Women in Philosophy

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“This Bill Would Create a Crime”: Time, State Practices, and the California Gender Recognition...

by Marie Draz On October 15, 2017, the California Gender Recognition Act (CGRA) was signed into law. It went into effect on January 1,...
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How to Philosophize with an Affinity of Hammers: Censorship and Reproductive Freedom in France

by Jill Drouillard On Oct. 24, 2019, French philosopher Sylviane Agacinski was scheduled to speak at the Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne on « l’être humain à l’époque de sa...
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F.E.A.S.T. Conference 2019

by Jamie Ritzo and Laura Brown October 3-6, 2019 marked the tenth official FEAST (Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) Conference, along with the 20-year anniversary of the...
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When Home Isn’t: Feminist Philosophy and the U.S. Foster Care System

by Katherine Davies On any given day, approximately 400,000 children are active recipients of the U.S. welfare program known as the foster care system. There...
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Racism’s Guts? The Physiology of Oppression

by Shannon Sullivan Can a person’s belief in racial hierarchy—for example, that white people are superior to Black people—be embodied in their gut? I wondered...
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The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right

by Cinzia Arruzza In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run...
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The Assisted Reproduction of Race

by Camisha Russell In 2009, I was just starting to outline what would become my first book, The Assisted Reproduction of Race. I wanted to...
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Monnica, The Patron Saint of Mothers of Disappointing Children (i.e. Philosophers)

by Patricia Grosse The first mention of St. Monnica in Stephen Greenblatt’s The New Yorker article “How St. Augustine Invented Sex” occurs in the second...
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Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics

by Desiree Valentine In October of 2014, news outlets began reporting on a case of a lesbian couple suing a sperm bank for receiving the...
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Women in Philosophy: Neocolonialism’s Anxieties? Schooling Women of Color

by Falguni A. Sheth A number of news stories have appeared recently about self-appointed authorities who have taken it upon themselves to educate Black women...