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Catcalls and Unwanted Conversations Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Chris Cousens
Catcalls have been said to insult, intimidate, and silence their targets. The harms that catcalls inflict on individuals are reason enough to condemn them. This paper argues that they also inflict a type of structural harm by subordinating their targets. Catcalling initiates an unwanted conversation where none should exist. This brings the rules and norms governing conversations to bear in such a way
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Philosophical Intuitions about Socially Significant Language Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Samia Hesni
As we theorize about philosophy of language that bears on social and political issues, it is worth revisiting the methodological question of how we as theorists rely on our philosophical and linguistic intuitions, and what assumptions underlie our justification of such a reliance. Two threads in the philosophical literature are relevant to this question: the discussion of situatedness in feminist epistemology
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The Politics of Doulas: Black Feminist Collective Action in Response to “Birthing While Black” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jina Fast
A central function of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States has been to center and express the lived experiences of Black people within the social and political framework of white supremacy. Regarding reproductive justice, BLM, as well as organizations like the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and Sistersong, have drawn political attention to the oppressive parameters existing for pregnant
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Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Anna Boncompagni
The starting point of this paper is a clarification of the forms that hermeneutical injustice takes for bisexual individuals. While it is often thought that bisexuals do not need special protections or politics because they easily “pass” for straight and thus enjoy so-called hetero privilege, this precise situation is a source of oppression, silencing, erasure, and discrimination for many of them within
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Feline Entanglements: Feminist Interspecies Care and Solidarity in a Post-Pandemic World Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Rachel A. Lewis
While the concept of interspecies solidarity has been central to ecofeminist work on animal rights since the 1980s, less attention has been devoted to the question of animal desire within the feminist animal care tradition, the majority of which has focused on women's and animals’ shared oppression under patriarchy. This article offers a reformulation of feminist animal care ethics, one that seeks
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With Haraway and Beyond: Towards an Ecofeminist and Contextual Vegan Ethico-Politics Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Pablo P. Castelló
Some ecofeminist scholars have argued that being a feminist entails being a contextual vegan. Donna Haraway has opposed this position and received extensive critique. Yet no one, to my knowledge, has systematically studied how Haraway's theory can enrich ecofeminist vegan literature. To this end, I first establish the method of analysis, and/or framework, I use to read Haraway's work, what I call,
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Silencing Conversational Silences Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Anna Klieber
This paper aims to extend the discussion of silencing beyond the realm of speech and to the domain of conversational silences—that is, silences that have communicative functions in our conversational exchanges. I argue that, insofar as we can use silences to communicate, we can also be prevented from doing things with these silences. Alongside a threefold taxonomy I show the different ways in which
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Solidaristic Listening Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Janet Jones, Katy Fulfer
Storytelling in solidaristic communities can foster agency and challenge oppression. However, power imbalances among community members can undermine that potential by contributing to the production of loneliness, where a person loses their sense of self and their sense of belonging within the solidaristic community. To prevent loneliness and to protect the liberatory potential of storytelling, we consider
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Tackling Hermeneutical Injustices in Gender-Affirming Healthcare Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nick Clanchy
Previously proposed strategies for tackling hermeneutical injustices take for granted the interests people have in certain things about them being intelligible to them and/or to others, and seek to enable them to satisfy these interests. Strategies of this sort I call interests-as-given strategies. I propose that some hermeneutical injustices can instead be tackled by doing away with certain of these
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Trauma as Cultural Capital: A Critical Feminist Theory of Trauma Discourse Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lucy Britt, Wilson H. Hammett
This essay theorizes a problem for feminism posed by a particular form of trauma discourse. Feminists have played an important role in developing cultural and clinical conceptions of trauma, but one result of the destigmatization of trauma has been that trauma discourse is sometimes used as a form of cultural capital to reinforce existing hierarchies. In a novel application of Pierre Bourdieu's theory
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How Female Intellectuals Stopped Being Philosophers: On Anna Maria van Schurman in the Catalogues of Learned Women Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Anne-Sophie Sørup Wandall
This article examines the figure of the female intellectual exemplified in Anna Maria van Schurman, as she is portrayed in the catalogues of learned women. The aim is to demonstrate the dramatic and unexpected changes that this persona undergoes during the eighteenth century. The article challenges the common misconception that gender roles progress throughout history towards an ideal of freedom and
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Strange Figures: The Female Founders at the Margins of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Beginning Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Catherine Frost
Without females included in the ranks of political founder, Hannah Arendt's theory of political beginning looks dangerously romanticized. Arendt's founder is someone who rises to the challenge of their times, diverting history and renewing public spirit in the process. But despite a methodology that called for recovering the “rich and strange” from the past Arendt does not address the female founders
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You're Free to Choose, But do You have Time to Choose? Structural Injustice and the Epistemic Burdens of Market Societies Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lisa Herzog
Markets are often seen as beneficial epistemic institutions because they can transmit information via the price mechanism. But real-life markets often create various epistemic pitfalls for participants. In market societies, individuals, qua consumers, must make numerous difficult decisions for which they need to find relevant information. Depending on their positions in society—which tends to disadvantage
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Education, Equality, and Proto-Feminism in Maria Gaetana Agnesi Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Emanuele Costa
In this paper, I analyse the works of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Italian mathematician of the eighteenth century. I specifically focus on the themes of proto-feminism, equality, and educational rights as persistent threads of her philosophical and scientific production. I emphasize her continuous efforts to highlight the place of women in the history of philosophy, presenting three chief texts in which
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Mary Astell's Female Retirement: Feminist Pedagogy and Politics in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Penny A. Weiss
Mary Astell's female retreat is a political project, dedicated to the full self-realization of students in a world that diminishes them and thwarts the development of their potential. Newly analyzing the pedagogical tools and distinctive setting of her seminary, I reveal its most progressive promise. In this political reading of A Serious Proposal, Astell emerges as an early figure in the broad political
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Androcentrism in Biological Typing Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Aja Watkins
Biological types, including holotypes and reference genomes, are particular biological entities that represent an entire class of biological entities. This paper presents a feminist analysis of biological typing by asking whether we have reason to criticize the practices of selecting holotypes and reference genomes for being androcentric. I offer three distinct reasons why androcentrism can be objectionable:
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Does Empathy Contribute to Intergroup Solidarity? Navigating the Pitfalls of Empathy in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lori Gallegos
This article describes some of the pitfalls of empathy as a tool for supporting intergroup solidarity and examines how best to navigate these pitfalls. In cases where racial injustice is structural and complex, those who are not directly targeted by an injustice may fail to appropriately recognize and respond to injustice, undermining the political solidarity required to make social change. This deficiency
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Endo Time: Endometriosis and the Flow of Recognition Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ina Hallström
The relation between time and gender has been extensively discussed in feminist theory, from Simone de Beauvoir to recent studies of queer temporality and crip time. In this article, I explore gender as “lived time” in relation to a pressing feminist issue: social recognition of the chronic illness endometriosis (endo). Based on my interviews with individuals diagnosed with endo, I argue that lived
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Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Mark Satta
Epistemic exhaustion is cognitive fatigue generated by efforts to determine, retain, or communicate what one believes under conditions that make doing so especially taxing. I argue that the creation and maintenance of epistemic exhaustion is a tool that the socially and politically powerful can and do use in order to retain power. I consider a variety of conversational tactics and three circumstances—partisan
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Feminizing the City: Plato on Women, Masculinity, and Thumos Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Kirsty Ironside, Josh Wilburn
This paper responds to two trends in debates about Plato's view of women in the Republic. First, many scholars argue or assume that Plato seeks to minimize the influence of femininity in the ideal city, and to make guardian women themselves as “masculine” as possible. Second, scholars who address the relationship between Plato's views of women and his psychological theory tend to focus on the reasoning
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Gandhi's Mira: Debating “Female” Suffering and the Politics of Iconography Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ritu Varghese, Akshaya K. Rath
During the first decades of the twentieth century when the Indian freedom struggle movement gained momentum, M. K. Gandhi often evoked Mirabai—the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint—in his public speeches and voluminous letters. This article demonstrates the degree to which Gandhi's maneuver fundamentally altered Mirabai's image as a national and cultural symbol, and how it prompted the mobilization
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World-Traveling to the Servants’ Quarters: The Pseudo-Concreteness of Lugones’ Decolonial Feminism Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jeta Mulaj
