Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

This first issue of 2025 includes five peer-reviewed articles. In the first article, "The Role of a Lifetime: Trans Experience and Gender Norms," Rowan Bell argues against the view that individuals respond to gender norms because the norms match to their gender categories. Bell argues instead for a "traits-based view" that gender norms apply on the basis of gender-coded traits, in part to account for patterns of gender norm responsiveness that do not track assigned gender categories. 

Our second article is "Disability, Self-Representation, and Care: Nothing about Us without Us," by T.J. Buttgereit, who takes up the tension outlined by philosophers such as Eva Kittay between the value of self-identification for persons with disabilities and the injustices that may be involved in others externally labeling someone as disabled who is incapable of communicating. 

In our third article, "White Concealment," Kirsten T. Edwards advances inquiry about white ignorance by shifting the focus from what white people refuse to know to consider what white people refuse to say, for example, in the course of constructing a narrative that selectively represents information. White concealment is analyzed in part through a composite story anchoring the conceptual analysis that specifically considers the experiences of Black women in relation to white feminists.

The fourth article, by Katherine Gasdaglis, is "Whose Anger Matters? Methodological Mistakes in the Philosophy of Emotion." In this paper, Gasdaglis rejects theoretical approaches justifying anger-eliminativism that fail to adopt intersectionality as a maxim of inquiry. Her intersectional approach centers anti-oppression anger and argues that doing so better accounts for the rationality of anger in particular contexts.

Fifth, Kevin Richardson argues in "The Metaphysics of Gender and the Gender Binary" that patterns of targeted structural violence toward trans and gender-nonconforming people are explained by the gender binary. Richardson urges attention to metaphysical accounts of gender that are not limited to the task of determining who is (or is not) really a member of a gender kind.