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Feminist Philosophy
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Assistant editors: Anna Klieber, Rachel Katherine Cooper
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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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Asian Feminism (21)
Black Feminism (151)
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Cultural Feminism (24)
Ecofeminism (310)
Feminist Phenomenology (271)
Feminist Pragmatism (195)
Indian Feminism (29)
Indigenous Feminism (56)
Islamic Feminism (19)
Latin American Feminism* (228)
Lesbian Feminism (66)
Liberal Feminism (72)
Materialist Feminism (45)
Postcolonial Feminism (195)
Postmodern Feminism (309)
Poststructural Feminism (447)
Queer Feminism (78)
Radical Feminism (43)
US Latina Feminism (284)
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy (9,306 | 4,851)
Feminist Aesthetics (421)
Feminist Bioethics (588)
Feminist Epistemology* (909)
Feminist Ethics* (5,687)
Feminist Metaphysics (478)
Feminist Perspectives on Phenomena (1,405 | 40)
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (5,930 | 290)
Feminism: Aging (23)
Feminism: Autonomy (224)
Feminism: The Body (418)
Feminism: Disability (228)
Feminism: Equality (237)
Feminism: The Family (203)
Feminism: Friendship (24)
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Intersectionality* (339)
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Feminism: Mothering (524)
Feminism: Reproduction (444)
Feminism: The Self (194)
Feminism: Oppression (364)
Feminism: Pornography (173)
Feminism: Sexuality (380)
Feminism: Terrorism (29)
Feminism: War (68)
Feminism: Violence (181)
History: Feminist Philosophy (295 | 149)
Mary Astell* (99)
Simone de Beauvoir* (738)
Judith Butler* (632)
Luce Irigaray* (528)
Julia Kristeva* (495)
Mary Wollstonecraft* (107)
Iris Marion Young* (69)
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous (549 | 29)
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- 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 (...)$56.95 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- 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.$246.90 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this listExport citation Bookmark 3 citations
- Getting ‘Naked’ in the Colonial/Modern Gender System: A Preliminary Trans Feminist Analysis of Pornography.Talia Mae Bettcher - 2017 - In Mari Mikkola (ed.), Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy. New York, US: Oxford University Press. pp. 157-176.
- Gender, Social Justice and Publicity.Paula Casal - 2021 - Ethics and Politics 23:171-186.Suppose that the basic structures of two societies conform to Rawls’s principles of justice. One of these societies, however, includes—in addition to a just basic structure—an egalitarian ethos that further reduces inequalities that do not benefit the least advantaged. G. A. Cohen and others have argued that the second society is more just, thus rejecting any restriction of Rawls’s principles of justice to the basic structure. Andrew Williams has revived the basic structure restriction in the form of a publicity requirement. (...)
- G. A. Cohen’s Historical Materialism: A Feminist Critique.Paula Casal - 2020 - Journal of Political Ideologies 25 (3):316-333.Forty years on, G. A. Cohen’s reconstruction and defence of Marx’s theory of history is still widely, and justifiably, considered the best of its kind, and it remains unsurpassed in clarity, argumentation and textual support. This article presents an under-explored critique of the theory that arises once we recognize that it is meant to apply to the circumstances of women as well as men. The article argues that, when extended to women, the reconstructed theory’s predictions fail to materialize, its characterizations (...)
- (What) Is Feminist Logic? (What) Do We Want It to Be?Catharine Saint-Croix & Roy T. Cook - 2024 - History and Philosophy of Logic 45 (1):20-45.‘Feminist logic’ may sound like an impossible, incoherent, or irrelevant project, but it is none of these. We begin by delineating three categories into which projects in feminist logic might fall: philosophical logic, philosophy of logic, and pedagogy. We then defuse two distinct objections to the very idea of feminist logic: the irrelevance argument and the independence argument. Having done so, we turn to a particular kind of project in feminist philosophy of logic: Valerie Plumwood's feminist argument for a relevance (...)
- Logic and Trans Philosophy.Franci Mangraviti - manuscriptThe paper is structured as follows. First, I will single out three salient moments of trans philosophy, drawing on both my own experience as a trans person and the various attempts to theorize transness as laid out by Talia Mae Bettcher's "Trapped in the Wrong Theory". From there, I will extrapolate three ways to see the relationship between logic and trans philosophy, and provide for each some examples of both current and possible future work. Finally, in analogy with the literature (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Gender Dysphoria for Critical Theory.Penelope Haulotte - forthcoming - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly.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 (...)
- And Then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science.Andre Ye - forthcoming - Pacific University Philosophy Conference.Vision is an important metaphor in ethical and political questions of knowledge. The feminist philosopher Donna Haraway points out the “perverse” nature of an intrusive, alienating, all-seeing vision (to which we might cry out “stop looking at me!”), but also encourages us to embrace the embodied nature of sight and its promises for genuinely situated knowledge. Current technologies of machine vision – surveillance cameras, drones (for war or recreation), iPhone cameras – are usually construed as instances of the former rather (...)
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