Oppression and the Politics of the Human

9781626001046

58 pages

Marquette University Press

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Overview

Dr Khader examines the idea of “the human” as a moral and political category, exploring its role in shaping concepts of rights, inclusion and shared responsibility. Drawing on the history of human rights and contemporary debates about oppression, she will consider both the promise and the challenges of appeals to our common humanity.

Khader is a writer, philosopher and feminist theorist whose research spans ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy and feminist philosophy. She also works in the interdisciplinary fields of development ethics and global, decolonial and postcolonial feminist philosophy. Her most recent book, “Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop” (Beacon Press, 2024), received the North American Society for Social Philosophy's 2025 Book Award.

Author Bio

Serene J. Khader is an American moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her areas of research within philosophy include ethics and moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. She works in the interdisciplinary fields of development ethics and global, decolonial and postcolonial feminisms. Some of the transnational practices she has analyzed include microcredit, household divisions of labor, and commercial gestational surrogacy.