In Parenthesis at UPenn, USA and Queens, Canada – read our talk
We are just back from the wonderful Anscombe Archive at the Collegium Institute, UPenn. While we...
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Topic: Women
Read Ana Barandalla’s super post on Stereotype Threat!
A fascinating perspective on the familiar phenomenon of stereotype threat – it involves a...
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Some reflections on Stereotype Threat
by Ana Barandalla I first became acquainted with the concept of Stereotype Threat (ST) through one...
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Speaker Vulnerability and the Patriarchal University. By Lara Coleman
A Response and Tribute to Pamela Sue Anderson I never quite crossed paths with Pamela Sue...
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Silencing the Men!
We were delighted to be invited to write for the BroadAgenda. Read our blogpost here. ...
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Amber, Anna, and Annie at the Iris Murdoch Society conference
We’ve just been at the brilliant Iris Murdoch Society Annual Conference. We are so proud of...
Read MoreOur Cocoa Parties: A Brief Reflection by Annie McCallian
Annie McCallian, our student research assistant, reflects on the Durham reading group In November 2016, as part of the In Parenthesis project’s aim to uncover the intellectual conditions of the wartime group, several close...
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Sebastian Sanchez-Schilling heads to Newnham College Archives…
During the Easter holidays, I was lucky enough to visit the Newnham College Archives. After...
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‘Rings and Books’ by Mary Midgley
Midgley wrote this essay in the mid-1950s for BBC radio. In her memoir The Owl of Minerva, she recalls:
“I wrote it because I had suddenly been struck by the fact that nearly all the famous philosophers whose lives we know about were lifelong bachelors…
Read MorePhilippa Foot ‘Sir’ letter
Photo of Certificate, Photo of letter, Guidance Qs (t. b. w) In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate (click to enlarge) informing...
Read MoreSilencing and Speaker Vulnerability: Undoing an oppressive form of (wilful) ignorance
by Pamela Sue Anderson Essay, Photo, Guidance Qs (t.b.w.) Pamela wrote this paper for our International Women’s Day Conference 2016 [link], Resounding Voices: Women, Silence and the Production of Knowledge. It is with her...
Read MoreAnscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch: A female philosophical school?
Clare and Rachael gave this talk for the Sheffield ‘Women in the History of Philosophy’ lecture, 2017. Listen or read.
Read MorePhilippa Foot’s response to being addressed as ‘Sir’
In May 1983, Philippa Foot was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was sent a rather grand certificate (click to enlarge) informing her of the honor: As you may notice, the certificate is...
Read MorePamela Sue Anderson: ‘Silencing and Speaker Vulnerability: Undoing an oppressive form of (wilful) ignorance
Presented at International Women’s Day Conference Durham University, UK 8 March 2016 Silencing and Speaker Vulnerability: Undoing an oppressive form of (wilful) ignorance Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT The French feminist...
Read MoreOur first Cocoa Party! – 26th October 2015 – Durham University
The In Parenthesis Group hosted our first Cocoa Party for women philosophers this week in the Fellow’s Lounge of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. A group of women philosophers which included lecturers,...
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