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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 (4,505 | 655)
African Feminism (7)
Analytic Feminism (193)
Asian Feminism (22)
Black Feminism (151)
Chinese Feminism* (65)
Continental Feminism* (3,208 | 268)
Cultural Feminism (24)
Ecofeminism (305)
Feminist Phenomenology (271)
Feminist Pragmatism (195)
Indian Feminism (29)
Indigenous Feminism (56)
Islamic Feminism (17)
Latin American Feminism* (227)
Lesbian Feminism (66)
Liberal Feminism (72)
Materialist Feminism (43)
Postcolonial Feminism (194)
Postmodern Feminism (309)
Poststructural Feminism (447)
Queer Feminism (78)
Radical Feminism (43)
US Latina Feminism (284)
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy (9,287 | 4,847)
Feminist Aesthetics (421)
Feminist Bioethics (586)
Feminist Epistemology* (890)
Feminist Ethics* (5,674)
Feminist Metaphysics (478)
Feminist Perspectives on Phenomena (1,398 | 35)
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (5,898 | 287)
Feminism: Aging (23)
Feminism: Autonomy (221)
Feminism: The Body (417)
Feminism: Disability (225)
Feminism: Equality (236)
Feminism: The Family (202)
Feminism: Friendship (24)
Feminism: Global Justice (189)
Intersectionality* (331)
Feminism: Love (78)
Feminism: Mothering (523)
Feminism: Reproduction (444)
Feminism: The Self (194)
Feminism: Oppression (361)
Feminism: Pornography (171)
Feminism: Sexuality (380)
Feminism: Terrorism (28)
Feminism: War (68)
Feminism: Violence (181)
History: Feminist Philosophy (289 | 145)
Mary Astell* (98)
Simone de Beauvoir* (717)
Judith Butler* (629)
Luce Irigaray* (520)
Julia Kristeva* (494)
Mary Wollstonecraft* (106)
Iris Marion Young* (69)
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous (544 | 27)
History/traditions: Feminist Philosophy
- History: Feminist Philosophy (289 | 145)
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- Victoria Browne, "Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage.". [REVIEW]Ruth Okonkwo - 2023 - Philosophy in Review 43 (4):1-3.
- Repeating her autonomy: Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and women's liberation.Dana Rognlie - 2023 - Hypatia 38 (3):1-22.In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir diagnoses “woman” as the “lost sex,” torn between her individual autonomy and her “feminine destiny.” Becoming a “real woman” in patriarchal societies demands that women lose their authentic, autonomous selves to become the “inessential Other” for Man. To better understand this diagnosis and how women might refind themselves, I rehabilitate the influence of Søren Kierkegaard and his concept of repetition as what must be lost to be found again in Beauvoir’s account of freedom (...)
- Centralidad de la dimensión distributiva en la justicia de género.Cintia Rodríguez Garat (ed.) - 2020 - Asociación de Filosofía Evohé.En el presente ensayo abordaremos el conflicto que se plantea entre las políticas de la redistribución y las del reconocimiento en el marco de la justicia de género. Para ello, analizaremos la propuesta bidimensional de la filósofa estadounidense Nancy Fraser. En efecto, plantearemos la necesidad de reflexionar sobre las implicancias de este planteo en el plano de las injusticias de género. De esta manera, el análisis estará centrado en la relación que se produce entre las injusticias ligadas a cuestiones de (...)
- Cuerpos-territorios de las mujeres mapuce. Testimonios de opresión y de resistencia.Cintia Rodríguez Garat - 2022 - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes: Unidad de Publicaciones en Ciencias Sociales.Todas las prácticas ancestrales relacionadas con el parto y la maternidad tienen para las comunidades mapuce un profundo anclaje cultural. ¿Qué sucede cuando la mujer mapuce va a parir a un hospital público del sistema de salud hegemónico? ¿Se respeta su cosmovisión? ¿Se valoran sus saberes? ¿Se la escucha? En este libro, Cintia Rodríguez Garat aborda la atención sanitaria de parto de las mujeres mapuce en la localidad de Las Coloradas, provincia del Neuquén, y se pregunta si en esta práctica (...)
