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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Feminism 

Feminism is the belief that women should have equal political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights to humans.

Lynda Birke was born in London in 1948. She went to the University of Sussex, where she studied Biological Sciences. She subsequently did a master's by research in Animal Behaviour  and did a doctorate in animal behaviour (1977). During that time, she was actively involved in the women's liberation movement, and cofounded the Brighton Women and Science Group. She also worked on the University's Changing Experience of Women course. She is now based in the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Lancaster. 

Most of Lynda Birke's scientific research focused on hormones and animal behaviour, and the ways in which young mammals develop. This included a critique of the widespread assumptions of hormonal determinism of animal behaviour.

Joan Callahan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she is also affiliated with the Social Theory Program. She is the incoming editor (Fall 1998) of the American Philosophical Association's NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY as well as an activist in the struggle for equal rights for sexual and gender minorities.

Joan Callahan's work is primarily in the areas of social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and practical ethics, including ethics and public policy, particularly in the areas of professional ethics, ethics and women's health, and ethics and minorities.
Alison M. Jaggar is Professor of Philosophy and Women Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently, she is working on a book tentatively Sex, Truth and Power: A Feminist Theory of Moral Peason. Jaggar was a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and is past chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women. She has worked with many organizations for peace and justice and she sees feminist scholarship as inseparable from feminist activism.

The Czech feminist Mirek Vodrázka defines himself as the "philosopher of chaos," feminist missionary, and independent journalist. Born with a twin, Vodrázka identified with his sister very much and often referred to himself in the feminine gender. In the 1970s he was the author and main propagator of the manifestos of "emotionalism" and pursued the method of "total improvisation," in which he still lives and writes. When he was 23, Vodrázka was persecuted by the Communist regime as a "socially dangerous" individual, for putting a sign reading "God is here" on the statue of St. Wenceslaus in the center of Prague.  In 1996 he published, via the Gender Studies Foundation in Prague, his book, Feminist Talks About Secret Services (Feministicke rozhovory o tajnych sluzbach), seven interviews with women active in politics and the public sphere in the Czech Republic. In 1997 Vodrázka published his philosophical essay, Chaocracy, through Votobia Praha Publishing.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Haukenn said...

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