Feminist Philosophies of Life

Feminist Philosophies of Life
Title Feminist Philosophies of Life PDF eBook
Author Hasana Sharp
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages
Release 2016-06-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0773599274

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Much of the history of Western ethical thought has revolved around debates about what constitutes a good life, and claims that a good life is achievable only by certain human beings. In Feminist Philosophies of Life, feminist, new materialist, posthumanist, and ecofeminist philosophers challenge this tendency, approaching the question of life from alternative perspectives. Signalling the importance of distinctively feminist reflections on matters of shared concern, Feminist Philosophies of Life not only exposes the propensity of discourses to normalize and exclude differently abled, racialized, feminized, and gender nonconforming people, it also asks questions about how life is constituted and understood without limiting itself to the human. A collection of articles that focuses on life as an organizing principle for ontology, ethics, and politics, chapters of this study respond to feminist thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Judith Butler, Adriana Cavarero, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Søren Kierkegaard. Divided into three parts, the book debates the question of life in and against the emerging school of new feminist materialism, provides feminist phenomenological and existentialist accounts of life, and focuses on lives marked by a particular precarity such as disability or incarceration, as well as life in the face of a changing climate. Calling for a broader account of lived experience, Feminist Philosophies of Life contains persuasive, original, and diverse analyses that address some of the most crucial feminist issues. Contributors include Christine Daigle (Brock University), Shannon Dea (University of Waterloo), Lindsay Eales (University of Alberta), Elizabeth Grosz (Duke University), Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt University), Lynne Huffer (Emory University), Ada Jaarsma (Mount Royal University), Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University), Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond), Jane Barter Moulaison (University of Winnipeg), Astrida Neimanis (University of Sydney), Danielle Peers (University of Alberta), Stephen Seely (Rutgers University), Hasana Sharp (McGill University), Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta), Florentien Verhage (Washington and Lee University), Rachel Loewen Walker (Out Saskatoon), and Cynthia Willett (Emory University).

Feminist Philosophies of Life

Feminist Philosophies of Life
Title Feminist Philosophies of Life PDF eBook
Author Hasana Sharp
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 337
Release 2016
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0773547452

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Exploring life's character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.

Empowerment and Interconnectivity

Empowerment and Interconnectivity
Title Empowerment and Interconnectivity PDF eBook
Author Catherine Villanueva Gardner
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 225
Release 2013
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0271058145

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"Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover their philosophy and categorize it as feminist"--Provided by publisher.

Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue

Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue
Title Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue PDF eBook
Author Jennifer McWeeny
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 337
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0231537212

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In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world. These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.

Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray

Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray
Title Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray PDF eBook
Author Gail M. Schwab
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 384
Release 2020-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 143847783X

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Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in women's and gender studies, stands in contrast to philosophy's traditional grounding in death, exemplified in the work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Schopenhauer. The contributors to Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray consider Irigaray's criticisms of the traditional Western philosophy of death, including its either-or dualisms and binary logic, as well as some of Irigaray's "solutions" for cultivating life. The book is comprehensive in its analyses of Irigaray's relationship to classical and contemporary philosophers, writers, and artists, and produces extremely fruitful intersections between Irigaray and figures as diverse as Homer and Plato; Alexis Wright, the First-Nations novelist of Australia; and twentieth-century French philosophers like Sartre, Badiou, Deleuze, and Guattari. It also develops Irigaray's relationship to the arts, with essays on theater, poetry, architecture, sculpture, and film.

Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Title Feminist Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook
Author Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 296
Release 2004
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780415257497

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Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings brings together key new writings in this growing field.

Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe
Title Le Deuxième Sexe PDF eBook
Author Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher Vintage
Pages 791
Release 1989
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.