Rate My Professor Susan Hekman

Hekman's research focuses on feminist theory, exploring epistemology, ontology, moral theory, identity politics, and the material dimensions of knowledge and subjectivity. She has authored dozens of publications, including influential books such as Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory (1995), The Future of Differences: Truth and Method in Feminist Theory (1999), Private Selves, Public Identities: Reconciling Family, Marriage, and Individual Autonomy (2004), The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures (2010), and The Feminine Subject (2014). She co-edited Material Feminisms with Stacy Alaimo (2008) and edited Feminism, Identity and Difference (1999). Key articles include “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited” (Signs, 1997), “Beyond Identity” (2000), and “Vulnerability and Ontology: Butler's Ethics” (2015). Her scholarship has advanced postmodern and materialist feminist perspectives, critiquing standpoint theory and traditional moral frameworks while influencing discussions on the feminine subject from Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers like Judith Butler. Hekman's work has significantly impacted Political Science by centering gender analyses in philosophical and social scientific inquiry.