An introduction to feminist philosophy

Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers, the Blackwell Philosophy Guides create a groundbreaking student resource -a complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of philosophy today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic. Accordingly, these volumes will be a valuable resource for a broad range of students and readers, including professional philosophers.

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, 2017

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy presents an exciting, comprehensive, and original pluralist presentation of feminist philosophy that is a much-needed update to existing feminist philosophy companions. Students, scholars, independent researchers, and departments interested in feminism and philosophy would do well to make sure they have access to this volume, and it should be a relevant resource for years to come. Reviewing such an expansive presentation of feminist philosophy across differences also raises considerations about the meanings and limits of pluralism and inclusion in feminist philosophy as an ongoing collective project. Link to review: http://hypatiareviews.org/reviews/content/356

European Journal of Women's Studies, 2005

Hypatia, 2010

Thanks in large part to the record of scholarship fostered by Hypatia, feminist philosophers are now positioned not just as critics of the canon, but as innovators advancing uniquely feminist perspectives for theorizing about the world. As relatively junior feminist scholars, the five of us were called upon to provide some reflections on emerging trends in feminist philosophy and to comment on its future. Despite the fact that we come from diverse subfields and philosophical traditions, four common aims emerged in our collaboration as central to the future of feminist philosophies. We seek to: 1) challenge universalist and essentialist frameworks without ceding to relativism; 2) center coloniality and embodiment in our analyses of the intermeshed realities of race and gender by shifting from oppression in the abstract to concrete cosmologies and struggles, particularly those of women of color and women of colonized communities across the globe; 3) elaborate the materialities of thought, being, and community that must succeed atomistic conceptions of persons as disembodied, individually constituted, and autonomous; 4) demonstrate what is distinctive and valuable about feminist philosophy, while fighting persistent marginalization within the discipline. In our joint musings here, we attempt to articulate how future feminist philosophies might advance these aims, as well as some of the challenges we face.

Hypatia

begins Living a Feminist Life with a reflection on the word "feminism," and she claims to have written the book "as a way of holding onto the promise of that word" (Ahmed 2017, 1). Ahmed is explicit in noting that by "feminism" she means intersectional feminism, and for her, the promise of the word "feminism" is far-reaching. It is a word that fills me with hope, with energy. It brings to mind loud acts of refusal and rebellion as well as the quiet ways we might have of not holding on to things that diminish us. It brings to mind women who have stood up, spoken back, risked lives, homes, relationships, in the struggle for more bearable worlds. It brings to mind books written, tattered and worn, books that gave words to something, a feeling, a sense of an injustice, books that, in giving us words, gave us the strength to go on. Feminism: how we pick each other up. So much history in a word, so much it too has picked up. (1)

Perspectives, 2004

2022

[Franklin & Marshall College, Spring 2022] — This course will introduce you to some of the key thinkers and concepts within Feminist Philosophy. You will be asked to consider questions such as: What is oppression, and how can you determine whether a person or group is oppressed? What is gender, and what effect should a contemporary understanding of gender have on our thinking about feminism and gender equality? What does it mean for feminism to be "intersectional"? What would a feminist approach to topics as wide-ranging as ethics, subjectivity, knowledge, and sexuality look like?

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2024