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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"feminist philosophy"”.
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Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science
Feminist philosophy of science has long been considered a fringe element of philosophy of science as a whole. A careful consideration of the treatment of the key concept of objectivity by such philosophical heavyweights as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, followed by an analysis of the concept of …
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Towards a feminist philosophy of fertility consciousness
… Valins (1993) argue that until we establish a feminist fertility consciousness our ability to act with self-governance in relation to our fertility will be compromised. O'Brien (1986), Mosse and Heaton (1990) and Valins (1993) argue that our reproductive consciousness (which includes …
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Exploring the translation of feminist philosophy :Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe
… adequate translation strategy to render texts of feminist philosophy. Therefore, the main research question which the thesis investigates is the extent to which translation can help or otherwise impede on the reception of feminist philosophy.The study is specifically based on the case study of …
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The Conditions of Emergence: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of The Origins of Life
<p>This dissertation explores the limits of feminist theory in terms of what questions it can address, and does this by reimagining the relation feminist theory and late nineteenth and twentieth-century continental thought can have with scientific research concerning the origins of life. I argue …
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The Relationship between Second-Wave Feminist Philosophy and Interpretation of Biblical Gender Roles by Entering Seminary Students
… analyzed the relationship between second-wave feminist philosophy and the interpretation of biblical gender roles by entering seminary students in select theological schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools and the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist philosophy.</p>
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Nonlinearity as Care: Black, Feminist, and Queer Temporalities of History
… temporalities of history that are underway in Feminist Philosophy, Black Studies, and Queer Theory.</p>
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Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships
… as articulated by the vestiges of lesbian-feminist philosophy that permeate the multiple sites of power relations in domestic violence contexts. Each chapter addresses these contexts as sites of negotiation for battered lesbians whose narratives of abuse indicate vast injustices from …
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There Is No Place For African Women: Gender Politics in the Writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
… homes. This study also interrogates Adichie’s feminist philosophy and posits that she typically agitates for equality for all regardless of sex, gender, race, and/or other defining identities. Lastly, I argue that Adichie uses the practice of the African novel to rewrite the character of …
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Normative discourse and social negotiation
This dissertation lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, social and political, and feminist philosophy. The first half of the dissertation is primarily about the ways language can be used to stereotype, denigrate, oppress, or otherwise harm. The second half is about how language can be …
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The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan
… sexual difference that responds to a tension in feminist philosophy, namely, the problem of the ontological status of the sexed body. In so doing, I turn to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. I argue that, rather than being antithetical, the two can be productively read together, in …
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Values and Science: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Exploration
… is an experiment in interdisciplinary feminist philosophy of science. It explores an extremely broad question—what is the relationship between science and social values? —by interweaving three families of methodological approaches, to produce three papers, each geared to a different …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… analyzes the relationship between continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between …
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Adjust Both: Adjusting Credibility Excesses for Epistemic Justice
Epistemologists and those involved in feminist philosophy have expanded philosophical analyses of epistemic injustices and its subparts over the last decade. In doing so, such authors have thoroughly discussed the role of credibility deficits and the harms they cause for those receiving the …
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African male voices: representation of women images in selected isiZulu literary texts; reality or idealism?
… women in isiZulu literary texts. Literary feminist philosophy was employed to highlight whether their depiction is real or idealized. The study concluded that gender inequality was still prevalent in the depiction of women images in selected isiZulu literary texts authored by males. There …
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Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality
My thesis offers up an explicitly transfeminist mobilization of the theoretical notions of ontological pluralism and queer temporality against the pervasive cultural norm of cis-normativity and the dominant temporal logic of chrono-normativity. First, I critique the blatantly transphobic and …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
… of human persons that is grounded in both feminist philosophy and recent work in the cognitive sciences on the hypotheses of extended and embedded cognition. I then move to consider how my account of repair can constructively inform the design, implementation, and selection of particular …
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Sexual Objectification: From Complicity to Solidarity
… are complicit in their sexual objectification. Feminists have long struggled to demarcate the appropriate limits of feminist critiques of sexual objectification, particularly when it comes to objectifying practices which women both consent to and experience as empowering. These struggles, I …
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The mermaids dive for freedom: Voices of feminist community activists plunging through neoliberal times
… is based on a narrative inquiry with three feminist community activists. Its purpose is to provide a resource to support the radical praxis of feminist community educators in a neoliberal context which has appropriated both community education and feminism for a labour market agenda. It …
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Habermas and the Feminist Engagement with Communicative Ethics: Solidarity and Utopian Interests as a Corrective to Normative Political Problematics
… to a critique inspired by ethical and political feminist philosophy. Whereas Habermas believes particularized political interests are foundational for communicative ethics, neo-Marxist feminists argue that he makes naïve assumptions about the separation of public from private interests. Habermas, …
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