Medical Sexism in Prescribing Birth Control
Practically everyone who is eligible to use birth control chooses to use it at some point in their life. And the availability of contraception...
It’s Time to Talk about Women’s Submission
As a French person, I grew up thinking that philosophy was for everyone.
My parents didn’t go to college, but I grew up seeing Foucault,...
Dismantling Kantian Frames: Notes toward a Feminist Politics of Location and Accountability
Kant’s philosophical system is one of those master discourses in the discipline of philosophy (and beyond) – a whole architecture – that everyone, including...
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...
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 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...