Women in Philosophy - What Needs to Change? (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	November 2013
Editors:	Katrina Hutchison (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Philosophy) • Fiona Jenkins (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences)
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-932561-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-19-932561-8
Barcode:	9780199325610

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