School · 1944 CE–present
Feminist philosophy
Feminist philosophy is philosophical analysis of gender, sexuality, reproduction, care, embodiment, knowledge, and institutional power.
Shared questions
- How do gendered social arrangements shape knowledge, agency, justice, and the body?
Internal disagreements
- Whether gender is best understood through equality, difference, intersectionality, material relations, discourse, or lived embodiment.
Key texts
- Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism · 1981 — hooks argued that the movement's universal womanhood described a small group of white middle-class women.
- Gender Trouble · 1990 — Butler's argument that gender is performative reopened the sex/gender distinction the field had settled on.
- Black Feminist Thought · 1990 — Collins's matrix of domination gave intersectional analysis a sociological framework.