Thinking Gender
Subjection and Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Moral Philosophy
1st Edition
By Diana T. Meyers
October 24, 1994
Diana Tietjens Meyers examines the political underpinnings of psychoanalytic feminism, analyzing the relation between the nature of the self and the structure of good societies. She argues that impartial reason--the approach to moral reflection which has dominated 20th-century Anglo-American ...
Moral Dilemmas of Feminism: Prostitution, Adultery, and Abortion
1st Edition
By Laurie Shrage
June 08, 1994
Sharge explores the moral pemises of feminist sexual politics, focusing in particular on the emotive issues of abortion, prostitution and adultery, in order to develop an interpretative and pluralist approach to feminist ethics....
Postmodern Revisionings of the Political
1st Edition
By Anna Yeatman
December 13, 1993
A challenging reassessment of the concepts and institutions of modern liberal democracy in the light of postmodern theory and the politics of difference....
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege
1st Edition
By Naomi Scheman
September 09, 1993
Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it ...
Feminist Theory and the Classics
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin
September 09, 1993
Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again....
Feminist Epistemologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Alcoff, Elizabeth Potter
December 21, 1992
This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective....
An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Mary Jeanne Larrabee
December 12, 1992
Published in 1982, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice proposed a new model of moral reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described the moral life of women. An Ethic of Care is the first volume to bring together key contributions to the extensive debate engaging Gilligan's work. It ...
Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan
November 10, 1992
A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power....
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body
1st Edition
By Jana Sawicki
September 06, 1991
In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies....
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression
1st Edition
By Sandra Lee Bartky
November 20, 1990
Bartky draws on the experience of daily life to unmask the many disguises by which intimations of inferiority are visited upon women. She critiques both the male bias of current theory and the debilitating dominion held by notions of "proper femininity" over women and their bodies in patriarchal ...
Feminism/Postmodernism
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Nicholson
October 19, 1989
In this anthology, prominent contemporary theorists assess the benefits and dangers of postmodernism for feminist theory. The contributors examine the meaning of postmodernism both as a methodological position and a diagnosis of the times. They consider such issues as the nature of personal and ...