Pragmatist Feminism
   to feminist interest in pragmatism. What is now called "classical"
   Contemporary studies in pragmatism and feminism generally combine a
   feminist pragmatists are working to recover the ideas of women
   Current feminist philosophers are also demonstrating the theoretical
   and methodological similarities between feminism and pragmatism,
   bringing feminist perspectives to pragmatist issues. Feminist
   pragmatists use pragmatist thought as a base for feminist theory,
   theoretical approaches clarify the connections between feminism and
   of embodied living in a social organism. Emerging feminist work is
   utilizing pragmatist-feminist thought to address contemporary feminist
   feminism and pragmatist philosophies, concluding with examples of how
   pragmatist-feminist philosophers are bringing their work to shed light
   on contemporary feminist concerns.
     * 1. Early Feminist Influences on American Pragmatism
     * 2. Contemporary Feminist-Pragmatist Philosophies
          + 2.5 Addressing Contemporary Feminist Issues
1. Early Feminist Influences on American Pragmatism
   The historical recovery of female voices in the history of philosophy
   voices. (See the entry feminist history of philosophy.) Recovering
   book Pragmatism and Feminism, has been central in the effort to bring
   as to bring feminist perspectives to the field of pragmatism.
   been brought into the feminist-pragmatist discussion were
   the writing of his female colleagues, we can get a glimpse not only of
   Education was an area where the pragmatist feminists of the Progressive
   educational theory is evident in the work of early pragmatist-feminist
   In addition Jane Addams and Alice Dewey, three other female pragmatist
   District Superintendent; she went on to become the first female
   Feminism and Pragmatism. Citing the McManis biography, Seigfried lists
   Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1878-1967) was another feminist educator who
   feminist causes; the early pragmatist women saw peace activism growing
   realities is at the heart of both pragmatism and feminism. It is
   the feminist reform movements of the early 20^th century were
   Many early feminist pragmatists such as Jane Addams and Mary Parker
2. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatist Philosophies
   tradition, contemporary feminists use and extend pragmatist
   philosophies as a foundation for feminist theory. These feminist
   feminist thinkers, especially as we come to see it developed in the
   often critiqued by feminist thinkers. In its privileging of theoretical
   as is usually imagined, its offspring" (1991 [1940], 3). Feminist
   their critiques of positivism. Both pragmatists and feminists have
   and public experience; pragmatism and feminism generally also share a
   As Seigfried says, both pragmatism and feminism "reject philosophizing
   in the ways that some early pragmatist feminist reformers did or in the
   way contemporary feminists have. Currently feminists and pragmatists
   feminist-pragmatists. Jane Addams and other feminist reformers like
   Described below are four areas addressed by contemporary feminist
   Contemporary feminist epistemologists have pointed out how traditional
   ambiguities of the embodied life. For feminist pragmatists, pluralistic
   contemporary feminists who analyze our educational curriculum and
   methods of teaching. Both pragmatism and feminism are more likely to
   Feminists and pragmatists share an interest in an epistemology that is
   based in experience and relationality. In Pragmatism and Feminism,
   useful to feminist thinkers. Seigfried's first comparison between
   feminism and pragmatism concerns their mutual critique of dualism. She
   critiques, and that some feminisms have also found oppressive in their
   Jane Duran, in "The Intersection of Pragmatism and Feminism" (1993),
   points out that feminist theorists have critiqued the preoccupation
   out that feminists, as well as pragmatists, are often less interested
   to human conceptions, helps feminists as philosophers propose an
   Feminist pragmatists have relied on John Dewey's concept of experience
   feminists have pointed out, experience in itself is conditioned by
   Feminist-pragmatist Celia T. Bardwell-Jones (2008) draws on Josiah
   translation work is essential for feminists and pragmatists, given that
   Addams embodied this intersection of pragmatism and feminism in her
   Feminist social analysis often produces the conditions for philosophic
   "Feminist-Pragmatist Revisioning of Reason, Knowledge, and Philosophy,"
   the challenges that contemporary feminisms have brought to philosophy.
   claims. Pragmatism and feminism then share a movement toward active
   Contemporary feminist epistemologists such as Susan Bordo and Alison
   through embodied and relational lived experience to the feminist
   "pragmatist-feminist standpoint theory." This pragmatist-feminist
   feminist standpoint theory, and locates knowing as transactions among
   particularly significant in the ways she investigates feminist issues
   Many contemporary feminist philosophers of education have drawn on the
   feminist pragmatist writing reflects this.
   Feminist philosophers, such as Elizabeth Minnich and Jane Roland
   Minnich's 1990 book, Transforming Knowledge, draws on both a feminist
   excluded or marginalized. Minnich and other feminist thinkers have
   traditions. Minnich points out that pragmatism can share with feminism
   of Jane Addams, as well as feminist novels, to describe the ways that
   Cartesianism and Culture (1987). Feminist-pragmatists point out that
   Pragmatist philosophy can provide rich support for feminist attempts to
   feminists as philosophers propose an "other" vision of philosophy.
   Similarly contemporary feminist thinkers have changed the academy and
   Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective uses this process-orientation to
   rather than one with finished "ends" in view. With both feminism and
   For the early pragmatist-feminists, as well as for John Dewey,
   one another as individuals" (1984 [1927], 295). Feminists working in
   feminist communitarian philosophy (Whipps 2004), or to re-conceive
   writers join with contemporary feminists in a critique of the
   feminist-pragmatists, the reliance on diverse experiences for
   for meaningful public life. Several contemporary pragmatist-feminists
   have built upon these foundations to develop pragmatist-feminist
   changes in social structure. These feminist pragmatists believe that we
   Many contemporary feminists have criticized recent communitarian
   philosophies as potentially harmful to feminist issues, when the call
   seen as a basis for a feminist progressive communitarianism that
   Pragmatists and feminists share this concern for relational community,
   feminists and pragmatists may differ on how they construct the Other.
   `other' is itself a title to her recognition" (1969, 76). Feminists, on
   into object-others, both feminists and pragmatists critique and
   As pragmatist feminist philosophy continues to develop, more women who
   pragmatist feminist philosophers are utilizing those perspectives to
   these recovered perspectives to contemporary feminist issues. For
   feminism is leading to a deeper understanding of contemporary
   progressive feminist goals, bringing action and theory together in
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