# Canadian female philosophers

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-female-philosophers/201905 "2003-09-16T06:03:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-female-philosophers/201905/1 "2003-09-16T06:03:38Z")

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**Hamish** was musing that he couldn’t think of any Canadian female philosophers. I came up with a couple:

Jane Jacobs (author of _The Death and Life of Great American Cities_, basically founded urban studies)

Janice Gross Stein (author of _The Cult of Efficiency_)

Linda McQuaig (journalist and economic theorist, basically the David Suzuki of economics; _All You Can Eat_)

Naomi Klein (author of _No Logo_)

Margaret Somerville (medical ethicist)

Any others?

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-female-philosophers/201905/2 "2003-09-16T06:04:52Z")

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**Hamish** would like to clarify that he could think of two 19th-century Canadian female philosophers, but not 20th-century ones.

I guess Margaret Atwood counts (her contributions to Canadian literary theory, ne?)