Is there such a thing as feminist philosophy?
Andrea Nye, a feminist “philosopher”, wrote a critique of logic. Since logic had been used to justify the oppression of women, she claimed, it was “male power language”. Katherine MacKinnon a feminist legal “scholar” claimed that the abstract principles should be taken out of our laws, because in their generality, they did injustice to particularities of individual circumstance. (But when principles are removed from law, what is left? Nothing. So the “judicial” system would devolve to a forum for the particular whims of whatever judge was sitting.) And one feminist historian (damn, I wish I could remember her name!) claimed that revising historical accounts effected changes on the events that occurred in the past. Mary Daly claimed that men cause cancer. These are extreme cases, but many of the more moderate feminists who call themselves philosophers align themselves with postmodernism and related doctrines that are essentially anti-philosophy and skeptical. But their critical techniqu
