On the Continuing Necessity of Psychoanalysis for Feminist Philosophy
We live in an era in which “gender” has become a political football, in which the broadening legitimacy of same-sex marriage, as well as...
Children’s Mental Health, Institutional Gaslighting, and Mother-Blame
There is a class action lawsuit against Iowa over failure to provide legally-required and medically necessary mental health services for Medicaid-eligible children. As a...
Simone de Beauvoir and “Women’s Work”
1. Crisis of Reproduction
In the short film, Loin du 16e (Far from the 16th), Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas evocatively portray what we might identify...
Gender Together: Identity, Community, and the Politics of Sincerity
Around 11:55 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2022—just moments before midnight on National Transgender Day of Remembrance—someone walked into Club Q, a queer nightclub...
The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women
Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...
What’s In a Name? Rethinking CSW
On September 23, 2022 the APA hosted the first of three currently-planned panels on “The Status of ‘Women’ in the Committee on the Status...
Germaine de Staël’s Philosophy and Politics
The canon of the history of philosophy has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of diversity by Eileen O’Neill, Charles Mills, and others. In...
#WomanLifeFreedom: How Digital Technologies Enable Transnational Solidarity for Iran’s Feminist Uprising
#WomanLifeFreedom: How Digital Technologies Enable Transnational Solidarity for Iran’s Feminist Uprising
An unprecedented feminist uprising in Iran has been ongoing since September 16th, 2022. This...
The Body Problem and the Climate Crisis
Students of Anglo-European philosophy might be familiar with the “mind-body problem.” The problem originates with early seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who...
Sugar Babies: When “Feminism” Looks Like Online Misogyny
In 2019, the dating website Seeking.com reported having 365 University of Edinburgh students registered as members. Seeking.com is not just any dating platform. It’s...