Feminist Philosophy Information
Feminist philosophy refers to philosophy approached from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy involves both attempts to use the methods of philosophy to further the cause of the feminist movements, and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of traditional philosophy from within a feminist framework.[1]
There is no one school of feminist philosophy: feminist philosophers, as philosophers, are found in both the analytic and Continental traditions, and the myriad different viewpoints taken on philosophical issues within those traditions; and feminist philosophers, as feminists, are found belonging to the many different varieties of feminism.[1]
Feminism has provided a new perspective to many traditional problems of philosophy. For example, feminist epistemologists have challenged traditional ideas of how we know things and of rationality, by arguing that these traditional philosophical ideas are based on male assumptions and perspectives and ignore women's voices. Some feminists for attacking traditional philosophy as aggressive, on the grounds that aggression is a valid female trait, and that feminists should not seek to repeat traditional sex roles which say women can't be aggressive (much less intellectually so).
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Feminist philosophers
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Judith Butler
- Hélène Cixous
- Bracha Ettinger
- Patricia Hill Collins
- Germaine Greer
- Donna Haraway
- Sandra Harding
- Nancy Hartsock
- Julia Kristeva
- Dorothy Smith
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Alison Wylie
- Carol Gilligan
- Uma Narayan
- Seyla Benhabib
- Luce Irigaray
- Monique Wittig
- Mary Daly
- Olympe de Gouges
Feminist philosophy critics
Critics of feminist philosophy are not generally critics of feminism as a political or cultural movement; only the philosophical positions put forth under the title "feminist philosophy".
A phenomenological approach to the question of gender, that treats masculinity and femininity not as pertaining ascriptively to males and females, but as alternative ways, open to both women and men, of human beings presenting themselves as who they are, is taken by the Australian philosopher, Michael Eldred. 'Feminine' being is then thought as an 'interstitial' mode of encounter between you-and-me rather than showing off who one is in self-presentation.[2][3][4] This approach is indebted to both the German tradition of dialogical philosophy and to Heidegger's questioning return to Greek ontology in search of as yet latent, alternative historical modes of (human) being apart from the established Western modes of 'substantial' standing presence.
See also
- Feminist epistemology
- Feminist ethics
- Feminist philosophy of religion
References
- ^ a b Gatens, M., Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality (Indiana University Press, 1991)
- ^ Eldred, Michael, 2005, 'Barely encountering you'
- ^ Eldred, Michael, 2008, 'Metaphysics of Feminism: A Critical Note on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble'
- ^ Eldred, Michael, 1999, Phänomenologie der Männlichkeit Roell, Dettelbach, 266 pp. ISBN 3897541378
External links
- Feminist philosophy entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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