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Feminist Philosophy
Edited by Ásta . (Duke University, San Francisco State University)
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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Chinese Feminism* (65)
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Cultural Feminism (24)
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Feminist Phenomenology (270)
Feminist Pragmatism (196)
Indian Feminism (29)
Indigenous Feminism (56)
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Lesbian Feminism (66)
Liberal Feminism (72)
Materialist Feminism (41)
Postcolonial Feminism (192)
Postmodern Feminism (309)
Poststructural Feminism (447)
Queer Feminism (78)
Radical Feminism (43)
US Latina Feminism (283)
Feminist Approaches to Philosophy (9,261 | 4,846)
Feminist Aesthetics (408)
Feminist Bioethics (579)
Feminist Epistemology* (879)
Feminist Ethics* (5,670)
Feminist Metaphysics (477)
Feminist Perspectives on Phenomena (1,394 | 34)
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (5,884 | 286)
Feminism: Aging (23)
Feminism: Autonomy (220)
Feminism: The Body (416)
Feminism: Disability (223)
Feminism: Equality (236)
Feminism: The Family (202)
Feminism: Friendship (24)
Feminism: Global Justice (188)
Intersectionality* (319)
Feminism: Love (78)
Feminism: Mothering (523)
Feminism: Reproduction (444)
Feminism: The Self (193)
Feminism: Oppression (359)
Feminism: Pornography (171)
Feminism: Sexuality (379)
Feminism: Terrorism (27)
Feminism: War (68)
Feminism: Violence (180)
History: Feminist Philosophy (287 | 144)
Mary Astell* (97)
Simone de Beauvoir* (700)
Judith Butler* (629)
Luce Irigaray* (516)
Julia Kristeva* (493)
Mary Wollstonecraft* (105)
Iris Marion Young* (69)
Feminist Philosophy, Miscellaneous (542 | 26)
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- 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
- The King’s Two Anuses: Trans Feminism and Free Speech.Grace Lavery - 2019 - Differences-a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 30 (3):119–151.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Structural Racism Within Reason.Alisa Bierria - 2023 - American Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4):355-368.In this discussion, I engage the politics of intention to explore how structural racism structures the production of meaning and the practice of reason. Building on María Lugones's analysis of intention formation as a form of practical reasoning, I explore the reasoning at work during the 2011 Stand Your Ground (SYG) hearing of black survivor of domestic violence, Marissa Alexander, to contend that structural racism—in this case, both intimate personal violence and intimate state violence against black women—enacts race/gender domination through (...)
- Dilemmas of Difference and Nonhuman Animals: Applying Insights from Feminist Philosophy to Animal Rights Law.Ethan Charles Shopmeyer - unknownMartha Minow’s concept of dilemmas of difference, widely influential in feminist philosophy of law, exposes how hidden patriarchal norms are reified in legal institutions and harmfully categorize oppressed groups. Though Minow primarily focuses on how such dilemmas impact interpersonal relationships, I argue that her work can be applied to the relationship between nonhuman animals, human beings, and our legal institutions. Just as certain patriarchal norms establish categories that mask the true roots of difference and thus make it more difficult for (...)
- What Third-Party Forgiveness Has to Offer.Ashton Black - forthcoming - Dialogue.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Gaslighting and Peer Disagreement.Scott Hill - forthcoming - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.I present a counterexample to Kirk-Giannini’s (2023) Dilemmatic Theory of gaslighting.
- 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 (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- 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.
- 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 (...)
- Neuere Aspekte in der Philosophie: aktuelle Projekte von Philosophinnen am Forschungsstandort Österreich.Brigitte Buchhammer (ed.) - 2015 - Wien: Axia Academic Publishers.Im Dezember 2014 fand das erste zweitatige Symposium von der SWIP (Society of Women In Philosophy) Austria statt, unter dem Titel: Neuere Aspekte in der Philosophie - aktuelle Projekte von Philosophinnen am Forschungsstandort Osterreich." Als Resultat dieser Tagung soll der vorliegende Band die Breite und Pluralitat der Themen und die Themenoffenheit widerspiegeln. Er enthalt 22 Beitrage aus den verschiedensten Teildisziplinen der Philosophie, wie feministische Sprachphilosophie, Performance/Philosophie, Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, philosophische Bezugnahme auf Literatur, feministisch-philosophische Literaturbetrachtung, praktische Philosophie, Religion und Ethik, (...)
