Asian/American Women: Resistance against Invisibility
In the collection Making More Waves (1997), Asian/American activist Helen Zia raises a question: “Where are the Asian women?” By reviewing violent crimes against...
Interview with the New Co-Editor of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women in Philosophy Series
Could you tell us more about yourself? What do you think our readers should know about you?
About myself? I am a daughter, sister, friend,...
Navel Gazing Lawyers and Philosopher-Judges: A Tale of (At Least Two) Personhoods
The left side of Damien Hirst's statue, Verity, from Ilfracombe harbour arm.
A Change in Title: From “Women in Philosophy” to “Gender, Sexuality, and Women in...
As Sara Ahmed reminds us, a name can be a wall, a name can be a door. The names we use for public platforms...
But, Is She (bell hooks) a Philosopher?
This essay draws inspiration from the various traditions of Black feminist philosophy, in particular the works of bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins. Collins...
Can the Historical Materialist Be a Woman? On the Woman Question in Walter Benjamin
This year I agreed to be a part of a translation project: alongside two fellow academics, the aim was to translate the fifty-something page...
Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives
Nostalgia, “Again,” and Who Gets to Count
The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered,...
Race, Risk, and the VBAC Calculator: The Politics of Race Correction in Childbirth
I started noticing a pattern. Every Black woman I know who has given birth in the past decade delivered by cesarean. Some of those...
Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?
A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least...
What Do We Really Know About “Obesity”?
In 1864, the scientist Benjamin Apthorp Gould was appointed to conduct a survey of the physical characteristics of thousands of Civil War soldiers, sailors,...