This new handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of feminist philosophy. Edited by Asta, Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, it contains forty essays and an introduction that highlight feminist approaches within philosophy and related fields. The reference work is intended for students and researchers seeking insight into feminist philosophy and its relationship to mainstream philosophy and other disciplines.
Contents and themes
The essays address a wide range of topics, such as how feminist philosophy engages with systems of oppression and gender-, race-, and class-based assumptions in philosophical concepts. The sections focus on feminist histories, contributions to subfields such as metaphysics and bioethics, and reflections on major moral and political issues such as identity, the body, autonomy, and the prison system. In addition, it examines the interplay with trans studies, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonialism, and decolonial theory.
Product specifications
- Author: Asta (Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University)
- Series: Oxford Handbooks
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication date: September 7, 2021
- Number of pages: 616
- ISBN: 9780190628925
- Theme: Western philosophy from c 1800
- BISAC: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
About the author
Asta is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, specializing in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and social philosophy. She has written, among other things Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Oxford University Press, 2018).