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Why Care About Gender?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ann Garry
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Abstract

I address motivations that feminist philosophers have for being concerned about the “maleness” of philosophy and the “problem of difference” within feminist theory. An appropriate motivation for caring about both sets of issues is the desire not to oppress others. In order to be able to understand this motivation and to act on it, we need to retain gender as an analytical category.

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Symposium on Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992, pp. 155 - 161
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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