “What Can Feminism Offer Men?” noon today in Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall.
The event is sponsored by Association for Lafayette Women, which will provide lunch.
Gilligan says the question of what feminism can offer men is interesting for a number of reasons.
“Many people, women and men, think that feminism is the domain of women — that it concerns women’s issues, that it does so in a uniquely female way, and that its battle is against a patriarchal system created and perpetuated by men,” she says. “I will look at several ways in which men may benefit from adopting a feminist standpoint.”
An Allentown native, Gilligan graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University in 1994 and began her graduate work at The Johns Hopkins University in fall 1995, earning a master’s in 1999. Working with her advisor, George Wilson (now professor of philosophy at UC Davis), she has pursued interests in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of literature. The topic of her doctoral dissertation is “Constructing a Moral Life: Literature and the Ordinary Moral Agent.” A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Gilligan has received nine fellowships and awards, and wrote ten entries published in The Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. She lives in Easton with her husband and twin daughters.