Feminism and Philosophy - Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application

Organized around nine traditional "types" of feminist philosophy, this book stimulates readers to explore many new pathways of understanding how different feminist perspective weaves together elements of theory, reinterpretation, and application.

List of contents

1 Liberal Feminist Perspectives, 2 Marxist Feminist Perspectives, 3 Radical Feminist Perspectives, 4 Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives, 5 Socialist Feminist Perspectives, 6 Anarcha Feminist and Ecological Feminist Perspectives, 7 Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives, 8 Postmodern Feminist Perspectives, 9 Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

About the author

Nancy Tuana is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Woman and the History of Philosophy and The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature, and editor of Feminism and Science and Feminist Interpretations of Plato. Rosemarie Putnam Tong is a Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Professional Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina.

Summary

Organized around nine traditional "types" of feminist philosophy, this book stimulates readers to explore many new pathways of understanding how different feminist perspective weaves together elements of theory, reinterpretation, and application.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemarie Putnam Tong, Tong Rosemarie Putnam, Nancy Tuana, Nancy Tong Tuana, Tuana Nancy
• Assisted by: Rosemarie Tong (Editor), Nancy Tuana (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367315702
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31570-2
• No. of pages: 568
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy