Feminist Theory: A Philosophical AnthologyISBN: 978-1-4051-1660-2
Hardcover
444 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology addresses seven
philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its
central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering
women’s experience.
- Topics include the nature of sexist oppression, the sex/gender distinction, how gender-based norms influence conceptions of rationality, knowledge, and scientific objectivity, feminist ethics, feminst perspectives on self and autonomy, whether there exist distinct feminine moral perspectives, and what would comprise true liberation.
- Features an introductory overview illustrating the development of feminism as a philosophical movement
- Contains both classic and contemporary sources of feminist thought, including selections by Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Simone de Beauvior, Kate Millett, bell hooks, Marilyn Frye, Martha Nussbaum, Louise Antony, Sally Haslanger, Helen Longino, Marilyn Friedman, Catharine MacKinnon, and Drucilla Cornell.