Professor Katharine Jenkins

Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy)

telephone: 6345
email: Katharine.Jenkins@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Research interests

I am a philosopher at the University of Glasgow, specializing in social philosophy. I joined the department as a Lecturer in July 2020. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, and a BA and MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

When I’m not doing philosophy (and sometimes when I am) I enjoy walking, meditation, sewing, and board games. I grew up in the Lake District and I think I'll always miss the fells, though the Trossachs are an incredible substitute.

My research is primarily in social philosophy, especially the ontology of social categories. I'm interested in how social categories such as races and genders exist, and how these categories are bound up with systematic injustices. I'm also interested in feminist philosophy and critical philosophy of race more broadly, in the philosophy of sex and sexuality, and in social epistemology. Topics I have written about include rape myths, pornography, and gender identity.

I am currently writing a monograph, Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Construction which examines the nature of social categories that are bound up with oppression, such as gender and race, and the ways in which emancipatory social movements can best respond to such categories in view of the important role they play in many people’s identities. In it, I argue that the very fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social group, such as the group women, can be wrongful, and, indeed, oppressive. However, I also show that identities based on these social group memberships can still be valuable.

Publications

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2025

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2025) ‘Her Fresh Voice’: reparatively staging Puccini’s Turandot with Andrea Dworkin. British Journal of Aesthetics, (doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayaf001) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2023) Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality. Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN 9780197666784

2022

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2022) How To Be A Pluralist About Gender Categories. In: Halwani, Raja, Held, Jacob M., McKeever, Natasha and Soble, Alan (eds.) The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings. 8th Edition. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 233-259. ISBN 9781538155363

2021

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 and Webster, Aness (2021) Disability, impairment, and marginalised functioning. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99(4), pp. 730-747. (doi: 10.1080/00048402.2020.1799048)

2020

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2020) Ontic injustice. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(2), pp. 188-205. (doi: 10.1017/apa.2019.27)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2020) Pornography, social ontology, and feminist philosophy. APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 20(1), pp. 18-22.

2019

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2019) Conferralism and intersectionality: A response to Ásta’s categories we live by. Journal of Social Ontology, 5(2), pp. 261-272. (doi: 10.1515/jso-2020-2004)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2019) II—Two routes to radical racial pluralism. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 93(1), pp. 49-68. (doi: 10.1093/arisup/akz008)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 and Pearce, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9285-303X (2019) The Gender Recognition Act: A trans-inclusive feminist approach. Documentation. University of Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement.

2018

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2018) Toward an account of gender identity. Ergo, 5(27), pp. 713-744. (doi: 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.027)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2018) Who's afraid of Andrea Dworkin? Feminism and the analytic philosophy of sex. In: Garavaso, Pieranna (ed.) The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism. Series: Bloomsbury companions. Bloomsbury Academic: London, UK, pp. 144-168. ISBN 9781474297783 (doi: 10.5040/9781474297806.0016)

2017

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2017) What women are for: Pornography and social ontology. In: Mikkola, Mari (ed.) Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, pp. 91-112. ISBN 9780190257910 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190257910.003.0005)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2017) Rape myths and domestic abuse myths as hermeneutical injustices. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34(2), pp. 191-205. (doi: 10.1111/japp.12174)

Fricker, Miranda and Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2017) Epistemic injustice, ignorance, and trans experiences. In: Garry, Ann, Khader, Serene J. and Stone, Alison (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. Series: Routledge philosophy companions. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 268-278. ISBN 9781138795921

2016

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2016) Amelioration and inclusion: Gender identity and the concept of woman. Ethics, 126(2), pp. 394-421. (doi: 10.1086/683535)

2014

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2014) 'That's not philosophy': feminism, academia and the double bind. Journal of Gender Studies, 23(3), pp. 262-274. (doi: 10.1080/09589236.2014.909720)

Jenkins, Katharine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-8633 (2014) ‘That's not philosophy’: Feminism, academia and the double bind. Journal of Gender Studies, 23(3), pp. 262-274. (doi: 10.1080/09589236.2014.909720)

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