The final version of my article “Feminist Philosophy of Disability” has now been published online in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. I have copied the abstract for the article below. You can read/listen to the article here: Feminist Philosophy of Disability | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies | Oxford Academic

This article considers feminist philosophy of disability, a relatively new subfield of philosophy that constitutes a feminist intervention into the ways that disability has hitherto been researched and represented in philosophy and society at large. The article explains the central assumptions of feminist philosophy of disability by situating this new field in relation to traditional mainstream philosophy, (mainstream) feminist philosophy, and philosophy of disability that does not align itself with feminism, as well as in relation to feminist disability studies and the interdisciplinary field of disability studies in general. Although, as the article shows, feminist philosophy of disability may draw upon some of the assumptions of these other fields, it departs from each of them and variously goes beyond them in important ways, especially with respect to its motivational assumptions about the constitutive and complex character of social power and how power relations condition philosophy and academia more broadly. Although feminist philosophy of disability shares with feminist disability studies, as well as disability studies and philosophy of disability that are not explicitly feminist, the aim to subvert the subjugating effects of dominant medicalized approaches to disability in philosophy, academia, and society more broadly (and may even derive conceptual tools from them), it conceives of their respective analyses as incomplete, philosophically, politically, and materially.