Synopses & Reviews
The most comprehensive anthology of feminist philosophy available, this first edition reader brings together over 55 of the most influential and time-tested works to have been published in the field of feminist philosophy. Featuring perspectives from across the philosophical spectrum, and from an array of different cultural vantage points, it displays the incredible range, diversity, and depth of feminist writing on fundamental issues, from the early second wave to the present.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A FEMIINST TURN IN PHILOSOPHY Section one: Oppression and Resistance 1. Gayle Rubin, The Traffic in Women: Notes on The Political Economy of Sex 2. Marilyn Frye, Oppression 3. Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Cannot Dismantle The Master's House. 4. Sandra Bartky, On Psychological Oppression" 5. Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" 6. María Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World' Traveling, and Loving Perception" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section two: Sex and Gender 1. Simone de Beauvoir, "Introduction to The Second Sex" 2. Judith Butler, " Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" 3. bell hooks, "Reconstructing Black Masculinity" 4. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Should there only be two sexes?" 5. Judith Halberstam. "Transgender Butch" 6. Oyewùmí Oyèrónké , "Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section three: Race and Racism 1. Elizabeth Spelman, "Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought" 2. Kimberlé Crenshaw, " Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" 3. American Anthropological Association, "Statement on 'Race' 4. Annette Jamies, "Some Kind of Indian" 5. María Lugones, "Purity, Impurity and Separation" 6. Alison Bailey, "Locating Traitorous Identities: Towards a Theory of White Character Formation" 7. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, "Tiddas Speakin' Strong: Indigenous Women's Self-presentation within White Australian Feminism" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section four: Sexualities 1. Luce Irigaray, "The Sex which Is Not One" 2. Jessica Benjamin, " A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space" 3. Catherine MacKinnon, "Sexuality" 4. Ann Ferguson, "Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists" 5. Kiss and Tell, "Questioning Censorship" 6. Evelynn Hammonds, "Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality" 7 Chris Cuomo, "Religion and the Right to be Gay" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section five: Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms 1. Chandra Talpade Mohanty " Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and The Politics of Solidarity" 2. Ofelia Schutte, "Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America" 3. Angela Davis, "The Prison Industrial Complex" 4. Andrea Smith, "Sexual Violence As A Tool of Genocide" 5. Aihwa Ong, "Experiments with Freedom: Milieus of The Human" 6. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section six: Feminist Ethical theories 1. Carol Gilligan, " Moral Orientation and Moral Cevelopment" 2. Seyla Benhabib, "The Generalized And The Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory" 3. Virginia Held, " Taking Care: Care as Practice And Value" 4. Kelly Oliver, "Conflicted Love" 5. Sarah Hoagland, "Separating from Heterosexualism" 6. Margaret Urban Walker, "Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics" 7. Claudia Card, "The Moral Powers of Victims" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section seven: Feminist Political Philosophies 1. Marilyn Friedman, "Autonomy, Social Disruption and Women" 2. Eva Kittay, "Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of The Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality" 3. Susan Okin, "Vulnerability by Marriage" 4. Nancy Fraser, "After The Family Wage: Gender Equity And The Welfare State" 5. Iris Marion Young, "Difference and Social Policy: Reflections in The Context of Social Movements" 6. Cynthia Enloe, "Updating The Gendered Empire: Where Are The Women in Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources Section eight: Feminist Epistemologies: 1. Susan Bordo, "Purification and Transcendence" 2. Alison Jaggar, " Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology" 3. Linda Martín Alcoff, "How Is Epistemology Political?" 4. Lorraine Code, "Taking Subjectivity into Account" 5. Sandra Harding, Strong Objectivity" 6. Uma Narayan, " The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from A Nonwestern Feminist" 7. Nancy Tuana, "Coming to Understand: Orgasm And The Epistemology of Ignorance" 8. For Further Reading 9. Media Resources Section nine: Feminist Ontologies 1. Mary Anne Warren, " The Moral Significance of Birth" 2. Ann J. Cahill, "A Phenomenology of Fear: The Threat of Rape and Female Bodily Comportment" 3. Susan Wendell, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability" 4. Mary Daly, " Be-longing: The Lust for Happiness" 5. Rosi Braidotti, "Mothers, Monsters and Machines" 6. Gloria Anzaldúa, " La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Toward A New Consciousness" 7. For Further Reading 8. Media Resources