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Feminist philosophy refers to philosophy approached from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy involves both attempts to use the methods of philosophy to further the cause of the feminist movements, and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of traditional philosophy from within a feminist framework.
There is no one school of feminist philosophy: feminist philosophers, as philosophers, are found in both the analytic and Continental traditions, and the myriad different viewpoints taken on philosophical issues within those traditions; and feminist philosophers, as feminists, are found belonging to the many different varieties of feminism. Feminism has provided a new perspective to many traditional problems of philosophy. For example, feminist epistemologists have challenged traditional ideas of how we know things and of rationality, by arguing that these traditional philosophical ideas are based on male assumptions and perspectives and ignore women's voices. Many feminists (for example Janice Moulton) have also particularly attacked the aggressive argumentative style of traditional philosophy as being male-focused and patriarchal in nature . However, other feminists have defended the traditional philosophical method, arguing that the aggressiveness of traditional philosophy can be used to feminist ends. Some feminists have criticised other feminists for attacking traditional philosophy as aggressive, on the grounds that aggression is a valid female trait, and that feminists shouldn't seek to repeat traditional sex roles which say women can't be aggressive (much less intellectually so).

Feminist Philosophers		Feminist Philosophy Critics*
Simone de Beauvoir		Paul R. Gross
Judith Butler		Susan Haack
Helene Cixous		Norman Levitt
Bracha L. Ettinger		Cassandra Pinnick
Patricia Hill Collins
Donna Haraway
Sandra Harding
Nancy Hartsock
Julia Kristeva
John Stuart Mill
Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Dorothy Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Alison Wylie

*Critics of feminist philosophy are not generally critics of feminism as a political or cultural movement; only the technical philosophic positions put forth under the title "feminist philosophy".

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