The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns.
Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience.
Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
About the Author
Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. She is author of Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology (1996) and Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (2005), and editor of Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998) and of Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (with Eduardo Mendieta, Blackwell 2003).
Eva Feder Kittay is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is author of Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999), and editor of Women and Moral Theory (with Diana T. Meyers, 1987) and of The Subject of Care: Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency (with Ellen Feder, 2002).
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A definitive introduction to feminist philosophy.
Features fifteen newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns.
Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience.
Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
