Before the United States Supreme Court overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in its 2022 decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, prosecutions of pregnancy...
...Rosa on August 9th, 1942 at the age of 50. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender...
...of dispute resolution (which I think we should be devout about and hold sacred, especially if it is done peacefully). What excites you about philosophy? Philosophy excites me because it...
...including all women) is an extremely difficult task. Kant himself does not reject women’s enlightenment either normatively or as a matter of possibility. However, the sociopolitical circumstances of women at...
...affirmative action argue that the preferential treatment that (white) women, Black people, people of color, and indigenous people get is detrimental to white males—especially white males that are hardworking and...
Olga Lenczewska is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She completed a PhD in Philosophy and a PhD Minor in Political Science at Stanford...
...dangerous and demanding relation might mean and what forms of care and responsibility for those most intimately harmed by it could take. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on...
...a political philosopher, placing her work in conversation with feminist philosophy, decolonial philosophy, and Marxism. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Davis discusses Weil’s practical approach to philosophy, the role...
...concrete avenue for the oppressed to advocate for themselves. The Women in Philosophy series publishes posts on those excluded in the history of philosophy on the basis of gender injustice,...
...I was standing before a classroom of students as the instructor, I had little to no knowledge of Africana philosophy, Latin philosophy, or Indigenous philosophy. Textbooks didn’t (and still don’t)...
