LEIGH E. RICH AND JACK SIMMONS

10:30 – 11:30 AM | WEDNESDAYS | AUGUST 5 THROUGH 26

Nearly two centuries of modern feminism has brought groundbreaking attention to gender inequalities and necessary nuance to an erstwhile binary dialectic. It has also inadvertently created risks of overt essentialism, political conundrums,and blame for a masculinity crisis. This philosophical examination invokes the works of Hegel and Marx, with insights and responses from   foundational and contemporary feminist scholars.

Leigh E. Rich is professor of health sciences at Georgia Southern University. She is trained as a medical anthropologist, and her research focuses on gender and culture. Jack Simmons is professor of philosophy at Georgia Southern University. He is the editor of The 21st Century and Its Discontents and the author of numerous academic articles, two plays, and the novel Three Dashes Bitters.