Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Reclamation Strategies
2. Conceptual Exclusion
3. Reclamation from Absence
4. Insults and Their Possibilities
5. From Exclusion to Reclamation
6. Injuries and Usurpations
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Appendix B: Printed Versions of Sojourner Truth’s Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 in Akron, Ohio
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Sarah Tyson is associate professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She was coeditor of Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration (with Joshua M. Hall, 2014).

Reviews

In Where Are the Women?, Sarah Tyson engages with the question of how we can bring historical women philosophers and their work to our philosophical attention, arguing that we need to revise our philosophical methodology and transform philosophical history in order to do so. Her use of Irigaray and Le Doeuff is thought-provoking, and the discussion of Diotima also makes for fascinating reading.
*Catherine Villanueva Gardner, author of Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy*

In this bold book, Sarah Tyson revamps the feminist reclamation project to redress not merely exclusion, but all manners of exclusive inclusion. Whether you have never thought of, are inclined not to think of, or are enthusiastic about the thought of Sojourner Truth in the same philosophical frame as Diotima or Socrates, you should read this book. You will learn an entirely new framework for what philosophy could be: rigorous, speculative reflection on how historical texts open up new possibilities for anti-racist and decolonial practice. A philosophical text that completely reimagines the phrase 'reclaiming Truth' is one to be reckoned with. Where Are the Women? is just such a text.
*David Kazanjian, author of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World*

Drawing on Lloyd, Irigaray, and Le Doeuff, and following the refracted voices of Diotima and Sojourner Truth, this brilliant and provocative book grapples philosophically with the meaning of the exclusion of women from philosophy—and both calls for and performs philosophy’s transformation by reclaiming them. With clarity, insight, urgency, and fierce care, Tyson has given us an exciting and original feminist and anti-racist reclamation of philosophy itself.
*Sina Kramer, author of Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors*

Once you start thinking about how to change a field of knowledge (or anything else) so it no longer justifies excluding, devaluing, exploiting 'kinds' of people as unfit to be equal, you discover that just opening doors cannot and ought not work. Here is a problem so revelatory of deep-rooted injustices that it invites philosophizing anew. Sarah Tyson thinks with others—including Sojourner Truth—on her way to a 'transformative reclamation' not only of women, but of philosophy.
*Elizabeth Minnich, author of The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking*

This book should stimulate both classroom discussion and significant research. . . . Recommended.
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