- Making realism work, from second wave feminism to extinction rebellion: an interview with Caroline New.Caroline New & Jamie Morgan - forthcoming - Journal of Critical Realism:1-40.Caroline New is an energetic activist who has interpolated critical realist ideas into the front-line of political activism. In this wide-ranging interview, she begins by reflecting on her life and how she became a realist and her account is illustrated with personal anecdotes recalling memories of well-known philosophers and activists from the time. She discusses how her position set her apart from other feminists and she examines the interacting threads of longstanding debates on the political left, as well as longstanding (...)
- Data feminism and border ethics: power, invisibility and indeterminacy.Georgiana Turculet - forthcoming - Journal of Global Ethics:1-12.Human activities are being increasingly regulated by means of technologies. Smart borders regulating human movement are no exception. I argue that the process of digitization – including through AI, Big Data and algorithmic processing – falls short of respecting (fundamental) rights to the extent to which it ignores what I term to be the problem of indeterminacy. While adopting a data feminist approach in this paper, assuming that data is the ‘new oil’, that is power, I begin theorizing indeterminacy from (...)
- Platonic Corruption in The Handmaid's Tale.Andy Lamey - forthcoming - In Garry Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan.The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a United States taken over by a fundamentalist dictatorship called Gilead that also resembles Plato’s ideal city. Attempts to explain Gilead’s debt to Plato face two challenges. First, aspects of Gilead that recall Plato also contain features that differ, at times dramatically, from the Platonic original. Second, Gilead invokes distorted versions of ideas from philosophies other than Plato’s. I explore two ways of making sense of Gilead’s distorted philosophical appropriations. The explanations differ over whether such distortions (...)$99.01 used (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation
Bookmark - (Why) Do We Need a Theory of Affective Injustice?Katie Stockdale - forthcoming - Philosophical Topics.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 (...)
- Kwaad spreken: Wie gelooft de boze vrouw?Sigrid Wallaert - 2023 - Borgerhout: Letterwerk.Niet iedereen die de stem verheft, krijgt evenveel gehoor. Vooral vrouwen die zich uitspreken over een controversieel onderwerp waar ze belang aan hechten, worden vaak niet geloofd. Integendeel: ze worden geridiculiseerd, gepsychologiseerd, gecanceld of zelfs vermoord. Dat laatste overkwam de Griekse filosofe Hypatia. -/- De Britse filosofe Miranda Fricker bedacht de theorie van kennisonrecht om dergelijke situaties te verklaren. In dit boek legt Sigrid Wallaert uit wat Fricker daar precies mee bedoelt. Het is daarmee de eerste inleiding op het concept (...)
- The Concept of Oppression.Marion Tapper - manuscriptAn examination of the concept of oppression, including the moral and ethical aspects of sex roles, self-perception, and sexism.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Feminist Epistemology as Mainstream.Natalie Alana Ashton - manuscriptMainstream epistemologists don’t tend to discuss feminist epistemologies. They often don’t mention them in introductory courses or textbooks, and they almost invariably don’t take themselves to work on them. This is probably due to a suspicion that ‘feminist’ epistemologies are clouded by political motivations. In this paper I will argue two things. First, that this suspicion is misguided – a number of ‘mainstream’ epistemologists (specifically, hinge epistemologists), are in fact doing work which is entirely compatible with feminist epistemologies, and the (...)
- Transnational Solidarity in Feminist Practices: Power, Partnerships, and Accountability.Marie-Pier Lemay - forthcoming - Journal of Global Ethics:1-18.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 (...)
- Moral Shock and Trans "Worlds" of Sense.E. M. Hernandez - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.There are two aims of this paper: (1) to explore the affective dimensions of moral shock and how it relates to normative marginalization of those furthest from dominant society, but also, more specifically; (2) to articulate the trans experience of constantly being under moral attack because the dominant “world” normatively defines you out of existence. Toward these ends, I build on Katie Stockdale’s recent work on moral shock, arguing that moral shock needs to be contextualized to “worlds” of sense to (...)
