Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Emanuela Bianchi Part 1. Opening Plenary: Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? 1. Opening Remarks 3 Drucilla Cornell 2. Opening Remarks 10 Jacques Derrida 3. Opening Remarks: Timing Is All 17 Teresa Brennan 4. Discussion 26 Teresa Brennan, Drucilla Cornell, Jacques Derrida, and Emanuela Bianchi (Chair) Part 2. Essence, Identity, and Feminist Philosophy 5. Women, Identity, and Philosophy 35 Marjorie C. Miller 6. The Personal Is Philosophical, or Teaching a Life and Living the Truth: Philosophical Pedagogy at the Boundaries of Self 50 Ruth Ginzberg 7. Musing as a Feminist and as a Philosopher on a Postfeminist Era 59 Patricia S. Mann 8. Essence against Identity 73 Teresa Brennan x CONTENTS Part 3. Engendering the Sociopolitical Body 9. Feminist Interpretations of Social and Political Thought 89 Virginia Held 10. Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values 99 Iris Marion Young 11 . Domestic Abuse and Locke's Liberal (Mis)Treatment of Family 122 Matthew R. Silliman 12. Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction 132 Alys Eve Weinbaum Part 4. Analytic Approaches and Feminist Theory 13. The Very Idea of Feminist Epistemology 167 Lynn Hankinson Nelson 14. Can There Be a Feminist Logic? 190 Marjorie Hass 15. Feminism and Mental Representation: Analytic Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Narrow Content 202 David Golumbia 16. Replies to Hass and Golumbia 212 Nickolas Pappas Part 5. Feminism beyond Metaphysics? 17. Leaping Ahead: Feminist Theory without Metaphysics 221 Leslie A. MacAvoy 18. Philosophy Abandons Woman: Gender, Orality, and Some Literate Pre-Socratics 234 Cornelia A. Tsakiridou Notes on Contributors 265 ...