| Author(s) | Marije Altorf | |
| Journal | Hypatia | |
| Abstract | This article offers a critical reading of three major biographies of the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch. It considers in particular how a limited concern for gender issues has hampered their portrayals of Murdoch as a creator of images and ideas. The biographies are then contrasted to a biographical sketch constructed from Murdoch’s philosophical writing. The assessment of the biographies is set against the larger background of the relation between women and philosophy. In doing so, the paper offers a critical response to Sally Haslanger’s recent “Musings” (Haslanger 2008), which is contrasted to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Michèle Le Doeuff’s Hipparchia’s Choice (2007). | |
| Keywords | Iris Murdoch; women in philosophy; history of philosophy; Virginia Woolf; Michèle Le Doeuff; Sally Haslanger This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. | |
| Date Published | Spring 2011 | |
| Volume | 26 | |
| Issue | 2 | |
| Pages | 384-402 | |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01157.x | |
| Google Scholar Link | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lookup=0&q=marije+altorf,+2011&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 | |
| Open Access? | No |
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