- Creating and maintaining an alternative public sphere: The struggles of social justice feminism, 1899–1925.John Thomas McGuire - forthcoming - Theory and Society:1-23.One of the most successful and influential contributions to examining the intersection between society and its effect on public action is Jurgen Habermas's landmark The structural transformation of the public space (1962). But as subsequent scholars pointed out, the Habermasian definition of “public sphere” needed to be expanded beyond its original historical context. This article contributes to that ongoing expansion by arguing that a social movement in the United States, social justice feminism, created an alternative public space in the United (...)
- Recreating Asian Identity: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Black and Asian Solidarities.Youjin Kong - 2023 - Apa Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies 23 (1):11-17.Does intersectionality divide marginalized groups (e.g., women) along identity lines (e.g., race, class, and sexuality)? In response to the criticism that intersectional approaches to feminist and critical race theories lead to fragmentation and division, this paper notes that it relies on an ontological (mis)understanding of identity as a fixed entity. I argue against this notion of identity by engaging in a detailed case study of how Asian American women experience their Asian identity. The case study demonstrates that identity is lived (...)
- The Profits of (the Critique of) Patriarchy: On Toxic Masculinity, Feminism, & Corporate Capitalism in the Barbie Movie.Bryant W. Sculos - unknownThis article explicates the political, social, economic, and cultural contribution of Barbie (2023). Through a critical and normative analysis of four different prominent reviews of the film, this essay explores the quality of discourse surrounding Barbie, with particular emphasis on its feminist critique of toxic masculinity and lack of a coherent criticism of capitalism.
- To the Problems of Postcolonial Feminism (on the Example of the Philippines).Tetiana V. Podolska & Kateryna H. Fisun - unknownThe article is dedicated to the study of problems of postcolonial feminism in the Philippines and revealing of reasons why they need creation of a separate program that differs from the program of pioneering theorists of postcolonial criticism (Edward Said, Gomi Bgabga, Gayatri Spivak, etc.). The problem of the article is unsufficiently studied postcolonial feminism. The example of the Philippines shows scientific limitations of local articles, however, there is an urgent need to update the whole field of acute issues in (...)
- From Gender Segregation to Epistemic Segregation: A Case Study of the School System in Iran.Shadi Heidarifar - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophy of Education.
- Justice for women/gestators: superior personhood or plain old feminism?Amanda Roth - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.Robinson offers the ‘superior personhood’ approach (SPA) to capture the value of gestation and ground justice for women/gestators.1 SPA holds that women/gestators are more than mere persons given the reality of pregnancy and the vital role women/gestators play in reproduction.1 In this commentary, I speak to some background context perhaps relevant to SPA, lay out areas of agreement with Robinson and then raise four worries about the approach. In my view, the devaluing of gestation and injustice for women/gestators need rectifying, (...)
- Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care— A Kantian Care Engagement. [REVIEW]Helga Varden - 2023 - Dialogue 62 (2):247-260.RésuméCette analyse situe la théorie du soin d'Asha Bhandary, telle que définie dans Freedom to Care, dans l'histoire de la philosophie, note certaines caractéristiques distinctives de la théorie qui font clairement évoluer la tradition de la théorie du soin, et soulève des énigmes et des questions concernant des éléments spécifiques de la théorie. Mes remarques portent principalement sur la première partie du livre et sur les quatre sujets suivants : (1) les racines rawlsiennes de la théorie de Bhandary ; (2) (...)
- Decolonial Reproductive Justice: Analyzing Reproductive Oppression in India.Sanjula Rajat & Margaret A. McLaren - 2023 - Feminist Formations 35 (2):78-105.The reproductive justice framework shifted understandings and analyses of reproductive oppression beyond individual ‘choice’ by incorporating analyses of structural injustice, racism, and social and economic concerns. In this article, we build on understandings of the reproductive justice framework by integrating a postcolonial lens and bring the powerful conceptual tools of postcolonial feminist theory to bear on issues of reproductive oppression in India. We articulate the elements of such a postcolonial lens—the transnational operation of race, Orientalism, the subjective experience of colonialism (...)
