ISBN:
9781317635314
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (939 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Routledge Philosophy Companions Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Garry, Ann The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy
DDC:
305.4201
Abstract:
Intro -- The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy -- Routledge Philosophy Companions -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Aims of this Companion -- Engaging the Past -- Mind, Body, and World -- Knowledge, Language, and Science -- Intersections -- Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics -- Some Thanks and a Note about Usage -- Part I Engaging the Past -- 1 Feminist Methods in the History of Philosophy, or, Escape from Coventry -- The Philosophical Imaginary and the Héloïse Complex -- The Man of Reason -- Written in Invisible Ink -- Women, Reason, and Democracy -- 2 Feminism and Ancient Greek Philosophy -- Binary Logic -- Terminology and the Question of Origin -- Was Plato a Feminist? -- Platoâs Cave and the Chora -- Aristotle -- In Conclusion -- 3 Dao Becomes Female: A Gendered Reality, Knowledge, and Strategy for Living -- Introduction -- Dao as Cosmic Mother and Female Body -- Femininity as a Way to Know Dao -- The Female Mode: The Ultimate Power and Strategy -- Final Remarks -- 4 Feminism, Philosophy, and Culture in Africa -- Introduction: Contextualizing Theories and Practices -- Feminism as Engagement -- The State of Affairs: A Brief Overview -- The Language Gap -- Gender Alone Cannot Explain All Injustice -- Womenâs Silence and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Ideology -- Conclusion -- 5 Feminist Engagement with Judeo-Christian Religious Traditions -- A Brief History of Feminist Religious and Theological Critique -- The Attraction of Religion: Michèle Le Doeuff on Possibilities and Pitfalls -- Framing a Practical Feminist Philosophy of Religion -- Thinking Again About Religion and Feminism -- Religious Plurality and Feminist Flourishing -- Conclusion -- 6 Early Modern Feminism and Cartesian Philosophy -- Introduction -- Poullain -- Astell -- 7 Feminist Engagements with Social Contract Theory
Abstract:
Introduction -- The Classic Social Contract Theorists -- The Political Social Contract: Carole Pateman -- The Ethical Social Contract: Jean Hampton -- Are Feminist Perspectives on the Social Contract Compatible? -- 8 Feminism and the Enlightenment -- The Plurality of the Enlightenment -- Equality, Difference, and Human Rights: Olympe de Gouges and Condorcet -- Education, Equality, and Independence: Mary Wollstonecraft in Context -- Feminist Engagements with the Enlightenment -- 9 Feminist Engagements with Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy -- Introduction -- Hegel and German Idealism: Being and Thinking -- Nietzsche, the Eternal Feminine, and Truth as a Woman -- Womenâs Voices in the Nineteenth Century -- 10 Introducing Black Feminist Philosophy -- Introduction -- The Multistability of Oppression -- Possessing Negative Socio-Epistemic Status -- Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Spatiality -- 11 Feminist Pragmatism -- Classical Pragmatism and Feminist Recovery Projects -- Feminist Pragmatism or Pragmatist Feminism? -- Historical Connections -- Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism -- Feminist Pragmatist Futures -- 12 Feminist Phenomenology -- Phenomenology as Method -- Lived Experience and Pathologies of the Social -- Critical Phenomenology and Hesitation -- Part II Body, Mind, and World -- 13 The Sex/Gender Distinction and the Social Construction of Reality -- Introduction -- The Construction of Ideas and Concepts -- Social Construction and Illusion -- The Social Construction of Objects -- The Social Construction of Kinds -- Conclusion -- 14 Gender Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism -- Introduction -- What Is at Stake? -- Worth of the Debate? -- 15 Embodiment and Feminist Philosophy -- Introduction -- Historical Starting Points -- Contemporary Alternatives -- Phenomenology of Human Embodiment -- Bodies as Instruments and Expressions
Abstract:
The Limits of Naturalism -- 16 Materiality: Sex, Gender, and What Lies Beneath -- Matter, Materialism, Materiality -- New Materialism -- Sex, Gender, Mattering -- Conclusion -- 17 Feminism and Borderlands Identities -- Feminist Thought on the Inner Diversity of the Self -- Social Conflict, Borderlands Identities, and Feminism -- Intersectionality within and Borderlands Identities -- Types of Identities and Identity Formations -- Identity Schemes: The Social Sources and Formation of Borderlands Identities -- Borderlands Identities and Social Change: Negotiating Identity Claims in Changing Times -- The Special Challenges and Potential of Borderlands Identities -- 18 Personal Identity and Relational Selves -- Care Ethics and the Relational Self -- Anti-Individualism in Philosophy of Mind -- Personal Identity and