1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy

Edited By Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone Copyright 2017
    756 Pages
    by Routledge

    754 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind, Body, and World; (3) Knowledge, Language, and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities, race and ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy.

    CONTENTS

    Notes on contributors

    Introduction

    ANN GARRY, SERENE J. KHADER AND ALISON STONE

    PART 1: Engaging the Past

    1 Feminist methods in the history of philosophy, or escape from Coventry

    MOIRA GATENS

    2 Feminism and ancient Greek philosophy

    ADRIANA CAVARERO

    3 Dao becomes female: a gendered reality, knowledge, and strategy for living

    ROBIN R.WANG

    4 Feminism, philosophy, and culture in Africa

    TANELLA BONI

    5 Feminist engagement with Judeo-Christian religious traditions

    BEVERLEY CLACK

    6 Early modern feminism and Cartesian philosophy

    JACQUELINE BROAD

    7 Feminist engagements with social contract theory

    JANICE RICHARDSON

    8 Feminism and enlightenment

    SUSANNE LETTOW

    9 Feminist engagements with nineteenth-century German philosophy

    ELAINE MILLER

    10 Introducing Black feminist philosophy

    KRISTIE DOTSON

    11 Feminist pragmatism

    V. DENISE JAMES

    12 Feminist phenomenology

    ALIA AL-SAJI

    PART II: Body, Mind, and World

    13 The sex/gender distinction and the social construction of reality

    SALLY HASLANGER

    14 Gender essentialism and anti-essentialism

    MARI MIKKOLA

    15 Embodiment and feminist philosophy

    SARA HEINÄMAA

    16 Materiality: sex, gender, and what lies beneath

    CLAIRE COLEBROOK

    17 Feminism and borderlands identities

    EDWINA BARVOSA

    18 Personal identity and relational selves

    SUSAN J. BRISON

    19 Psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and feminism

    KELLY OLIVER

    PART III: Knowledge, Language, and Science

    20 Rationality and objectivity in feminist philosophy

    PHYLLIS ROONEY

    21 Testimony, trust, and trustworthiness

    HEIDI GRASSWICK

    22 Epistemic injustice, ignorance, and trans experience

    MIRANDA FRICKER AND KATHARINE JENKINS

    23 Speech and silencing

    ISHANI MAITRA

    24 Language, writing, and gender differences

    GERTRUDE POSTL

    25 Philosophy of science and the feminist legacy

    JANET A. KOURANY

    26 Values, practices, and metaphysical assumptions in the biological sciences

    SARA WEAVER AND CARLA FEHR

    27 Feminist philosophy of social science

    ALISON WYLIE

    PART IV: Intersections

    28 The concept of intersectionality: genealogy, controversy, and viability

    TINA FERNANDES BOTTS

    29 Critical race theory, intersectionality, and feminist philosophy

    FALGUNI A. SHETH

    30 Native American chaos theory and the politics of difference

    SHAY WELCH

    31 Feminist theory, lesbian theory, and queer theory

    MIMI MARINUCCI

    32 Through the looking glass: trans theory meets feminist philosophy

    TALIA MAE BETTCHER

    33 Feminist and queer intersections with disability studies

    KIM Q. HALL

    34 Women, gender, and philosophies of global development

    SANDRA HARDING AND ANNA MALAVISI

    35 Feminist intersections with environmentalism and ecological thought

    TRISH GLAZEBROOK

    36 Encountering religious diversity: perspectives from feminist philosophy of religion

    PATRICE HAYNES

    PART V: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics

    Aesthetics

    37 Historicizing feminist aesthetics

    TINA CHANTER

    38 Aesthetics and the politics of gender: On Arendt’s theory of narrative and action

    EWA PLONOWSKA ZIAREK

    39 Feminist aesthetics and the categories of the beautiful and the sublime

    CHRISTINE BATTERSBY

    Ethics

    40 Moral justification in an unjust world

    ALISON M. JAGGAR AND THERESA W. TOBIN

    41 Feminist conceptions of autonomy

    CATRIONA MACKENZIE

    42 Feminist metaethics

    ANITA SUPERSON

    43 Feminist ethics of care

    JEAN KELLER AND EVA FEDER KITTAY

    44 Confucianism and care ethics

    SIN YEE CHAN

    45 Feminist virtue ethics

    ROBIN DILLON

    46 Feminist bioethics

    WENDY ROGERS

    Social and Political Philosophy

    47 Multicultural and postcolonial feminisms

    MONICA MOOKHERJEE

    48 Neoliberalism, global justice, and transnational feminisms

    SERENE J. KHADER

    49 Feminism, structural injustice, and responsibility

    SERENA PAREKH

    50 Latin American feminist ethics and politics

    AMY A. OLIVER

    51 Feminist engagements with democratic theory

    NOELLE MCAFEE

    52 Feminism and liberalism

    CLARE CHAMBERS

    53 Feminism and freedom

    ALLISON WEIR

    54 Feminism and power

    JOHANNA OKSALA

    55 Feminist approaches to violence and vulnerability

    KIMBERLEY HUTCHINGS AND ELIZABETH FRAZER

    56 Feminist philosophy of law, legal positivism, and non-ideal theory

    LESLIE P. FRANCIS

    Index

    Biography

    Ann Garry is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work in feminist philosophy ranges from applied ethics to intersectionality and feminist philosophical methods.

    Serene J. Khader is Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research in feminist philosophy focuses on global gender justice.

    Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. She specializes in feminist philosophy and post-Kantian European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    "This is an amazing volume, representing a staggering range of views, methodologies, and traditions." 

    --Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield

     

    "If feminism is to do justice to its claims of inclusiveness regarding the thought and lives of women, then it needs to be mindful of its own exclusionary past, its practices of gatekeeping and romantic claims about sisterhood.  The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, conceived as an interdisciplinary, historical and conceptual collection of essays written by an array of thinkers versed in both the analytic and continental philosophical traditions, aims for a more critical, more inclusive feminist theory and practice. Let this collection accompany us in this crucial endeavor, learning from it and enhancing it as we work towards this richer feminist vision."

    --Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University

     

    "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."

    --Amy Marvin, Hypatia Reviews Online