Feminist Philosophy

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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

By Corey Lee Wrenn
Subjects: Sociology

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.

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.

Antigone's Sisters

An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.

Making the Case

Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.

Subjects That Matter

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Earthly Encounters

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.

Revolutionary Time

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

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.

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.

Love and Violence

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.

Gender and the Abjection of Blackness

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.

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.

Bodies in China

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

New Forms of Revolt

Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva’s concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.

Power

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.

Engaging the World

Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

In-Between

Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.

The Limits of Knowledge

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.

Revivals

By William Robert
Subjects: Philosophy

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

The Returns of Antigone

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Luce Irigaray's Phenomenology of Feminine Being

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.

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.

Ontological Humility

Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.

Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.

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.

Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics

Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.

This-Worldly Nibbāna

A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.

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?

By Tina Chanter
Subjects: Philosophy

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

Convergences

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

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.

Returning to Irigaray

Leading scholars examine the relation between Irigaray’s early writings and her later, more political work.

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.

Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity

Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.

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.

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, ...