Spinoza, Feminism, and the History of Philosophy (Prof. Susan James)
Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast
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Beyond Equality and Difference: A History of Feminism
Your work has often weighed directly on contemporary debates in feminist philosophy. In Beyond Equality and Difference, for instance, you note how liberalism is critiqued for its patriarchal assumptions. Could you discuss how the chapter aimed to work through this perceived tension between liberalism and feminism? It's a rather straightforward point, which was that even when men and women formally possess the same rights, systematic differences in their capacity to exercise their rights can stand in way of substantive equality.
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