Benso presents on feminist topics

Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, presented “Metaphysical Longings, Violence, and the Power(lessness) of the Voice” on the panel Is One Born a Woman? Reflections on Sex, (Anti-)Gender, and Difference at the annual meeting of the Society for Italian Philosophy April 3-5 at Stony Brook University. Her talk explored implications of feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero's book on the themes of sexual difference, being a woman, maternity, and other related topics such as patriarchy, binarism, and transfeminism.