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Philosophy: Feminism
-Covers such topics as the three waves of feminism, sexism and oppression, intersectionality, disability, race, LGBTQ theory, and ecofeminism. The use of film, literature, art, case studies, and other disciplines or situations/events provide illustrations of human experiences which work as gateways to questions philosophers try to address---
464 pages, Hardcover
Published September 11, 2017
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Carol Hay
8 books21 followersCarol Hay is a professor of philosophy at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the author of Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution and the award-winning Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression. Her work has appeared in venues such as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Aeon magazine. She divides her time between Boston and San Francisco.
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October 16, 2023
This review applies to Chapter 8, on Feminist Ethics, by Prof Sarah Clark Miller.
Really enjoyed this primer on Feminist Ethics - like I suspect a great many readers, having piecemeal exposure to many different feminist writers and thinkers of all different backgrounds has been deeply valuable but comes with the hazard of developing an unstructured understanding of how they relate to each other. Prof Clark Miller’s chapter was informative, thoughtful and poignant especially at the awful cultural juncture for women’s rights we find ourselves in as of 2023.
Particularly for me, this overview of some of the more major contributions of feminist thought to the field of ethics has been really valuable; Prof. Clarke Miller invites us to consider the ways feminist scholars have broken open issues in ethics previously ignored or poorly recognised by philosophers of ethics.
This kind of understanding will be especially valuable to people of my own background — STEM, male, with a touch of being poorly socialised — because my sort is particularly prone to reifying arcane thought experiments with nearly all context purposefully stripped out of them as the most pure (or even the only valid) way to approach ethical reasoning. Feminist ethicists have quite rightly called into question that assumption, among a great many others.
Well worth your time. If I had one minor criticism it might be that the Prof Clark Miller did lean into a surprising number of contemporary pop-culture references. Normally of course that would add flavour to a dry or stodgy or abstract chapter, but in this case the material is so gloriously (and tragically) relevant to everyone reading that the amount pop-culture references might have ever so slightly diluted this text.
I do hope to get hold of the rest of this textbook but I may check out Prof. Carol Hay’s more recent book for lay readers first
Really enjoyed this primer on Feminist Ethics - like I suspect a great many readers, having piecemeal exposure to many different feminist writers and thinkers of all different backgrounds has been deeply valuable but comes with the hazard of developing an unstructured understanding of how they relate to each other. Prof Clark Miller’s chapter was informative, thoughtful and poignant especially at the awful cultural juncture for women’s rights we find ourselves in as of 2023.
Particularly for me, this overview of some of the more major contributions of feminist thought to the field of ethics has been really valuable; Prof. Clarke Miller invites us to consider the ways feminist scholars have broken open issues in ethics previously ignored or poorly recognised by philosophers of ethics.
This kind of understanding will be especially valuable to people of my own background — STEM, male, with a touch of being poorly socialised — because my sort is particularly prone to reifying arcane thought experiments with nearly all context purposefully stripped out of them as the most pure (or even the only valid) way to approach ethical reasoning. Feminist ethicists have quite rightly called into question that assumption, among a great many others.
Well worth your time. If I had one minor criticism it might be that the Prof Clark Miller did lean into a surprising number of contemporary pop-culture references. Normally of course that would add flavour to a dry or stodgy or abstract chapter, but in this case the material is so gloriously (and tragically) relevant to everyone reading that the amount pop-culture references might have ever so slightly diluted this text.
I do hope to get hold of the rest of this textbook but I may check out Prof. Carol Hay’s more recent book for lay readers first
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