7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Mary Wollstonecraft's argument that women possess the same rational capacities as men and are entitled to the same rights, and that their apparent inferiority results from defective education.
Canadian philosopher working at the intersection of philosophy of mathematics, logic, and feminist epistemology.
American political theorist who wrote on Jane Addams, just war theory, and the relationship between politics and theology — a communitarian feminist who defended traditional family structures.
American Jesuit philosopher who has contributed to the recovery of women philosophers in the early modern period and to Catholic moral philosophy.
British political philosopher who argued in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman that women's apparent irrationality is a product of deficient education, not natural incapacity, and that women are entitled to the same rational autonomy as men.
American philosopher who has worked on Jane Addams's social ethics and developed an embodied account of care ethics.
American philosopher who has developed an ameliorative approach to social ontology — analyzing what race and gender should mean to advance justice — and contributed to critical metaphysics.