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The feminist philosophy reader
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McGraw-Hill
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Feminist Turn in Philosophy
2. Oppression and Resistance
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex
Oppression
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
On Psychological Oppression
White Privilege and Male Privilege
Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception
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3. Sex and Gender
Introduction to The Second Sex
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Reconstructing Black Masculinity
Should There Be Only Two Sexes?
Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum
Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects
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4. Sexualities
This Sex Which Is Not One
A Desire of One's Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space
Sexuality
Sex War: The Debate Between Radical and Libertarian Feminists
Kiss and Tell: Questioning Censorship
Claiming the Right to Be Queer
Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence
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5. Race and Racism
Gender & Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race" (1998)
Some Kind of Indian: On Race, Eugenics, and Mixed-Bloods
Purity, Impurity, and Separation
Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward a View of Privilege-Cognizant White Character
Tiddas Speakin' Strong: Indigenous Women's Self-Presentation within White Australian Feminism
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6. Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms
Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity
Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America
The Prison Industrial Complex
Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide
Experiments with Freedom: Milieus of the Human
From A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
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7. Feminist Ethical Theory
Moral Orientation and Moral Development
The Generalized and the Concrete Other: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory
Taking Care: Care as Practice and Value
Conflicted Love
Separating from Heterosexualism
Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics
The Moral Powers of Victims
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8. Feminist Political Philosophies
Autonomy, Social Disruption, and Women
Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act, Dependency Work, and Gender Equality
Vulnerability by Marriage
After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare State
Difference and Social Policy: Reflections in the Context of Social Movements
Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women in Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?
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9. Feminist Epistemologies
Purification and Transcendence in Descartes's Meditations
Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
How Is Epistemology Political?
Taking Subjectivity into Account
"Strong Objectivity" and Socially Situated Knowledge
The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist
Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance
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10. Feminist Ontologies
The Moral Significance of Birth
A Phenomenology of Fear: The Threat of Rape and Feminine Bodily Comportment
Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability
Be-Longing: The Lust for Happiness
Mothers, Monsters, and Machines
La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness
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9780073407395
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