| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Searching for Sofia: gender and philosophy in the 21st century / Fiona Jenkins and Katrina Hutchison -- Women in philosophy: why should we care? / Marilyn Friedman -- Implicit bias, stereotype threat, and women in philosophy / Jennifer Saul -- Women and deviance in philosophy / Helen Beebee -- Singing the post-discrimination blues: notes for a critique of academic meritocracy / Fiona Jenkins -- Sages and cranks: the difficulty of identifying first-rate philosophers / Katrina Hutchison -- Models and values: why did New Zealand philosophy departments stop hiring women philosophers? / Adriane Rini -- Not just a pipeline problem: improving women's participation in philosophy in Australia / Susan Dodds and Eliza Goddard -- Women in and out of philosophy / Catriona Mackenzie and Cynthia Townley -- Rethinking the moral significance of micro-inequities: the case of women in philosophy / Samantha Brennan -- The silencing of women / Justine McGill -- Finding time for philosophy / Michelle Bastian -- Appendix 1: Seeing the trends in the data / Glenys Bishop, with Helen Beebee, Eliza Goddard, and Adriane Rini -- Appendix 2: Statistical analyses / Glenys Bishop. |
| Summary |
"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 unrecognized 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."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Women philosophers.
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Women philosophers. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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Philosophy & Religion. |
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hutchison, Katrina, editor.
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Jenkins, Fiona, 1965- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women in philosophy 9780199325610 (DLC) 2013001689 (OCoLC)825403933 |
| ISBN |
9780199325627 (electronic book) |
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0199325626 (electronic book) |
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9780199369317 |
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0199369313 |
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9780199325610 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0199325618 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199325603 (alkaline paper) |
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019932560X (alkaline paper) |
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