Philosophy
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Abstract
Philosophical research on feminism focuses on the reasoning which supports various arguments that relate to or are important to women. "Feminism" usually refers to a political theory. But in philosophy an "ism" is any doctrine or point of view with enough philosophical implications to warrant a title. In this essay, "feminism" is used in this broad sense, to include all philosophical issues about women. These issues include: abortion; preferential hiring; women's treatment of language and language's treatment of women; the nature of women; analyses of such aspects of the relations between the sexes as rape, marriage, and prostitution; women in the history of philosophy; feminism as a sociopolitical theory; and the place in university curricula of the philosophy of feminism. I shall try to give a sample of discussions of these issues and to suggest some implications and future directions they might take.