Modern Engendering
Critical Feminist Readings in Modern Western Philosophy
Published on 23. December 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-7914-1642-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains readings of canonical Western philosophical texts from the viewpoint of current feminist thinking. The contributors focus specifically on the ways in which modern Western philosophy constructs genders and analyzes gender relations. They provide a detailed analysis of modern philosophers' conceptions of masculinity and femininity and call attention to the intertwining of gender with conceptual schema and networks.
Reviews / Votes
"Each essay blends careful historical analysis and feminist theory. Also, these are not 'add women and stir' works, that is, they truly integrate feminist theory (and ultimately transform the texts) rather than take the texts as given and simply 'add on' women's experiences. This is NEW feminist scholarship. Each treatment brings something new to our understanding of a canonical work." - Diane Raymond, Simmons College"Bar On includes historical, psychological, literary (poststructural) in addition to philosophical essays and clearly forges the current forefront of feminist responses to classical texts of Western philosophy." - Inez Alfors, State University of New York, College at Oswego
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-1642-6 (9780791416426)
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Person
Bat-Ami Bar On is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Bat-Ami Bar On
Part One: Beginnings: Descartes 1. The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight from the Feminine
Susan R. Bordo
Part Two: Themes of Modernity: The English Tradition 2. Locke's Epistemology and Women's Struggles
Elizabeth Potter
3. Indians, Savages, Peasants and Women: Hume's Aesthetics
Marcia Lind
4. A Feminist Use for Hume's Moral Ontology
Sarah A. Bishop Merrill
Part Three: Themes of Modernity: The Continental Tradition 5. Women and Rousseau's Democratic Theory: Philosopher Monsters and Authoritarian Equality Lynda Lange
6. Women in Kantian Ethics: A Failure at Universality
Kristin Waters
7. Rereading the Canon: Kantian Purity and the Suppression of Eros
Robin May Schott
8. Kant's Immature Imagination
Jane Kneller
9. Hegel's Theoretical Violence
Amy Newman
10. Hegel, Antigone, and the Possibility of a Woman's Dialectic
Cynthia Willett
Part Four: Critics of Modernity 11. Marx and the Ideology of Gender: A Paradox of Praxis and Nature
Wendy Lee-Lampshire
12. Who is Nietzsche's Woman?
Kelly Oliver
13. Nietzschean Debris: Truth as Circe
Margaret Nash
14. Nietzsche's Psychology of Gender Difference
Ofelia Schutte
15. Interaction in a World of Chance: John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry
Lisa M. Heldke
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Bat-Ami Bar On
Part One: Beginnings: Descartes 1. The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight from the Feminine
Susan R. Bordo
Part Two: Themes of Modernity: The English Tradition 2. Locke's Epistemology and Women's Struggles
Elizabeth Potter
3. Indians, Savages, Peasants and Women: Hume's Aesthetics
Marcia Lind
4. A Feminist Use for Hume's Moral Ontology
Sarah A. Bishop Merrill
Part Three: Themes of Modernity: The Continental Tradition 5. Women and Rousseau's Democratic Theory: Philosopher Monsters and Authoritarian Equality Lynda Lange
6. Women in Kantian Ethics: A Failure at Universality
Kristin Waters
7. Rereading the Canon: Kantian Purity and the Suppression of Eros
Robin May Schott
8. Kant's Immature Imagination
Jane Kneller
9. Hegel's Theoretical Violence
Amy Newman
10. Hegel, Antigone, and the Possibility of a Woman's Dialectic
Cynthia Willett
Part Four: Critics of Modernity 11. Marx and the Ideology of Gender: A Paradox of Praxis and Nature
Wendy Lee-Lampshire
12. Who is Nietzsche's Woman?
Kelly Oliver
13. Nietzschean Debris: Truth as Circe
Margaret Nash
14. Nietzsche's Psychology of Gender Difference
Ofelia Schutte
15. Interaction in a World of Chance: John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry
Lisa M. Heldke
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index