Lived Experience -- Social Construction and Narrative Self-Constitution -- Conclusion -- 19 Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Feminism -- Introduction -- Subjectivity and Subject Positions -- The Unconscious, Sublimation, and Meaning -- Part III Knowledge, Language, and Science -- 20 Rationality and Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy -- Starting Places -- Objectivity Naturalized, Situated -- Rationality Situated, Naturalized -- Wherefore Concepts, Ideals, and Theories? -- Acknowledgment -- 21 Trust and Testimony in Feminist Epistemology -- Feminist Accounts of Trust in Testimony -- Trust Relations and the Ethical Dimension of Testimony Practices -- Testimonial Exchanges: Social Identity as a Credibility Marker -- Correcting for Maladapted Norms of Credibility -- Trust in Knowledge-Producing Institutions and Communities: The Case of Science -- Implications of Feminist Analyses of Testimony -- 22 Epistemic Injustice, Ignorance, and Trans Experience -- Epistemic Injustice and Ignorance -- Trans Experiences and Testimonial Injustice
Abstract:
Trans Experiences, Hermeneutical Marginalization, and Hermeneutical Injustice -- Combatting Epistemic Injustice by Overcoming Conceptual Practical Ignorance -- 23 Speech and Silencing -- Introduction -- Conceptions of Silencing -- The Silencing Argument -- Related Phenomena -- Acknowledgment -- 24 Language, Writing, and Gender Differences -- Introduction -- A Language of the Body -- The Politics of Writing -- Sexual Difference and Many Languages -- Mary Dalyâs Wickedary Dictionary -- After Sexual Difference and Ãcriture Féminine: Judith Butlerâs Performative -- 25 Philosophy of Science and the Feminist Legacy -- Pre-Feminist Philosophy of Science -- The Birth of Feminist Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Rationality through Feminist Eyes -- The Legacy -- 26 Values, Practices, and Metaphysical Assumptions in the Biological Sciences -- Introduction -- Values and Research Practices -- Values and Metaphysics -- Values, Practices, and Metaphysical Assumptions in Neuroscience -- Values, Practices, and Metaphysical Assumptions in Feminist Evolutionary Psychology -- Conclusion -- 27 Feminist Philosophy of Social Science -- The Broader Context -- The Feminist Method Debate -- Feminist âCommunity Valuesâ -- Standpoint Theory -- Part IV Intersections -- 28 The Genealogy and Viability of the Concept of Intersectionality -- Genealogy -- Contemporary Articulations -- Critiques and Controversies -- Future of the Concept -- 29 Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Feminist Philosophy -- Introduction -- Critical Race Theory -- Intersectionality as a Feminist Response to Race and Racism -- Whatâs Critical about Intersectionality? -- Whatâs Intersectional about Critical Race Theory? -- Intersectionality across Time and Multiple Fields -- Conclusion -- 30 Native American Chaos Theory and the Politics of Difference -- Introduction
Abstract:
A Brief Overview of the Native American Worldview -- The Politics of Difference and Native American Chaos Theory -- 31 Feminist Theory, Lesbian Theory, and Queer Theory -- Introduction -- Born This Way -- Not Born a Woman -- We Are the Same -- Itâs Complicated -- Queering It Up -- 32 Through the Looking Glass: Trans Theory Meets Feminist Philosophy -- Preliminaries -- Conceptual Analysis of Gender Categories -- Trans Embodiment -- Trans Feminism Conversations -- 33 Feminist and Queer Intersections with Disability Studies -- Feminist, Queer, Crip: Theorizing Disability and Debility -- Impairment and Disability -- Sex, Gender, and Disability -- Minds, Bodies, and Knowledge -- Dependency, Vulnerability, and Justice -- Cripping Philosophy -- 34 Women, Gender, and Philosophies of Global Development -- Introduction -- Were Women Left Out of Development? -- More Unrecognized Facts about Womenâs Poverty -- The Rise of Development Ethics -- Feminist Philosophic Issues about Development -- A Fourth Fact: Inadequate Resources and Competence Requirements for Development Designers, Funders, Managers, and Other Professionals -- Conclusion -- 35 Feminist Intersections with Environmentalism and Ecological Thought -- Nature, Culture, Feminism -- Ecofeminism in the Global North: The Goddess, Science, and Deep Ecology -- Ecofeminism: Discipline and Praxis -- Changing the World: Food, Care, and Climate -- 36 Encountering Religious Diversity: Perspectives from Feminist Philosophy of Religion -- Introduction -- Gendering Religious Diversity -- Feminist Epistemology and Religious Beliefs -- Materialist Interventions: Religion as Real Abstraction -- Contextualizing Womenâs Religious Subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Part V Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics -- Aesthetics -- 37 Historicizing Feminist Aesthetics -- Art as Political -- How Is Art Political?
Abstract:
Kantâs Aesthetics: Regressive or Progressive?
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