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Feminist Philosophy
Edited by Ásta . (Duke University)
Assistant editors: Rachel Katherine Cooper, Anna Klieber
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| Summary |
Feminist philosophy both critiques and contributes to all fields of philosophy. It has moved beyond its original insight that gendered power deeply colors the methods and substance of philosophy. Today feminist philosophers construct work that builds on an understanding of power, privilege and oppression in the complex relationships among gender, race, sexuality, class/caste, ability, nation, age, and coloniality. Thus, the field is in a good position to assist any philosopher in understanding that power, privilege, and social identities are philosophically important and impact the ways we do ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, politics, or any other field of philosophy. |
| Key works | Key work in feminist philosophy has been done in virtually all areas of philosophy. Please see individual subcategory entries under "Feminist Philosophy" for key works by area and topic. |
| Introductions |
The following collections offer concise overviews of different subfields and topics in feminist philosophy: Alcoff 2007 (The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy); Fricker & Hornsby 2000 (The Cambridge Companion to Feminism and Philosophy); Jaggar & Young 1998 (A Companion to Feminist Philosophy); and Stone 2007 (An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy). Additional anthologies and collections of key readings include: Cudd & Andreasen 2005 (Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology); Hackett & Haslanger 2006 (Theorizing Feminisms); Bailey & Cuomo 2008 (The Feminist Philosophy Reader); and Guy-Sheftal 1995 (Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought). |
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Varieties of Feminism (4,535 | 661)
African Feminism (17)
Analytic Feminism (193)
Asian Feminism (22)
Black Feminism (151)
Chinese Feminism* (65)
Continental Feminism* (3,248 | 270)
Cultural Feminism (24)
Ecofeminism (311)
Feminist Phenomenology (272)
Feminist Pragmatism (196)
Indian Feminism (29)
Indigenous Feminism (56)
Islamic Feminism (19)
Latin American Feminism* (228)
Lesbian Feminism (66)
Liberal Feminism (72)
Materialist Feminism (45)
Postcolonial Feminism (196)
Postmodern Feminism (309)
Poststructural Feminism (447)
Queer Feminism (78)
Radical Feminism (43)
US Latina Feminism (284)
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy (9,308 | 4,848)
Feminist Aesthetics (421)
Feminist Bioethics (589)
Feminist Epistemology* (912)
Feminist Ethics* (5,694)
Feminist Metaphysics (478)
Feminist Perspectives on Phenomena (1,407 | 40)
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (5,941 | 290)
Feminism: Aging (23)
Feminism: Autonomy (225)
Feminism: The Body (420)
Feminism: Disability (228)
Feminism: Equality (237)
Feminism: The Family (204)
Feminism: Friendship (24)
Feminism: Global Justice (188)
Intersectionality* (342)
Feminism: Love (79)
Feminism: Mothering (525)
Feminism: Reproduction (444)
Feminism: The Self (195)
Feminism: Oppression (364)
Feminism: Pornography (175)
Feminism: Sexuality (381)
Feminism: Terrorism (29)
Feminism: War (68)
Feminism: Violence (181)
History: Feminist Philosophy (295 | 149)
Mary Astell* (99)
Simone de Beauvoir* (740)
Judith Butler* (632)
Luce Irigaray* (528)
Julia Kristeva* (495)
Mary Wollstonecraft* (107)
Iris Marion Young* (70)
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous (553 | 29)
History/traditions: Feminist Philosophy
- History: Feminist Philosophy (295 | 149)
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- Discriminatory Types and Homogenising Relevances: A Schutzian Perspective on Oppression.Tris Hedges & Sabrina De Biasio - 2024 - Human Studies:1-22.In this paper, we draw on Alfred Schutz’s theoretical framework to better understand how oppression is enacted through discriminatory acts. By closely examining the role of typifications and relevances in our experience of others, and by supplementing this analysis with contemporary social scientific resources, we argue that a Schutzian perspective on oppression yields important phenomenological insights. We do this in three key steps. Firstly, we contextualise Equality and the Meaning Structure of the Social World within Schutz’s broader body of work, (...)
- Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI.Anastasia Siapka - 2022 - Aies '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Aaai/Acm Conference on Ai, Ethics, and Society:665–674.The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked an overwhelming number of AI ethics guidelines, boards and codes of conduct. These outputs primarily analyse competing theories, principles and values for AI development and deployment. However, as a series of recent problematic incidents about AI ethics/ethicists demonstrate, this orientation is insufficient. Before proceeding to evaluate other professions, AI ethicists should critically evaluate their own; yet, such an evaluation should be more explicitly and systematically undertaken in the literature. I argue that these (...)Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - Feminist Philosophy and the Force of Satire. On Simone de Beauvoir's Demystification of Motherhood.Daphne Pons - forthcoming - Philosophy Today.This paper argues that satire constitutes a particularly effective strategy for feminist philosophy through an analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s account of motherhood. Feminists have grappled at length with how to interpret Beauvoir’s focus on the unpleasantness of pregnancy and challenges of motherhood. In this paper, I suggest a new interpretive strategy. My view is that Beauvoir’s disparaging depiction of motherhood cannot be read by the letter; rather, it is an exercise in satire. By overemphasizing its strangeness and difficulty, Beauvoir (...)
- Striving for autonomy and feminism: What possibilities for Saudi Women?Zahia Smail Salhi - 2024 - Diogenes 65 (2):251-263.Caught in a web of cultural and religious conservatism, a totalitarian government that does not permit any form of civil society organisation, it is hardly surprising to note that before 1991 Saudi women could not mobilise in a movement to demand their confiscated rights. Until very recently, Saudi women were deprived of suffrage rights, freedom of movement, and the right to own their bodies and act freely without the consent of their male guardians. This article traces Saudi women’s trajectory to (...)
- What Does our Feminism Need? Notes on a History “en sordina”.Gisela Catanzaro - 2024 - Res Pública. Revista de Historia de Las Ideas Políticas 27 (1):11-16.El presente texto propone una lectura de A Feminist Theory of Refusal asumiendo como propia la doble clave teórica y política que el libro sostiene. En la primera parte se resumen los puntos centrales de Honig sobre el tipo de complejización e impurificación de la teoría vigente que el drama Las Bacantes de Eurípides habilitaría, y sobre la importancia de esta nueva conceptualización para la práctica política feminista. A continuación se formulan algunos interrogantes respecto del proceso histórico en el cual (...)
- Acting with Compassion: Buddhism, Feminism, and the Environmental Crisis.Stephanie Kaza - 2014 - In J. Baird Callicott & James McRae (eds.), Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought. SUNY Press. pp. 71-98.
- Theorizing Non-Ideal Agency.Caleb Ward - forthcoming - In Hilkje Hänel & Johanna Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory. Routledge.Despite the growing attention to oppression and resistance in social and political philosophy as well as ethics, philosophers continue to struggle to describe and appropriately attribute agency under non-ideal circumstances of oppression and structural injustice. This chapter identifies some features of new accounts of non-ideal agency and then examines a particular problem for such theories, what Serene Khader has called the agency dilemma. Under the agency dilemma, attempts to articulate the agency of subjects living under oppression must on the one (...)$280.00 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Feminism, Phenomenology, and Hormones.Lanei M. Rodemeyer - 2014 - In Kristin Zeiler & Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. State University of New York Press. pp. 183-199.$32.95 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Psychoanalysis in Early Italian Feminism.Paola Melchiori, Andrea Tognoni & Antonio Calcagno - 2015 - In Antonio Calcagno (ed.), Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 75-98.
- Sartre's Critique of Patriarchy.Jonathan Webber - 2024 - French Studies 78 (1):72-88.Jean-Paul Sartre developed a sophisticated and insightful feminist critique of western society through two plays and two screenplays written between 1944 and 1946 –– Huis clos, Les Jeux sont faits, Typhus, and La Putain respectueuse. In these works, Sartre explores the relations between economic oppression, epistemic injustice, and misogynistic violence, diagnoses their root cause as the patriarchal norms of femininity and masculinity, and ascribes the power of those norms to bad faith and internalized oppression. This social critique, which includes a (...)
- Plato’s Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic V’s "First Wave".John Proios & Rachana Kamtekar - 2024 - In Sara Brill & Catherine McKeen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 217-234.In Plato’s Republic, Socrates argues that in the ideal city women and men in the guardian class should receive the same education (451e–52a, 456d–57a) and do the same work (453b–56b); indeed, Socrates emphasizes that the highest office in the ideal city, of philosopher-rulers, will include philosopher-queens and not just philosopher-kings (540c). Socrates’ conclusions might be thought to recognize equality as a value, but in this chapter, we argue that the basis for assigning men and women the same work is a (...)
- Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination.Garry L. Hagberg (ed.) - 2024 - Palgrave-Macmillan.There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature. This volume offers analytically acute and culturally rich ways of understanding how it is that we can productively (...)
- What Gender Should Be.Matthew J. Cull - 2024 - London: Bloomsbury."What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for a position called 'ameliorative pluralism' about gender: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. Matthew Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, developing and arguing for a position that more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century (...)
- Coyote figurations, Techne and Feminism.Roshni Babu - 2023 - Technophany 2 (1).It is within the framework of situated knowledges in the field of biology and technology studies, in its relation to feminism that the coyote figuration is conceptualized by Donna Haraway. In what respect are they conceived by Donna Haraway to be figures of emancipation? What kind of affinity does it establishes with the figure of cyborg, as figure of posthumanism? Certainly, Donna Haraway hypothesizes the privilege of a ‘partial perspective’ having to play a role in expanding the epistemic horizon of (...)
- Feminism and Finitude.Alessandra Mularoni - 2023 - Technophany 2 (1).This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles embedded in the discursive emphasis on anti-naturalism, freedom, and alienation. My intention is to recuperate xenofeminism’s more radical manoeuvres by resituating its aims through a historical materialist approach. Specifically, I suggest a reinterpretation of nature as inherently technological. In so doing, I argue for an alliance between xenofeminism and ecofeminist (...)
- Antigone rising: the subversive power of the ancient myths.Helen Morales - 2020 - New York: Bold Type Books.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world. But in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told -- and read -- in different ways. Through these stories, whether it's (...)
- A Brief History of Trans Philosophy.Amy Marvin - 2019 - Contingent Magazine.Provides a brief account of trans philosophy organizing in the 2010s and argues for the importance of building spaces for trans philosophers.
- Kritik - Intervention - Transformation: feministische Widerständigkeit im hegemonialen Geschlechterdispositiv.Jördis Grabow - 2021 - Wiesbaden: Springer VS.Feministische Bewegungen und ihre diversen widerständigen Praktiken haben in den vergangenen Jahren wieder an Sichtbarkeit gewonnen. Neben Protest- und Aktionsformen lassen sich auch zahlreiche Praktiken finden, die das Alltagsleben feministischer Akteur*innen prägen. Charakteristisch vereinen die heterogenen feministischen Widerstände Kritik-, Interventions- und Transformationspraktiken, die das hegemoniale Geschlechterdispositiv sowie realwirksame Hervorbringungen hinterfragen, angreifen und verändern. Die Autorin untersucht in ihrer explorativen Studie verschiedene Widerstandspraktiken und analysiert deren Bedeutung für gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse. Bildet Geschlecht weiterhin die zentrale Bezugsdimension innerhalb feministischer Bewegungen? Wie definieren Feminist*innen (...)
- Futur·es: comment le féminisme peut sauver le monde.Lauren Bastide - 2022 - Paris Xe: Allary éditions.A quoi ressemblerait une société vraiment féministe? L'identité, la sexualité, l'amour et la parentalité se vivraient sans contrainte ni injonction. La réponse aux crimes serait la réparation et non l'exclusion. L'attention au soin changerait notre relation au travail. L'écoféminisme nous ferait entrer dans une relation non prédatrice à la nature. Les théoriciennes féministes ont développé, depuis des siècles, suffisamment d'outils pour modifier en profondeur chaque pan de la société, au-delà des relations femmes-hommes. Appliquer un programme féministe à la société, c'est (...)
- Feminism's look at itself : self-hygiene through the prism of laughter.Teodora Marija Grigaitė - 2023 - In Daniel O’Shiel & Viktoras Bachmetjevas (eds.), Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives. Boston: BRILL.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Melawan bahasa patriarki.Ni Putu Sri Pratiwi - 2023 - Yogyakarta: Semut Api.Thoughts of Luce Irigaray on feminism, sexism in language, and its relation to social conditions in Indonesia.
- Reclaiming time: the transformative politics of feminist temporalities.Tanya Ann Kennedy - 2023 - Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
- Reflexiones desde el heteropatriarcado: ciencia frente a ideología.Aquilino Fariñas Godoy - 2023 - Fuenlabrada, Madrid-España: SND Editores.
- Feminismo anticarcelario: el cuerpo como resistencia.Alicia Alonso Merino - 2023 - [Carcaixent]: Baladre.
