ThisexcitingnewHandbookoffersacomprehensiveoverviewofthecontemporarystateofthefieldinfeministphilosophy.Theeditors’introductionandforty-fiveessayscoverfeministcriticalengagementswithphilosophyandadjacentscholarlyfields,aswellasfeministapproachestocurrentdebatesandcrisesacrosstheworld.Authorscovertopicsrangingfromthewaysinwhichfeministphilosophyattendstoothersystemsofoppression,andthegendered,racialized,andclassedassumptionsembeddedinphilosophicalconcepts,tofeministperspectivesonprominentsubfieldsofphilosophy.Thefirstsectioncontainschaptersthatexplorefeministphilosophicalengagementwithmainstreamandmarginalizedhistoriesandtraditions,whilethesecondsectionparsesfeministphilosophy’scontributionstonumerousphilosophicalsubfields,forexamplemetaphysicsandbioethics.Athirdsectionexploreswhatfeministphilosophycanilluminateaboutcrucialmoralandpoliticalissuesofidentity,gender,thebody,autonomy,prisons,amongnumerousothers.TheHandbookconcludeswiththefield’sengagementwithothertheoriesandmovements,includingtransstudies,queertheory,criticalrace,theory,postcolonialtheory,anddecolonialtheory.Thevolumeprovidesarigorousbutaccessibleresourceforstudentsandscholarswhoareinterestedinfeministphilosophy,andhowfeministphilosopherssituatetheirworkinrelationtothephilosophicalmainstreamandotherdisciplines.Aboveallitaimstoshowcasetherichdiversityofsubjectmatter,approach,andmethodamongfeministphilosophers.
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