Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Lee McBride III is Professor of Philosophy at The College of Wooster, USA. He is editor of A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020) and author of Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed (Bloomsbury 2021).Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is author of Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends (2018), Pets, People, and Pragmatism (2013), and The Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective (2001). She is co-author of American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2015) and co-editor of Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy (2009) and Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships (2004). She is also co-editor of the journal Hypatia and Hypatia Reviews Online.

This wide-ranging book carefully sets out the enormous influence of Seigfried’s work on both philosophy and feminism. It illustrates Seigfried’s role as the key contemporary propagator of pragmatist feminism, and forms an insightful tribute to her life and work that will be essential reading for practitioners and scholars working across various disciplines.

• Dedication and AbbreviationIntroduction: Pragmatist Feminism, Changing Philosophy, Lee McBride III (College of Wooster, USA) and Erin McKenna (University of Oregon, USA)Part I: Pragmatist Feminism1. The Importance and Impact of Pragmatist Feminism, Erin McKenna (University of Oregon, USA)2. Validating Feminist Pragmatist Activism: Creating Space for New Iterations of Public Philosophy, Judy D. Whipps and Danielle Lake (Grand Valley State University, USA and Elon University, USA)3. Developing A New Philosophical Narrative Via the Shared Insights of Feminism and Pragmatism, Jaquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University, USA)Part II: Conceptual Development4. Seigfried’s Feminist Pragmatist Method of Inquiry, Jennifer Kiefer Fenton (Marquette University, USA) 5. Dewey and Seigfried on Sympathy: The Challenge of Feminism in the 21st Century, Marta Vaamonde Gamo (UNEC, Spain) and Jaime Nubiola (University of Navarra, Spain)6. Reweaving the Social Fabric Transversally, Lee A. McBride III (College of Wooster, USA)7. Why Metaphysics? Mary Whiton Calkins as a Pragmatist Feminist, Scott Pratt (University of Oregon, USA)Part III: Jamesian Offshoots8. James, Nonduality, and the Dynamics of Pure Experience, Joel Krueger (University of Essex, UK)9. Women Mystics and the Men Who Interpret Them: Seigfried’s Critique of William James, Tadd Ruetenik (St. Ambrose University, USA)10. In and of the World: Seigfried and Seigfried’s Pragmatism and Ásatrú Public Theology, Karl E. H. Seigfried (Cherry Hill Seminary and Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)Part IV: Education11. Bridging Pragmatism and Feminism Through Education, Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon (University of Tennessee, USA)12. Seigfried on Democracy and Education, Lisa Heldke (Gustavor Adolphus College, USA)Part V: Reflections13. Reflections on Charlene’s Influence, Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton, USA) et al. 14. Each Generation Has Its Own Test, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University, USA)Contributors Index