INTRODUCTION:
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
UNDER POST-FEMINIST
CONDITIONS
OULD THIS BOX BEGIN WITH a definition of feminist phi
osophy? Presumably this field of scholarship has long been
known. In the context ofthe saudent movement of the Ite 19606,
"women philosopter—like their fellow combatants in other dsc
pliner—began to conftont thee eld with che problem ofthe existing
hierarchies ofthe Sexes. Ths bepianing was, stcty speaking, are
‘sumption; dscriminason against women di to thet sex was prob-
lematized in the philosophical context much cali, for instance, by
John Smart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mil, or—to give another exam
ple from the seventeenth century—by the Cartesian Frangois Poulain
Ae la Barce, But these were individual investigations that did not
ound a research tradition, The term fomini pilply, fst coined