This article focuses on the role of servants in María Lugones’ “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” I show that Lugones uses and erases the work of servants in developing her understanding of world-traveling. This theoretical marginalization and instrumentalization challenges her claim to capture concrete, lived experience. This article argues that Lugones’ theory is “pseudo-concrete”:
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Care and the Limits of a Pro-Choice Discourse Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ann E. Bartos
The global pandemic exposed many flaws in the gendered political economy. It also illuminated how essential care is to our economy and to our flourishing. Yet, when care is dependent on a capitalist system that relies on competition, there will always be people who receive care and those that will not. In such a system, care is wrongly perceived to be a “choice” one can opt into or out of. This short
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From Opposition to Creativity: Saba Mahmood's Decolonial Critique of Teleological Feminist Futures Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Muhammad Velji
Saba Mahmood's anthropological work studies the gain in skills, agency, and capacity building by the women's dawa movement in Egypt. These women increase their virtue toward the goal of piety by following dominant, often patriarchal norms. Mahmood argues that “teleological feminism” ignores this gain in agency because this kind of feminism only focuses on opposition or resistance to these norms. In
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Strategies, Symbols, and Subjectivities: The Continuities between War Rape and Lesbo-Phobic Rape Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Claire Stephanie Westman
Research into war rape has shown that rape is not incidental to the general violence of war but is instead an integral part of war strategies. Such research makes it clear that in the context of war, rape serves to injure women on an individual level, but has the more strategic effect of fracturing communal bonds. Similarly, the growing body of research investigating the reasons for, and consequences
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Naturalized, Fundamental, and Feminist Metaphysics All at Once: The Case of Barad's Agential Realism Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Rasmus Jaksland
An apparent antagonism exists between fundamentality-focused mainstream metaphysics such as naturalized metaphysics—a metaphysics inspired and constrained by the findings of our best science—and feminist metaphysics whose subject matter is typically non-fundamental social reality. Taking Karen Barad's agential realism as a case study, this paper argues that these may not be in conflict after all. Agential
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Personification and Objectification Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nils-Hennes Stear
A handful of scholars have connected objectification (treating people like objects) to personification (treating objects like people). The recurring idea is that personification may entail objectification and therefore share in the latter's ethical difficulties. This idea is defended by various feminist philosophers. They focus on how the connection manifests in the male, heterosexual consumption of
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Vulnerability, Recognition, and the Ethics of Pregnancy: A Theological Response Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Vulnerability is a notion discussed in feminist philosophy as a basis for a morality that widens our sense of those whose deaths are grievable. Vulnerability and grievability also factor in reproductive ethics. This essay employs recognition theory to analyze critically how these notions are mobilized in conservative Christian anti-abortion writings and in feminist philosophy. This analysis exposes
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“Like Seeking out a Lost Friend”: Reconsidering “Pioneer” Arab Feminists and Their Networks as Part of a/the First Wave Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Roxanne Douglas
Contemporary Arab feminist writers such as Margot Badran and Mona Eltahawy describe their personal discovery of Arab “pioneers.” This label positions “pioneers” as exceptional figures, which untethers their legacy from contemporary Arab feminists, and from one another. Drawing on the Warwick Research Collective's concept of “combined and uneven development,” this essay rethinks how we understand the
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“The Only Thing I Want is for People to Stop Seeing Me Naked”: Consent, Contracts, and Sexual Media Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Joan Eleanor O'Bryan
In pornography, standard modeling contracts often require a performer to surrender rights over their public image and sexual media in perpetuity and across media. Under these contracts, performers are unable to determine who accesses, for what duration, and under what conditions, their sexual media. As a result, pornography has been described by some performers as a “life sentence”—a phrase which,
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Sexual Fluency: Embedded Imaginaries and Unjust Sex Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Millicent Sarah Churcher
In this paper I argue that the pervasive reality of unjust heterosex necessitates greater attention to the concept of “sexual fluency” (Cahill 2014). This paper elaborates on what it means to be a sexually fluent and disfluent subject, and its broader ethical and political significance. As part of this discussion, I explore the relationship between sexual (dis)fluency and embedded imaginaries, and
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Pornography as Illocutionary Harm: Why Censorship is Not the Answer Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Miriam Ronzoni
According to speech-act theory, we do things with words every time we speak. The most striking thing one can do with words is to exercise authority over others, such as when a judge issues a guilty verdict in a criminal trial. Some speakers hold this kind of authority without good reason; this kind of speech constitutes an unjust imposition of authority, and thus arguably harms in a direct, non-metaphorical
