Feminist Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   By Sandrine Berges

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. What We See and What We Say

   Using Images in Research, Therapy, Empowerment, and Social Change

   By Ephrat Huss

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Mental Health

   Image-based research methods, such as arts-based research, can fill the absence of the voice of impoverished, under-privileged populations. In What We See and What We Say, Ephrat Huss argues that images are deep and universally psycho-neurological constructs through which people process their...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Writing Beyond Race

   Living Theory and Practice

   By bell hooks

   What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics like...

   Published October 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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