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Recognition and Feminist Thought

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In this article, we give an overview over both past and present as well as possible future debates around recognition in and in connection with feminist thought. In principle, recognition can involve persons, collectives, and institutions, but here we are primarily concerned with the recognition of persons by other persons. In the first section, we start with a discussion of care as a form of recognition and the recognition of care work. In the second section, we turn to critiques of recognition in feminist thought. In the third section, we outline a new field of research that should be of interest to both feminist and recognition theorists, namely our credibility economy. Since there is a separate article on Judith Butler and queer feminism in this handbook, we exclude their contributions from our discussion here.

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    Another recognition-theoretic approach that focuses particularly on the mother-infant-relationship is Benjamin 1988, chapter 1. Benjamin is primarily concerned with the recognition of the other as independent self. Albeit hers is prima facie an epistemic understanding of recognition, it possibly has a normative side as well.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Christine Bratu

  2. Department of Philosophy and History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Kristina Lepold

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    Ludwig Siep

  2. School of Humanities & Languages, The University of New South Wales School of Humanities & Languages, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Heikki Ikäheimo

  3. Philosophisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Philosophisches Seminar, Münster, Germany

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Bratu, C., Lepold, K. (2018). Recognition and Feminist Thought. In: Siep, L., Ikäheimo, H., Quante, M. (eds) Handbuch Anerkennung. Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_71-1

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