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When Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex in 1949 she could hardly have imagined the influence her thinking would have on feminist philosophy. Among other things she could hardly have imagined that there would exist something called “feminist philosophy” with at least as many dimensions as there are volumes in The Feminist Philosophy Collection.
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The Feminist Philosophy Collection under the general editorship of Elizabeth Potter, includes volumes on feminist work in ethics and social and political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of art, epistemology and the philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy and metaphysics. At the time of this writing Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal edited by Lisa Tessman has appeared in print.
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For a useful discussion of topics in feminist metaphysics that also traces crucial issues and questions to Beauvoir, see Sally Haslanger’s “Feminist Metaphysics” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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One notable early work in this genre is Marilyn Frye’s The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, which was published in 1983, and which raised important questions about the connections between politics, power and reality.
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Witt, C. (2011). Introduction. In: Witt, C. (eds) Feminist Metaphysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3783-1_1
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