Apols for yet another gnomic subtweet thread, but apparently there’s been a complaint to the editor and the entire board of NDPR from a very Big Name in feminist philosophy, about my selection for this recent review.https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/decolonizing-universalism-a-transnational-feminist-ethic/ …
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(I’m sure it’s nothing to do with my previous stance on gender, right? Or that I’m not in the right ideological, or indeed social club?) One complaint is I’ve no feminist philosophy background. Yet I’ve published on sexual objectification. It’s on my publication/
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list. But in any case: I wonder if the Name was so excised when several analytic metaphysicians and philosophers of language suddenly got into the feminist and social justice philosophy game a few years ago?

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with what I wrote. I know this may come as a bit of a surprise to those immersed in the deferential, self-flagellating, endless name-checking idiom of feminist philosophy as currently often is but... psst..?*it’s what I thought of the book*.pic.twitter.com/ue7XOtV8MY
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Anyway read it for yourself. God, I hate academia sometimes.
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Update: in 1998, with 2 papers in feminist philosophy to name (i.e. same as me), my critic, an analytic philosopher, published a book review about J. Butler, a feminist philosopher working in very different philosophical tradition to her own.Yet this is a main complaint about me.
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I'm a commissioning editor for a Bloomsbury Philosophy series of philosophy books. I think I've been to one philosophy class in my life, & my areas of expertise are close to zero.
So far nobody has complained.
I wonder what the difference is...? It's certainly a puzzle. 
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