The feminist philosophy reader

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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Credits

Index