Karen Vintges is a University Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
She published a.o. A New Dawn for the Second Sex [Amsterdam University Press, 2017]; Feminism and the Final Foucault (D.Taylor / K.Vintges, Eds., Illinois University Press, 2004); Women, Feminism and Fundamentalism. ( I. Dubel / K.Vintges, Eds., Amsterdam: SWP Publishers, 2007) Philosophy as Passion. The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 [originally in Dutch, 1992] ); and several other books in Dutch. She is project leader of the NWO programme 'Women and Islam: New Perspectives', and currently works on a Dutch volume on Morrocan Feminisms.
Contemporaine sociale en politieke filosofie, geschiedenis van de sociale en politieke filosofie, filosofie van de sociale wetenschappen, kritische theorie, cultural studies, postkolonialisme, vrouwen en Islam.
For some representative publications see http://www.karenvintges.nl/