Articles and Chapters

“Mary Astell’s Female Retirement: Pedagogy and Politics in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (forthcoming 2022).

“‘Bodies of Knowledge’: A (Feminist) Epistemology Exercise.” Teaching Philosophy (forthcoming 2022).

“Mary Astell.” Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Springer, forthcoming).

Penny Weiss and Wynne Moskop, “Ecofeminist Manifestos: Resources for Feminist Perspectives on the Environment.” Women’s Studies International Forum 83 (November-December 2020).https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539520301394?dgcid=author#bbb0175

Penny Weiss and Wynne Moskop, “(K)No(wing) Confidence: A Feminist Epistemological Consideration of Suspicion, Credibility, and Reflexivity in (Campus) Movements for Change.” Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear. Ellen Carnaghan and Kathryn Kuhn, editors (Routledge 2020).

“Feminist Liberalism.” The Wollstonecraftian Mind. Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee, editors (Routledge, 2019).

Penny Weiss and Brennin Weiswerda. “Plenty of Pockets: Fashion in Feminist Science Fiction.” In Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Abrams Books 2019).

“Reflections on Childhood in the History of Feminist Thought.”  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society  43, 4 (Summer 2018): 979-1004.

“The Everyday Silencing of Children and the Feminist Politics of Voice.” Learning for Democracy: An International Journal of Thought and Practice 6, 2 (2016): 23-38.

“Anna Julia Cooper,” Fifty-one Key Feminist Thinkers, Lori Jo Marso, editor (Routledge 2016): 41-46.

“‘From the Throne to every Private Family’: Mary Astell as Analyst of Power,” Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Alice Sowaal and Penny Weiss, editors (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016): 128-152.

“Locations and Legacies: Reading Astell and Re-Reading the Canon,” Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell, Alice Sowaal and Penny Weiss, editors (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016): 1-15.

“Declaring Sexual Equality: Documents from Around the Globe,” Feminist Formations (Winter 2014): 147-166.

“Getting to the Roots, or, Everything I Need to Know About Radical Social Change I Learned in My Garden.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42, 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2013): 131-150.

“Sei Shonagon and the Politics of Form,” Journal of Political Philosophy. 16, 1 (March 2008): 26-47.

“Who Were Emma Goldman’s ‘Children’: Feminist Anarchism and Childhood,” Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Penny Weiss and Loretta Kensinger, editors (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007): 177-193. 

“Digging for Gold(man): What We Found,” Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Penny Weiss and Loretta Kensinger , editors (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007): 3-18.

“Mary Astell: Including Women’s Voices in Political Theory,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19, 3 (Summer 2004): 63-84.

“Making History of Ideas Classes ‘Relevant’: One Writing Strategy,” Teaching Philosophy 25 (June 2002): 123-130.

“(S)Mothering/Profess(or)ing,” Feminist Teacher 9 (Summer 1996): 137-142.

“Wollstonecraft and Rousseau: The Gendered Fate of Political Theorists,” Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Falco, editor (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996): 15-32.

“Wollstonecraft and Rousseau: Re-calling the Conversation,” Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Falco, editor (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996): 179-207.

“Feminist Reflections on Community,” Feminism and Community, Penny Weiss and Marilyn Friedman, editors (Temple University Press, 1995): 3-18. 

“Feminism and Communitarianism: Comparing Critiques of Liberalism,” Feminism and Community, Penny Weiss and Marilyn Friedman, editors (Temple University Press, 1995): 161-186.

“Building (The) New Community (School),” Educational Forum 58 (Spring 1994): 290-298.

“A Compound Feminist Organization: Purdue University’s Council on the Status of Women,” Women and Politics 14 (1994): 23-44.

“Gender Bias in Political Theory,” Indiana Journal of Political Science 8 (1991-1993): 13-32.

“Rousseau’s Political Defense of the Sex-roled Family,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 5 (Fall 1990): 90-109.

“Sex, Freedom and Equality in Rousseau’s Emile,” Polity XXII (Summer 1990): 603-625.

“Rousseau, Antifeminism, and Woman’s Nature,” Political Theory 15 (February 1987): 81-98.