Reflections on the Erasure of Violence Against Sex Workers Pre- and Post-Atlanta
By Erica MacDonald
In the hours following the horrific murders at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on March 16, 2021, journalists and other commentators attempted to...
Are They All Stupid and Irrational?
Why do people believe the election was rigged, refuse to wear face masks, suspect vaccines are a government plot, or vote for politicians who...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Secret Dreams in Istanbul
Ümit Hussein recently translated Secret Dreams in Instanbul and spoke with H. L. Schmidt about the experience of translating a work that encompasses psyche,...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Building on Work in the Face of Anonymous Review
I’ve reached this awkward stage of my publishing career where I find myself building on previously published work without being able to expressly say...
The Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines
To Slay a Specter: On the Founding of the Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines
By Cassandra Teodosio
For years there has been a lingering...
The Politics And Metaphysics Of Freedom: Does Oppression Undermine Autonomy?
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), the United States Supreme Court considered whether religious corporations could refuse to abide by the contraceptive mandate in...
A Tribute to Karen Warren
When Karen Warren died last year, friends and colleagues agreed that we had lost a compassionate, bold, and radical scholar, an award-winning teacher, and...
G.I. JANE: For Feminists, Language is Half the Battle
Discussions of feminism and its practical social and political goals often take on a military language and framework: feminists say that we need to...
Writing on the Threshold: Philosophy for Girls
Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought is an unusual philosophy book. It straddles academic and general audiences, is intended to...
Questions of Belonging: Living and Growing as a Feminist Philosopher
The political struggle then becomes: to find a better way of answering questions, ways of questioning the questions, so that the world that makes...