What Women?

Created for Philosophy Now Issue 171, this illustration responds to Marcia Yudkin’s essay What Women?, which reflects on how traditional, male-dominated philosophy has excluded women’s experiences and ways of understanding.

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The artwork shows a woman confidently addressing a room of men. Flowers around her represent the forms of life, emotion and identity philosophy has often dismissed, while the floating books suggest thought breaking free from inherited limits. The cigarette smoke echoes the atmosphere described in the essay.

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A visual expression of one idea:
she stands within reason — and makes reason blossom.