Feminism And Philosophy

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 centre for Professional Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina.

• Preface -- Credits -- Introduction -- Liberal Feminist Perspectives -- The Sexual Politics of the New Right: Understanding the “Crisis of Liberalism” for the 1980s -- Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy -- The Moral Significance of Birth -- Marxist Feminist Perspectives -- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Reproducing Marxist Man -- The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework -- Radical Feminist Perspectives -- Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: “Pleasure Under Patriarchy” -- To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality -- Moral Revolution: From Antagonism to Cooperation -- Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives -- Family Structure and Feminine Personality -- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics -- Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Imperative -- Socialist Feminist Perspectives -- Life Without Father: Reconsidering Socialist-Feminist Theory -- What’s Critical About Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender -- The Politics of Socialist Feminism -- Anarcha Feminist and Ecological Feminist Perspectives -- Anarchism and Feminism -- Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and Nature/Culture Dualism -- Bureaucracy and Public Life: The Femininization of the Polity -- Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives -- Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness -- Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation -- Breast Cancer: Power Versus Prosthesis -- Postmodern Feminist Perspectives -- Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium, Diotima’s Speech -- Reading the Slender Body -- Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender -- Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for “The Woman’s Voice” -- Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions -- The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought