PHL 1030 Women According to the Philosophers

What exactly does it mean to be a male, or a female? Philosophers have been puzzled by this question for nearly three thousand years. The ontological status of genderhood (just how one is to define gender metaphysically) is the subject of this course, which will examine the first attempts of Western Philosophers to come to terms with this problem, from the Pre-Socratics to the High Medievals.