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Feminist Philosophy
Edited by Ásta . (Duke University)
Assistant editors: Anna Klieber, Rachel Katherine Cooper
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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 (4,420 | 620)
African Feminism (17)
Analytic Feminism (194)
Asian Feminism (22)
Black Feminism (146)
Chinese Feminism* (65)
Continental Feminism* (3,107 | 207)
Cultural Feminism (25)
Ecofeminism (309)
Feminist Phenomenology (259)
Feminist Pragmatism (193)
Indian Feminism (26)
Indigenous Feminism (54)
Islamic Feminism (20)
Latin American Feminism* (226)
Lesbian Feminism (62)
Liberal Feminism (71)
Materialist Feminism (46)
Postcolonial Feminism (186)
Postmodern Feminism (300)
Poststructural Feminism (442)
Queer Feminism (76)
Radical Feminism (41)
US Latina Feminism (283)
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy (9,184 | 4,751)
Feminist Aesthetics (483)
Feminist Bioethics (577)
Feminist Epistemology* (906)
Feminist Ethics* (5,570)
Feminist Metaphysics (472)
Feminist Perspectives on Phenomena (1,394 | 40)
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (5,788 | 284)
Feminism: Aging (24)
Feminism: Autonomy (220)
Feminism: The Body (400)
Feminism: Disability (214)
Feminism: Equality (234)
Feminism: The Family (201)
Feminism: Friendship (24)
Feminism: Global Justice (187)
Intersectionality* (346)
Feminism: Love (78)
Feminism: Mothering (502)
Feminism: Reproduction (436)
Feminism: The Self (191)
Feminism: Oppression (358)
Feminism: Pornography (174)
Feminism: Sexuality (371)
Feminism: Terrorism (26)
Feminism: War (62)
Feminism: Violence (175)
History: Feminist Philosophy (296 | 150)
Mary Astell* (98)
Simone de Beauvoir* (727)
Judith Butler* (616)
Luce Irigaray* (500)
Julia Kristeva* (481)
Mary Wollstonecraft* (104)
Iris Marion Young* (68)
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous (546 | 30)
History/traditions: Feminist Philosophy
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- Gender Unrealism.Nathan Robert Howard & N. G. Laskowski - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.While intimately familiar, gender eludes theorizing. We argue that well-known challenges to gender’s analysis originate in a subtle ambiguity: questions about gender sometimes express questions about gender categories themselves (e.g., womanhood, manhood, and so on), while at other times expressing questions about what makes someone a member of these categories. Distinguishing these questions accentuates gender’s connections to morality, making a novel “antirealist” view of gender, or as we call it, “unrealist” view, especially natural. Gender’s relations to identity, sex, and social (...)
- (1 other version)Feminist political theory: an introduction.Valerie Bryson - 1992 - New York: Paragon House.Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - “You and me, same!”: Political Envy in Do The Right Thing.Logan Canada-Johnson & Sara Protasi - forthcoming - Film and Philosophy.In this paper we argue that political envy is central to unraveling the racial dynamics in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Building upon Sara Protasi’s taxonomy of envy and, in particular, from her analysis of some DTRT scenes, we conduct a more thorough interrogation of how political emotions, most notably envy, shape race relations in the film. We start by summarizing Protasi’s account of envy and then review two alternative accounts of political emotions. After elucidating what envy is and (...)
- What’s in a perspective? Social Perspectives, Interpretation, and Inquiry.Ege Yumuşak - forthcoming - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.Philosophers of mind and epistemology have studied extensively what beliefs are and what we ought to believe. Yet, we are guided toward many of our beliefs by our perspectives: cognitive structures that guide how we see and think. A chief role of ordinary perspective talk is to describe clashes between different points of view that arise when people interact. In this paper, I argue that the most developed extant account of perspectives, by Elisabeth Camp, lacks the resources to analyze interactions (...)
- (1 other version)Sobre sujeto y género: lecturas feministas desde Beauvoir a Butler.María Luisa Femenías - 2000 - Buenos Aires: Catálogos.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Microaggression Accountability: Blameworthiness, Blame, and Why it Matters.Lel Jones - 2024 - Hypatia 2024:1-18.Despite the broad agreement that microaggressions cause harm, there is disagreement on how to capture microaggressor's accountability. Friedlaender (2018) argues that, in many cases, survivors of microaggressions are not justified in holding the microaggressor blameworthy or blaming them (Friedlaender 2018, 14). I argue, in contrast, that we are generally justified in holding most microaggressors blameworthy and blaming them. By adopting a broadly blame-inclusive account of microaggressor accountability, we are in a position to satisfy the desiderata an ideal account should meet: (...)
- Marcar las diferencias: discursos feministas ante un nuevo siglo.Victoria Sendón de León - 2002 - Barcelona: Icarial.
