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Podcast Profile: thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast

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8 episodes
2024 to 2026
Median: 62 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast introduces feminist philosophy through accessible, conversation-based episodes that draw on crowdsourced voice clips from a range of feminist philosophers and scholars. Hosted by Drs. Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier, it aims to bring key concepts to life for both newcomers and experienced listeners by combining close attention to influential texts with collaborative discussion and multiple perspectives.

Across the episodes, the content centers on how embodied experience shapes agency, knowledge, and social life. Listeners encounter feminist phenomenology and analyses of bodily comportment, motility, and spatiality, alongside ethical and political questions about trust, dependency, and the conditions that make relationships and communities possible or precarious. The podcast also returns to themes in feminist epistemology, including how people are silenced or dismissed, how emotional expression is politicized, and how harm can occur through practices that undermine someone’s capacity to speak, be heard, or be recognized as a knower.

The show frequently engages with canonical and widely cited works in feminist philosophy—especially pieces originally published in venues such as *Hypatia*—and uses them as entry points into broader debates about power, social norms, and the lived realities of gendered and racialized experience. Alongside text-centered discussions, the podcast includes “field notes” style conversations recorded in conference settings. These episodes foreground contemporary exchanges within trans philosophy and feminist philosophy, exploring their intersections and reflecting on what philosophy can offer in the present moment, including informal reflections on pedagogy and professional culture.

Overall, this podcast offers a mix of guided readings, conceptual explanation, and community-sourced dialogue focused on embodiment, epistemic injustice, emotion, trust, and feminist and trans philosophical practice.