Bat-Ami Bar On is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

"Each essay blends careful historical analysis and feminist theory. Also, these are not 'add women and stir' works, that is, they truly integrate feminist theory (and ultimately transform the texts) rather than take the texts as given and simply 'add on' women's experiences. This is NEW feminist scholarship. Each treatment brings something new to our understanding of a canonical work." — Diane Raymond, Simmons College"Bar On includes historical, psychological, literary (poststructural) in addition to philosophical essays and clearly forges the current forefront of feminist responses to classical texts of Western philosophy." — Inez Alfors, State University of New York, College at Oswego

• Preface Introduction Bat-Ami Bar On Part One: Beginnings: Descartes 1. The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight from the FeminineSusan R. Bordo Part Two: Themes of Modernity: The English Tradition 2. Locke's Epistemology and Women's Struggles Elizabeth Potter 3. Indians, Savages, Peasants and Women: Hume's Aesthetics Marcia Lind 4. A Feminist Use for Hume's Moral Ontology Sarah A. Bishop Merrill Part Three: Themes of Modernity: The Continental Tradition 5. Women and Rousseau's Democratic Theory: Philosopher Monsters and Authoritarian Equality Lynda Lange 6. Women in Kantian Ethics: A Failure at Universality Kristin Waters 7. Rereading the Canon: Kantian Purity and the Suppression of Eros Robin May Schott 8. Kant's Immature Imagination Jane Kneller 9. Hegel's Theoretical Violence Amy Newman 10. Hegel, Antigone, and the Possibility of a Woman's Dialectic Cynthia Willett Part Four: Critics of Modernity 11. Marx and the Ideology of Gender: A Paradox of Praxis and Nature Wendy Lee-Lampshire 12. Who is Nietzsche's Woman? Kelly Oliver 13. Nietzschean Debris: Truth as Circe Margaret Nash 14. Nietzsche's Psychology of Gender Difference Ofelia Schutte 15. Interaction in a World of Chance: John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry Lisa M. Heldke Suggestions for Further Reading Contributors Index