Feminist philosophy - Topics

Why Beauvoir's account of the Other reshaped existentialist ethics How feminist philosophy challenged the atomistic individual of the social contract Intersectionality as a philosophical tool rather than a buzzword What Mary Wollstonecraft argued before feminism had a name Feminist ethics and the problem with a single scale of moral worth The ethics of care as a rival to Kantian impartiality How did de Beauvoir turn existentialist freedom into a claim about women's situation? The personal is political as a philosophical claim rather than a slogan Why feminist philosophers keep fighting about pornography and speech Ecofeminism and the link it draws between dominating women and dominating nature What standpoint theory claims about knowledge from the margins Simone de Beauvoir and the claim that one becomes a woman Feminist critiques of the social contract and the family it quietly assumes What feminist epistemology says about who counts as a knower What Judith Butler means by performativity and why it is so often misread Christine de Pizan and the first sustained defense of women in European letters What feminist metaphysics argues about sex and gender Feminist philosophy of science and the bias built into research design