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Teachers as Housewives and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Teacher's Perspective Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Áila KK O'Loughlin
The 1970s Wages Against Housework (WAH) movement has much to offer as we form a “new normal” for life and work within the Covid-19 pandemic. WAH feminist philosophers Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia Federici, as well as WAH critic Angela Davis outline the ways in which the housewife functions as a laborer within capitalist accumulation, as her duties to care for the home and rear the
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Becoming-Woman and Time: When is the Subject of Feminism? Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Charlie Bowen
This paper considers the use of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of “becoming-woman” for feminist theory. Since its first use, the concept has polarized feminist theory. For some, it presents the route out of masculinist logics that third-wave feminism has sought; for others, it denies the female experience and returns “woman” to universalizing, implicitly masculine presuppositions. The paper argues
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Being Your Best Self: Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Rowan Bell
Trans and gender-nonconforming people sometimes say that certain gender norms are authentic for them. For example, a trans man might say that abiding by norms of masculinity tracks who he really is. Authenticity is sometimes taken to appeal to an essential, pre-social “inner self.” It is also sometimes understood as a moral notion. Authenticity claims about gender norms therefore appear inimical to
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Old Epistemic Vices and Islamophobia in Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Tasneem Alsayyed
Martha Nussbaum in her The New Religious Intolerance (2012) commits several old forms of epistemic vice including exclusion, orientalism, and colonial discourse. Unsurprisingly, as a result, her text contributes to the production of ignorance about Muslims and Muslim women despite her intention of combating Islamophobia. In this article, I specifically critique Nussbaum's anti-burqa-ban arguments and
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Trans Epistemology and Methodological Radicalism: Un Œuf, But Enough Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Matthew J. Cull
There have now been a few attempts in trans theory to give an account of trans epistemology (see Radi 2019; Meadow 2016; and Dickson 2021). I will suggest that despite an admirable goal—that of giving an epistemology that provides a methodologically radical and distinctively trans break from other contemporary epistemological theory—thus far no account has been successful. Instead, I suggest that,
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Epistemic Diversity and Epistemic Advantage: A Comparison of Two Causal Theories in Feminist Epistemology Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Tay Jeong
Feminist epistemology aims to propose epistemic reasons for increasing the representation of women or socially subordinated people in science. This is typically done—albeit often only implicitly—by positing a causal mechanism through which the representation of sociodemographic minorities exerts a positive effect on scientific advancement. Two types of causal theories can be identified. The “epistemic
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Sexual Violence and Two Types of Moral Wrongs Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ting-an Lin
Although the idea that sexual violence is a “structural” problem is not new, the lack of specification as to what that entails blocks effective responses to it. This paper illustrates the concept of sexual violence as structural in the sense of containing a type of moral wrong called “structural wrong” and discusses its practical implications. First, I introduce a distinction between two types of moral
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From Anti-Exceptionalism to Feminist Logic Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Gillian K. Russell
Anti-exceptionalists about formal logic think that logic is continuous with the sciences. Many philosophers of science think that there is feminist science. Putting these together: can anti-exceptionalism make space for feminist logic? The answer depends on the details of the ways logic is like science and the ways science can be feminist. This paper wades into these details, examines five different
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Just Asking! On “Friendly” Forms of Harassment Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Martha Claeys
Harassment is often understood to be, in its paradigm form, overtly aggressive or hostile. But harassment can also occur in a more deceptive format, and can be presented as soft, neutral, innocent, or even friendly and caring. There is something fundamentally deceptive and dishonest about this kind of harassment. The overt friendliness makes these particular forms of harassment harder to spot, and
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An Epistemic Injustice Critique of Austin's Ordinary Language Epistemology Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Savannah Pearlman
J. L. Austin argues that ordinary language should be used to identify when it is appropriate or inappropriate to make, accept, or reject knowledge claims. I criticize Austin's account. In our ordinary life, we often accept justifications rooted in racism, sexism, ableism, and classism as reasons to dismiss knowledge claims or challenges, despite the fact such reasons are not good reasons. Austin's
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An Ecofeminist Politics of Chicken Ovulation: A Socio-Capitalist Model of Ability as Farmed Animal Impairment Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yamini Narayanan
Through a combined ecofeminist, and critical disability philosophical analysis of the commodification of female farmed animal reproduction, the paper conceptualizes ability as a socio-capitalist construct that can carry the potential for harm. Patriarchal farmed animal capitalism relies upon the idea of naturalized ability of farmed females to be hyper-reproductive/hyper-ovulatory/hyper-lactative.
