Feminist Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

   Edited by Maurice Hamington, Celia Bardwell-Jones

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   The notion of "feminist pragmatism" or "pragmatist feminism" has been around since Charlene Haddock Seigfried introduced it two decades ago. However, the bulk of the work in this field has been directed toward recovering the feminist strain of classical American philosophy, largely through renewed...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Philosophical Investigation of Rape

   The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self

   By Louise du Toit

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering

   Maternal Subjects

   Edited by Sheila Lintott, Maureen Sander-Staudt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Philosophy and Gender

   Edited by Cressida Heyes

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   How are ‘philosophy’ and ‘gender’ implicated? Throughout history, philosophers—mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes supposed—have often sought to specify and justify the proper roles of women and men, and to explore the political consequences of sexual difference....

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape

   Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body

   By Debra B. Bergoffen

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia. The ICTY Kunarac court responded by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. In its judgment, the court argued that the rapists violated the Muslim women’s...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity

   By Alison Stone

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. The Ethics of Need

   Agency, Dignity, and Obligation

   By Sarah Clark Miller

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man

   A Construction and Deconstruction

   Edited by Ulla Grapard, Gillian Hewitson

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the...

   Published June 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    By Judith Butler

    Series: Routledge Classics

    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...

    Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge