Hypatia Reborn

'This book offers a collection of serious, fresh, and highly significant essays in the field of philosophy and feminism. This collection traces the contours of a critical feminism that moves beyond the tired divisions of philosophical affiliation and establishes feminist philosophy at the critical forefront of political and social theory.' --Judith Butler

FOREWORD Joyce Trebilcot PREFACE BY FOUN DING EDITOR Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Part I Feminist Philosophy: Analysis and Recovery Introduction: Donna Serniak On the War Path and Beyond Hegel, Freud and Feminist Theory Jo-Ann Pilardi Have We Got a Theory for You! Femiist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for the Woman's Voice Maria C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman Plato, Irony and Equality Janet Farrell Smith How Ordinary (Sexist) Discourse Resists Radical (Feminist) Critique Terry R. Winant Re-fusing Nature/Nurture Nancy Tuana Masculinity as Ideology in Political Theory Hobbesian Man Considered Christine Di Stefano Part II Affections of Feminism Introduction Ruth M. Schwartz Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation Sandra Lee Bartky The Affirmative Action Debate and Conflicting Conceptions of Individuality Mary E. Hawkesworth Motherhood, Feminism and Identity Margaret A. Simons Women and Lying A Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of Telling It Slant Gillian Michell Rereading Freud on Femininity or Why Not Womb Envy? Eva Feder Kittay Love, Knowledge and Transformation Caroline Whitbeck Part III Beauvoir and Feminist Philosophy Introduction Margaret A. Simons Humanism, Gynocentrism and Feminist Politics Iris Marion Young Reproduction as Male Ideology Alison M. Jaggar and William L. McBride Sexual Embodiment Beauvoir and French Feminism (ecriture feminine) Arleen B. Dallery Lesbian Identity Beauvoir and History Ann Ferguson Lesbian Attitudes and The Second Sex Claudia Card History and Responsibility Marilyn Frye Second Sex: Second Thoughts Charlene Haddock Seigfried Interpretation and Retrieval Rereading Beauvoir Linda Singer