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The Many Genealogies of Feminist Activism Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Breanne Fahs
The stakes of feminist activism, and the fault lines within feminism, have a newfound significance in this cultural moment. In response to the fall of Roe, the ascendancy of incendiary far-right politics, and the mainstreaming of white-supremacist ideologies, grassroots feminist activism and its impacts have never mattered more. When reading Rachel Seidman's Speaking of Feminism and Arielle Rotramel's
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Intersectionality, Intersectional Standpoints, and Identity Politics Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Zahra Meghani
This article differentiates between standpoints, intersectionality, intersectional standpoints, and identity politics. It argues that although there is no necessary connection between intersectionality and ethics, the intersectional standpoints of the oppressed do epistemic, ethical, and political work. To make this argument it uses a case study that takes the form of an analysis of mainstream arguments
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Are Metaphors Ethically Bad Epistemic Practice? Epistemic Injustice at the Intersections Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Kaitlin Sibbald
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the debate about the ethics of metaphors to the fore. In this article, I draw on blending theory—a theory of cognition—and theories of epistemic injustice to explore both the epistemic and ethical implications of metaphors. Beginning with a discussion of the conceptual alterations that may result from the use of metaphors, I argue that the effects these alterations have
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Cis Feminist Moves to Innocence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nora Berenstain
Cis feminist theorists sometimes employ rhetorical moves to claim innocence while abdicating responsibility for engaging with trans scholarship and theory as well as structural transmisogyny. I suggest that it is helpful to understand this phenomenon using a conception of cis feminist moves to innocence. These rhetorical moves enable cisgender feminists to falsely position their failure to engage with
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Complexity as Epistemic Oppression: Writing People with Intellectual Disabilities Back into Philosophical Conversations Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Rebecca Monteleone
Formal Language In this essay, I reflect on the systematic exclusion of people with intellectual disabilities from philosophy even as their personhood is subject to ongoing philosophical debates. Theorizing this disenfranchisement as a form of epistemic oppression, I consider it in the context of the invalidation of disabled perspectives more broadly and characteristics of knowledge-production that
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Religious Identity and Epistemic Injustice: An Intersectional Account Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Jaclyn Rekis
In this article, I argue in favor of an intersectional account of religious identity to better make sense of how religious subjects can be treated with epistemic injustice. To do this, I posit two perspectives through which to view religious identity: as a social identity and as a worldview. I argue that these perspectives shed light on the unique ways in which religious subjects can be epistemically
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The Epistemological Asymmetry of Framing “Woman” via US Women's Rights Pioneers Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Lauren Bickell
Nineteenth-century US social activist contemporaries Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth are memorialized as women's rights pioneers. White activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony cemented a generational canon. Black activist Sojourner Truth anticipated the eventual crystallization of intersectionality. These figures’ historical proximity underscores the high
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Celebrating Neurodivergence amid Social Injustice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Meaghan Krazinski
Burgeoning narratives of neurodivergence increase representation in media, producing an unprecedented visibility and awareness of what it means to be neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. In this article I examine the ways in which a neurodivergent subject position can provide liberatory insights into oppressive patriarchal gender structures, while exploring productive tensions of the histories and
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Toward an Agential Conception of Hermeneutical Injustice: Isolation and Domestic Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Emma C. Dougherty