- The politics of everybody: feminism, queer theory, and Marxism at the intersection.Holly Lewis - 2016 - London: Zed Books.It's commonly understood within the academy that the terms "man," "woman," and "other" are socially constructed, and that their meanings are maintained by the current political order. But few thinkers have attempted to reconcile that knowledge - which is rooted in Marxism - with queer theory. The few who have, meanwhile, usually attempt to do so through issues of libidinal desire and sexual expression. In the Politics of Everybody, Holly Lewis argues powerfully that the emphasis on desire, though seemingly innocuous, (...)
- Ask: building consent culture.Kitty Stryker - 2017 - Portland, OR: Thorntree Press.Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture--and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today's world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. In Ask, Kitty (...)
- Bodies of water: posthuman feminist phenomenology.Astrida Neimanis - 2017 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them - from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, this book develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.
- Feminism and Gender.Birgit Althans & Gabrielle Ivinson - 2023 - In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer. pp. 749-754.The term Anthropocene refers to the impact of human activities on the earth that interfere with climate, land and biosphere that sustain plant, animal and human life at unprecedented scales of intensity that set a course towards species extinction. The Industrial Revolution and the aftermath of this over two centuries is cited as a turning point in levels of pollution. The term Capitolocene refers to the interconnection between the ecological state and the capitalist condition, and alludes to a time in (...)$299.99 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Feminismo em resistência: crítica ao capitalismo neoliberal.Nalu Faria, Renata Moreno, Clarisse Goulart Paradis, Cindy Wiesner & Helena Zelic (eds.) - 2019 - São Paulo, SP, Brasil: SOF, Sempreviva Organização Feminista.
- Irigarayan Ontology and the Possibilities of Sexual Difference.James Sares - 2022 - In Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell & Brenda Sharp (eds.), Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 117–136.This chapter provides an account of sexual ontology, grounded in and responsive to Irigaray’s philosophy, that focuses on the question of possibility. I first consider possibility in terms of the ontological negativity of sexuate beings, whereby one sex or sexuate morphology does not exhaust all that that kind of being is or can be. Second, I consider how sexual difference, as a relational structure of being, engenders possibilities for sexuate beings to develop as irreducible individuals. With particular focus on the (...)
- A decolonial feminism.Francoise Verges - 2021 - London: Pluto Press. Edited by Ashley J. Bohrer.Verges' manifesto argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism: it is time to fight the system that created the boss, built the prisons and polices women's bodies. The author grapples with the central issues in feminist debates today: from Eurocentrism and whiteness, to power, inclusion and exclusion. Delving into feminist and anti-racist histories, Verges also assesses contemporary activism, movements and struggles, including #MeToo and the Women's Strike. Centering anticolonialism and anti-racism within an intersectional (...)
- Distopías patriarcales: análisis feminista del "generismo queer".Alicia Miyares - 2021 - [Valencia]: Universitat de València.
- Zablode feminizma: razmisleki o feministični ideologiji.Vesna V. Godina - 2021 - Ljubljana: Beletrina.Delusions of Feminism analyzes the fundamental characteristics of modern feminism. The starting point of the analysis is the changed social and historical context, in which modern feminism repeats and reproduces the theoretical tenets of feminism of the 20th century. As a result, contemporary feminism is unable to properly contextualize the situation of women today, just as it is unable to transcend its Eurocentric and colonial attitudes and other problematic characteristics.--Publisher's website.
- The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy. Ásta & Kim Q. Hall (eds.) - 2021 - New York: Oxford University Press.This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The (...)
