On July 14, the prominent feminist philosopher MarÃa Lugones died. Lugones was one of the first feminist thinkers that I ever read. Her co-authored paper with Elizabeth Spelman, "'Have We Got a Theory for You!' Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for the 'Woman's Voice," inspired my Master's thesis. Some of the questions that paper raises about coalition across cultural difference still press on me. In fact, Janet and I have a project about building solidarity within … [Read more...]
Philosophy, sex, and love
I am teaching the Philosophy of Sex and Love in the Fall 2018 term. I was motivated to construct a course that would speak to the philosophical dimensions of concerns that people actually have. Although love and sex are two areas where we might suspect that philosophers attend (more than usual) to embodied experience, twentieth century philosophizing on love and sex remains very abstract (read this review of the philosophy of love as an indication of this point). Philosophy, as I … [Read more...]