Philosophy has not just excluded women. It has also been shaped by the exclusion of women. As the field grapples with the reality that sexism is a central problem not just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink the canon. Yet attempts to broaden European and Anglophone philosophy to include more women in the discipline’s history or to acknowledge alternative traditions will not suffice as long as exclusionary norms remain in place.
In Where Are the Women?, Sarah Tyson makes a powerful case for how redressing women’s exclusion can make philosophy better. She argues that engagements with historical thinkers typically afforded little authority can transform the field, outlining strategies based on the work of three influential theorists: Genevieve Lloyd, Luce Irigaray, and Michèle Le Doeuff. Following from the possibilities they open up, at once literary, linguistic, psychological, and political, Tyson reclaims two passionate nineteenth-century texts—the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and Sojourner Truth’s speech at the 1851 Akron, Ohio, Women’s Convention—showing how the demands for equality, rights, and recognition sought in the early women’s movement still pose quandaries for contemporary philosophy, feminism, and politics. Where Are the Women? challenges us to confront the reality that women’s exclusion from philosophy has been an ongoing project and to become more critical both of how we see existing injustices and of how we address them.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Reclamation Strategies
2. Conceptual Exclusion
3. Reclamation from Absence
4. Insults and Their Possibilities
5. From Exclusion to Reclamation
6. Injuries and Usurpations
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Appendix B: Printed Versions of Sojourner Truth’s Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 in Akron, Ohio
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Sarah Tyson is associate professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She was coeditor of
Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration (with Joshua M. Hall, 2014).
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