Interview with New Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy Series
The Women in Philosophy series at the APA blog would like to thank Adriel Trott for serving as Editor of the series from 2018...
Distrust, Privilege, and the Quest for Invulnerability
Distrust has become a hot topic in the North American media landscape as of late. A cursory online search brings up countless articles urgently...
Irigaray and Contemporary Feminist Politics
The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important...
Witches and ‘Welfare Queens’: The Construction of Women as Threats in the Anti-Abortion Movement
While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century....
The Virtuous Image: Femininity and Portraiture on the Internet
Images of bodies impact young people, especially young girls and women. The normative implications of those images—what a body ought to look like and...
Gender Changes: Genderfluidity and Trans Possibilities
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that he always...
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...