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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

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