The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks)

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy's contributions to numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field's engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers. Feminist Engagements with the History of Philosophy: The Recognition Project / Charlotte Witt -- Latina/x Philosophy / Andrea J. Pitts -- Asian American Philosophy and Feminism / David H. Kim -- Native and Indigenous Feminisms and Philosophies / Shay Welch -- Feminist Philosophy of Mind / Jennifer McWeeny -- Feminist Philosophy of Language in the Analytic Tradition / Mary Kate McGowan -- Feminist Epistemology / Heidi Grasswick -- Metaphysics / Mari Mikkola -- Philosophy of Science: Analytic Feminist Approaches / Kristina Rolin -- Continental Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Science / Dorothea Olkowski -- Analytical Feminist Ethics / Samantha Brennan -- Feminism in Ancient Philosophy / Anne-Marie Schultz -- Continental Feminist Ethics / Erinn Gilson -- Feminist Bioethics / Jackie Leach Scully -- Feminist Moral Psychology / Peggy DesAutels -- Feminist Aesthetics / A.W. Eaton -- Feminist Social and Political Philosophy / Bat-Ami Bar On -- Feminist Philosophy of Social Science / Sharon Crasnow -- Identity / Linda Martín Alcoff -- The Body / Cressida J. Heyes -- On Feminist Temporalities / Joanna Hodge -- Relational Autonomy / Catriona Mackenzie -- Feminism and Early Modern Philosophy / Deborah Boyle -- Feminist New Materialisms / Nancy Tuana -- Bias / Louise Antony -- Feminism and Epistemic Injustice / José Medina -- Epistemic Oppression, Ignorance, and Resistance / Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. -- Borders and Migration / Shelley Wilcox -- Prisons / Perry Zurn -- Feminist Philosophy: War and Terrorism / Robin May Schott -- Feminist Philosophy and Human Rights / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- The Gender-Climate-Injustice Nexus / Adrian Parr -- Feminist Critical Theory / Allison Weir -- Biomedical Technologies / Susan Dodds -- Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Feminist Philosophy / Natalie Cisneros -- Queer Theory / Gayle Salamon -- Feminism and Disability Theory / Licia Carlson -- Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans Studies / Talia Mae Bettcher -- Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories / Elena Ruíz -- Animal Studies / Lori Gruen -- What is Feminist Philosophy? / Kim Q. Hall, Asta -- Feminist Phenomenology / Gail Weiss -- The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir / Céline Leboeuf -- Pragmatism / Erin McKenna, Maurice Hamington -- Poststructuralism / Katerina Kolozova -- Black Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Refusal / Axelle Karera. "This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy's contributions to with numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field's engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers"-- Provided by publisher