Feminism And Philosophy: Essential Readings In Theory, Reinterpretation, And Application

by Tuana,Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780813322131
• ISBN10: 0813322138
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The past twenty years have seen an explosion of work by feminist philosophers and several surveys of this work have documented the richness of the many different ways of doing feminist philosophy. But this major new anthology is the first broad and inclusive selection of the most important work in this field.There are many unanswered questions about the future of feminist philosophy. Which of the many varieties of feminist philosophy will last, and which will fade away? What kinds of accommodations will be possible with mainstream non-feminist philosophy? Which will separate themselves and flourish on their own? To what extent will feminists change the topics philosophers address? To what extent will they change the very way in which philosophy is done?However these questions are answered, it is clear that feminist philosophy is having and will continue to have a major impact on the discipline of philosophy. This volume is the first to allow the scholar, the student, and other interested readers to sample this diverse literature and to ponder these questions for themselves.Organized around nine traditional "types" of feminist philosophy,Feminism and Philosophyis an imaginatively edited volume that will stimulate readers to explore many new pathways to understanding. It marks a defining moment in feminist philosophy, and it will be an essential text for philosophers and for feminist theorists in many other fields.

Author Biography

Nancy Tuana is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Woman and the History of Philosophy and The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature, and editor of Feminism and Science and Feminist Interpretations of Plato. Rosemarie Tong is a Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Professional Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Credits	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Liberal Feminist Perspectives	p. 5
The Sexual Politics of the New Right: Understanding the ""Crisis of Liberalism"" for the 1980s	p. 10
Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy	p. 27
The Moral Significance of Birth	p. 48
Suggested Further Readings	p. 64
Marxist Feminist Perspectives	p. 65
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism	p. 69
Reproducing Marxist Man	p. 91
The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: the Example of Housework	p. 104
Suggested Further Readings	p. 129
Radical Feminist Perspectives	p. 131
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: ""Pleasure Under Patriarchy""	p. 134
To Be and Be Seen: the Politics of Reality	p. 162
Moral Revolution: from Antagonism to Cooperation	p. 175
Suggested Further Readings	p. 193
Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives	p. 195
Family Structure and Feminine Personality	p. 199
Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: a Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics	p. 217
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Imperative	p. 247
Suggested Further Readings	p. 260
Socialist Feminist Perspectives	p. 261
Life Without Father: Reconsidering Socialist-Feminist Theory	p. 265
What's Critical About Critical Theory? the Case of Habermas and Gender	p. 272
The Politics of Socialist Feminism	p. 299
Suggested Further Readings	p. 325
Anarcha Feminist and Ecological Feminist Perspectives	p. 327
Anarchism and Feminism	p. 330
Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and Nature/Culture Dualism	p. 353
Bureaucracy and Public Life: the Femininization of the Polity	p. 374
Suggested Further Readings	p. 391
Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives	p. 393
Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness	p. 396
Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation	p. 407
Breast Cancer: Power Versus Prosthesis	p. 420
Suggested Further Readings	p. 430
Postmodern Feminist Perspectives	p. 431
Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: the Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory	p. 434
Sorcerer Love: a Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech	p. 457
Reading the Slender Body	p. 467
Suggested Further Readings	p. 489
Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender	p. 491
Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ""The Woman's Voice""	p. 494
Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions	p. 508
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought	p. 526
Suggested Further Readings	p. 548
About the Book and Editors	p. 549
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