By Dion Farquhar
October 09, 1996
With technological advances in reproduction no longer confined to the laboratory or involving only the isolated individual, women and men are increasingly resorting to a variety of technologies unheard of a few decades ago to assist them in becoming parents. The public at large, and feminists as a...
By Naomi Scheman
September 09, 1993
Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it ...
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By Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan
November 10, 1992
A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power....
By Anna Yeatman
December 13, 1993
A challenging reassessment of the concepts and institutions of modern liberal democracy in the light of postmodern theory and the politics of difference....
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By Tom Digby
December 19, 1997
The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is disrupted, however, by the continually increasing numbers of men who are participating in feminist theory and...
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By M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
November 20, 1996
Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui ...
By Uma Narayan
July 23, 1997
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these ...
By Patrice DiQuinzio
September 13, 1999
An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and ...
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By Bat-Ami Bar On, Ann Ferguson
March 05, 1998
This collection challenges the traditional divide between the investigation of ethics is a private concern and politics as a public, group concern....
By Isaac D. Balbus
November 13, 1997
Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years....
By Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser
December 14, 1994
First published in 1995. This volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser discuss some of the key questions facing feminist theory. Each articulates her own position in an initial essay, ...