Abstract

Feminist philosophy is a body of scholarship which began in the early 1970s as one branch of the women's studies movement. Like women's studies in other disciplines, feminist philosophy started out with the somewhat modest goal of ending the invisibility of women in much disciplinary knowledge. Twenty years ago few would have predicted that this project of greater inclusion for women and women's experience in philosophical inquiry would produce the huge body of work partially documented in this volume, much of which has challenged and helped transform basic philosophical paradigms in many subfields.