- Feminismo, ilustración y misoginia romántica.Celia Amorós - 1992 - In Fina Birulés & Celia Amorós (eds.), Filosofía y género: identidades femeninas. Pamiela.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- De "La ciudad de las damas" al "Agravio de las damas".Mercè Otero Vidal - 1992 - In Fina Birulés & Celia Amorós (eds.), Filosofía y género: identidades femeninas. Pamiela.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Isotta Nogarola : una voz inquieta del Renacimiento.Rosa Rius Gatell - 1992 - In Fina Birulés & Celia Amorós (eds.), Filosofía y género: identidades femeninas. Pamiela.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Sobre la autoridad femenina.Luisa Muraro - 1992 - In Fina Birulés & Celia Amorós (eds.), Filosofía y género: identidades femeninas. Pamiela.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Hannah Arendt : la acción y lo dado.Françoise Collin - 1992 - In Fina Birulés & Celia Amorós (eds.), Filosofía y género: identidades femeninas. Pamiela.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Transparency Politics and Its Limits: Rethinking Hermeneutical Injustice.Nick Clanchy - 2023 - Dissertation, University of OxfordI draw on work in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, trans philosophy, queer theory, and ethics to rethink what hermeneutical injustices are, who suffers them, and what can be done to prevent them. I identify several problems with Miranda Fricker’s original account of what hermeneutical injustices are and how they arise, and argue for a number of revisions and clarifications in order to solve these problems. One upshot of these revisions is that more people suffer hermeneutical injustices than Fricker’s account acknowledges. (...)
- Silencing Conversational Silences.Anna Klieber - forthcoming - Hypatia.This paper aims to extend the discussion of silencing beyond the realm of speech and to the domain of conversational silences – that is, silences that have communicative functions in our conversational exchanges. I argue that, insofar as we can use silences to communicate, we can also be prevented from doing things with these silences. Alongside a three- fold taxonomy I show the different ways in which this can happen, utilizing and extending Maitra’s (2009) account of silencing to illustrate the (...)
- Taking Feminist Pornography Seriously.Georgie Malone - forthcoming - Film and Philosophy.It has been argued that an adequate feminist response to sexist pornography demands not just efforts to eradicate sexist beliefs, but also aesthetic counter-intervention at the level of taste. This view motivates support for feminist pornography. This paper takes the feminist pornography suggestion seriously by unpacking difficulties for the project. I begin by spelling out two views about what makes feminist pornography feminist: the ‘content view,’ and the ‘context view,’ and discuss what I take to be existing arguments for the (...)
- Feminismo y socialismo: antología.Flora Tristan - 2003 - Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata. Edited by Ana de Miguel Álvarez & Rosalía Romero.
- Differenzen zwischen Frauen: zur Positionsbestimmung und Kritik des postmodernen Feminismus.Jutta Sommerbauer - 2003 - Münster: Unrast.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Pour un sexe faible fort--: la femme face à elle-même: essai pour une nouvelle philosophie de la promotion féminine.Ngah Ateba & Alice Salomé - 2003 - Yaoundé: Éditions AMA.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Turbulente Körper, soziale Maschinen: feministische Studien zur Technowissenschaftskultur.Jutta Weber & Corinna Bath (eds.) - 2003 - Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
- Kobieta, ciało, tożsamość: teorie podmiotu w filozofii feministycznej końca XX wieku.Ewa Hyży - 2003 - Kraków: Universitas.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- La luna severa maestra: il contributo del femminismo ai movimenti sociali e alla costruzione dell'alternativa: intervento al Forum sociale europeo, Parigi 2003.Lidia Cirillo - 2003 - Milano: Il dito e la luna.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- What Third-Party Forgiveness Has to Offer.Ashton Black - forthcoming - Dialogue.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Feminism after Gaia: Care and the Posthuman.Nathanja van den Heuvel - 2023 - Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 (1):152-154.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the (...)
