CALL FOR PAPERS
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST PRAGMATISM
In an article published in Hypatia almost two decades ago, Charlene
Haddock Seigfried, asked, “Where are all the Pragmatist Feminists?”
Seigfried found it curious that feminists had not integrated the
intellectual tradition of the United States into their thinking as
well as why American pragmatists had failed to engage feminism in a
more meaningful manner despite the obvious points of contact between
the two branches of thought. Her question remains valid today.
Feminist pragmatist scholarship remains a marginalized, albeit robust,
area of study. What has occurred in the intervening two decades is
the important feminist work of recovery. In particular, through the
publication of a number of books and articles, the writing of Jane
Addams has been rediscovered as a classical American site of
pragmatist philosophy. Although engaging Addams has been
intellectually fruitful, if feminist and pragmatism is to be a viable
intellectual endeavor, its connection to contemporary thought, policy,
and action will have to more explicitly emerge. One way to frame the
relationship between feminism and pragmatism is in their common
commitments such as the importance of context and experience, the
relationship of politics and values and the production of knowledge
and metaphysics, and the need for diversity and thus dialogue among
differently situated groups. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism offers
the next step in this intellectual journey as site for engaging the
intersection of these two dynamic fields of thought.
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary collection of
original chapters that explores the present implications of feminism
and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. Chapters in this
volume can take a variety of forms including the drawing of
contemporary inference from the work of classical American feminist
pragmatist thinkers such as Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily
Greene Balch, Mary Whiton Calkins, Mary Parker Follett, and Ida B.
Wells. Other chapters may simply wish to work with the ideas of
feminist pragmatism and apply them to current work being done in
ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, or social philosophy. Case studies
or policy analysis may also frame chapters for this volume. Because
the anthology is intended for an interdisciplinary audience, we ask
that authors address their contributions to an intellectual but not
specialized audience. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Ethical theory
Epistemology
Social & Political Philosophy
Intersectionality
Utopian Thinking
Philosophy of religion
Social policy
Education theory/practice
The multicultural subject
Transnational feminism
Cosmopolitanism
Globalization
Feminist theory
Business Ethics
Sexualities Studies
Philosophy of science
Community organizing
Peace Studies
The editors of Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism are Maurice Hamington,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Philosophy and Director of
the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services at Metropolitan State
College of Denver, and Celia Bardwell-Jones, Assistant Professor of
Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Towson University.
Submissions from all fields are invited. For inquiries please contact
Celia Bardwell-Jones at cbardwelljo...@towson.edu or Maurice Hamington
at mhami...@mscd.edu . The editors request that 300-word abstracts be
sent electronically by October 1, 2009 to Maurice Hamington at
mhami...@mscd.edu Abstracts will be evaluated for and comments/
suggestions will be offered to those accepted for the volume.
Completed chapters will be due by July 1, 2010.
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