Women in Philosophy What Needs to Change?

Name: Women in Philosophy What Needs to Change?
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ISBN: 9780199325610

ISBN-10: 0199325618

ISBN-13: 9780199325610

Edition: 2013

Authors: Katrina Hutchison, Fiona Jenkins

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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…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Fiona Jenkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Searching for Sofia: Gender and Philosophy in the 21st Century




Women in Philosophy: Why Should We Care?




Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy




Women and Deviance in Philosophy




Singing the Post-discrimination Blues: Notes for a Critique of Academic Meritocracy




Sages and Cranks: The Difficulty of Identifying First-Rate Philosophers




Models and Values: Why Did New Zealand Philosophy Departments Stop Hiring Women Philosophers?




Not Just a Pipeline Problem: Improving Women's Participation in Philosophy in Australia




Women In and Out of Philosophy




Rethinking the Moral Significance of Micro-Inequities: The Case of Women in Philosophy




The Silencing of Women




Finding Time for Philosophy




Seeing the Trends in the Data




Statistical Analyses



Contributor Biographies


Index