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Women in Philosophy - What Needs to Change? (Paperback)
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Women in Philosophy - What Needs to Change? (Paperback)
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Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and
numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those
found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series
of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the question of
why philosophy continues to be inhospitable to women and what can
be done to change it. By examining the social and institutional
conditions of contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglophone
world as well as its methods, culture, and characteristic
commitments, the volume provides a case study in interpretation of
one academic discipline in which women's progress seems to have
stalled since initial gains made in the 1980s. Some contributors
make use of concepts developed in other contexts to explain women's
under-representation, including the effects of unconscious biases,
stereotype threat, and micro-inequities. Other chapters draw on the
resources of feminist philosophy to challenge everyday
understandings of time, communication, authority and merit, as
these shape effective but often unrecognised forms of
discrimination and exclusion. Often it is assumed that women need
to change to fit existing institutions. This book instead offers
concrete reflections on the way in which philosophy needs to
change, in order to accommodate and benefit from the important
contribution women's full participation makes to the discipline.
"This is a fantastic collection on the gender imbalance in
Anglophone philosophy. The essays represent a variety of approaches
to the problem of women's underrepresentation. It is especially
important that the book not only offers a way for philosophers to
learn about psychological and sociological results that have a
bearing on how we organize ourselves, but also a way for us to
become more reflective about distinctively philosophical aspects of
our practice. " -Sally Haslanger, Professor of Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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