[Revised entry by Jennifer Saul, Esa Diaz-Leon, and Samia Hesni on July 4, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Feminist philosophy of language has come a long way in a very short time period. Initially, most work in the area was critical, calling for changes either to language itself or to philosophy of language. More recently, however, the dynamic has changed, with the advent of several major positive research programmes within philosophy of language. In this entry, we first discuss the critiques that constitute the first phase of feminist work in this area, before moving onto the positive research programmes that have recently come…

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