The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns.
- Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience.
- Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University) and Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University).
Part I: Women and the Philosophical Canon:.
1. Justifying the Inclusion of Women in Our Histories of Philosophy: The Case of Marie de Gournay: Eileen O’Neill (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).
2. Feminism and the History of Philosophy: Robin May Schott (Danish University of Education).
3. Pragmatism: Shannon Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University).
Part II: Ethical Inquiries:.
4. Ethics and Feminism: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University in St Louis) and Angela Bolte (University of Nevada-Reno).
5. Moral Psychology: Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona State University).
6. Feminist Bioethics: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University).
7. Feminism and Disability: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University).
Part III: Political Perspectives:.
8. Feminist Political Philosophy: Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania).
9. Postcolonial Feminisms: Genealogies and Recent Directions: Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida in Tampa).
10. Lesbian Philosophy: Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College).
11. Can Third Wave Feminism Be Inclusive? Intersectionality, Its Problems and New Directions: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon).
Part IV: Knowing and Representing: .
12. Feminist Epistemologies and Women’s Lives: Lorraine Code (York University in Toronto).
13. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Elizabeth Potter (Mills College).
14. Feminism and Aesthetics: Peg Brand (Indiana University in Bloomington).
15. Feminism and Poststructuralism: A Deleuzian Approach: Tamsin Lorraine (Swarthmore College).
Author Index.
Subject Index
About the author
Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. She is author of Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology (1996) and Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (2005), and editor of Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998) and of Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (with Eduardo Mendieta, Blackwell 2003).
Eva Feder Kittay is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is author of Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999), and editor of Women and Moral Theory (with Diana T. Meyers, 1987) and of The Subject of Care: Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency (with Ellen Feder, 2002).
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