ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses life history of Iris Marion Young, a feminist thinker, who described herself as a bandita a feminist bandit who selectively steals resources from male philosophers to serve her own political purposes, while leaving behind whatever of their work is sexist or unhelpful. Young's orientation to the practical grew out of a combination of her training in philosophy and her political activism. As a result of her political engagement, Young's work became increasingly interdisciplinary driven by the needs of her practical concerns, rather than the needs of the discipline of philosophy. Young, acting as a bandita, lifted the concept of the series from Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Gender theorized as seriality enabled Young to claim that the theoretical and political use of the word "women" has coherence and meaning, without assuming that all those positioned as women share any single experience in common.
