Feminist Social Thought

"Since feminism aims to transform social relations in order to overcome women's subordination, and since moral, social, and political philosophy seek to account for ethical interpersonal relations and to explicate and defend just social, political and legal institutions, it seemed natural that many feminist philosophers would choose ethics or social/political theory as a point of departure. Thus, feminist ethics and feminist social/political theory are now well-established fields offering rich literatures. This collection surveys pivotal topics and trends in this vital field." -Diana Tietjens Meyers

Diana Tietjens Meyers is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of Inalienable Rights: A Defense (1986), Women and MoralTheory (1987), Self, Society and Personal Choice (1989), Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family (1993), and Subjection and Subjectivity: PsychoanalyticFeminism and Moral Philosophy (Routledge, 1994).

Feminist Social Thought: A Reader; 1: Constructions of Gender; 1: Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective; 2: Is Male Gender Identity the Cause of Male Domination?; 3: On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality: A Feminist Materialist Approach; 4: Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory; 5: Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power; 6: Excerpt from Gender Trouble; 2: Theorizing DiversityGender, Race, Class, and Sexual Orientation; 7: Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism; 8: Playfulness, World-Travelling, and Loving Perception; 9: Woman: The One and the Many; 10: Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions; 11: Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory; 12: Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology; 3: Figurations of Women/Woman as Figuration; 13: Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew; 14: Woman as Metaphor 1; 15: Maleness, Metaphor, and the Crisis of Reason; 16: Stabat Mater; 17: And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other; 4: Subjectivity, Agency, and Feminist Critique; 18: Mirrors and Windows: An Essay on Empty Signs, Pregnant Meanings, and Women's Power; 19: Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology; 20: Feminism and Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation; 21: Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology; 22: Some Reflections on Separatism and Power; 23: Glancing at Pornography: Recognizing Men; 24: The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Sicle Tragedy; 5: Social Identity, Solidarity, and Political Engagement; 25: The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism; 26: Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women; 27: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s; 28: Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics; 6: Care and Its Critics; 29: In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality; 30: Maternal Thinking; 31: Trust and Antitrust; 32: Feminism and Moral Theory; 33: Gender and Moral Luck; 34: Beyond Caring: The De-Moralization of Gender; 35: Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices; 7: Women, Equality, and Justice; 36: The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism; 37: Reconstructing Sexual Equality; 38: The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory; 39: Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism