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Twenty Years of Feminist Philosophy

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Ann Ferguson
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This paper provides an overview of twenty years of feminist philosophy in Northamerka. The professionalization of feminist theory that has occurred through the mains treaming of feminist philosophy creates a danger of a gap between theory and practice that creates the danger of co-optation. Three stages of feminist philosophizing are outlined, including the radical critique, gender difference and difference/post-modemist stages. The last stage, it is argued, leads to an conceptual impasse about feminist strategies for social change.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 197 - 215
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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