Edited
By Linda Alcoff, Elizabeth Potter
September 05, 2013
This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective....
Edited
By Bat-Ami Bar On, Ann Ferguson
March 05, 1998
This collection challenges the traditional divide between the investigation of ethics is a private concern and politics as a public, group concern....
By Isaac D. Balbus
November 13, 1997
Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years....
By Uma Narayan
July 23, 1997
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these ...
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By M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
November 20, 1996
Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui ...
By Dion Farquhar
October 09, 1996
With technological advances in reproduction no longer confined to the laboratory or involving only the isolated individual, women and men are increasingly resorting to a variety of technologies unheard of a few decades ago to assist them in becoming parents. The public at large, and feminists as a...
By Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser
December 14, 1994
First published in 1995. This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser discuss some of the key questions facing feminist theory. Each articulates her own position in an initial essay, ...
By Diana T. Meyers
October 24, 1994
Diana Tietjens Meyers examines the political underpinnings of psychoanalytic feminism, analyzing the relation between the nature of the self and the structure of good societies. She argues that impartial reason--the approach to moral reflection which has dominated 20th-century Anglo-American ...
By Laurie Shrage
June 08, 1994
Sharge explores the moral pemises of feminist sexual politics, focusing in particular on the emotive issues of abortion, prostitution and adultery, in order to develop an interpretative and pluralist approach to feminist ethics....