#WomenOfColorFeministPhilosophy Dr. Kristie Dotson is a Black Feminist Philosopher who is the editor of a special edition of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, which focuses on Women of Color Feminist Philosophy. In a field that is dominated by white men, this alone is a radical and a revolutionary feat. However, as Dotson notes in her introduction, it is not a beginning of women of color feminist philosophy. This ENTIRE EDITION is available for FREE DOWNLOAD for a LIMITED TIME (AUGUST) via this link: onlinelibrary.wiley/doi/10.1111/hypa.2014.29.issue-1/issuetoc Roll call of the contributors: Kristie Dotson (Editor), Amrita Banerjee, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Alisa Bierria, Ariane Cruz, Yuanfang Dai, Laura Gillman, Namita Goswami, Devonya N. Havis, V. Denise James, Emily S. Lee, Maria Lugones, Rozena Mozart, Jacqueline M. Martinez, Vivian M. May, Shireen Roshanvaran, Elena Flores Ruiz, The Santa Cruz Feminist of Color Collective, Falguni A. Sheth. ***************************** From Dotsons introduction: ON BEGINNINGS AND OMISSIONS ...The journey to produce this special issue on women of color feminist philosophy has been, without doubt, illuminating. There are a couple of important grounding realizations with which I would like to start in order to frame this project and this table of contents. First, this special issue does not represent a “beginning” of women of color feminist philosophy. It includes many acts of inheriting already existing women of color feminist philosophy and the further production of such work, but it is not—no, it could not be—a beginning of women of color philosophical engagement, since such engagement has been here since there was a here. And, second, this project offers a snapshot of women of color feminist philosophy being produced today. As a snapshot, it is not comprehensive or complete. The table of contents is, at once, shaped and limited by what comes into focus and what remains obscured. In what follows, I will briefly elaborate on these two opening observations. ON BEGINNINGS AND OTHER SUCH NONSENSE Too often, far too often, women of color work is compiled under the guise that such a compilation marks the beginning of something new. This is, to be blunt, nonsense. It is nonsense not because of a possible skepticism concerning whether there are any new ideas under the sun (Lorde 1984, 38–39). Rather, it is nonsense because such a“beginning” requires the disappearing of the theoretical production of women of color that already exists… ***************************************** If you are affiliated with a college or university, please consider asking your institutions to purchase a copy or copies of it for their academic libraries.
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