Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought
Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought
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Author(s): Rosker, Jana S.
ISBN No.: 9781527573840
Pages: 310
Year: 202111
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 114.19
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lens of the lives and work of two contemporary Taiwanese female philosophers. It takes two approaches that have been relegated, quite unfairly, to the margins of dominant discourses. The first is concerned with the work of women philosophical theorists who are still overshadowed by their male colleagues, regardless of where they live, their theoretical potential, and the value of their research. The second approach is related to the question of the role of Taiwanese philosophy in maintaining the continuity of the Chinese intellectual tradition in the second half of the twentieth century. The book thus connects these two issues and provides a bridge linking them. Although discrimination against female philosophical theorists, on the one hand, and the failure to recognize the important contribution of Taiwanese philosophy to the development of modern Chinese philosophy, on the other, seem, at first glance, to have little in common, both harbor a problem that has its roots in discourses of exclusion emanating from the political, historical, and social inequalities associated with power structures.


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