Feminism and Philosophy

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You can reach the (American) Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) here.

You can reach the (American) Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) here.

You can reach the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) here.

You can reach the website for "RADICAL PHILOSOPHY: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy" here.

The Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names can be reached here.

You can reach "Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World" here.

The "Medieval Feminist Index" is available online here.

You can reach the International Association of Philosophy (IAPh) here.

You can reach the "Feminism and the Enlightenment, 1650-1850: A Comparative History" Project (from the UK) here. This project currently involves more than 70 scholars from Britain and around the world.

Introduction

This page contains information on the following historical periods in the history of philosophy: Ancient, Enlightenment, 19th century, and 20th century. There is also a bibliography for General information about feminism and the history of philosophy.



Bibliography

General Information

al-Hibri, Azizah and Margaret Simons, ed. Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. Indiana Univ. Press, 1990.

Barth, Else M., ed. Women Philosophers: A Bilbiography of Books through 1990. Bowling Green State Univ. Press, 1997.

Clack, Beverley, ed. Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader. Routledge, 1998.

Gatens, Moira. Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality. Indiana Univ. Pres, 1991.

Grimshaw, Jean. Philosophy and Feminist Thinking. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1986.

Griffiths, Morwenna and Margaret Whitford, ed. Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy. Indiana Univ. Press, 1988.

Hutchings, Noël and William Rumsey, ed. The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy. 1997.

Jagger, Alison and Iris Young, ed. A Companion to Feminist Philosophy. 1997.

Kourany, Janet A., ed. Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions. Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.

Lloyd, Genevieve. The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.

McAlister, Linda Lopez, ed. Hypatia's Daughters: 1500 Years of Women Philosophers. Indiana Univ. Press, 1996.

Salvaggio, Ruth. The Sounds of Feminist Theory. SUNY Press, 1998.

Tuana, Nancy. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature. Indiana Univ. Press, 1993.

Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Westview, 1998.

Witt, Charlotte. "How Feminism Is Re-Writing the Philosophical Canon." [You can read this article here.]



Ancient Philosophy

Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex. Trans. Albert Rabil, Jr. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Allen, Prudence. The Concept of Woman: The Aristotelian Revolution: 750 BC - AD 1250. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1997.

Bar On, Bat-Ami, ed. Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings of Plato and Aristotle. SUNY Press, 1994.

Bluestone, Natalie Harris. Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's Republic and Modern Myths of Gender. Univ. of massachusetts Press, 1987.

Buchan, Morag. Women in Plato's Political Theory. Routledge, 1998.

Cavarero, Adriana. In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy. 1995.

Freeland, Cynthia A., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. Penn State Univ. Press, 1998.

Scruton, Roger, ed. Xanthippic Dialogues. St. Augustine's Press, 1998.

Tuana, Nancy, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Plato. Penn State Univ. Press, 1994.

Ward, Julie K., ed. Feminism and Ancient Philosophy. Routledge, 1996.

You can access more information on women in ancient religions here.



Enlightenment Philosophy

Bar On, Bat-Ami, ed. Modern Engenderings: Critical Feminist Readings in the History of Modern Western Philosophy. SUNY Press, 1994.

Falco, Maria J., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penn State Univ. Press, 1996.

Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz, ed. Feminist Interpretations of G.W.F. Hegel. Penn State Univ. Press, 1996.

Schott, Robin May. Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm. Penn State Univ. Press, 1993.

Schott, Robin May, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant. Penn State Univ. Press, 1997.

Scott, Bonnie Kime, ed. The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology. Indiana Univ. Press,1990.

Witt, Charlotte and Louise Antony, ed. A Mind of One's Own.



19th Century Philosophy

Léon, Céline and Sylvia Walsh, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Søren Kierkegaard. 1997.

Oliver, Kelly and Marilyn Pearsall, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche. Penn State Univ. Press, 1998.

Oliver, Kelly. Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine." Routledge, 1995.



20th Century Philosophy

Bartky, Sandra. Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. Routledge, 1990.

Battersby, Christine. The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity. Routledge, 1998.

Davaney, Sheila Greeve, ed. Feminism and Process Thought. Mellen Press, 1981.

Deutscher, Penelope. Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy. Routledge, 1997.

Grimshaw, Jean. Philosophy and Feminist Thinking. Oxford, 1986.

Harding, Sandra and Uma Narayan, ed. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy 1. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Harding, Sandra and Uma Narayan, ed. Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy 2. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Hekman, Susan J., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault. Penn State Univ. Press, 1996.

Holland, Nancy J., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida. Penn State Univ. Press, 1997.

Holland, Nancy J. The Madwoman's Reason. Penn State Press, 1998.

Honig, Bonnie, ed. Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt. Penn State Univ. Press, 1995.

Huntington, Patricia. Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia and Recognition: Kristeva, Heidegger, Irigaray. SUNY Press, 1998.

Kaplan, Laura Duhan and Laurence F. Bove, ed. Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination. Rodopi, 1997.

Kourany, Janet A., ed. Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions. Princeton, 1998.

Nye, Andrea. Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic. Routledge, 1990.

Quinby, Lee. Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism. Oxford, 1994.

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock. Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Simons, Margaret A., ed. Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir. Penn State Univ. Press, 1995.

Walker, Michelle Boulous. Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence. Routledge, 1998.

You can access more information about Postmodernism, Deconstruction, and Post-Structuralism here.