The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy
Edited by Kim Q. Hall and Ásta
Abstract
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 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 with 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.
Keywords:
feminist philosophy,
gender,
philosophy,
feminism
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Jun 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190628925
- Published online:
- May 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190628925.001.0001
Editors
Kim Q. Hall,
editor
Kim Q. Hall is Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member of the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program at Appalachian State University. She is the guest editor of New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies, a special issue of Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy (2015); editor of Feminist Disability Studies (Indiana University Press, 2011); and coeditor of Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). Her research focuses on topics at the intersections of feminist philosophy, disability studies, and queer theory. She is currently working on a book titled Queering Philosophy.
Ásta,
editor
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). Her website is astaphilosophy.com.
