Women in philosophy : what needs to change? / Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchison, Katrina, editor.

Jenkins, Fiona, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

What needs to change?

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Why are professional philosophers today still overwhelmingly male? Often it is assumed that women need ot change to fit existing institutions. This book instead offers concrete reflections on the way in which philosophy needs to change to benefit from the important contribution women's full participation makes to the discipline.

Contents:

Searching for Sofia: gender and philosophy in the 21st century / Fiona Jenkins and Katrina Hutchison

Women in philosophy: why should we care? / Marilyn Friedman

Implicit bias, stereotype threat, and women in philosophy / Jennifer Saul

Women and deviance in philosophy / Helen Beebee

Singing the post-discrimination blues: notes for a critique of academic meritocracy / Fiona Jenkins

Sages and cranks: the difficulty of identifying first-rate philosophers / Katrina Hutchison

Models and values: why did New Zealand philosophy departments stop hiring women philosophers? / Adriane Rini

Not just a pipeline problem: improving women's participation in philosophy in Australia / Susan Dodds and Eliza Goddard

Women in and out of philosophy / Catriona Mackenzie and Cynthia Townley

Rethinking the moral significance of micro-inequities: the case of women in philosophy / Samantha Brennan

The silencing of women / Justine McGill

Finding time for philosophy / Michelle Bastian

Appendix 1: Seeing the trends in the data / Glenys Bishop, with Helen Beebee, Eliza Goddard, and Adriane Rini

Appendix 2: Statistical analyses / Glenys Bishop.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2013).