Feminist PhilosophyBooks

Donna Haraway proposes making kin and the Chthulucene, asking readers to stay with multispecies responsibilities rather than flee into rescue stories.

Edited by Kim Q. Hall, Feminist Disability Studies systematically links feminist theory and disability studies, examining embodiment, ability norms, public policy, representation, sexuality, and public life as co-producers of gendered and disabled inequality.

Maria Lugones collects influential essays on plural identities, coalition, travel between worlds, and decolonial feminist resistance.

Val Plumwood dissects the masterful dualisms of Western philosophy, showing how human/nature, reason/body, and man/woman turn dependency into a warrant for control.

This groundbreaking work fundamentally redefined feminist theory's understanding of gender by introducing the theory of gender performativity. Butler challenges the notion that gender is a biological fact or fixed identity, arguing that gender is produced through repetitive performative acts - a theoretical framework that radically transformed feminist theory, queer theory, and gender studies.