The unique a-genderness of the masculinizing philosophy

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to review the terms of a call for thematic dossier and critically answer some questions raised by its language and by some of the concepts present in the requirements listed for the acceptance of publication. Thus, I begin by asking about the (linguistic-political) meaning of a gendered philosophical thought, taking as a critical reading key part of the vast production of feminist epistemologies to insist on the partiality and location of any and all philosophical manifestations against the unique specificity of the feminine gender concerning epistemic authority and textual authorship in philosophy; then, I deal with the distinction between “sex” and “gender” to correct a quasi-biological enunciation about what it means to write philosophically; and, finally, I raise some questions about supposedly gendered philosophical “contents” and about the interests of feminist philosophy and feminist history of philosophy in denouncing the ways in which our philosophical language and its underlying epistemological assumptions still reproduce dichotomous paths valued unequally.