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    37 Philosophers You Really Should Know About (None Of Them Are Men)

    Every one of these women is inspiring.

    We recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about their favourite female philosophers. Here are some of the women you should know about.

    1. Gayatri Spivak (born 1942)

    2. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

    3. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

    4. María Zambrano (1904-1991)

    5. Hypatia of Alexandria (c.350–370 - 415 AD)

    6. Simone Weil (1909-1943)

    7. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

    8. Angela Davis (born 1944)

    9. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955)

    10. Wendy Brown (born 1955)

    11. Maria Lugones

    12. Catherine MacKinnon (born 1946)

    13. Sally Haslanger (born 1955)

    14. Talia Mae Bettcher (born 1951)

    15. Philippa Foot (1920-2010)

    16. Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie (born 1940)

    17. Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942-2004)

    18. Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929)

    19. Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004)

    20. Hortense Spillers (born 1942)

    21. Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858)

    22. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)

    23. Linda Martín Alcoff (born 1955)

    24. Luce Irigaray (born 1930)

    25. bell hooks (born 1952)

    26. Kathryn Sophia Belle (born 1978)

    27. Martha Nussbaum (born 1947)

    28. Judith Butler (born 1956)

    29. Eve Tuck

    30. Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012)

    31. Lory Janelle Dance

    32. Rae Langton (born 1961)

    33. Donna Haraway (born 1944)

    34. Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005)

    35. Patricia Churchland (born 1943)

    36. Lisa Delpit (born 1952)

    37. G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001)

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