- (1 other version)Democracia feminista.Alicia Miyares - 2003 - Madrid: Universitat de València, Instituto de la Mujer.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Mourning the More-Than-Human: Somatechnics of Environmental Violence, Ethical Imaginaries, and Arts of Eco-Grief.Marietta Radomska - 2024 - Somatechnics 14 (2):199-223.Theoretically grounded in queer death studies and environmental humanities, this article has a twofold aim. Firstly, it explores the somatechnics of environmental violence in the context of Northern and Eastern Europe, while paying attention to ongoing ecocide inflicted by Russia on Ukraine, and to the post-WW2 chemical weapon dumps in the Baltic Sea. Secondly, the article examines the concept of eco-grief in its close relation to artistic narratives on ecocide. By bridging the discussion on environmental violence and artistic renderings of (...)
- Beyond Pronouns: Gender Visibility and Neutrality across Languages.Iz González Vázquez, A. Klieber & Martina Rosola - 2023 - In Ernest Lepore & Luvell Anderson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 320-346.The aim of this paper is to explore some trans and feminist concerns about the gendered aspects of languages beyond English, focusing in particular on Spanish, Italian, and German. Historically, discussions about gendered language have often challenged the ways in which language can make women (in)visible by addressing the implicit and explicit androcentrism and sexism in our language. We call this the visibility project. Recently, questions surrounding trans-inclusiveness and the possibility of avoiding gender markers altogether have become more prominent, often (...)
- Gender equality in the name of the state: state feminism or femonationalism in civic orientation for newly arrived migrants in Sweden?Simon Bauer, Tommaso M. Milani, Kerstin von Brömssen & Andrea Spehar - 2024 - Critical Discourse Studies 21 (5):591-609.This article contributes to ongoing discussions in the social sciences about how to interpret the incorporation of gender equality into integration policies – is it a form of state feminism or femonationalism? Drawing upon intersectionality, we analyse how gender equality is presented, discussed and negotiated in relation to ethnicity and nationality in Sweden. Methodologically, we employ a bifocal lens that combines (1) a quantitative investigation of representations of civic orientation programmes in Swedish policy documents and mainstream media, and (2) a (...)
- (2 other versions)Feminist theory reader: local and global perspectives.Carole R. McCann & Seung-Kyung Kim (eds.) - 2010 - New York: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Apuntes sobre feminismos y construcción de poder popular.Luciano Fabbri - 2013 - Rosario, Argentina: Puño y Letra.
- (2 other versions)Feminist theory reader: local and global perspectives.Carole Ruth McCann & Seung-Kyung Kim (eds.) - 2013 - New York: Routledge.The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the prevailing representation of feminist movements as waves. Introductory essays at the beginning of each section lay out the framework that brings the readings together and provide historical and intellectual context. Instructors who have adopted the book can email [email protected] to (...)
- Speaking face to face: the visionary philosophy of María Lugones.Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny & Shireen Roshanravan (eds.) - 2019 - Albany: State University of New York Press.The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones. Speaking Face to Face provides an unprecedented, in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born scholar-activist María Lugones. Informed by her identification as “nondiasporic Latina” and US Woman of Color, as well as her long-term commitment to grassroots organizing in Chicana/o communities, Lugones’s work dovetails with, while remaining distinct from, that of other prominent transnational, decolonial, and women of color feminists. (...)
- Transnational solidarity in feminist practices: power, partnerships, and accountability.Marie-Pier Lemay - 2023 - Journal of Global Ethics (1):13-30.In this paper, I offer a descriptive and normative analysis of the requirements for effective transnational solidarity between southern NGOs and their northern partners. Drawing on interviews conducted with staff members of Senegalese women’s rights NGOs and a private international development foundation, I contend that existing theories of feminist transnational solidarity cannot allow us to properly acknowledge the power asymmetries and obstacles to solidarity that these NGOs are facing. After assessing the divisions related to gender interests and limited resources that (...)
- Handbook of feminist research methodologies in management and organization studies.Saija Katila, Susan Meriläinen & Emma Bell (eds.) - 2023 - Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.The Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies focuses on the interlinkages between feminist theories, methodologies and research methods. This ground-breaking Handbook analyses classic feminist theoretical texts and their methodological implications, as well as topical approaches to management and organization studies, including postcolonial feminism, critical race theory and new feminist materialisms. The book discusses what kind of methodological and methods related concerns different theoretical approaches call forth and highlights them through empirical examples. Featuring contributions from leading scholars (...)
- Feminist Virtue Ethics.Karen Stohr - 2015 - In Lorraine Besser-Jones & Michael Slote (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 271-282.I evaluate the ways in which feminist philosophy intersects with the major strands of contemporary virtue ethics, especially neo-Aristotelian and sentimentalist versions of virtue ethics. I note the common strands of thought present in both feminist philosophy and virtue ethics, and I show how two important elements of feminist thought might fit within various virtue ethics frameworks. I consider whether virtue ethics can account for the full range of women's lived experiences and also whether virtue ethics is capable of giving (...)
- Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought.Mary Caputi & Patricia Moynagh (eds.) - 2024 - Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.Illustrating the collective power and relevance of feminist theory today, Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh have carefully selected a diverse international range of leading scholars and activists to critically assess key social and political challenges in the twenty-first century. This Research Handbook demonstrates a variety of feminist analyses that offer compelling insights into an array of topics, including police brutality, the carceral state, racial and sexualised violence, trans rights, climate change, and the denial of reproductive rights. With a focus on (...)
- (1 other version)Influencing corporealities : social media and its impact on gender transition.Gen Eickers - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Computer says no" : artificial intelligence, gender bias, and epistemic injustice.Joel Walmsley - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Understanding incels as a group.Mary L. Edwards - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- When sexual and information privacy converge : the case of digital dick pics.Martha McCaughey & Jill Cermele - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The person behind the digit : objectification and self-objectification online.S. Orestis Palermos - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Technologies of women's (sexual) humiliation.Dianna Taylor - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The utopian dimension of new technologies : a feminist technophilosophical approach to sex and gender.Valeria Venditti - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Two dilemmas for value-sensitive technological design.Mona Simion - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Social media, digital technologies, and the valorization of lack of consent.Kelly Oliver - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The dangerous liaison between rape culture and information technologies. Reality, virtuality, and responsibility in cyber-rapes.Francesco Striano - 2023 - In Mary L. Edwards & S. Orestis Palermos (eds.), Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Masculinity as an Impasse.Manon Garcia - 2022 - Simone de Beauvoir Studies 32 (2):187-206.The Second Sex can be read as a compelling philosophical exploration of masculinity. Beauvoir proposes to understand masculinity as a situation. It is an impasse as men are stuck in a position where they seek recognition from women, but they construct women in such a way that the recognition women can give them is incomplete and unsatisfying. This understanding of masculinity is crucial for Beauvoir’s emancipatory agenda and suggests that men have nonaltruistic reasons to take part in feminist movements.
- "That's Above My Paygrade": Woke Excuses for Ignorance.Emily C. R. Tilton - 2024 - Philosophers' Imprint 24 (1).Standpoint theorists have long been clear that marginalization does not make better understanding a given. They have been less clear, though, that social dominance does not make ignorance a given. Indeed, many standpoint theorists have implicitly committed themselves to what I call the strong epistemic disadvantage thesis. According to this thesis, there are strong, substantive limits on what the socially dominant can know about oppression that they do not personally experience. I argue that this thesis is not just implausible but (...)
- (Why) Do We Need a Theory of Affective Injustice.Katie Stockdale - 2024 - Philosophical Topics 51 (1):113-134.Philosophers have started to theorize the concept of ‘affective injustice’ to make sense of certain ways in which people’s affective lives are significantly marked by injustice. This new research has offered important insights into people’s lived experiences under oppression. But it is not immediately clear how the concept ‘affective injustice’ picks out something different from the closely related phenomenon of ‘psychological oppression.’ This paper considers the question of why we might need new theories of affective injustice in light of the (...)
- Feminism, Deconstruction, and Literary Criticism: A Deconstructive Feminist Reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Novel The Scarlet Letter with the Help of Alice Jardine and Jacques Derrida.Rossen Roussev - 2021 - Global Conversations: An International Journal in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture 4 (No. 1):43-84.The text explores interrelations between feminism and deconstruction for purposes of literary critique. The main theoretical sources are Alice Jardine and Jacques Derrida, whose views of ‘gynesis’ and ‘deconstruction’, respectively, are taken as complementary. The views in question are discussed first in order to assemble a joint critical perspective that brings forward their relevant conceptual intersections. Jardine’s concept of gynesis is seen as a more specific form of deconstruction carried from a feminist standpoint, whereas various Derrida’s concepts are brought to (...)
- Gender Dysphoria for Critical Theory.Penelope Haulotte - 2024 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1).Gender dysphoria is typically construed as a medical concept. This understanding of gender dysphoria reflects how cisgender people interpret trans experience. This essay proposes an alternative concept of gender dysphoria for critical theory: on this account, gender dysphoria is alienation from cisgender forms of life. If the medicalized concept of gender dysphoria tacitly takes for granted, identifies with, and thereby reinforces cisgender patriarchal society, a critical theory of gender dysphoria instead approaches the issue from the perspective of trans people, their (...)
- 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, (...)
- (1 other version)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 (...)
- Women in World Politics: An Introduction.Francine D'Amico & Peter R. Beckman (eds.) - 1995 - Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey.What roles do women play in world politics? Who are these women, and what impact do they have on international relations? D'Amico and Beckman have assembled a diverse array of contributors who provide a variety of answers. Some contributors consider women as national leaders and profile Chamorro, Gandhi, Thatcher, and Aquino as examples. Autobiographical essays and interviews describe the experiences of Margaret Anstee, Benazir Bhutto, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Golda Meir. Other contributors analyze international women's movements, the roles of women in (...)
- 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 (...)
- (1 other version)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.$34.95 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark 1 citation
- 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 (...)$44.49 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark 2 citations
- 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_, ed. Antonio Calcagno. 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 (...)
- (1 other version)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 (...)
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