A Companion to Feminist Philosophy

by Jaggar, Alison M.; Young, Iris Marion

• ISBN13: 9780631220671
• ISBN10: 0631220674
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Including over 50 newly-commissioned survey articles, this outstanding volume represents the first truly comprehensive guide to feminist philosophy. The advent and development of feminist philosophy is traced and contextualized by the editors' introduction, followed by essays that reflect both conventional philosophical divisions as well as a number of topics absent from mainstream philosophy, and including sections on Feminist Perspectives on the Western Canon, Theories of Subjectivity and Embodiment, Moral Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Knowledge, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics and Practical Concerns. A unique feature is the inclusion of a series of essays tracing the emergence of feminist philosophy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The single comprehensive bibliography provides a valuable guide to the burgeoning literature in the field.

Author Biography

Alison M. Jagger is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her books include Feminist Frameworks co-edited with Paula Rothenberg (3e, 1993); Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983); Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, co-edited with Susan R. Bordo (1989); and Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics (1994). Jaggar was a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and is past Chair of the American Philosophical Committee on the Status of Women.

Iris Marion Young is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches ethics, political philosophy, and women's studies. She is the author of Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) and Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and Policy (1997).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(6)
Alison M. Jaggar
Iris Marion Young
PART I: THE WESTERN CANONICAL TRADITION	7	(78)
Ancient Greek philosophy	9	(12)
Rhoda Hadassah Kotzin
Modern rationalism	21	(9)
Moira Gatens
Empiricism	30	(9)
Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Kant	39	(10)
Robin May Schott
Pragmatism	49	(9)
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Modern moral and political philosophy	58	(8)
Herta Nagl-Docekal
Kathleen Chapman
Existentialism and phenomenology	66	(9)
Sonia Kruks
Postmodernism	75	(10)
Chris Weedon
PART II: AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, AND EASTERN EUROPE	85	(52)
Latin America	87	(9)
Ofelia Schutte
Africa	96	(12)
Sophie Oluwele
China	108	(10)
Lin Chun
Liu Bohong
Jin Yihong
The Indian subcontinent	118	(10)
Vrinda Dalmiya
Eastern Europe	128	(9)
Dasa Duhacek
PART III: LANGUAGE	137	(86)
Language and power	139	(14)
Lynne Tirrell
Semantics	153	(12)
Andrea Nye
PART IV: KNOWLEDGE AND NATURE
Rationality	165	(8)
Genevieve Lloyd
Epistemology	173	(12)
Lorraine Code
Natural sciences	185	(9)
Kathleen Lennon
Biological sciences	194	(10)
Lynda Birke
Social sciences	204	(9)
Mary Hawkesworth
The environment	213	(10)
Val Plumwood
PART V: RELIGION	223	(30)
Christianity	225	(11)
Catherine Keller
Islam	236	(9)
Basharat Tayyab
Judaism	245	(8)
Rachel Adler
PART VI: SUBJECTIVITY AND EMBODIMENT	253	(88)
Self/other	255	(8)
Michelle M. Moody Adams
Postmodern subjectivity	263	(9)
Tina Chanter
Psychoanalytic feminism	272	(8)
Teresa Brennan
Human nature	280	(9)
Nancy Holmstrom
Gender	289	(9)
Linda Nicholson
Sexual difference theory	298	(9)
Rosi Braidotti
Sexuality	307	(14)
Jacqueline Zita
Body politics	321	(9)
Sandra Lee Bartky
Disability	330	(11)
Anita Silvers
PART VII: ART	341	(20)
Aesthetics	343	(10)
Cornelia Klinger
Kathleen Chapman
Film theory	353	(8)
Cynthia Freeland
PART VIII: ETHICS	361	(78)
Moral epistemology	363	(9)
Margaret Urban Walker
Agency	372	(11)
Diana Tietjens Meyers
Care	383	(10)
Andrea Maihofer
Christian Hunold
Impartiality	393	(9)
Marilyn Friedman
Lesbian ethics	402	(9)
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Communicative ethics	411	(9)
Johanna Meehan
Health care	420	(9)
Susan Sherwin
Procreation	429	(10)
Laura Shanner
PART IX: SOCIETY	439	(46)
Education	441	(7)
Jane Roland Martin
Work	448	(18)
Barbara Hilkert Andolsen
Privacy	456
Anita Allen
Community	466	(9)
Maria Lugones
Racism	475	(10)
Linda Martin Alcoff
PART X: POLITICS	485	(106)
Justice	487	(13)
Elizabeth Kiss
Rights	500	(11)
Virginia Held
Democracy	511	(9)
Anne Phillips
Socialism	520	(10)
Ann Ferguson
Anglo-American law	530	(11)
Katharine T. Bartlett
Islamic law	541	(9)
Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
International justice	550	(9)
Natalie Dandekar
Equal opportunity	559	(10)
Laurie Shrage
Social policy	569	(12)
Eva Feder Kittay
War and peace	581	(10)
Sara Ruddick
Bibliography	591	(85)
Index	676