1st Edition

Feminist Challenges Social and Political Theory

Edited By Carole Pateman, Elizabeth Grosz Copyright 1986
    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    228 Pages
    by Routledge

    In Feminist Challenges, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology. As Carole Pateman notes in her introduction, ‘all the contributors raise some extremely far-reaching questions about the conventional assumptions and methods of contemporary social and political inquiry.’

    Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction: the theoretical subversiveness of feminism Carole Pateman; Part I: The Challenge to Theory: 2. Feminism, philosophy and riddles without answers Moira Gatens; 3. Vanishing acts in social and political thought: tricks of the trade Beverly Thiele; 4. Ethics revisited: women and/in philosophy Rosi Braidotti; Part II: The Challenge to Liberalism: 5. Selfhood, war and masculinity Genevieve Lloyd; 6. Sex equality is not enough for feminism Merle Thornton; 7. Women and political rationality Janna Thompson; 8. Desire, consent and liberal theory Lenore Coltheart; Part III: The Challenge to Academia: 9. Philosophy, subjectivity and the body: Kristeva and Irigaray Elizabeth Gross; 10. Simone de Beauvoir: philosophy and/or the female body Catriona Mackenzie; 11. Women, domestic life and sociology Anna Yeatman; 12. Evidence and silence: feminism and the limits of history Judith Allen; 13. Conclusion: what is feminist theory? Elizabeth Gross; Bibliography

    Biography

    Pateman, Carole; Grosz, Elizabeth