Gender based injustice is wrong, but what exactly makes it wrong? In her 
2016 book “The Wrong of Injustice”, Mari Mikkola defends and reframes a 
humanist approach to feminist analyses of injustice such as sexism: 
arguably, sexism involves systematically treating women in dehumanizing 
ways, where it is the dehumanizing moment that makes these injustices 
wrong. This way Mikkola aims to circumvent the thorny problems of 
debates around ontological commitments of gender terms and identity 
categories, while at the same time offering a sense in which feminism is 
both for everyone and for women in particular.Involving three comments 
by invited speakers, the workshop aims at a constructive and critical 
discussion of crucial steps in Mikkola’s argument. (See below for the 
program.)


The day after the workshop, there will be a masterclass with Mikkola for 
PhD students and Master’s students to get to know and discuss in further 
detail some aspects of analytic feminist philosophy. We will discuss 
Mikkola’s current and forthcoming workonfeministmetaphysics 
andpornography (“Beyond Speech”, 2017, OUP; “Pornography: A 
Philosophical Introduction”, forthcoming, OUP).


Thanks to generous funding by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis 
(ASCA) and the Netherlands Institute fur Cultural Analysis (NICA), 
attendance is free and everyone interested is welcome. Please register 
at _j.s.gledhill at uva.nl <mailto:j.s.gledhill at uva.nl>_for the workshop, 
and at _a.thinius at uva.nl <mailto:a.thinius at uva.nl>_for the masterclass 
(papers will be circulated in advance).