- Judith Butler and Politics.Adriana Zaharijević - 2023 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Presents Judith Butler's interest in plurality of bodily lives and her search for a social transformation conducive to a more livable world Offers a novel understanding of Butler’ work as a call for an insurrection at the level of the real Provides a framework based on an intersection of four main pillar-concepts, performativity, agency, livable life and non-violence Reads Butler’s philosophy as centred on bodies Reads Butler’s work as a convincing counter-argument against liberal versions of ontology This book is the (...)
- Weapon and Shield.Barrett Emerick, Katie Stockdale & Audrey Yap - 2023 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (3).Apologies are an important part of moral life and a method by which someone can satisfy their reparative obligations. At the same time, apologies can be used both as a shield to protect the person apologizing and as a weapon against the person to whom the apology is owed. In this paper we unpack both claims. We defend two principles one should employ to try to avoid such bad outcomes: (1) Apologies must be one-sided and nontransactional, and (2) the wrongdoer (...)
- Social Reproduction Feminism and Deweyan Habit Ontology.Arvi Särkelä & Federica Gregoratto - 2020 - In Fausto Caruana & Italo Testa (eds.), Habits: Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 438-458.$28.49 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this listExport citation Bookmark 1 citation
- On the evolution of queer studies : lesbian feminism, queer theory, and globalization.Linda Garber - 2006 - In Diane Richardson, Janice McLaughlin & Mark E. Casey (eds.), Intersections between feminist and queer theory. Palgrave-Macmillan.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Boys will be... bois? : or, Transgender feminism and forgetful fish.Judith Halberstam - 2006 - In Diane Richardson, Janice McLaughlin & Mark E. Casey (eds.), Intersections between feminist and queer theory. Palgrave-Macmillan.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Beyond patriarchy: a critique of Western mainstream epistemology.Nanditā Bāgacī - 2012 - Kolkata: Progressive Publishers.
- Jean Hampton's reworking of rawls : is "feminist contractarianism" useful for feminism?Janice Richardson - 2013 - In Ruth Abbey (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls. Pennsylvania State University Press.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Rereading Rawls on self-respect : feminism, family law, and the social bases of self-respect.Elizabeth Brake - 2013 - In Ruth Abbey (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls. Pennsylvania State University Press.
- Feminism, method, and Rawlsian abstraction.Lisa H. Schwartzman - 2013 - In Ruth Abbey (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls. Pennsylvania State University Press.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- ¿Qué hacer con la identidad de género?: ¿subvertirla, situarla of disolverla?: reflexiones desde la filosofía crítica feminista.González Martínez & María Nohemí - 2013 - Barranquilla, Cúcuta, Colombia: Ediciones Universidad Simón Bolívar.
- Historical and archaeological perspectives on gender transformations: from private to public.Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood (ed.) - 2012 - New York: Springer.In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while women are innately designed to care for the home and take care of children. In the interpretation of material culture, accepted notions of gender roles are often applied to new findings: the dichotomy between the domestic sphere of women and the public sphere of men (...)
- Geschlecht und transnationale Räume: feministische Perspektiven auf neue Ein- und Ausschlüsse.Julia Gruhlich & Birgit Riegraf (eds.) - 2014 - Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.Die Herausbildung von transnationalen Räumen ist aufs Engste mit Geschlechterverhältnissen verwoben. Durch die Zunahme transnationaler politischer, sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Verflechtungsbeziehungen müssen die Geschlechterordnungen auf nationaler und lokaler Ebene grundlegend neu vermessen werden. Ziel des Bandes ist es, die vielfältigen Verflechtungen von Transnationalisierungsprozessen mit Geschlecht aus feministischer Perspektive auf politischer, sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Makro-, Meso- und Mikroebene zu beleuchten.
- Fractal concepts and recognition: Hegelian intersectional feminism.Małgorzata Anna Maciejewska - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.Feminists have long been aware that the notion of women is problematic and using it uncritically without further qualifications leads to exclusions. In the article, I argue that the source of these problems lies in the understanding of concepts as static and clearly defined. I deploy Hegel’s idea of syllogism to define dynamic concepts, which I term ‘fractal concepts’ because of their complexity and constant development. In such structures the balance between the universal, the particular and the individual is maintained (...)
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