Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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.