Questions tagged [feminism]
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Is there a flaw in Spinoza's argument about gender inequality?
Spinoza, the 17th century philosopher wrote in his Political Treatise (Chapter XI):
"If by nature women were equal to men, and were equally distinguished by force of character and ability, in which ...
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What does gender have to do with epistemology?
I am learning about feminist epistemology through the text of Lorraine Code (What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge) and that of Susan Bordo (The Flight to Objectivity: ...
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Is transgenderism a radical rejection of feminism?
A woman can be an engineer; a man can be a nurse. A woman can be aggressive; a man can let a woman take the lead. A little girl can play with toy trucks; a little boy can play with dolls; A woman can ...
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Reading material about gender studies/feminism
I took a gender studies course in undergrad, and it left me with a bad taste in my mouth about the whole topic. Maybe it was because I was older than many of the other students, or because the ...
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Is this criticism of Luce Irigaray's statements on physics accurate?
Wikipedia has this to say about Luce Irigaray
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, in their book critiquing postmodern thought (Fashionable Nonsense, 1997), criticize Luce Irigaray on several grounds. In ...
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Is feminism necessarily trans-exclusionary?
Transgender rights and feminism in the US are both considered part of the cultural left's causes, but it occurred to me that one might perceive an inherent tension between the two:
The basis of ...
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How do feminist thinkers justify choice feminism?
Choice feminism (see here, here, and here) includes the idea that women can occupy traditional roles (housewife, stay at home mom, etc...) and still be regarded as feminists, as long as it's their own ...
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What is feminist care ethics?
I've heard the term thrown around, but I haven't gotten a good explanation of the core tenets of that particular branch of ethics. Can anyone explain, in plain English, what it is?
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What is radical feminism? What "radical reordering" does it call for?
Wikipedia has this definition of "radical feminism":
Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated ...
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What did Judith Butler mean by "differential axis of domination" in Gender Trouble?
Can anyone explain the meaning of the following from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble:
Juridical notions of power appear to regulate political life in purely negative terms—that is, through the ...
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Philosophical feminism and logic
Are there any resources to study about academic works on philosophical feminism and logic?
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Is it ever acceptable to go by the principle of "guilty until proven innocent"?
I have been following the news about the current US administration reversing the Obama administration's policies on campus sexual assault.
The two opposing positions can be summed as following:
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Simone de Beauvoir on woman's job and sex
I am reading The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, and there are two quotes from page 92 struck me
A truly socialist ethic—one that seeks justice without restraining
liberty, one that imposes ...
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What are the major branches or areas of feminist thought?
I'm becoming interested in delving further into feminist philosophy and have come to understand that 'feminism' actually represents an incredibly rich and diverse set of thought.
So what I wonder is ...
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Should any definition of "consciousness" include its sexual reproduction?
The project of rigidly correlating consciousness with brain states has met with many refutations. But I have never heard of one that refers to one of the simplest physical facts about consciousness.
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