This is a list of feminist philosophers, that is, people who theorize about gender issues and female perspectives in different areas of philosophy.

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Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in order to supplement the feminist movement and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of traditional philosophy from within a feminist framework.

Women have made significant contributions to philosophy throughout the history of the discipline. Ancient examples include Maitreyi, Gargi Vachaknavi, Hipparchia of Maroneia and Arete of Cyrene. Some women philosophers were accepted during the medieval and modern eras, but none became part of the Western canon until the 20th and 21st century, when some sources indicate that Simone Weil Susanne Langer, G.E.M. Anscombe, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir entered the canon.

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Alison Mary Jaggar is an American feminist philosopher born in England. She is College Professor of Distinction in the Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies departments at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She was one of the first people to introduce feminist concerns in to philosophy.

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Patricia J. Huntington is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She is known for her works on continental philosophy.

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  5. Miller, Marjorie C. (1995). "Review of American Women Philosophers, 1650-1930: Six Exemplary Thinkers". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 31 (4): 927. ISSN   0009-1774. Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), is indeed a feminist philosopher who deserves to be ranked with others of her era
  6. Miller, Marjorie C. (1995). "Review of American Women Philosophers, 1650-1930: Six Exemplary Thinkers". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 31 (4): 930. ISSN   0009-1774. [Francis Wright (1795-1852)]'s spirited rhetoric, stirring visions of community, equality, and inquiry, and her profound sense that feminism demands the recognition of all persons as equally capable of improvement make her a superb addition to the list of feminist philosophers.