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Feminism And Philosophy
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Part 1 Liberal feminist perspectives: the sexual politics of the New Right - understanding the "crisis of liberalism" for the 1980s, Zillah Eisenstein; early roots of feminism - John Locke and the attack on patriarchy, Melissa A. Butler; the moral significance of birth, Mary Anne Warren. Part 2 Marxist feminist perspectives: the feminist standpoint - developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism, Nancy C.M. Hartsock; reproducing Marxist man, Mary O'Brien; the family as the locus of gender, class and political struggle - the example of housework, Heidi I. Hartmann. Part 3 Radical feminist perspectives: sexuality, pornography and method - pleasure under patriarchy, Catherine A. MacKinnon; to be and be seen - the politics of reality, Marilyn Frye; moral revolution - from antagonism to co-operation, Sarah Lucia Hoagland. Part 4 Psychoanalytic feminist perspectives: family structure and feminine personality, Nancy Chodorow; political philosophy and the patriarchal unconsciousness - a psychoanalytic perspective on epistemology and metaphysics, Jane Flax; the heterosexual imperative, Shirley Nelson Garner. Part 5 Socialist feminist perspectives: life without father - reconsidering socialist-feminist theory, Barbara Ehrenriech; what's critical about critical theory? - the case of Habermas and gender, Nancy Fraser; the politics of socialist feminism, Alison M. Jaggar. Part 6 Anarcha feminist and ecological feminist perspectives: anarchism and feminism, Katheryn Pyne Addelson et al; healing the wounds - feminism, ecology and the nature/culture dualism, Ynestra King; bureaucracy and public life - the feminization of the polity, Kathy E. Ferguson. Part 7 Phenomenological feminist perspectives: toward a phenomenology of feminist consciousness, Sandra Lee Bartky; pregnant embodiment - subjectivity and alienation, Iris Marion Young; breast cancer - power vs prosthesis, Audre Lourde. Part 8 Postmodern feminist perspectives: cultural feminism versus post-structuralism and the identity crisis in feminist theory, Linda Alcoff; sorcerer love - a reading of Plato's symposium - Diotima's speech, Luce Irigaray; reading the slender body, Susan Bordo. Part 9 Perspectives on the intersections of race, class and gender: have we got a theory for you!, Marian Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman; race, class and psychoanalysis? - opening questions, Elizabeth Abel; the social construction of black feminist thought, Patricia Hill Collins.

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

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