The feminist philosophy reader /

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Author / Creator:Bailey, Alison, 1961-
Imprint:Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
Description:x, 902 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7127808
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Other authors / contributors:Cuomo, Chris J.
ISBN:9780073407395 (alk. paper)
0073407399 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. A Feminist Turn in Philosophy
  • 2. Oppression and Resistance
  • The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex
  • Oppression
  • The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
  • On Psychological Oppression
  • White Privilege and Male Privilege
  • Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 3. Sex and Gender
  • Introduction to The Second Sex
  • Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
  • Reconstructing Black Masculinity
  • Should There Be Only Two Sexes?
  • Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum
  • Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 4. Sexualities
  • This Sex Which Is Not One
  • A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space
  • Sexuality
  • Sex War: The Debate Between Radical and Libertarian Feminists
  • Kiss and Tell: Questioning Censorship
  • Claiming the Right to Be Queer
  • Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 5. Race and Racism
  • Gender & Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought
  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
  • American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race" (1998)
  • Some Kind of Indian: On Race, Eugenics, and Mixed-Bloods
  • Purity, Impurity, and Separation
  • Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character
  • Tiddas Speakin' Strong: Indigenous Women's Self-Presentation within White Australian Feminism
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 6. Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms
  • Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity
  • Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America
  • The Prison Industrial Complex
  • Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide
  • Experiments with Freedom: Milieus of the Human
  • From A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 7. Feminist Ethical Theory
  • Moral Orientation and Moral Development
  • The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory
  • Taking Care: Care as Practice and Value
  • Conflicted Love
  • Separating from Heterosexualism
  • Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics
  • The Moral Powers of Victims
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 8. Feminist Political Philosophies
  • Autonomy, Social Disruption, and Women
  • Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act, Dependency Work, and Gender Equality
  • Vulnerability by Marriage
  • After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare State
  • Difference and Social Policy: Reflections in the Context of Social Movements
  • Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women in Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 9. Feminist Epistemologies
  • Purification and Transcendence in Descartes's Meditations
  • Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
  • How Is Epistemology Political?
  • Taking Subjectivity into Account
  • "Strong Objectivity" and Socially Situated Knowledge
  • The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist
  • Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • 10. Feminist Ontologies
  • The Moral Significance of Birth
  • A Phenomenology of Fear: The Threat of Rape and Feminine Bodily Comportment
  • Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability
  • Be-Longing: The Lust for Happiness
  • Mothers, Monsters, and Machines
  • La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness
  • For Further Reading
  • Media Resources
  • Credits
  • Index