Miranda Fricker's definition of hermeneutical injustice entails that hermeneutical injustice is always structural and never agential, but I argue that hermeneutical injustice has an agential dimension that is evident in cases of domestic violence. This dimension becomes especially apparent when examining the experiences of knowers who are multiply nondominant. Centering this intersectional approach
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Solidarity with Chrystul Kizer: On Disparate Failures of Knowledge-Attribution and Survivors of Sexual Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ayanna De'Vante Spencer
I write in solidarity with Chrystul Kizer, a criminalized Black teen survivor of sexual violence in Wisconsin, to detail how her ongoing legal fight occurs in a tilted sociopolitical and epistemological landscape with weighted opponents. I offer a theory of disparate failures of knowledge-attribution for survivors of sexual violence, a structural epistemological problem that I call constructed pragmatic
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? American Ignorance and Social Imagination of Citizenship Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Saba Fatima
In its war on terror, the United States tortured and abused individuals in its custody over a decade. This article examines a specific sort of epistemic response by Americans to the use of torture by their government, the sort of response that enables Americans to operate with epistemic ignorance to maintain a favorable construction of their identity as Americans. I lay out the concept of American
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“World”-Traveling in Tule Canoes: Indigenous Philosophies of Language and an Ethic of Incommensurability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Indigenous language activists talk about incommensurability all the time—in interesting ways that link language and knowledge as components of Indigenous lifeways that can't be disentangled. According to many of these scholar-activists, what is untranslatable about Indigenous languages is often what is incommensurate about Indigenous worlds. Drawing upon resources from Indigenous language-reclamation
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Solidarity with Chrystul Kizer: On Disparate Failures of Knowledge-Attribution and Survivors of Sexual Violence Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ayanna De'Vante Spencer
I write in solidarity with Chrystul Kizer, a criminalized Black teen survivor of sexual violence in Wisconsin, to detail how her ongoing legal fight occurs in a tilted sociopolitical and epistemological landscape with weighted opponents. I offer a theory of disparate failures of knowledge-attribution for survivors of sexual violence, a structural epistemological problem that I call constructed pragmatic
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What Does It Mean to Be an American? American Ignorance and Social Imagination of Citizenship Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Saba Fatima
In its war on terror, the United States tortured and abused individuals in its custody over a decade. This article examines a specific sort of epistemic response by Americans to the use of torture by their government, the sort of response that enables Americans to operate with epistemic ignorance to maintain a favorable construction of their identity as Americans. I lay out the concept of American
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“World”-Traveling in Tule Canoes: Indigenous Philosophies of Language and an Ethic of Incommensurability Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Indigenous language activists talk about incommensurability all the time—in interesting ways that link language and knowledge as components of Indigenous lifeways that can't be disentangled. According to many of these scholar-activists, what is untranslatable about Indigenous languages is often what is incommensurate about Indigenous worlds. Drawing upon resources from Indigenous language-reclamation
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Audre Lorde's Erotic as Epistemic and Political Practice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Caleb Ward
Audre Lorde's account of the erotic is one of her most widely celebrated contributions to political theory and feminist activism, but her explanation of the term in her brief essay “Uses of the Erotic” is famously oblique and ambiguous. This article develops a detailed, textually grounded interpretation of Lorde's erotic, based on an analysis of how Lorde's essay brings together commitments expressed
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Audre Lorde's Erotic as Epistemic and Political Practice Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Caleb Ward
Audre Lorde's account of the erotic is one of her most widely celebrated contributions to political theory and feminist activism, but her explanation of the term in her brief essay “Uses of the Erotic” is famously oblique and ambiguous. This article develops a detailed, textually grounded interpretation of Lorde's erotic, based on an analysis of how Lorde's essay brings together commitments expressed