Ann Garry - The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion , are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind, Body, and World; (3) Knowledge, Language, and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities, race and ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy.

Ann Garry is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work in feminist philosophy ranges from applied ethics to intersectionality and feminist philosophical methods.

Serene J. Khader is Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research in feminist philosophy focuses on global gender justice.

Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. She specializes in feminist philosophy and post-Kantian European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY

Edited by
Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader,
and Alison Stone

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Names: Garry, Ann, editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to feminist philosophy / edited by
Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. |
Series: Routledge philosophy companions | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
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Alia Al-Saji is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She works on phenomenology, French philosophy, feminist theory, and critical philosophy of race. She has published in Continental Philosophy Review , Philosophy and Social Criticism , and Research in Phenomenology , and co-directs the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

Edwina Barvosa is an Associate Professor of Social and Political Theory in the department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the multiplicity of the self and implicit bias as they impact democratic governance. She is the author of Wealth of Selves: Mestiza Consciousness, Multiple Identities and the Subject of Politics (2008).

Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita in Philosophy and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference (2007), The Phenomenal Woman (1998), and Gender and Genius (1989).

Talia Mae Bettcher is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of her articles include Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion ( Hypatia 2007) and Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Re-thinking Trans Oppression and Resistance ( Signs 2014).

Tanella Boni is Full Professor at the University of Cocody, Ivory Coast. What started as work on the idea of life in Aristotle at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne culminated in Que vivent les femmes dAfrique ? (2008). She is also a novelist and poet, who has won numerous literary prizes.

Tina Fernandes Botts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. With doctoral degrees in both law and philosophy, she specializes in philosophy of law, philosophy of race, and feminism. She is the editor of Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience (2016).