Out from the shadows : analytical feminist contributions to traditional philosophy

560 Pages·2012·2.844 MB·English

by  Superson, Anita M., Crasnow, Sharon L

OUT FROM THE SHADOWS
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OUT FROM
THE SHADOWS
Analytical Feminist Contributions
to Traditional Philosophy
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Out from the shadows : analytical feminist contributions to traditional philosophy.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-19-985546-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-19-985547-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Analysis (Philosophy) 2. Feminist theory.
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Contributors xi
Introduction 3
Anita M. Superson and Sharon L. Crasnow
1. Resistance Is (Not) Futile: Analytical Feminism’s
Relation to Political Philosophy 15
Ann E. Cudd
2. A Feminist, Kantian Conception of the Right
to Bodily Integrity: The Cases of Abortion
and Homosexuality 33
Helga Varden
3. Autonomy in Relation 59
Andrea C. Westlund
4. Critical Character Theory: Toward a Feminist
Perspective on “Vice” (and “Virtue”) 83
R obin S. Dillon
5. Modesty as a Feminist Sexual Virtue 115
Anne Barnhill
6. Standards of Rationality and the Challenge
of the Moral Skeptic 139
Anita M. Superson
7. Constructivism and Feminism 175
Julia Driver
8. Politically Signifi cant Terms and Philosophy
of Language: Methodological Issues 195
Jennifer Mather Saul
9. Illocution and Expectations of Being Heard 217
Maura Tumulty
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10. Is There a “Feminist” Philosophy of Language? 245
Louise Antony
11. Silence and Institutional Prejudice 287
Miranda Fricker
12. Knowing Moral Agents: Epistemic Dependence
and the Moral Realm 307
Heidi E. Grasswick
1 3. W hat Is Distinctive about Feminist Epistemology
at 25? 339
Phyllis Rooney
14. Uses of Value Judgments in Science: A General
Argument, with Lessons from a Case Study
of Feminist Research on Divorce 377
Elizabeth Anderson
15. The Analytic Tradition, Radical (Feminist)
Interpretation, and the Hygiene Hypothesis 405
Sharyn Clough
16. The Web of Valief: An Assessment of Feminist
Radical Empiricism 435
Miriam Solomon
17. Self-Constructions: An Existentialist Approach
to Self and Social Identity 451
Mariam Thalos
18. Who Is Included? Intersectionality, Metaphors,
and the Multiplicity of Gender 493
Ann Garry
Index 531
PREFACE
Th is collection has its roots in a conference organized by the editors on
behalf of the Society for Analytical Feminism, held in Lexington,
Kentucky, in April 2008. Th e goal of the Society, founded in 1993, is to
promote analytical feminist work and to provide a forum for exchange of
these ideas. Analytical feminists work in the analytical tradition, and
apply feminist insights to it, or they use the methods of analytical philos-
ophy to address explicitly feminist issues. In the early days, analytical
feminists found themselves defending their methodology from feminist
challenges and their feminism from detractors in the analytic tradition.
But by 2008, feminist debates about fundamental concepts such as
reason, objectivity, and truth had been taking place for some time, and
many feminists had moved beyond them and worked squarely within
analytical philosophy, unapologetically employing its methodology and
many of its concepts, oft en in revised form. We decided that the time was
ripe for a conference that would highlight this transition in feminist work
and its impact on traditional philosophy. To this end, we organized the
conference whose goal was that of its title: Analytical Feminist
Contributions to Traditional Philosophy . Th e speakers were asked to write
about how feminist philosophy done in an analytical way advanced the
state of the area of philosophy in which they worked. Th e result was some
two dozen or so excellent papers spanning most areas in philosophy, and
vivacious discussions of a myriad of issues that these feminists believed
needed addressing. Collectively, the discussions represented the current
status of analytical feminist work, and one of our goals was to bring some
of these ideas together into this collection. Some of the papers from the
conference, in revised versions, appear here, but some of the essays in
this volume were written independently of the conference and were
included because they fi t its theme. We believe they off er a comprehen-
sive overview of analytical feminist contributions to traditional philos-
ophy. A secondary goal of this anthology, one we believe to be equally as