Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (eBook)

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.

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

"...I commend this collection as philosophically
sophisticated and a useful resource..." Simon Blackburn, Times
Higher Education

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

"This is a very useful resource for those who want to know the
current thinking of feminist philosophers on major topics in
philosophy in general and in feminist philosophy. It consists of a
collection of articles, all of uniformly high caliber, each of
which functions as an up-to-date literature review of a topic...
The authors' openness to the roots of their discipline and their
knowledge of the ways that women have expanded that discipline make
this book an excellent guide to contemporary feminism...Highly
Recommended." CHOICE

"Linda Alcoff and Eva Feder Kittay have been there from
the beginning of feminist philosophy in the 1970s! Their judicious
organization of ideas in the field will be of great use to both
novices and established scholars." Iris Marion Young,
University of Chicago

"This is a terrific volume; inclusive, balanced, yet with
a point of view - or, fittingly, with multiple points of
view. Accessibly written by leading scholars, these articles
contain something for everyone." Alison M. Jaggar,
University of Colorado at Boulder

"The 15 essays in this admirably professional collection cover
much territory ... I commend this collection as philosophically
sophisticated and a useful resource." Simon Blackburn, Cambridge
University