- Law, selfhood and feminist philosophy: monstrous aberrations.Janice Richardson - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm. Employing contemporary feminist philosophy to rethink accepted legal ideas, the book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on the different relational ontologies of philosophers Adriana Cavarero and Christine Battersby - also considering their work via a third term: Spinoza. The second turns to diverse feminist engagements with (...)
- Conclusion: Can 'feminist' policymaking deliver a more just world?Toni Haastrup - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Decolonising feminist policymaking : interrogating Western and liberal feminisms' dominance in feminist policy spaces.Sidonia Lucia Kula - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Feminist demands for equal distribution of power and resources : the case for tax justice as central to addressing the elephant in the room of feminist policymaking.Caroline Othim & Roos Saalbrink - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- A view into the fray : lived testimony of minorities in the UK peace, security and foreign policymaking fields.Aditi Gupta & Mélina Villeneuve - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Abortion storytelling as feminist policy(un)making.Hannah Partis-Jennings - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Towards a feminist defence policy? Challenges for feminist foreign policy.Katharine A. M. Wright - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Early women envoys of India : looking for blueprints of feminist foreign policy.Khushi Singh Rathore - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Relationality and 'the international' : rethinking feminist foreign policy.Fiona Robinson - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Feminist foreign policy in India : looking inwards matters.Dipti Tamang - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Troubling French feminist diplomacy with the national context.Clara Eroukhmanoff - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- The abandonment of Sweden's feminist foreign policy : militarism and gendered nationalism.Annika Bergman Rosamond - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- What is feminist foreign policy? Interrogating a developing idea across five national contexts.Jennifer Thomson - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- From Havana to Bogota : the indicators for measuring the implementation of the gender perspective of the Colombian peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla.Lina M. Céspedes-Báez, Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz & Rebecca Nielsen - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Female victimhood, political agency, and global feminist interventions : a critical perspective of international gender mainstreaming in the Tunisian transitional justice.Sélima Kebaïli - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Advocating for feminist economic policies : a practitioner's story from the frontline.Lila Caballero Sosa - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives.Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.) - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge.Feminist Policymaking in Turbulent Times offers a unique and timely reflection of the critical debates around the institutionalisation of feminist and gender-focused ideas and norms into policy. Many states and non-governmental organisations are increasingly invested in 'feminist policymaking' at the domestic and international levels. Yet, this liberal (feminist) agenda is also vastly disputed by critical, intersectional and decolonial voices on the one hand, and by anti-gender movements around the world on the other. Indeed, while opposition to 'gender ideology' is mounting (...)
- Introduction: Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives.Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff - 2024 - In Hannah Partis-Jennings & Clara Eroukhmanoff (eds.), Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Leaking milk and beating hearts : technological immanence and the maternal body.E. L. Putnam - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Feminism and enhancement.Walter Veit & Heather Browning - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies.Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.) - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.This volume explores urgent questions surrounding the bidirectional relationship between feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. It underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates how emerging technologies can uniquely impact the shape of future feminist critique and intervention. While feminist philosophers have attended to problems posed by a few specific technologies that emerged in the previous century-especially reproductive technologies-broader philosophical questions concerning the challenges various new technologies (...)
- Self-creation in Chicana feminism.Lori Gallegos & Emma Velez - 2024 - In Kevin Aho, Megan Altman & Hans Pedersen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism. Routledge.
- Skepticism & Feminism.Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht - 2024 - Southwest Philosophy Review 40 (1):5-9.What is the value of Pyrrhonizing skepticism today? As an epistemologist, I am sympathetic to skepticism, but as a feminist, I am concerned by it. In this short paper, I’ll interrogate the troubled relationship between skepticism and feminism. More specifically, I’ll ask: Can feminists be skeptics? In the first half of the paper, I’ll articulate one feminist objection to skepticism. In the second half, I’ll suggest a pathway forward by which feminists can harness the power of the skeptical method to (...)
- Critical Précis for Katharine Jenkins’s “Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman,".Talia Mae Bettcher - 2016 - Pea Soup: A Blog Dedicated to Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia.
- Intersexuality, Transsexuality, Transgender,.Talia Mae Bettcher - 2016 - In Lisa Jane Disch & M. E. Hawkesworth (eds.), The Oxford handbook of feminist theory. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 407-427.
- Through the Looking Glass: Transgender Theory Meets Feminist Philosophy.Talia Mae Bettcher - 2017 - In Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader & Alison Stone (eds.), Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. London: Routledge. pp. 393-404.$39.99 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this listExport citation Bookmark 6 citations
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