- Intersectional feminism in the age of transnationalism: voices from the margins.Olga Bezhanova, Amador Gómez-Quintero & Raysa Elena (eds.) - 2021 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.... explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of feminist activism.... All chapters proceed from the belief in the continued usefulness of intersectionality as a valuable category of critical analysis that is particularly necessary at the time when the effects of neoliberal globalization are undermining many familiar categories of critical inquiry.
- Ce que le féminisme n'est pas: le féminisme, un universalisme? enjeux et débats actuels.Fabienne Messica - 2022 - Paris: Rue de Seine.
- Contrattualismo femminista: la proposta normativa di Jean Hampton.Martina Marras - 2022 - Roma: Castelvecchi.
- Jizokusuru feminizumu no tame ni: gurōbarizēshon to "dai 2 no kindai" o ikinuku riron e = For persistent feminism: survive globalization and the "second modernity".Yumiko Ehara - 2022 - Tōkyō-to Chiyoda-ku: Yūhikaku.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Photo de famille: penser des vies intellectuelles d'un point de vue féministe.Isabelle Clair & Elsa Dorlin (eds.) - 2022 - Paris: Éditions EHESS.
- Donne, donne, donne.Nicla Vassallo - 2023 - Milano: Mimesis.
- Le temps des féminismes.Michelle Perrot - 2023 - Paris: Bernard Grasset. Edited by Eduardo Castillo."On ne naît pas féministe, alors comment le devient-on? Et comment les vagues féministes se sont-elles succédé? Première universitaire à enseigner l'histoire des femmes en France au début des années 70, Michelle Perrot revient ici avec Eduardo Castillo sur ce qui l'a construite, ses lectures, son engagement. Elle donne à voir un siècle de bouleversements et la profondeur des luttes qui agitent aujourd'hui nos sociétés. Pas à pas, l'ouvrage nous guide dans cette épopée en explorant toutes ses ramifications : l'histoire (...)
- Book review: Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis. [REVIEW]Rebecca Sanaeikia - 2023 - Medical Law International.
- Os corpos inscritos e os textos escritos: xénero, moda e literatura.Rebeca Baceiredo - 2023 - Vigo: Xerais.
- Counting feminicide: data feminism in action.Catherine D'Ignazio - 2024 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.This book explores the work of activists in the Americas who are documenting feminicide, arguing that feminist activists at the margins have much to teach mainstream data scientists about data ethics: how to work with data ethically amidst extreme and durable structural inequalities.
- Ecological Feminism.Richard Twine - 1997 - Environmental Values 6:370-371.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Fairness, Care, and Abortion.David O'Brien - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (4):658-675.Only women can bear the burdens of gestating fetuses. That fact, I suggest, bears on the morality of abortion. To illustrate and explain this point, I frame my discussion around Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic defense of abortion and Gina Schouten's recent feminist challenge to Thomson's defense. Thomson argued that, even assuming that fetuses are morally equivalent to persons, abortions are typically morally permissible. According to Schouten's feminist challenge to Thomson, however, if fetuses are morally equivalent to persons, then abortions are (...)
- Metaphorical Engagements in Feminist Philosophy: Two Close Readings.Aastha Mishra - 2023 - Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 15 (1).Metaphors have been inserted by philosophers in philosophical discourses to simplify abstract and intricate concepts. The practice of using metaphor denotes its rhetorical, aesthetic, linguistic and cognitive function. In basic formulation, metaphor has also been used by philosophers as a device, strategy, method, stylist ornament and a medium of expression. In this background, the following paper intends to vindicate the intimate interaction between philosophy and metaphor, with marked emphasis on the domain of feminist philosophy. Categorically, by considering the context of (...)
- Feminist Philosophy and Democracy: The Case of Spain.Cristina Sánchez - 2023 - In Ruth Edith Hagengruber (ed.), Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History: Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past. De Gruyter. pp. 285-294.$121.59 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
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