Jane Eyre and Gender Equality with Rebecca Robb
- Day: Fridays
- Dates: May 9 – June 13, 2025
- Time: 9:30am – 11:30am
- Location: Online, via Zoom
- Price: $175+HST
Zoom Information will be sent by email 1-2 days prior to the lecture date.
Overview
In this series, we will discuss Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyer with some help from philosophers John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir. Charlotte Bronte’s classic is often read as a feminist novel. But is it? Could the mysterious wife in the attic represent Jane Eyre’s subconscious, who wants to burn the patriarchy to the ground? Perhaps. And is her complex relationship with her much older employer a partnership between equals, a genuine love affair, or something else? Every Thursday morning for six weeks we will explore these challenging questions.
About the Lecturer
Rebecca Robb is a PhD candidate in Ethics and Public Affairs at Carleton University. She holds a Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of Victoria and a Master of Philosophy from Carleton University. Her teaching philosophy centres on an interdisciplinary approach to ethics. While ethics is a branch of philosophy, Rebecca finds it can also be approached through theology, literature, history, or other academic disciplines. At its most basic, the study of ethics is the study of what makes an action morally right or wrong. Rebecca especially enjoys connecting with students new to the discipline. Her focus is always on engaging students in dialogue and encouraging them to bring their life experience to the study of philosophy.
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