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This Handbook offers an overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with and contributions to philosophy and other scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to some of the current and crucial issues known across the world. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars interested in diverse approaches within feminist philosophy and how feminist philosophers situate their work within the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines.
List of contents
- I. Editors' Introduction: What is Feminist Philosophy? - Kim Q. Hall and Ásta
- II. Feminist Engagements with Philosophical Traditions
- 1. Feminist Engagements with the History of Philosophy: The Recognition Project - Charlotte Witt
- 2. Feminism in Ancient Philosophy - Anne-Marie Schultz
- 3. Feminism and Early Modern Philosophy - Deborah Boyle
- 4. Feminist Critical Theory - Allison Weir
- 5. Feminist Phenomenology - Gail Weiss
- 6. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir - Céline LeBoeuf
- 7. Pragmatism - Erin McKenna and Maurice Hamington
- 8. Poststructuralism - Katarina Kolozova
- 9. Black Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Refusal - Axelle Karera
- 10. Latina/x Feminist Philosophy - Andrea J. Pitts
- 11. Asian American Philosophy and Feminism - David H. Kim
- 12. Native and Indigenous Feminisms and Philosophies - Shay Welch
- III. Feminist Engagements with Subfields of Philosophy
- 13. Feminist Philosophy of Mind - Jennifer McWeeny
- 14. Feminist Philosophy of Language in the Analytic Tradition - Mary Kate McGowan
- 15. Feminist Epistemology - Heidi Grasswick
- 16. Metaphysics - Mari Mikkola
- 17. Philosophy of Science: Analytic Feminist Approaches - Kristina Rolin
- 18. Continental Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Science - Dorothea Olkowski
- 19. Analytical Feminist Ethics - Samantha Brennan
- 20. Continental Feminist Ethics - Erinn Gilson
- 21. Feminist Bioethics - Jackie Leach Scully
- 22. Feminist Moral Psychology - Peggy DesAutels
- 23. Feminist Aesthetics - A. W. Eaton
- 24. Feminist Social and Political Philosophy - Bat-Ami Bar On
- 25. Feminist Philosophy of Social Science - Sharon Crasnow
- IV. Topical Essays
- 26. Identity - Linda Martín Alcoff
- 27. The Body - Cressida J. Heyes
- 28. On Feminist Temporalities - Joanna Hodge
- 29. Relational Autonomy - Catriona Mackenzie
- 30. Feminist New Materialisms - Nancy Tuana
- 31. Bias - Louise Antony
- 32. Feminism and Epistemic Injustice - José Medina
- 33. Epistemic Oppression, Ignorance, and Resistance - Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr.
- 34. Borders and Migration - Shelley Wilcox
- 35. Prisons - Perry Zurn
- 36. Feminist Philosophy: War and Terrorism - Robin May Schott
- 37. Feminist Philosophy and Human Rights - Diana Tietjens Meyers
- 38. The Gender-Climate-Injustice Nexus - Adrian Parr
- 39. Biomedical Technologies - Susan Dodds
- V. Feminist Engagement with Interdisciplinary Theories and Movements
- 40. Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Feminist Philosophy - Natalie Cisneros
- 41. Queer Theory - Gayle Salamon
- 42. Feminism and Disability Theory - Licia Carlson
- 43. Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans Studies - Talia Mae Bettcher
- 44. Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories - Elena Ruíz
- 45. Animal Studies - Lori Gruen
About the author
Kim Q. Hall is Professor of Philosophy and faculty affiliate of the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies program at Appalachian State University.
Ásta is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and social philosophy and on related topics in epistemology and philosophy of language. She is the author of Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Summary
This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. 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 first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy's contributions to numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field's engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory.
The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.
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worthwhile read for both new audiences seeking an introduction to feminist philosophy and to those already acquainted with the field.
