Feminist Philosophy
The Future of the World Is Open
Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.
Horizons of Difference
Edited collection engaging Luce Irigaray's work and pushing it in important new directions.
Animals in Irish Society
The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
Antigone's Sisters
An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.
Nos/Otras
Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.
Making the Case
Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.
Revolutionary Time
Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.
Earthly Encounters
A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.
Subjects That Matter
Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.
Love and Violence
A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.
Speaking Face to Face
The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.
Beyond Bergson
Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.
Gender and the Abjection of Blackness
An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.
Bodies in China
Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.
The Symbolic Order of the Mother
Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.
New Forms of Revolt
Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.
Engaging the World
Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.
Power
Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.
In-Between
Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.
Revivals
Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.
The Limits of Knowledge
Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.
The Returns of Antigone
Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.
Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine
Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification.
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being
A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.
Ontological Humility
Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.
Education Feminism
Collection of important essays by feminist scholars from cultural studies, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, and women’s studies.
Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler
Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
This-Worldly Nibbāna
A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.
Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
Sleights of Reason
Demonstrates the dramatic interplay of elements that comprise the concepts of norm, bisexuality, and development.
Thinking with Irigaray
An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray’s work.
Whose Antigone?
Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
Feminist Readings of Antigone
New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.
Imagining Law
Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul
Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.
Sarah Kofman's Corpus
Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.
Musical Democracy
How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.
The Contradictions of Freedom
The essential companion to Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated novel.
Women and Children First
A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.
Julia Kristeva
A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.
Without a Woman to Read
A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage.
Sisters in Solitude
Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women’s history, feminist philosophy, women’s studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.
Exploring/Teaching the Psychology of Women
Focuses on how to teach the psychology of women course with emphasis on three main themes: critical thinking skills, integration of knowledge, and multiculturalism.
The Constructed Body
This book takes a phenomenological approach to feminist issues in medical ethics: AIDS and reproductive technology.
Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures
The lesbians who have contributed to this book are theorists and activists who write as members of diverse lesbian cultures. Each lesbian has her ways of knowing, her voices, approaches, methodologies, ...