The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy

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.

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).

Acknowledgments

vii

Notes on Contributors

ix

Introduction: Defining Feminist Philosophy

1

(16)

Linda Martin Alcoff

Eva Feder Kittay

Part I Women and the Philosophical Canon

Justifying the Inclusion of Women in Our Histories of Philosophy: The Case of Marie de Gournay

17

(26)

Eileen O'Neill

Feminism and the History of Philosophy

43

(21)

Robin May Schott

Pragmatism

64

(17)

Shannon Sullivan

Part II Ethical Inquiries

Ethics and Feminism

81

(21)

Marilyn Friedman

Angela Bolte

Moral Psychology

102

(14)

Margaret Urban Walker

Feminist Bioethics: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

116

(15)

Hilde Lindemann

Feminism and Disability

131

(14)

Anita Silvers

Part III Political Perspectives

Feminist Political Philosophy

145

(20)

Nancy Hirschmann

Postcolonial Feminisms: Genealogies and Recent Directions

165

(12)

Ofelia Schutte

Lesbian Philosophy

177

(16)

Cheshire Calhoun

Can Third Wave Feminism Be Inclusive? Intersectionality, Its Problems, and New Directions

193

(18)

Naomi Zack

Part IV Knowing and Representing

Feminist Epistemologies and Women's Lives

211

(24)

Lorraine Code

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

235

(19)

Elizabeth Potter

Feminism and Aesthetics

254

(12)

Peg Brand

Feminism and Poststructuralism: A Deleuzian Approach

266

(17)

Tamsin Lorraine

Author index

283

(4)

Subject index

287

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