Kittay / Alcoff The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69538-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Philosophy Guides

The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitiveintroduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributedessays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feministconcerns.
* * Offers a key view of the project of centering women'sexperience.
* Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbianphilosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history ofphilosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kittay, Eva Feder

Alcoff, Linda Martín

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Linda Martín Alcoff (Syracuse University) andEva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University).
Part I: Women and the Philosophical Canon:.
1. Justifying the Inclusion of Women in Our Histories ofPhilosophy: 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 StateUniversity).
Part II: Ethical Inquiries:.
4. Ethics and Feminism: Marilyn Friedman (Washington Universityin St Louis) and Angela Bolte (University of Nevada-Reno).
5. Moral Psychology: Margaret Urban Walker (Arizona StateUniversity).
6. Feminist Bioethics: Where We've Been, Where We'reGoing: Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University).
7. Feminism and Disability: Anita Silvers (San Francisco StateUniversity).
Part III: Political Perspectives:.
8. Feminist Political Philosophy: Nancy Hirschmann (Universityof 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, ItsProblems and New Directions: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon).
Part IV: Knowing and Representing:.
12. Feminist Epistemologies and Women's Lives: LorraineCode (York University in Toronto).
13. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: ElizabethPotter (Mills College).
14. Feminism and Aesthetics: Peg Brand (Indiana University inBloomington).
15. Feminism and Poststructuralism: A Deleuzian Approach: TamsinLorraine (Swarthmore College).
Author Index.
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy andWomen's Studies at Syracuse University. She is author of RealKnowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology (1996) andVisible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (2005), andeditor 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 StonyBrook University. She is author of Love's Labor: Essays onWomen, Equality, and Dependency (1999), and editor of Womenand Moral Theory (with Diana T. Meyers, 1987) and of TheSubject of Care: Feminist Theoretical Perspectives onDependency (with Ellen Feder, 2002).