Women, Knowledge, and Reality

Ann Garry is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. She is an associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of FeministPhilosophy. Marilyn Pearsall has taught at universities throughout the U.S., most recently at the University of Puget Sound. She is the editor of Women and Values 2E and the forthcoming Feminist Interpretations of Nietzsche.

1. Methods - Janice Moulton - A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method; Naomi Scheman - The Unavoidability of Gender; Marilyn Frye - The Possibility of Feminist Theory; bell hooks - Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness; 2. Metaphysics - Julie Kristeva - Women's Time; Sally Haslanger - Objective Reality, Male Reality and Social Construction; Ann Ferguson - Can I Choose Who I am? And How would that Empower Me? Gender, Race, Identities and the Self; Lourdes Torres - The Construction of the Self in U.S. Latina Autobiographies; 3. Theory of Knowledge - Genevieve Lloyd - The Man of Reason; Alison M. Jaggar - Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology; Lorraine Code - Taking Subjectivity into Account; Patricia Hill Collins - The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought; 4. Philosophy of Science - Helen Longino - Can There be a Feminist Science?; Vandana Shiva - Science Nature and Gender; Lynn Hankinson Nelson - Who Knows? What Can They Know? And When?; Sandra Harding - Feminism, Science, and the Anti- Enlightenment Critiques; 5. Philosophy of Language - Andrea Nye - The Voice of the Serpent - French Feminism and Philosophy of Language; Carole Boyce Davies - Other Tongues: Gender, Language, Sexuality and the Politics of Location; Alessandra Tanesini - Whose Language; 6. Philosophy of Mind/Body - Judith Butler - Imitation and Gender Insubordination; Maria Lugones - Playfulness, World-Traveling, and Loving Perception; Susan Bordo - Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture; 7. Philosophy of Religion - Hilde Hein - Liberating Philosophy: An End to the Dichotomy of Spirit and Matter; Toinette Eugene - While Love is Unfashionable: Ethical Implications of Black Spirituality and Sexuality; Luce Irigaray - Divine Women.