Feminist Theory

ROBIN O. ANDREASEN is Chair and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. Her research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of science and the philosophy of race and gender. Her work has been featured in many journals, including The British Journal of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, and Biology and Philosophy. ANN E. CUDD is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor. Previously, she was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor of Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism. E. DÍAZ-LEÓN is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She specializes in the philosophy of mind and language, and the philosophy of gender, race, and sexuality. Her main interests include the metaphysics of sexual orientation, the nature of social construction, and methodological issues surrounding conceptual ethics.

• Acknowledgments ixFeminist Theory: An Introduction to the Second Edition xPart I Philosophical Perspectives on Feminism 11 The Subjection of Women 5John Stuart Mill2 Introduction, from The Second Sex 14Simone De Beauvoir3 Oppression 23Marilyn Frye4 Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory 30Bell Hooks5 Five Faces of Oppression 38Iris Marion Young6 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics 51Kimberlé Crenshaw7 Trans Feminism: Recent Philosophical Developments 68Talia Mae Bettcher8 Down Girl Précis 77Kate Manne9 “Ideal Theory” as Ideology 81Charles W.Mills10 Sisterhood and “Doing Good”: Asymmetries of Western Feminist Location, Access, and Orbits of Concern 93Uma NarayanPart II Metaphysics and Language 109Gender11 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire 113Judith Butler12 Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be? 121Sally Haslanger13 Misgendering and Its Moral Contestability 137Stephanie Julia Kapusta14 Woman as a Politically Significant Term: A Solution to the Puzzle 148E. Díaz-León15 Toward an Account of Gender Identity 157Katharine Jenkins16 Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as Critical Gender Kind 175Robin DembroffSpeech Acts, Pornography and Aesthetics17 Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts 194Rae Langton18 Where Ethics and Aesthetics Meet: Titian’s Rape of Europa 214A. W. Eaton19 Silence and Responsibility 232Ishani Maitra20 Why Yellow Fever Isn’t Flattering: A Case Against Racial Fetishes 245Robin ZhengPart III Feminist Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Mind 259Epistemology and Science21 Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and a Defense 265Elizabeth Anderson22 Socializing Knowledge 286Helen Longino23 Feminism, Underdetermination, and Values in Science 298Kristen Intemann24 Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters 305Alison Wylie25 Scientific Ignorance: Probing the Limits of Scientific Research and Knowledge Production 323Manuela Fernández PintoBelief and the Self26 Powerlessness and Social Interpretation 335Miranda Fricker27 Typecasts, Tokens, and Spokespersons: A Case for Credibility Excess as Testimonial Injustice 345Emmalon Davis28 Believing Is Seeing: Feminist Philosophy, Knowledge, and Perception 356Briana Toole29 Radical Moral Encroachment: The Moral Stakes of Racist Beliefs 361Rima BasuPart IV Feminist Ethics and Political Philosophy 373Ethics30 The Need for More than Justice 379Annette C. Baier31 Kant and Women 387Helga Varden32 The Deferential Wife Revisited: Agency and Moral Responsibility 414Anita Superson33 “Holding Hands at Midnight”: The Paradox of Caring Labor 428Nancy Folbre34 Precarity, Precariousness, and Disability 440Eva Feder KittayAutonomy35 Rethinking Relational Autonomy 455Andrea C. Westlund36 Mestiza Autonomy as Relational Autonomy: Ambivalence & the Social Character of Free Will 470Edwina Barvosa37 Must Theorising about Adaptive Preferences Deny Women’s Agency? 484Serene J. Khader38 Conceptualizing Adaptive Preferences Respectfully: An Indirectly Substantive Account 496Rosa TerlazzoPolitical Philosophy39 Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach 509Martha Nussbaum40 Feminist Contractarianism 522Jean Hampton41 Feminist Politics and Feminist Pluralism: Can We Do Feminist Political Theory Without Theories of Gender? 543Amy R. Baehr42 Getting to the Root of Gender Inequality: Structural Injustice and Political Responsibility 559Serena Parekh43 Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework 569Linda Martín AlcoffPart V Resistance and Liberation 58144 Missionary Positions 585Ann E. Cudd45 Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination 596Catharine A. Mackinnon46 The Obligation to Resist Oppression 606Carol Hay47 Feminist Curiosity 622Perry Zurn48 Solidarity Care: How to Take Care of Each Other in Times of Struggle 630Myisha Cherry49 On the Politics of Coalition 640Elena Ruíz And Kristie DotsonIndex 649