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...
Bat-Ami Bar On: In Memoriam
Teacher. Mentor. Friend. The fortunate among us would use these words to characterize our relationships with our dissertation directors. Working closely with them over...
Uncovering Deaf Women Philosophers
When I was in graduate school, I started keeping a notebook with all of the references to deaf people and the experience of being...
Entropy and the Elderly in the Neoliberal Age
In the September 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn writes about the appalling negligence shown toward the elderly in American nursing homes. The...
Early Modern Philosophy: A Perverse Thought Experiment
Here’s a perverse thought experiment. Let’s suppose that we set ourselves the task of writing a history of philosophy that reflects and represents human...
How (Not) to Think About Anti-Feminist Women
The woman hangs on, not with the delicacy of a clinging vine, but with a tenacity incredible in its intensity, to the very...
Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout
Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy...
Skepticism’s Cure for the Plague of Mind
This post is part two of a two-part series on skepticism and ethics in the Women in Philosophy series. The first part can be...