Most Famous Feminism Philosophers
Feminist philosophy is the philosophical tradition concerned with the social, political, and metaphysical status of women, the analysis of gender as a category, and the critique of patriarchy across institutions and discourses. Early modern precursors include Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill, but the field took recognisable disciplinary shape in the 20th century with figures including Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Iris Marion Young. It encompasses ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, and is internally diverse across liberal, radical, socialist, intersectional, and post-structuralist strands. Beauvoir's The Second Sex, with its claim that one is not born but rather becomes a woman, is a foundational text of the modern tradition.
Philosophers in this tradition
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century English writer and philosopher, regarded as one of the founding figures of modern feminist political thought. Her 1792 work A Vindication...
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th-century French philosopher, writer, and political activist, a central figure of post-war French existentialism and a foundational thinker of modern...
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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate, the first major figure of American feminist political thought and a central figure o...
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Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan was a 14th and 15th-century Italian-French author and one of the earliest professional women writers in European history. Widowed in her mid-twenties, she sup...