ABSTRACT
This chapter scrutinizes the dominant philosophical theories of moral responsibility under an intersectional feminist lens, and judges them all to be incompatible with intersectional feminist principles in one way or another. The five theories that this chapter analyses are (paradigm cases of): (1) attributability theory, (2) control theory, (3) answerability theory, (4) functionalism, and (5) group-agency theories of collective responsibility. I argue that the paradigms most compatible with intersectional feminism are answerability theory and functionalism, but they must be modified in order to fit with intersectional feminist principles. Specifically, they must allow that unanswerable and unenhanceable agents are eligible for blame. My intersectional feminist proposal sees blame as a communicative practice that functions to elicit uptake for intersectional feminist norms and schemas from a respondent.
