Making our way through Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference, we have arrived at the posing of the question of sexual difference.

An Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993) The essay I'll be talking about is called "Sexual Difference." It begins: "Sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our...

I have learned to be suspicious of myself, of my motives and my desires, psychoanalysis taught us as much. But now I think we should rather interrogate the desires and motives we do not feel as well....

One of the big ideas in Linda Williams’s piece on “body genres” in film theory is that perversion should not be used as a pejorative term to condemn some sexualities over others, i.e., to condemn any...

--- Below is a set of feminist philosophy books (and one article) that are related to the study of care and human vulnerability. At the end, there is also a section listing the classic works in...

In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis argues that we’re witnessing a power struggle between traditional industrial capitalists and a new elite of tech oligarchs who accumulate...

--- Imagine you are sitting in a hotel conference room and all of a sudden the lights go out. You feel a lot of movement around you, maybe someone brushes past you quickly with a whoosh. When the...

--- “Cura (Care) was crossing a river and saw some clay. Thoughtfully, she took it up and began to shape it. Jupiter came along, and she asked him to give it spirit, which he granted. Then they...

--- The modern self-help movement emerged in the late 60’s and early 70’s as a part of the feminist movement. Activists like Audre Lorde framed self-care as political resistence, essential to...

I’ve scheduled a live for this Wednesday, April 2 at 1pm EST, on Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” You can easily find a copy of this text online, and above I’ve...

“Across nations and cultures, entire words and ideas are missing or deprived of the weight they deserve. The presence of absence is just as powerful as the spread of misinformation or false news....

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"Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through." — Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference In An Ethics of Sexual Difference...

It is 1792. Mary Wollstonecraft has just published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a precursor text for a first wave of feminism that will not begin for at least another fifty years.1 Her...

> “Then I want to take up the practice [of world-traveling] as a horizontal practice of resistance to two related injunctions: the injunction for the oppressed to have our gazes fixed on the...

Everywhere we look, women are divided. The perception that a majority of Anglo-American women voted for the Trump ticket in the recent elections has created a rift between white and other women, a...

Jumping in where Becoming-Feminist leaves off, I want to convince you, dear reader, to join us in reading and discussing feminist philosophy by showing you all the wonderful things that will come...

Would you still be you if you were born as a boy instead of a girl, or as a girl instead of a boy? That is, if your sex assignment were different that it was when you were born, would that change the...

Sandra Lee Bartky would have been 90 years old this year, were she still alive. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 81 in her Michigan home. Her essay, "Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist...

Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Continuum, 1990. Adams explores the intersections of feminism, vegetarianism, and animal rights, arguing that...

In her classic “Hairy Cobblers and Philosopher Queens,” Elizabeth Spellman shows us how Plato argues for the education of women alongside men, and for the inclusion of women in all social classes...

The essays collected under the title On Female Body Experience represent twenty years of work in feminist phenomenology by one of its chief practitioners, Iris Marion Young. These essays showcase...

A foundational text for feminist philosophy and queer theory, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity offers a collection of essays that develop a post-structuralist analysis of the...

Queer has the bad reputation of being undefinable, but we will nonetheless offer three or four ways of understanding “queer,” here organized from the most general to the most narrow.1 The most...

In the early 1990s, I became infatuated with something called French Feminism. Toril Moi's book Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Ty (1985) had introduced Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and...