Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the feminist body in health and ethics, these essays affirm the base of the discipline as well as open new theoretical spaces for work that bridges bioethics, social identity, physical ability, and the very nature and boundaries of the female body. Entanglements with thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, and Arendt are evident and reveal new directions for productive philosophical work. Grounded in the richness of the feminist philosophical tradition, this work represents a significant opening to the possible futures of feminist phenomenological research.
Helen A. Fielding is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at The University of Western Ontario. She edited (with Christina Schües and Dorothea Olkowski) Time in Feminist Phenomenology (IUP).
Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and former Chair of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Program. She is author of Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (IUP), The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible), and Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation.