Tuana, Nancy : University of Oregon

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 Thatcher Professor of the Medical Humanities at Davidson College. She is author of Feminine and Feminist Ethics; Women, Sex, and the Law; and Feminist Thought. Her current interest is feminist medical ethics.

"Tuana and Tong's anthology collects together landmark writings-classics-from the recent decades of work in feminist philosophy and organizes them into a lucid and fluid study. The topics are wide ranging, the perspectives diverse, the treatments eclectic. Sweeping from theory to practice and back again, this anthology provides a first-rate, up-to-the-minute introduction both to foundational feminist challenges to traditional philosophy and to the historically unique contributions of feminist thought."

--Marilyn Friedman, Washington University of St. Louis

"This wonderful collection reflects the editors' well-known feminist sensitivities and their talents for synthesis. It is much more than a companion to Tong's Feminist Thought or other recent surveys. The innovative framework encompassing theory, critique, and application marks an advance, as does the addition of perspectives not discussed in most earlier texts: anarcha-ecofeminism, phenomenological feminism, and perspectives on race, class, and gender. This is a great book for feminist scholars, and it will be invaluable in the classroom."

--Margaret Simons, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

"Provides excellent and wide-ranging examples of both theoretical and practical discussions of the key issues in contemporary feminist philosophy. I am especially impressed by those sections in my own areas of specialization and by the balance between older 'classic' papers and more recent work. This book makes an outstanding contribution to the field, and it will solve a longstanding problem in choosing readings for my courses."

--Nancy J. Holland, Hamline University

Perseus Books Group Web Site, March, 2000

The past twenty years have seen an explosion of work by feminist philosophers and several surveys of this work have documented the richness of the many different ways of doing feminist philosophy. But this major new anthology is the first broad and inclusive selection of the most important work in this field. There are many unanswered questions about the future of feminist philosophy. Which of the many varieties of feminist philosophy will last, and which will fade away? What kinds of accommodations will be possible with mainstream non-feminist philosophy? Which will separate themselves and flourish on their own? To what extent will feminists change the topics philosophers address? To what extent will they change the very way in which philosophy is done?

However these questions are answered, it is clear that feminist philosophy is having and will continue to have a major impact on the discipline of philosophy. This volume is the first to allow the scholar, the student, and other interested readers to sample this diverse literature and to ponder these questions for themselves.

Organized around nine traditional "types" of feminist philosophy, Feminism and Philosophy is an imaginatively edited volume that will stimulate readers to explore many new pathways to understanding. It marks a defining moment in feminist philosophy, and it will be an essential text for philosophers and for feminist theorists in many other fields.

Liberal Feminist Perspectives

The Sexual Politics of the New Right: Understanding the "Crisis of Liberalism" for the 1980s by Zillah R. Eisenstein.
Early Liberal Roots of Feminism: John Locke and the Attack on Patriarchy by Melissa A. Butler.
The Moral Significance of Birth by Mary Anne Warren.

Marxist Feminist Perspectives

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism by Nancy C.M. Hartsock.
Reproducing Marxist Man by Mary O'Brien.
The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework by Heidi I. Hartmann.

Radical Feminist Persepctives

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure Under Patriarchy" by Catharine A. MacKinnon.
To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality by Marilyn Frye.
Moral Revolution: From Antagonism to Cooperation by Sarah Lucia Hoagland.

Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives

Family Structure and Feminine Personality by Nancy Chodorow.
Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconsciousness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics by Jane Flax.
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Imperative by Shirley Nelson Garner.

Socialist Feminist Perspectives

Life Without Father: Reconsidering Socialist-Feminist Theory by Barbara Ehrenriech.
What's Critical About Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender by Nancy Fraser.
The Politics of Socialist Feminism by Alison M. Jaggar.

Anarcha Feminist And Ecological Feminist Perspectives

Anarchism and Feminism by Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Martha Ackelsberg, and Shawn Pyne.
Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism by Ynestra King.
Bureaucracy and Public Life: The Femininiznation of the Polity by Kathy E. Ferguson.

Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives

Toward a Phenomenology of Feminist Consciousness by Sandra Lee Bartky.
Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation by Iris Marion Young.
Breast Cancer: Power Versus Prosthesis by Audre Lorde.

Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

Cultural Feminism Versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory by Linda Alcoff.
Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech by Luce Irigaray, translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall.
Reading the Slender Body by Susan Bordo.

Perspectives On The Intersections Of Race, Class, And Gender

Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism, and the Demand for "The Woman's Voice" by María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman.
Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions by Elizabeth Abel.
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins.